We have successfully forked!

Heads up.

For those who are waiting, there's approximately 1 more hour left until fork height.

Pre-fork, you do not have to do anything, except maybe transfer your TUBE to a wallet that you control the mnemonic seed to.
Post-fork, you'll automatically receive your IPBC if you have TUBE in your wallet at height 139999 (we are actually forking 1 block before 140000). You will need to import your mnemonic seed into the IPBC GUI/CLI/web wallet to claim your IPBC. This can be done at any time after the fork.

Generally, it is not a good idea to import a wallet with balance into a third-party software, which is why we recommend transferring out your TUBE before claiming your IPBC. Your IPBC remains in whatever wallet you had your TUBE in at 139999. The safety precaution is not required to claim your IPBC coins (Bittube and IPBC can share the same address), but highly recommended as a good practice for any airdrop.



We're not looking for a translator at the moment, but we'll keep this in mind. Thanks for the offer.

In light of the recent problems with bulletproof (double-count bug), and the incomplete technical reviews, which won't be available until September, we have decided to disabled bulletproof.
Bulletproof will be enabled at a later date when it is confirmed production-ready.

I think it'll be quite sometime before someone can come up with an effective asic for Tube CN-heavy, but yes, we will promptly update the algo if it comes to that

That would defeat the purpose of this project, now would it?
To clarify: I will not support any attempt to add fee to to project. My partner feels the same way, and I am confident that the community will never allow for this to happen for IPBC once a steering committee is established (which is our long-term to extended-term goal for IPBC).

I don't need the dev fee to support myself or this project, but in the worst-case scenario, we can rely on donation for the foundation or if cost gets out of hand.
We decided against putting up a donation link up for the time being, because we feel that we need to present a good working product before we should be compensated for any our work.

that is ultimately up to the exchanges we are negotiating with to decide.

I have not developed for the Windows Phone platform before, but we can give it a shot after completing the Android/iOS lightwallet.
Thank you for your suggestion!

Thank you for the clarifications.
Pornhub accepting us would be great

Cheers, and good luck from the IPBC team!

And yes, we will be changing the emission curve at fork height.

We received a lot of feedback on this from our Discord community, and decided that without the video platform, there's no need for a slower emission curve.
We have already tested the change, and found that the block reward is expected to drop slightly at fork height (to around 335 IPBC per block, but without the 30% governance fee), and will decrease about 4 times faster than TUBE over time.

Hi MinedTangerine,

We updated our ANN to clarify the goals of this project.
In a nutshell: we will provide a strong and stable network, and build up the framework that will allow merchants and laypersons to easily use our coin.
We will provide some example products that utilize this framework, as marketing material, and will help people build their own shops and platforms that will utilize the coin.
We want to create a project that can be built upon outside of the core-dev team. That's what we mean by creating a universally accepted currency.

It is up to the market to decide the value of the coin. We have no concerns over its price.

we like the video concept, but we also like to have a clean cn coin on current and updated technology without ANY fee.

We're currently negotiating with several exchanges, but to avoid unnecessary speculations, we will not be disclosing our exchange plans at this time.

We announced our mainnet early to prepare pool operators for the open launch to ensure proper decentralization of hashrate from fork height onward.
Mining on our pool right now will generate both Bittube and IPBC coins (same as if you were mining on a Bittube pool).
However, do note that the 3% governance fee applies to both coins before the fork height (we do not collect this fee), and that the mempools are not shared by the two networks, so you will not be processing transactions from the Bittube network on our network, and vice versa.

Hi Skyyat!

IPBC strives to be a universally accepted currency with a focus on blockchain security, and advanced features like Bulletproof and RingCT.
We do not want to limit our coin to a single platform, and will be removing Bittube's governance fee.