In the Slack channel Bryce posted that he's working on the website. He even made a "Be right Back!" page. I don't think you should be worried, official launch was originally planned in April, wasn't it??

It was communicated on the 23rd on Twitter. https://twitter.com/_altmarket/status/1109601843657633792?s=20

Virtually everyone using the exchange currently, prior to the ads running, knew about it already.

You know, for someone who isn't interested, you sure pay a hell of a lot of attention to things. Even checking up on the site. Got an account yet?

I know they make them easier to read when going between large fonts in images to small text between. 

Yes, they're in the middle of doing updates including bug fixes. Will be fine before the KBLX promotion starts.

I did walk through the math. I didn't hold your hand with every step since it seems pretty basic,  but OK buddy

1,000,000 listeners x 0.001 (that's a tenth of a percent response rate if you don't follow easily) = 1,000 people
1,000 people x the min USD deposit amount of $25 = $25,000 of buy pressure minimum per 1,000,000 listeners (i.e. every day in April)

As I've mentioned upthread, radio ads typically have a 0.004 response rate, which means 4,000 people and thus $100,000 of buying pressure.

That's buy pressure on the ultra-scarce ODBcoin (just 13,808 in existence) the official & exclusively licensed 'Ol Dirty/Wu-Tang Clan branded crypto.

I don't see how I can dumb this down more for you, fren. 



.1% = 0.001
.4% = 0.004

You know, I'm trying to remember whether you or presduterte or whatever his name is have ever managed to get above the red line in this diagram. While I'll readily admit I've more recently dipped on occasion below the line, I started from the top and worked my way down.

And technically I've never resorted to ad-hominem attacks despite how it may seem since this whole thread is full of me explicitly refuting the points of whatever you guys tried passing as arguments.  I'm sure Bryce appreciates you're jealous he has a wife half his age, btw.

Wow dude, you are really obsessed. New low. I asked him and the case was dismissed since nothing happened.

"Why would the artists sell merchandise when the company producing the merchandise would take a share of the profits?" You realize this is what you are asking, right? No, of course you don't. Nothing that I'm aware of prevents them from also using the other platforms you mentioned, so why are you acting like this is some either/or situation?  

You also surely realize that a lot of the money raised for each IAO is used to promote the artist's coins, not just pocketed, right? What am I saying, of course you don't understand. You've demonstrated this over and over.

There are perks offered to holders of icon tokens as something akin to a club membership. How is this so hard for you to grasp? The fans get digital merchandise with membership perks - what you are oddly referring to as "obligations," even though nobody said all of the perks, or even any of them, obligate the artists to anything. The artist would decide what they wish to offer, IF ANYTHING.  

What placeholders and typos are you even talking about? The "coming soon" images on the Icon Tokens page? That's the only thing I can find. They haven't announced the next IAO, so why would it have anything but a placeholder??  

How does this in any way invalidate the business model, the major media advertising model, or the economics posted upthread?  

At least there is one thing you can grasp:

I dunno who hurt you, but if you've been stalking me on multiple sock accounts on multiple platforms for just about six years now.

Meant to post this yesterday.

Desantis bought 1% of all the Tao that exists, he has partners that want I don't know specifically how many million Tao. They haven't bought it yet, not that I expect you to be in command of anything resembling facts. 

Here's Desantis' take on why he wants in on Tao.




He gets it.

You don't. 

You're going to be soooooooo mad at yourself.   

Livestream has been postponed. Tentatively set to same time on Saturday - 9pm Pacific. Will update the thread later to confirm.





In before predictable comment from throwaway.  

Dude, you are clearly living in an alternate reality of your own imagination.  What is wrong with you? 😂

The market price was the actual effing last trade price on the active market at the time he made the image: https://qtrade.io/market/TAO_BTC  
Do you not even know how to use Blockfolio or check the order books?? 🤣

Bryce is probably calculating from the ATL which I think was around 140-150 sats. From memory, the sale brought in about $100,000 there were what 30,000,000 Tao disbursed which gives you about $0.0033 per coin. Pretty sure the price of BTC was somewhere around $580 or so at the time. Where are you getting your numbers from?  

Watch the livestream on Friday, you confused silly person. 

I think that's a somewhat apples to oranges comparison because they work a bit differently,

Your "substance" was directed at Bryce, so why would I answer it? I am not Bryce. I haven't misrepresented anything at any point. I have no insider information; I relay what I read in the slack and or the discord so people who are not there know the latest info. My statements are all phrased carefully to indicate the level of certainty I have about the details of whatever I'm relaying, if you can't pick up on that nuance that's not my problem.

The initial coin sales are not, to my knowledge [see the language I use to indicate my level of understanding of what I'm talking about?]  going to be restricted to Tao. That is only in the open market afterwards when Tao becomes the base for trading pairs. This is the same as BTC. People want to buy an alt, they need BTC. Same thing. The'll be able to buy it right there on AM using their bank accounts and then buy ODBcoin or whatever. And it can be an automated trade with a simplified interface so they just type in how many USD they want to spend to buy an artist's coin and the dollars are converted to Tao and then to the artist coin without them even seeing it.

Currently anyone participating in a coin sale can hook their bank account up to the site via Plaid and use their local fiat currency (USD and I think CAD for now) as well as BTC and ETH to purchase the coin like ODBcoin. I bought some and it was very simple, as it should be to be easy for non-crypto people which I'll remind you is the target audience.

Why would they use Patreon?  Because the fans will want to buy what the artist is selling, so if the artist says AltMarket, or ODBcoin.com or Patreon, that's where they go. Is that not obvious? I mean, really?

Virtual servers can be scaled. And obviously in the proposed scenario of a sudden influx of volume, it would be up and running, so good for you. You've opened your mind to the reality of what's to come. You're getting there.  

You think I'm Bryce. 😂😂🤣

You're fucking hilarious and so confused. You will be SO mad when you realize how much of a dumbass you are.

Yes, I'm tired enough of your foolishness that I'm resorting to name calling. Deal with it. 

Yes, this project has an unfortunate tendency to be consistently juuuuust ahead of a major break-out. Just stick around a little more, buy or fund a little more stuff, wait a little longer. We'll SOON be mooning. And then have a completely undeserved spat of bad luck due to circumstances completely out of your control. It's the SEC, it's the exchanges, it's your clients, it's the market, it's the hired developers, it's the partners, it's the community not doing enough or doing the wrong thing or moving in the wrong direction. You never do anything wrong. You're always ahead of the curve, the smartest people around, massively influential and just need the rest of the world to see your brilliance.

Meanwhile, you tend to consistently misrepresent the progress and/or history of the project, by claiming that the raising of $100k instead of $30M was intentional, that all sorts of things were intentionally built as "experiments" or "proofs-of-concept" rather than, well, just not working or being good ideas in the first place. That AltMarket will be coming SOON, when it must have been completely obvious even at the time that it was no where near finished (July 4th? Really?).

As for the Tao-exclusivity of future sales - that doesn't sound like it would help sales? Why would any artist agree to tie themselves to the price of a basically untraded cryptocurrency? Why would fans go through the hassle of getting TAO instead of just joining a fanclub or Patreon or something similar?

What makes you think that AltMarket could handle the sudden influx of volume when it can't even get up and running in the first place?

First off, you are basically representing three separate statements written by at least three different individuals as all being my statements, which seems disingenuous to me. So perhaps you are projecting.

As for the time frame, from what I had recently heard when I posted upthread, it was currently being given final tests by a small number of invited community members, and was likely to be open to the general public within the immediate future. I didn't have a date, so I purposefully tried to write a somewhat imprecise statement with some wiggle room, and phrased to make it clear this wasn't an exact date. 

A different community member, also not knowing an exact date, wrote their own imprecise statement (as precise as he felt he could be given the level of info either of us have) and gave himself more generous leeway by saying "by April." That could mean tomorrow or it could mean three weeks from now, I don't know exactly. But I don't feel either of those statements are particularly disingenuous.

The ONLY reason the AltMarket isn't already open for business is because they've made it this far on a shoestring budget - unlike so many token ICOs that raised tens of millions and have done far less or been outright scams. The ODBcoin sale was supposed to be very heavily promoted and hyped to bring in a crowd of hiphop fans new to crypto, raising money for YDB and his mom, aka ODB's widow, and a 50% split with AltMarket. This money was to help finish the last legs of the work on the exchange and launch it with a splash last month, but the Wu-Tang Clan and YDB never did anything to promote the coin sale, so it didn't bring in the expected money and Bryce had to raise funds elsewhere.

From my understanding, it was ODB's widow who got cold feet at the last minute and refused to sign off on promoting it.  So the sale was very restricted and only 13,808 coins were made.  Just $138.08 would've gotten you 1% off all of those suuuuper scarce officially licensed ODB/Wu-Tang coins, but I'm guessing you missed out on that. 

5 year exclusive contracts, my friend. The next artist offerings will be coming soon, with several more this year and everything set now to make them each a big success. Each of which will be exclusively traded against Tao, and protected by those 5 year exclusives. 

Bryce raised the money he needed even if it was later than planned, so the AltMarket will open in the near future, regardless of what the exact date is. 



$30M? OMG are you seriously going back to that semantic nonsense? I answered this months ago the last time you brought up this disingenuous interpretation of a 2016 press release:

No, it has not been changed. The community member who posted that wrote "Alt.Market is currently being tested by community members and is slated to be available to the general public by April. Some screenshots have leaked to Slack/Discord members and there is a lot of buzz about how sveldt and intuitive the interface is"

So in other words people are already using it (not you) and it will be available -- by -- April. Which obviously would mean in March. 

It's cute how closely you pay attention to what's going on, but then try to act all dismissive of it.

Tao has just been listed on qTrade: https://qtrade.io/market/TAO_BTC

https://twitter.com/qTradeio/status/1100824440315826182


AltMarket should be fully open to the public for trading within approximately the next week, and there's also a mobile wallet coming in the near future. Been a long wait, but it's about to all pay off. 

  That makes little sense in response to me posting Desantis' tweets.

He's offering over $50K of BTC for a 1% stake in the network.  


BTW, while CMC has temporarily hidden Tao from the list of coins by market cap, it's still there. There's just a gap of data for the charts until AM comes fully online after the post ODBcoin sale audit.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tao/