I'm a software developer that has been interested in algotrading for many years now. I'm on a budget and at the moment trading securities would be pointless. So I'm looking at cryptocurrency trading. I have some questions:

1. Is anyone algotrading BTC?
2. On what exchanges?
3. What sort of analyses are you doing?
4. What types of strategies?
5. Where do you get historic data? Is it by the hour? minute? second?
6. Is it similar to trading equities?
7. Is scalping possible?
8. Do you trade any altcoins?
9. BTC is extremely volatile. How successful have you been?
10. Is there such thing as finding the "intrinsic value" of a cryptocurrency?
11. What are the transaction costs?

So, I created Zealchain. https://zealchain.com

The cryptocurrency, ZEAL, is one of its two products. The other product is an alternate DNS root called ZNET, which can be though of as an alternate Internet: one would need a special chrome extension in order to access sites registered on ZNET. (ZNET also acts as a centralized, categorized directory for marginalized businesses). At the moment, ZNET domains can only be bought with ZEAL, and this is the only place which accepts ZEAL currency.

I've been up to my neck with other projects, but I will be open sourcing payment processing with ZEAL, and will be encouraging Zealites (adopters of ZEAL or users of ZNET) to accept payments with ZEAL soon.

The focus, as you might have already seen, is on marginalized communities. The next questions are always:
   
     1. Why would a marginalized person want to buy a ZNET domain over a regular domain? and
     2. Why would a marginalized person want to use ZEAL over regular currency, or another more popular cryptocurrency?

Both questions can be answered with a single idea. Using the African-American community as an example: people want to share wealth within their community. There is a big "buy black" movement happening right now. Zealchain can not only provide a currency for black folks to call their own (being the first Zealites and all), but it can also act as a centralized directory for black-owned businesses. (That said, Zealchain is for any marginalized community, not just black folks -- folks who register their businesses on ZNET will choose what category of marginalized business they are in. No one will be barred from participating and being a Zealite unless they are some hate group)

ZEAL is to be the cryptocurrency of marginalized folks who became successful through sharing wealth within their community. It is to be the modern day implementation of The Miracle on Han River, for any community.

I made this post because I want to discover ZEAL's intrinsic value (as well as to promote ZEAL) on the best place there is to discover such a thing.

What do you all think?

I am online ~12 hours per day. I live in Central Time. The channel is #zealchain

I've learned that antivirus programs produce false positives when analyzing crpytocurrency wallet software. Please do not be alarmed.

now hosting the files at sourceforge. should be no viruses there (zealchain.com was compromised by a hacker)

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The wallet may take a while to sync. If it takes more than a couple days please let me know.

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Ah, the "trojan" it's detecting is called CoinMiner. Sourceforge didn't fix the problem. I'm not sure how it got there

[moderator's note: consecutive posts merged]

wow. please provide a screenshot of this.

A centralized database of businesses is highly sought after in minority communities. ZNET provides this. There is a great desire to buy from and do businesses with people of the same race within minority groups, in order to empower those minority groups. And there would be increased exclusivity from the fact that only people with the ZNET chrome extension can access their site.

Under construction. Will be releasing tomorrow.

Main site: https://zealchain.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/zealchaincom
Twitter: https://twitter.com/zealchain
Freenode: #zealchain
Github: https://github.com/mikejohnsonjr/zeal
Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/zealchain

I created Zealchain not only so that poor folks can lift themselves up, but also so that marginalized communities can share wealth within the community.
Zealchain consists of two products: ZEAL, the cryptocurrency, and ZNET, the Zealchain network.
You can buy ZEAL here: https://altmarkets.io/trading/zealbtc
ZNET can be thought of an alternate Internet. It is, technically, called an alternate DNS root. Essentially, sites on ZNET can only be accessed with the ZNET chrome extension.
Registering a domain name on ZNET costs anywhere between 20 and 50 ZEAL, depending on your TLD.
All sites registered on ZNET are included in the ZNET directory. Through this directory, individuals and companies can find and support businesses from marginalized communities.
ZNET chrome extension code: https://github.com/mikejohnsonjr/znet_chrome
The code for the registrar and alternate DNS root are proprietary.
I'll be open sourcing payments with ZEAL soon.

ZNET chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/znet/pehplilfmegnchkaojolnoimmfelhpmm

Windows and Linux wallets and more information on ZEAL can be found at https://zealchain.com

Max money: 7 billion
Premine: 200k
Algorithm: Scrypt

Block explorer: http://explorer.zealchain.com/