[Ünlülerin Blockchain’e olan ilgisi artarak devam ediyor. En yeni destek bir çoğumuz tarafından dünyanın en iyi futbolcusu olarak kabul edilen Lionel Messi’den geldi.]

Ünlülerin Blockchain’e olan ilgisi artarak devam ediyor. En yeni destek bir çoğumuz tarafından dünyanın en iyi futbolcusu olarak kabul edilen Lionel Messi’den geldi.

FC Barcelona futbolcusu Messi, Blockchain tabanlı teknolojiler kullanan SIRIN LABS şirketiyle reklam anlaşması yaptı. Şirket, geçtiğimiz yıl  dünyanın en güvenli cep telefonu olan Solarin’i  üretmişti. Yakın zamanda da Blockchain teknolojisini kullanan Finney isimli yeni bir cep telefonu ve PC’yi piyasaya süreceğini duyurdu. Messi ile yapılan anlaşma ile şirket, Blockchain teknolojisiyle daha önce tanışmamış kişilere hitap ederek geniş bir kitleye ulaşmak istediğini belirtiyor. Messi, facebook gönderisinde şöyle diyor:

‘Genellikle sahada rakip takımın savunmasını yıpratmaya çalışırım. Blockchain teknolojisinin popüler hale gelmesinden sonra bu teknolojiyi kullanarak güvenli cep telefonu üreten SIRIN LABS firmasına reklam yüzü olarak katılmaktan gurur duyuyorum.’

Messi, kripto para dünyasında katılan ilk ünlü değil. Daha önce Paris Hilton ve Floyd Mayweather gibi isimler de bu çalışmalarda yer almıştı.

Yeniden IOTA

SIRIN LABS, IOTA’nın Tangle teknolojisini kullanarak cihazları birbirine bağlamayı hedefliyor. IOTA, Ripple’yi geçerek kripto paralar arasında en değerli dördüncü konuma kadar yükselmişti. Bu yükselişin sebebi olarak şirketin Micosoft ve Fujitsu gibi önemli firmalarla yapmış olduğu anlaşmalar olarak gösteriliyor.

O reklam: https://www.facebook.com/leomessi/photos/a.301943896491878.81719.176063032413299/2059993180686932/?type=3

Most of here know, either intuitively or by logical deduction, that the technology of bitcoin is paving the way for civilization changing revolutions. This article on Medium goes deep into what doors bitcoin has really opened up.

here are some snippets:

-as we know, bitcoin is not decentralized per se. There are people out there working on newer blockchains that decentralize the process of evolving the protocol itself. Here we are, fighting over which update to go after, when there is a way to design cryptocurrencies beyond that

-we don't have to to have every local wallet containing the ledger for every transaction ever done. Nature doesn't do this and we would be wise to build our systems following the intelligence inherent in nature.


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-The author of the article, Arthur Brock, has been working on currencies well before Bitcoin. Here he is taking to Occupy wall st protestors and organizers about how 'currency' as we define it for wealth purposes, is extremely narrow and any revolution looking to take out the banking elite should consider overthrowing the currency systems that define it so narrowly

https://vimeo.com/31164740

And i think the most important tidbit to churn in your brain for the evening..."Ceptr" is the protocol Brock and others are working on...

-Blockchain is about managing a consensus about what was “said.”
Ceptr is about distributing a consensus about how to “speak.”

Here's the beginning of the article...

Currently, most people think of cryptocurrencies as things that run on blockchains like bitcoin, ethereum, dogecoin, and all the alt-coins and ledger systems. This post outlines a completely different strategy for implementing cryptocurrencies with completely distributed chains. Before presenting the approach, I want step back and validate some basic assumptions, because this very notion seems impossible to many, especially those steeped in blockchain.
In the MetaCurrency project we started with a different goal. Rather than trying to make one global, anonymous, digital cash (“One ring to rule them all…”), we are interested in the resilience that comes from building a rich ecosystem of interoperable currencies. We seek to empower communities of all shapes, flavors, and sizes to organize themselves and their flows of resources more effectively. Our different assumptions and design requirements has led us down a different path toward implementation.

not sure about the rules of copy/pasting full articles.

Here it is in full...https://medium.com/metacurrency-project/beyond-blockchain-simple-scalable-cryptocurrencies-1eb7aebac6ae#.6bl3whuul

Granted, the USD market is in its infancy on cryptsy, so this really is more important for the future.

Will redd overtake doge in the coming months?

Peercoin
Primecoin
Namecoin
Ixcoin (lol)
Quark
Megacoin
Zetacoin
Feathercoin
Worldcoin
Novacoin
Infinitecoin
Litecoin
Dogecoin


Now, I will get heat for LTC and DOGE, no doubt. I acknowledge that they are doing the best on this list. So for sake of argument, don't focus on those.

All the rest are on massive downswings.

see graphs for these at http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=the_first_wave_of_alt_coins_are_dying



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Who thinks any of these (other than LTC and DOGE) will make it to 2015 with a higher market cap than they have now?

Some of you probably noticed neutrinocoin popping up into the top ten of www.coinmarketcap.com.

Ignore the hype...its a bunch of shit.

They mined at 3992 coins a block basically in secret, without any announcements.

They cut the mining reward from 3992 to 10.987 and NOW they are appearing on coinmarketcap. Convenient timing.

see here http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=a_massive_investigation_of_instamines_and_fastmines_for_the_top_alt_coins#neutrinocoin

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Litecoiners, what is the reason why Litecoin should hold the #2 spot? I honestly don't know. It doesn't seem any more special than many of the coins that trend between 500K-10 million in market cap.

Well, if they can't hold the #2 spot and 325,000,000 in market cap, what will happen to that Litecoin money? It will flood the alt coin market.


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In lieu of Litecoiners not being able to produce a strong answer to this question, we put out the guesses as to who benefits from the slow (or not so slow) dieoff of Litecoin.

The winners I predict are...

Bitcoin-because its bitcoin

Vertcoin- scrypt N and a commitment to defeat ASICs will attract disenchanted LTCers once ASICs take over

Monero-(this is our wild card) Widely different CryptoNote currency technology. Of the handful that have come out with this tech, Monero is at least 10x more volume and market cap. LTCers might jump on this rising train.

Darkcoin-I hate darkcoin, but it has a ton of volume, including LTC/DRK. Unless they have other fuck ups like their recent emergency hardfork, LTCers could go to this coin as well

Karma-Lots of LTC volume for such a small currency and its on the rise. Also a wild card pick.

Dogecoin-Tons of LTC volume. Trusted name recognition, which is apparently important to LTCers.

NXT-NXT has been rising steadily for a couple months now. LTCers who have lost some money may try to hop on the NXT train in hopes that it keeps marching forward.


See more here http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=the_death_of_litecoin_will_rejuvenate_other_alts

Hello,

I have noticed that Clean Water Coin is clearly leading the vote tally in what coin could be added next to the market. Before this is done, Mintpal should strongly consider the following evidence that is publicly available regarding this coin and its dubious past, lest it become an exchange known to support terrible coins.
You can read a more in depth of my investigation of their coin here...

=fastmine&s[]=instamine#clear_water_coin]http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=a_massive_investigation_of_instamines_and_fastmines_for_the_top_alt_coins&s[]=fastmine&s[]=instamine#clear_water_coin


In order to get to the point, the summarized points are as follows...


-the coin started with a PoW generation of 1000 coins per block.

-block 7000 to 8300ish detail a mammoth amount of coins being generated. It completely leaves the described 1000 coin/block generation and vaults into random coin generation up to 1,000,000 per block.

-A careful reading of the bitcointalk thread details that a developer made a "mistake"

-the mistake is acknowledged but they decide to not do anything about it, effectively flash-enriching some miners

-around 450 million coins were accidentally created in that 1300 block timeframe, representing around 90% of the coins in existence today.


This is a coin that clearly needed to address that "mistake" and failed to do so. To create a coin that mined over 90% of its coins on the first 1300 blocks would be shunned by any respectable cryptocurrency user. Why would the flash mine hidden in the thick of the blockchain be treated any differently?

All of their actions from this moment on are fraudulent until they rectify their publicly admitted "mistake". At this point there may be no easy recourse. Failure to acknowledge this evidence by Mintpal would lead the public to believe their exchange supports scam coins.

Please consider this and look at the blockchain yourself (start at around 6995 and begin moving forward).

It is my understanding that anyone who supports this coin, whether explicitly by use and advertisement, or implictly, as in hosting a market on an exchange for the coin, are participating in the fraud. At the very least, it would show Mintpal to completely lack a vetting system before coins go to the market. Surely this is not a desireable trait for your company.

Blockchain here...


http://explorer.cleanwatercoin.org/block/0000000014b519bee9caa3d52aaff9819c6fd8fd622388dea71b2c0befdc2104

Sincerely,
Xxxx

http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=a_massive_investigation_of_instamines_and_fastmines_for_the_top_alt_coins

How does your coin stack up when you look at their mining starts?

Coins discussed in this article...All the top alt coins except the second gen coins like Mastercoin, ripple, etc.


Bitcoin
Maxcoin
Namecoin
Blackcoin
Darkcoin
Mintcoin
Vertcoin
Peercoin
Primecoin
Litecoin
Infinitecoin
Megacoin
Worldcoin
Feathercoin
Bitbar
Goldcoin
Novacoin
Dogecoin
Quark
Zetacoin
ybcoin

basic mining data from the blockchain and from www.cryptometer.org were used to assess the fairness or scamminess of these coins. Obviously more information is needed to make a decision before investing, but this can be a big portion of your decision.


This needs to be spread around. Link to it if you like it!

Cross post from newbie forum...it properly fits in this forum anyway.

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Altcoins are springing up like wild fire. The sooner we address which are good and which are spurious the better.

There are a lot of people divided on this issue. Should we support only bitcoin? should we support alt coins? In my opinion, either way we should have a system of evaluating each coin as they appear. If you are only for bitcoin, the evaluation system (hopefully) exposes the flaws and potential scamminess of the coin. If a supporter of multiple cryptocurrencies, the system will help newbies quickly identify the really good alt coins, the iffy, speculative alt coins, and the straight up I'm-coming-for-your-wallet coins. It doesn't matter which side of the fence you fall on, a system to evaluate a new coin is necessary to both sides.

I don't pretend to have the answers, but maybe if many people post here we can set up a stickied topic with tons of useful information?

Here is my 2 millibits on the topic.

PREMINING AND INSTAMINING

This is a phrase that is used frequently when people talk about a new cryptocurrency. I see it in two slightly different contexts. On one hand, a "premine" can mean that the coin was created and official mining had begun but only insiders were allowed to begin mining at the easiest levels. This means the coin was not announced properly to the public and only friends of the developers gobbled up much of the first coins. The other context is in the nature of the amount of coins allowed to be mined in the very outset of the coin. Let's jump right into an example using a very useful (if incomplete) website called www.cryptometer.org

Take CloudCoin. Go to the above website and click on the CloudCoin link for the first 96 hours the coin ever existed. scroll down to the graphs labeled "minted currency" and total supply. Notice that within the first three hours, almost 1,000,000 coins were minted. Now notice in the next three days, the average minting of coins drops at least ten times the amount to 100,000 or even less. If you go back on your browser and click the "rest of days" CloudCoin link, you can see that it was averaging closer to 10,000 newly minted coins a day. That means coins were made in 100 times higher frequency in the first few hours then in the rest of its life.

Looking at the total supply (albeit this graph is not up to date), those one million coins minted by day 1 account for more than 33% of total coins. This is a major red flag. What is tells you is that whomever mined the first few hours of this coin got a significant percentage of total coins minted. A small number of people potentially own the currency. Now, does this make the coin a scam? Not necessarily. But it DOES SUGGEST tha a few people could sell their stake and conceivably crash the currency's value. It is also worth noting that SOMEONE CAN CREATE A COIN WITH THIS INTENTION. They can mine up as much as they can in the beginning, make a bunch of PR on the net about how cool their new coin is, and as millions come in, they (not so) quietly sell ten percent of their coins every milestone their coin reaches. That should be a concern if you are considering investing.

Look at Bitcoin's cryptometer charts for comparison. Thankfully, millions of bit coins were not mined at the first few days. Primecoin is another sexy graph for anti-premining folks. In fact, take a look at a dozen of them and you'll be surprised at the number of coins that had a mining similar to Cloudcoin. Millions mined the few day or so, and then the amount of mined daily drops significantly, making the first miners (probably developer buddies) hella rich.


So there you have it. Cryptometer doesn't cover all the coins out there, but maybe someone can post another link of someone who does? Check out your coin, do some digging.

People can post another genre of study for an altcoin and if it gets enough QFT (Quoted for truths) I will copy and paste it into my first post. Then we can have a nice study guide to begin your alt coin quest!

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Look, I know there are a plethora of new members to this forum everyday and this forum in particular is flooded with topics. So its quite possible this will be buried within ten minutes. Nonetheless, i feel it is important enough to start a topic that attempts to develop a system by which someone can learn about a new cryptocurrency and decide if it is worth supporting by buying a few (or a lot) of coins and begin using them.

There are a lot of people divided on this issue. Should we support only bitcoin? should we support alt coins? In my opinion, either way we should have a system of evaluating each coin as they appear. If you are only for bitcoin, the evaluation system (hopefully) exposes the flaws and potential scamminess of the coin. If a supporter of multiple cryptocurrencies, the system will help newbies quickly identify the really good alt coins, the iffy, speculative alt coins, and the straight up I'm-coming-for-your-wallet coins. It doesn't matter which side of the fence you fall on, a system to evaluate a new coin is necessary to both sides.

I don't pretend to have the answers, but maybe if many people post here we can set up a stickied topic with tons of useful information?

Here is my 2 millibits on the topic.

PREMINING

This is a phrase that is used frequently when people talk about a new cryptocurrency. I see it in two slightly different contexts. On one hand, a "premine" can mean that the coin was created and official mining had begun but only insiders were allowed to begin mining at the easiest levels. This means the coin was not announced properly to the public and only friends of the developers gobbled up much of the first coins. The other context is in the nature of the amount of coins allowed to be mined in the very outset of the coin. Let's jump right into an example using a very useful (if incomplete) website called www.cryptometer.org

Take CloudCoin. Go to the above website and click on the CloudCoin link for the first 96 hours the coin ever existed. scroll down to the graphs labeled "minted currency" and total supply. Notice that within the first three hours, almost 1,000,000 coins were minted. Now notice in the next three days, the average minting of coins drops at least ten times the amount to 100,000 or even less. If you go back on your browser and click the "rest of days" CloudCoin link, you can see that it was averaging closer to 10,000 newly minted coins a day. That means coins were made in 100 times higher frequency in the first few hours then in the rest of its life.

Looking at the total supply (albeit this graph is not up to date), those one million coins minted by day 1 account for more than 33% of total coins. This is a major red flag. What is tells you is that whomever mined the first few hours of this coin got a significant percentage of total coins minted. A small number of people potentially own the currency. Now, does this make the coin a scam? Not necessarily. But it DOES SUGGEST tha a few people could sell their stake and conceivably crash the currency's value. It is also worth noting that SOMEONE CAN CREATE A COIN WITH THIS INTENTION. They can mine up as much as they can in the beginning, make a bunch of PR on the net about how cool their new coin is, and as millions come in, they (not so) quietly sell ten percent of their coins every milestone their coin reaches. That should be a concern if you are considering investing.

Look at Bitcoin's cryptometer charts for comparison. Thankfully, millions of bit coins were not mined at the first few days. Primecoin is another sexy graph for anti-premining folks. In fact, take a look at a dozen of them and you'll be surprised at the number of coins that had a mining similar to Cloudcoin. Millions mined the few day or so, and then the amount of mined daily drops significantly, making the first miners (probably developer buddies) hella rich.


So there you have it. Cryptometer doesn't cover all the coins out there, but maybe someone can post another link of someone who does? Check out your coin, do some digging.

People can post another genre of study for an altcoin and if it gets enough QFT (Quoted for truths) I will copy and paste it into my first post. Then we can have a nice study guide to begin your alt coin quest!