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http://altconvention.comAlt Convention is a new type of event in the Alternative Income, Finance and Tech space. It is unlike any convention you have ever been to before. In the simplest of terms, you could consider Alt Convention to be 4 conventions in one. Kind of like a big huge convention buffet where guests pick and choose the bits and pieces they wish to consume. The event is produced in various venues spread throughout the city of Batumi, Adjara, Georgia. Nestled between the Caucasus Mountains and the Black Sea, Batumi offers a wealth of natural and cultural experiences. It is a perfect location for a fun, rewarding, and adventurous conference. Exhibit Arena Due to the geographic setting of this event, we plan to produce an exhibit arena where various alternative income, finance, and investment businesses can showcase their wares to tens of thousands of interested people. Everything from alt-currency exchanges, Forex, currency mining, freelance services, network marketing, internet marketing, franchise opportunities, and more will be on display. Tens of thousands of people, ranging from regular Joe to high net-worth individuals are expected to attend. The general admission exhibit arena will be promoted for several months throughout Eastern Europe, Turkey, and the Middle East. Businesses wanting to get a foot in the door to this emerging market, or expand an already existing presence, are sure to find an overwhelming and receptive crowd. High Impact Speakers We are securing contracts with several high impact and many world-famous speakers. The event should feature over 60 speakers throughout the days and venues. In addition, many industry leading, innovative organizations will lead in-depth workshops guaranteed to educate, enlighten, and equip. The exact list of speakers, along with a complete roster of topic agendas will be presented on the site well in advance of the conference. There will be several “threads” or “paths” attendees can choose from if they want to go from beginner to advanced levels in a certain topic. Open Venue Concept Attendees will be given a passport upon registration. There are three levels of convention passports. They are High Roller, Business Class, and Economy Class. Thirty days prior to the event, the agenda for each venue will be published on our site. The time and place for every speech, workshop, activity, etc. will be available long before people attend. In this way attendees are free to pick and choose the various presentations and activities they feel will provide the most benefit. Attendees are free to move from venue to venue as they wish. Lunch will be available at all four venues. Attendees may purchase Lunch Passes in advance. They may use these lunch passes to dine at any of the four venues during lunch time. This way, they are not forced to leave a particular venue, where they happen to be attending a workshop or networking with someone, to return to their “home” venue for lunch. Every evening there will be various dinner opportunities depending upon the level of passport an attendee holds. These evening functions can include meals, cocktails, entertainment, and various levels of networking. There will be extremely exclusive, high-impact VIP events every evening for our High Rollers. We have a mission to attract around 3,000 conference participants to the conference itself. Included in this goal is the sub-goal of having 1,000 investors in the mix. In addition to the conference, we strive to attract 20,000 general admission attendees to the general admission speeches, workshops, and exhibit arena. Become a Speaker Submit speaker information to: info@altconvention.comTo be considered as a speaker, please email the following: - Biography and headshot of proposed speaker
- The venue you are submitting the speaker for, and reason why he/she is a good fit
- Links to any appearances, previous speaking gigs, video, podcasts, or press
- Appropriate contact information
- Please let us know where you heard about us
NOTE: Speakers should be submitted 90 or more days prior to the event. Please note that, due to the overwhelming number of submissions we receive, only individuals who are selected to speak will receive a reply. Although we truly appreciate all your ideas and proposals, it is simply not feasible for us to respond personally to every submission. For further information you can contact me on d.newman@altconvention.comskype aussie_striker
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A new company with highly experienced developers has entered the bitcoin development area. It was seen as an area that did not have any good support for people that had bitcoin related projects to develop. I am not a developer myself but have contact with the company. They have only just started negotiating contracts for projects in the last week. If you have a project you want made you can contact them and get a quote. This is not a few young kids promising to develop a site for you. These are developers with 20+ years of experience. If you have a difficult or high end project, and the money to pay for it this would be your best option to get it made right. If you have a smaller project they will probably do it as well in a faster, more efficient, and better way than you would get elsewhere. Have a look http://www.gbbg-ware.comThere is no referral links to this company. I'm not sure if there will be in future. However, unofficially they will reward people that refer business to them with 5% of the contract price. If you do look to get something developed by them, do me a favour and please let them know you heard about them from me David Newman. Here is some excerpts from the site; The GBBG|Ware LOVES Bitcoin. We may even be the very first global IT company to establish a dedicated bitcoin development division. If you are considering the development, implementation, growth, or management of a Bitcoin related product, website, or service, we are the team for you. How We WorkThe GBBG|Ware Distributed Agile Development Process enables us to work with clients at any point in the software development lifecycle, from the earliest stages of conceptual design to long-term software product maintenance. Our developers follow a full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Once you have chosen GBBG|Ware for development work, the next steps are simple. When you contact us for a quote, we form a core team that gathers knowledge about the business area of the project, formalizes requirements for the product and prepares vision/scope documents for your project. The team prepares the functional specifications, works the design process through, and prepares work plans, cost estimates and schedules for the various deliverables. Once you engage GBBG|Ware for product development, you will find an efficient, structured distributed agile process that encompasses all aspects of Strategy, Design, Development, and Support. |
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Most know about the problem Stroncoin had about a month ago with private keys being stolen. Members were told to move their bitcoin and/or ensure their passwords were good. Well my password said it was about 4 years to crack and I think I changed it anyway but today logging in I found my account was cleaned out 4 days ago. 5.48134135 BTC gone. It might not seem like much to some people on here but that was all I had.
Not impressed but I guess there is nothing that can be done about it. That is one of the bad things about bitcoin, if you get ripped off there is no way of getting your bitcoin back. Unfortunately that also makes it good for the hackers as they know they cannot be caught.
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GBBG Fund Managers Market Opinion
Posted: Friday, April 12th, 2013
Category: GBBG Fund
There is a good reason why investors such as Warren Buffett become multi billionaires while 999,999 out of 1 million people do not. The reason, most people are too fickle. When markets move down suddenly, the average person panics. They begin to fret over the losses, although only real when acted upon, and they act in self-destructive ways. As markets move up, investors such as Mr. Buffett relax, smile, and wait. When markets begin to turn downward, those like Mr. Buffett begin to smile as happiness fills their soul. Why? Because their favorite investments are on sale! They can buy what they want at a discount.
Such is the case in the past few days with Bitcoin. The fund managers at GBBG are smiling happily today as their favorite investment vehicle goes on sale. While the panicky, fickle masses jump on the ‘sell now’ bandwagon, GBBG fund managers are quietly building their portfolio. Like Warren Buffett, they don’t care so much what the market is doing ‘TODAY’ as much as what the market will do over the next 5 or 10 years.
GBBG fund insiders predict the current mini-pop to settle around $60 or $70 (USD) per BTC and then stabilize. Then, the fun begins again. They estimate the next ‘bubble’ will rise to around $400 or $500 (USD) per BTC before the next mini-pop. This is a natural occurrence that is expected at regular intervals over the next few years.
Bitcoin is a very new, untested protocol. Over the next few years, people will dabble with it with distrust. Merchants will slowly begin to accept it, but with hesitation. The price will rise and fall as the global marketplace learns how to tether this new currency into normal financial function. There will be panics in the marketplace. There will be bubbles. This is fully expected. Yet, over time, the trend should be upward if populations continue to adopt bitcoin as an acceptable form of payment.
Over the past few months, GBBG has introduced over 150,000 people to Bitcoin. We feel it is our responsibility to shed light on our Bitcoin belief system. We constantly monitor the various news releases and their various takes on the protocol. And, we constantly field questions from our membership.
Bitcoin Hacks
So often the media misrepresents the truth about hacking. Nearly 100% of the time, when a news release discusses a recent ‘hack’ on a product or service, they are entirely incorrect. When it comes to bitcoin, this is fully the case. Bitcoin has NEVER been hacked. Many articles have surfaced recently alarming the general public with reports of bitcoin hacks. While these articles do a good job of causing panic and short-sighted sell-offs, enabling our managers to purchase BTC at a massive discount, they are malicious lies.
Bitcoin is a protocol, like email is a protocol. It is not a company, a service, or an organization. In the four year history of Bitcoin, the protocol has functioned near flawlessly. With only a very few exceptions, such as the recent branch in the blockchain, the protocol has delivered above and beyond expectation. As a protocol, Bitcoin has never been ‘hacked’. Therefore, the fear mongering and misrepresentation of the general media is unwarranted.
The real truth is that certain individuals, through their own security flaws, have allowed their Bitcoin Wallets and the servers that manage them to be hijacked. Every single instance of ‘Bitcoin hacking’ that has been reported by the media is actually a hijacking. There is a major difference between the two. Hacking a system is the complex process of decrypting the passwords or other security measures in place to protect the system. Hijacking is the more simple process of fooling someone into handing over passwords and other details necessary to gain access to a system.
We have yet to see a true, definitive case of hacking within the Bitcoin protocol. However, because people are people, we have seen many cases of hijacking. The media chooses to report these hijacks as ‘hacks’ and uses this as a reason to distrust Bitcoin. In our opinion, they should also apply this philosophy to email. Since so many individuals have allowed their email accounts to be hijacked over the years, the entire world should discard and distrust email altogether. Their assertion that Bitcoin cannot be trusted or ‘valuable’ over time, because individuals have allowed their wallets to be hijacked is the exact same as the assertion that email cannot be trusted or ‘valuable’ over time because individuals have allowed their accounts to be hijacked. Both are extremely stupid assertions.
Bitcoin is a protocol. Email is a protocol. TCP/IP is a protocol. And, as with the early days of Email and TCP/IP, the Bitcoin protocol will have its ‘maturing’ and ‘vetting’ process. We urge our members to read carefully when idiots in the media report ‘bitcoin hacking’. A stupid fool who says Bitcoin has been hacked is just as ignorant as one asserting that Email has been hacked. If an individual does not take the proper security measures and they allow another individual to hijack their wallet, that is NOT hacking. And the fools reporting such in the media should be ignored.
Market Volatility
Bitcoin is a brand new protocol. There are far fewer merchants accepting the payment system as there are speculators participating in the ‘bubble’ effect. Because of this fact, we expect the Bitcoin market valuation to be highly volatile for at least 12 to 18 months. While the ‘basis’ for bitcoin valuation relies primarily on market speculation, no person can predict or measure what a bitcoin is really ‘worth’. Therefore, people will cautiously invest and hoard their coins (driving prices up) and then dump their holdings in short-sighted panic attacks (driving prices down). This cycle will continue as the protocol matures.
Our opinion is the day-to-day reactionary market is not the place to keep one’s eye. We feel the more determinant ‘valuation’ mechanism is the VC activity, entrepreneurial developments, and slow adoption of the protocol by real-world merchants. Very few established venture capitalists take blind risk. Most of them have informed reasoning when they make a move. This is why our belief in bitcoin is strong. There are established VC firms moving into bitcoin-based ventures. These people do not act on gut feeling or ‘whims’.
Volatility should stabilize over the next few years and normalize into a steady, yet slowly increasing, valuation. Why? Because mainstream merchants will be foolish to ignore this payment system, and as such will begin to adopt it. It makes financial sense, although only after volatility begins to stabilize and currency conversion is more practical. Why would any merchant want to give up 5% or 10% of their revenue to banks and payment processors when they can accomplish the exact same tasks for under 1%?
As major processors, such as BitPay begin to prove the value of this payment system to mainstream merchants, others will adopt more rapidly. The aspect of volatility and convertibility will be addressed by systems such as BitPay, which allow merchants to immediately (daily) convert their sales into real (cash) deposits in their banking accounts. Our belief is that the protocol is only just now beginning to see professional, experienced development. Until now, the majority of systems serving the bitcoin economy have been amateur. As the professionals enter the arena, the protocol will mature. Along with this, the marketplace. Along with this, volatility will stabilize and price-valuation will normalize.
Summary
Bitcoin is an excellent, yet infant protocol. There will be ups and downs. There will be moments of fanatical valuation increases. There will be moments of panicked sell-offs. The wise participants are those who capitalize on the long-term upward movement and resist the day-to-day pressures. When bitcoins are on sale, grab some!
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An Exclusive Bitcoin Portfolio for ALL GBBG MembersOn April 1st, 2013, GBBG will open the trading floor to buy and sell GBBG Bitcoin Fund shares. Right now as a GBBG member you have the exclusive opportunity to snatch up shares at the introductory price of 0.25 bitcoins for each share.
Fund Objectives
- Arbitrage (Buying/Selling bitcoins)
- Capital Placements (bitcoin Startups)
- Options (Bitcoin Options)
- Revenue Participation (Revenue Share Arrangements)
- Bitcoin Value Inflation
Participant Opportunities
- Trade Shares (Buy/Sell Fund Shares)
- Long-term Growth (Hold Shares for Long-term Growth)
- Reinvestment Pool (Reinvest Other GBBG Earnings)
- Anonymity (Anonymous Participation)
- Liquidity (Cash Out Quickly)
Fund BasicsThe GBBG Bitcoin Fund is a pooled collection of bitcoins contributed by all participants and deployed in mass for the goal of growth and return. The fund managers will methodically seek out opportunities through a) Arbitrage – the buying and selling of bitcoins; b) BTC Capital Placements – placing bitcoins into startups that are rooted in the bitcoin economy; c) Options – bitcoin related option markets; e) Revenue Participation – entering bitcoin revenue sharing agreements with businesses profiting through the bitcoin economy. The fund seeks to invest solely in the form of bitcoins and produce returns solely in the form of bitcoins. This is NOT a financial instrument, banking instrument, or security. The GBBG Bitcoin Fund is entirely based in the bitcoin economy and ALL trades will be performed in bitcoins. Participants will purchase shares using bitcoins and receive bitcoins when selling shares. The fund will strategically place bitcoins into carefully selected opportunities that are designed to produce positive results. The value of fund shares may rise or fall, depending upon several factors which include, but are not limited to a) the bitcoin market; b) the success or failure of opportunities taken; b) the success or failure of bitcoin startups; c) the success or failure of bitcoin revenue sharing ventures; d) the success or failure of Bitcoin as a digital currency. The fund managers will make every reasonable attempt to place bitcoins into solid, dependable opportunities that have been thoroughly investigated, vetted, and assessed. The primary philosophy will center around arbitrage and revenue share potentials and risk analysis. Participants may purchase or sell shares in the fund freely with the only restriction being a fixed daily trade settlement time. Therefore, all fund share trades (buy or sell) will be conducted at 8:10 AM (EDT) for all requests received during the 24 hours prior to 8:00 AM (EDT). The share price for all trades will be calculated based on the closing net asset value per share as reflected at 7:59:59 AM (EDT) on the same day when said trades settle. There will be an additional 2% purchase fee when buying shares. Introductory Offer Price
0.25 BTC per Share (through April 1st, 2013)
Trading Begins
April 1, 2013
Share Purchase Fee: 2%
Share Sales Fee: 0%
Open to ALL Members (Applicant, Reserve, Founder)Become a member now to participate
http://bit.ly/bitbillions
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With so many gambling, lotto, games, programs or even free bitcoin sites etc. I thought it worth voting for what sites/games/programs you have made the most from or like the most and which are the worst.
NO LINKS ALLOWED
As per forum rules so just put the name.
I must admit I have not got experience playing the games here so it will be interesting to see what has been successful for others.
Best you have earned with
Name - Site/program (name only) - How much have you earned (if you are game to say) - How long to Earn
Aussie_striker - Bitbillions - 7.05 BTC - 21 days
{your nick} - {program} - {## BTC} - {days}
Worst Programs
Name - Site/program (name only) - How much have you lost (if you are game to say) - How long to Lose
{your nick} - {program} - {-## BTC} - {days}
Most Enjoyable Programs
Name - Site/program (name only) - What do you like about it most
Aussie_striker - Bitbillions - it is going to get a lot better as they release the applications
{your nick} - {program} - {-## BTC} - {days}
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I am not admin, all details are available on the website. BitBillions (GBBG) launched in late February 2013 and is using bitcoin as its primary currency. Currently there is three types of memberships available: Founder Members - No longer available - Founder Members originally made a donation of 1 Bitcoin before the rise and price changed to $50 worthCo-Founder Members - 1135 - Co Founders were introduced after the Founders positions were closed off to new members. Reserve Members - Reserve Members made a donation LESS THAN the value of 1 Bitcoin prior to the price changeApplicants - Applicants are all people who have registered but NOT made a donation.As of 16Dec13 there are Founder Members - 3285 **No longer available Co-Founder Members - 1135 *Limited positions available Reserve Members - 234Applicants - 27358REVENUE SHAREGBBG members will be FINANCIALLY REWARDED with bitcoins. Our premium services will include advertising, payment processing and currency exchange just to name a few. Monthly revenues will be shared with GBBG members, even members who do NOT spend a dime will earn with GBBG! 50% of GBBG monthly revenue will be shared with members. There is six revenue share pools and members will be in some or all depending how early they get a membership. You earn your share of each pool depending upon your position in the matrix (how early you join) and the number of points you earn each month. You earn 1 point for each minute you use our FREE services each month. You DO NOT have to pay a monthly fee or buy anything! There are no dues, membership fees, monthly minimums, or purchase requirements at all. BitBillions revenue will be generated through advertising, premium communication services, payment processing, currency exchanges, sales of books, sales of music, sales of movies, and many other income producing mediums. Members simply earn money by using the FREE technology. Some of the FREE services will include: - Communication with anyone, anywhere in the world, including unlimited global telephone calling
- Access to the largest database of music, movies, and books on earth
- Global payment processing, currency exchange, and banking with NO FEES
GBBG Bitcoin Fund
In April 2013 BitBillions released the GBBG Bitcoin Fund which is a pooled collection of bitcoins contributed by all participants and deployed in mass for the goal of growth and return. The fund managers will seek opportunities through a) Arbitrage – the buying and selling of bitcoins; b) BTC Capital Placements – placing bitcoins into startups that are rooted in the bitcoin economy; c) Options – bitcoin related option markets; e) Revenue Participation – entering bitcoin revenue sharing agreements with businesses profiting through the bitcoin economy. The fund seeks to invest solely in the form of bitcoins and produce returns solely in the form of bitcoins.
Open to ALL Members (Applicant, Reserve, Founder)
They currently have several earning sources including;
* GBBG-Ware - Software development site dealing only with developing projects of minimum $5k
* My Bitcoin Rewards - Win free bitcoins
* Bitfeud - Flash sales where you can get half price bitcoin
* I Want a Car - Earn entries towards winning a free car.
With many other projects to come.
Find out more clicking the link in my signature.
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I am using Strongcoin and have had 8 incoming transactions and one outgoing. I can see payments history but what about the amounts that have been received. It there anyway to see a list of those transactions?
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Ok there are several threads that are about what is the best wallet, most secure etc. Now all these threads are great and give good info but they still do not give a great indication of how many people use what. This post aims to solve that. I am going to post below a few categories and you can add your vote to each one. Add your vote to the vote column ### by adding one number ie ##1 and copying this post with your vote into a reply. You can add more options if there is one not listed into a new row. As more people vote the figures will increase so that the last post will always have the full votes. Best/Most Popular BTCitcoin Wallets| Votes - | Wallet | Web Address |
Best/Most Secure BTCitcoin Wallets |
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