Yes avoid shapeshift where you can, the exchange rate or spread of exchange can be ridiculous! Might be a bit more work to get on an exchange but it is generally worth it. Bittrex is the biggest but there is a few others. On coinmarketcap website if you go to Siacoin then select 'markets' it will say where you can get sia from

Step 1: Fork bitcoin
Step 2: ?
Step 3: Profit!

Reminds me of southpark

There is currently no bounty/signature campaign for zencash. Only forum page 43 one of the developers mentions that it might be something for the future, but that right now the focus is secure nodes.

I'm not sure a signature campaign is needed, there is enough attention on zencash at the moment (top 100 coin by marketcap) - but we'll see what happens

Excellent, version 0.5.3 is great. This miner keeps getting better and better!

Now is you could somehow make the difficulty of the coins reduce, I'd really appreciate it

If the payment is the ICO bounty for writing an article, why wouldn't a writer just do the article independently, without going through you first?

Are you offering something extra - like a platform for the writer that has a lot of readers, so the payout from the ICO will be higher because of the number of subscribers or readers you have? How many subscribers or frequent readers do you have at the moment.

They are getting ready to provide cards, pending the outcome or approval of this visa thing. I doubt they can actually provide any cards until this is resolved.

Think of it more as a placeholder for where you are in the queue, once they've got all the visa approvals they need (assuming that happens).

I really like these community type coins. Only wish I knew about it sooner!

The real test will be to keep momentum going once the airdrop period phases out. Hopefully more things will get released to keep interest going!

Wasn't bitcoin gold supposed to be a GPU mining friendly coin working off equihash? So how is bitcoin silver different (besides having a name that makes it sound less valuable!)

Oh right 42 like the answer to life 42, gotcha.

Not so much about punishing early adopters, but about getting the right balance to run 'enough' secure nodes. I know that there would be a bit of economics, supply/demand/reward type decision making going on (just like with a decision to buy a gpu to mine or not), but I can envisage the balance potentially being a bit out, and perhaps having too few secure nodes, and with the issue possibly being resolved if the entry point was lower.

I still think 42 zen should stay as the fixed number - you wouldn't want people not buying 42 because they are waiting on a lower zen number entry to run a node.

Perhaps there has been analysis done on the number of secure nodes expected when 42 zen is the entry point and the rewards are 3.5 per cent of the block reward? So for example, the developers are expecting 1000 secure nodes on launch, is this just based on the numbers on the testnet or also some other kind of assessment? Just interested

 
 

On the 42 zen needed to run a secure node, has there been any thought on changing this number, and specifically why 42 was chosen in the first place?

Reason being is that with the recent price jump, you now need about 1k in usd worth of zen to run a secure node, while before when zen was priced lower, you could get enough zen through about 300 usd worth of zen.

I suppose this rewards early movers who had zen before it was cool, but just wondering if the current plan is to keep the requirement at 42 zen, regardless of price movement. Assuming the price continues to trend upwards, it could be a barrier to more people running secure nodes (should you need more people to do so).

You don't mine this coin. Check the first page or their website and you'll see that it is a token for access to a debit card where you can pay for things with crypto (essentially) plus a few other things.

I see what you're saying. I suppose the only difference is most/many other coins have a cap, or reward halving, or something like that to incentivise early adoption and getting some of the 'fixed' number of coins. Ethereum is a notable exception to this though.

I'm getting about 5 per cent or so extra on dstm's miner, so all looking good so far!

To get more mainstream appeal to ewbf, you could look at things that make the screen 'look nice'. So for example, adding some colours, showing when you get an accepted or rejected shares, that kind of thing.

I know it shouldn't be important, but it does help having all this info readily available on the miner screen.

But great work, it gets the extra sols and that's the main thing for me! I only wish I knew how to do something like this!

Zen is the real deal, I have a lot of confidence in the team and only wish I backed them a bit more before this price jump and positive news reporting!

Think it will continue to trend upwards. I'm hoping the mining difficulty gets a bit easier if/when people shuffle off to mine bitcoin gold. But will have to wait and see.

That's awesome, no more riser issues and less cables going everywhere! Could get rid of my milk crate mining rig!

The cards don't exactly 'cost' anything. You'll see on the Monaco website that you can get different cards depending on how much MCO you have. The more MCO, the better the card, but you don't 'spend' the MCO, it just gets locked for six months.

The most popular card looks to be the 50 MCO Ruby card, but there is also one that doesn't need any MCO (but you don't get cashback on purchases, as an example).

In terms of my comments on the rollout - most of this content can be found here (on Japan being major part of rollout etc): https://www.reddit.com/r/MonacoCard/comments/77mgyo/kris_came_into_the_slack_channel_today_for_a_qa/

So here is the relevant Q&A input:

Q: is Australia regarded as part of Asia for your rollout?
A: we will have a separate issuer relationship for Au - please stay tuned for an update on this - high priority market in Asia, as is Japan

If the altcoin is already on coinmarketcap website, it has a tab called 'markets' which details the exchanges where you can trade the coin.

However, in most cases, particularly for the smaller exchanges you'll need to get bitcoin or ethereum first to trade for the altcoin.

For these smaller exchanges, you generally can't give your regular currency (us dollars, euro or whatever) to buy altcoins. You first need to buy ethereum/bitcoin from a larger exchange.

The best place to buy bitcoin or ethereum directly with regular currency could depend on where you live. For example, bittrex is used by a lot of people who live in the US.

Hope that helps. But in short, you generally need to get ethereum or bitcoin before you can get less well known altcoins.

I think blocklancer has some potential. You can check them out through my signature banner if you like

Reddit on cryptomarkets has a weekly 'upcoming ICO top ten' set of articles that you could also check out.

Nice work on the signatures, they look great. Would suggest including an ethereum address for tips, particularly as the send costs are a lot lower on ethereum!

Hope you get some work from upcoming ICO's to help with their bounty campaigns.

Being involved in bounties, regardless of the final 'financial' reward (which can vary a lot depending on if the ICO is successful), can be a great way to get across what is happening, new coins out there and what they have to offer.

I don't think you should see the bounty as a way to make 10 bucks a week or whatever. For the signature campaigns in particular, it should be seen as more of a by product of posting you would normally do, and as a way to support a new coin that you think has some potential.