Indeed. Like many alts, Uno hasn't held up well against a torrid Bitcoin market, but versus USD, it's been relatively steady the past 60-90 days in that $1.50-$1.40/un range.



Uno price in USD, from Coingecko.com

Cool chart! I copied it over to CCT, with credits to you. Hope you don't mind.

Happy halloween everyone.

700k.  And every 100k after that until the minimum reward is reached.

Tonight I'll be randomly hanging out a bit tonight on Crypto.cat, conversation Unobtanium.

Stop by if you're up for it.

Hello HashEngineering
The UNO wallet went down today. It's not connecting. Can you help bring it back?

Me, too. BTS has been great to work with.
I hope we'll convince him to do another Uno silver run for us sometime soon. These Uno silver bars are very cool, and I love mine.
I toss them on the bed and roll around naked on them from time to time.

Bittrex could use some volume. Closing the gap would help.

Nice big sell orders at 0053 and 55.

What would you suggest deadlock?
Whose got the best innovation going in crypto today?

BN, points well taken.
I also want to do more than exist. I want Uno to thrive.

But looking at the bottom of coinmarketcap.com, and remembering some of the coins that once flew high and no longer exist... survival itself is an innovation that has eluded the majority of cryptocurrencies that have launched since 2013.    If we have that (and we clearly do) we can continue building.  Nobody is innovating anymore for, say, 21coin, even though it's much rarer than Uno.  Longevity is an asset. It contains the sum of the coin's good will and extends its credibility, and creates an optimism around the coin that encourages community growth. 

I would love to hear what everyone else thinks. My opinion is just that... my opinion, and it's not any better than anyone elses'.

But the way I see it, everybody doesn't need Uno.  Not everybody needs gold & silver, either. And besides, there isn't enough Unobtanium for everybody.

If our goal is to pump up the price and then dump on latecomers, then a centralized product roadmap with some amazing promises that are year or two down the road is a great way to go. There are so many coins that have gone this route, I won't even name them.  
If we want to go that route (which I don't), it would be easier to just clone an old failed project and take a huge pre-mine, ostensibly to hire a great unnamed development team. To save even more money and time,  we would paste the old roadmap and promises that people bought into before, then create some newbie accounts on BCT. We'd create a new logo, though. Something really impressive.  Rinse and repeat.

While I'd love to see great new features and services washing up on Uno's shores, there's very little work being done in crypto that isn't open source, and which couldn't be copied by a motivated dev later, and forked into Uno.  Cryptapus, god bless 'em, has brought many of these projects and services to Uno.

The innovation baked into Uno at birth can't be taken away.

Back in 2013, Blazr2 had the crazy idea, "Hey what would happen if I launched a coin that is the opposite of all the shite being launched right now? What if it was fair, fast to realize low inflation, not a scam, and what if were scarce. It's hard to believe that fairness could be considered an innovation (someday, maybe wallstreet will learn from Uno and its customer's the innovation of fairness... not holding my breath tho).

To me, fair-launch, rare, low inflation Uno is valuable because it's Unobtanium, and precisely because it is NOT a lot of the other things that are out there. There are zero empty promises with Uno. It's value today is exactly what it's value is today, and not what it will be after Xyz Dev releases the cool update that will integrate phone sex with the wallet in two years.

Unobtanium is not valuable because of a promise someone else has made. Nor is it valuable because it's backed by some centralized resource.   It's not valuable because it's backed by cow piss (sorry URO) or beer (KOL). It's also not a share in the promise of a precious metal stored in some mysterious centralized vault (sorry BIG).

To me, Uno is the first viable cryptocommodity. It is (and will be) the best way to transport large amounts of wealth internationally. The longer the rockchain persists, the more valuable it's story, like a rare gold Roman coin moving through history, desired more for it's connection with the past than the present value of gold. With it's low inflation and no pre-mine, Uno is the only viable cryptocurrency that's worth holding simply for what it is. Yes, someone clever can come along and append all manner of features to it, or just bring those features over from other coins, but cool features and empty promises don't make Uno valuable.

IMZ sees a real need for merchant acceptance and introducing Uno to a broader audience. I totally agree that in a world of 1000 cryptos screaming for attention, introducing someone one-to-one to Uno is a great way to spread.  And Uno is instantly transferrable, so why not embrace merchants who will accept it. As I see it, the main problem we have today is that there's no oxygen in the room for all of the screaming crypto.

Part of what we have to do is fundamentally very basic:  continue to exist.  Continue to develop the community (even a small community can have a massive impact on price and usefulness of Uno).  

Cryptos are being born and dying every day.  But anyone who is looking for viable long term cryptos capable of withstanding the test of time, Uno has to be on the short list. That list is getting shorter every month.

Would love to hear what you think.

Define innovation, please.

I looked into creating a NXT asset last year.  The process isn't very difficult. It's quite easy to create an asset with NXT, and probably XCP as well.  IMZ created a NXT asset for DVC.

The question comes down to: will be people trust in the security behind the asset.
I suppose we could "burn" some Uno to create the asset, but the thought of losing a single Uno forever makes me ill.

My measley hash is focused here.  I'm enjoying the merged mining while waiting for the next Bitcoin block.

You can now place phone calls through Bitphone and pay for it with Uno, via Shapeshift.io.

If you try this, let me know how it works.

There's lots of great services for Uno on http://Cryptap.us/uno

Check it out.

    faucet
    paper wallet generator
    dice games (many different dice & other games to play)
    insight block explorer
    brainwallet
    pushtx
    vanity address
    jswallet
    copay
    electrum

Have fun with the dice games. They help to defray Cryptapus' cost of running the server and managing the services.

Hide your daughters. I need another ton over the next 45 days.

I've been on and off the past 4 hours. I'm on now.

Wow! That doesn't bode well for Uno market on Cryptsy.  If it really is due to KYC, can Bittrex be far behind?

I mean...  $100 per MONTH??  thats like 1/3 bitcoin that can be withdrawn without jumping through all of the KYC hoops. Are my Uno friends around the world willing to do that?
Sorry to those of you who were caught in this net.

On the flipside, this is probably good news for Cryptopia markets, though.

It really does look as though regulators put Cryptsy's balls in a vice.



Talk about it on Crypto.cat tonight,  channel:  Unobtanium

This is what makes Uno different

It's easy to copy the technical specs.

But... a new cryptocurrency has to take 2 years to become a 2 year old currency, and by the time that happens Uno will be 4 years old. Some of Unobtanium's unique characteristics are not automatically obtainable.

It's difficult to duplicate the community, the longevity, the fairness.
Until a new coin has been truly tested, you don't know if it will fold up or if its community will scatter at the first sign of trouble.

Uno was gifted with all around fairness, but has accumulated its other assets through trial and longevity.

HC has launched lots of coins. He has kept his favorites running for years, sometimes at personal cost.  He likes to try new things. He knows what he's doing, even if he doesn't act like our personal genie in a bottle.   We know this to be true because we have watched him work over time.  The other unknown, unproven invisible devs with newbie accounts... you just don't know.   Two years from launch, much is now known about what Un is.  A lot of risk has been driven out of Un over time thanks to what we have seen, measured and come to know. We've already answered the question, "is Uno going to fold up and go away," and the answer is NO! 

So when people say "It's like Uno!"  I just smile.

Why do you think Uno has lasted as long as it has?   I hear a lot about what we're doing wrong, but what has been done right?  And can we do more of that?