Yep, and it gave me a few tokens. I don't remember how many, but not much.

What I'd like to know is when will the payments for translations will be distributed, after the ICO?

The hats will run out of fashion and I'll still won't have understand how did they start!
Did someone started using one as an avatar and people just copy it or does it have a deeper history?

No that I can wear one... it took me 10 months to get 84 merits and I'll need another 2 years for the rest 15 now! But I'm still curious.

Hm... let me see... if the price would be 7550$ then the 0.115 BTC reward would be 868.25$? I like that!

So my guess is 7550$ !


Also a note about the rules: You say we'll take into account the price on the 17th day after the launch, but Bitcoin doesn't have market hours and close-price, how will we determine the price, especially if the volatility is sky-high? Also which platform's price will we take into account? With predictions being close to each other we need to have a clear timestamp and price.

I'd suggest this site: https://coinlib.io/coin/BTC/Bitcoin

• It takes the average price of many different exchanges.
• At any time in the future you can select the day from the fields that are up-right
• When viewing the price of 24h, the candles can be divided every 1 minute and there's a "close price" for every minute/candle

Let us also call a specific timezone, by default the above mentioned site shows your local timezone.

However when something is "too free" it's usually not worth much $$$.
I mean... sure they give you some tokens, but who would buy them and why? If all their usage is to earn them for free and then sell them in the market then their price would collapse in a couple of days.

If they were rewarding BTC that'd be another case, but I don't see why would anyone give you free BTC. Maybe you could earn BTC for watching in-game apps which would be a percentage of the payment the developers get from the advertised product, but (1) I don't know if any such app exists and (2) in order for the developers to make a good revenue, the rewards they'd share would be too low for most people to bother which in turn would send the advertised companies away.

That's true. Also another source for information on delegates is the official forum section for delegates: https://forum.ark.io/category/5/delegates
You can read their proposal there, see how they distribute the rewards and who's more active.

I just noticed something interesting!

A troll with bad English and 2-sentence reviews with -19 Karma has downvoted all my reviews!
I once found their review and it was obviously deserving a downvote... a "awesome coin, brought me good profit" is not called a review, so I downvoted it!
After that, they just went and downvoted all my reviews for obviously no reason... he/she is the only person who has downvoted me but you still count it in my karma score!

My suggestion: If someone has high karma or is top 20%, give their votes double power (+2 / -2 karma per vote to others). Also if someone has negative karma or less than 5 and/or doesn't have a review posted, just don't count their votes.
Right now if I want to troll someone I can just create multiple accounts and downvote them to the ground... not a very fair system!

It was so unclear where and how to vote!

Anyone interested, go there: https://revain.org/projects and you'll notice the buttons "PROJECTS | EXCHANGES | +SECTION"
Click the +SECTION button and write something you want to see.

Personally I though I was being asked to suggest a "filter & sorting" field so I just typed "rewards"... well... that will do I guess! A section where projects offer rewards to the reviewers would be great.
I've stopped with 4 reviews because I felt I was wasting my time to write good reviews and get 0$ rewards, even with just 4 reviews I have 32 Karma and I'm on the top 10%.

Did you register your ARK wallet or Centra (CTR) ?

This is the guide for ARK: https://phantom.org/2018/08/28/phantom-zinc-claim-guide%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8aark/
This is the guide for CTR: https://phantom.org/2018/08/28/phantom-zinc-claim-guide%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8actr/

If you were holding ARK at the appointed time, you can just add the Phantom's network settings in your ARK wallet and you should be able to view your coins.
I don't know about CTR, I guess it should work the same way. But it might not work after ARK Core v2.

There was no decentralisation from the beginning. When inexperienced teenagers were using their gaming PCs to obtain 1 ETH / day but now it'd take about a year to get 1 ETH with a good single-GPU PC... it means that the wealth was locked with the few first people who got in early.
Sure, the early investors should be rewarded, but I never called this decentralisation.

I hope that one day, in a couple of years of now, there will be no whales anymore and only then we'll see real decentralisation.

Nice article!

New projects have to either run an ICO, Airdrop free coins or allow mining for some months in order to distribute their coins, no other coin has a backing as big as XRP does in order to distribute itself without any of the 3 ways I mentioned. But even if there will be a period of PoW, long-term this shouldn't exist.

I'm sure I had done the right choice to sell 2 of my 3 GPUs back in August and buy cheap XRP after the July's selloff, but we're still at the same price I bought back then!
Well... it'd be worse if I had bought BTC or ETH so I guess I should be glad!

This chris? https://explorer.ark.io/wallets/ASJBHz4JfWVUGDyN61hMMnW1Y4ZCTBHL1K
I'm sorry, he's Rank 53, he's not forging anymore.

I don't know about chris so I can't recommend a course of action for you, you can either keep your vote and help him get back to the 51 delegates or vote someone else who's already forging.
Chris might be giving a reward for keeping your vote, so check his proposal.

I think alevlaslo meant Bitcoin as Ethereum's competitor... it's the false thinking that every coin is a competitor of each other. Since Bitcoin is falling, there are a few people who believe other coins should rise, but most of us understand why this is not how things work.
I don't think Bitcoin has a competitor though, it's like the father of every coin.

As for Ethereum, its only real competitor for me is ARK. ARK supports Smart Contracts on Javascript, Go, and Solidity, it connects different blockchains together with Smart Bridges, provides (will provide?) easy to use plugins for sidechains and forks, lower/dynamic fees... it's everything Ethereum should have been losing only in fame!

... sorry ... I went bit off-topic!

For the same reason XRP fell less than BTC ... because of sentiment.
For the time being, people's preference seem to be 1st for XRP, then for BTC and then for ETH.

This could change any moment but the fact is that, even within the correlation of this market, some factors will make a coin fall or rise with more or less force.

How is the weather in your country people? Here in Greece we have a good weather (for winter that is).
Whenever I open Coinlib in a tab to check the prices and I see stupidly overdone declines, I just close the tab and focus on other things.... well.... lately I've started to notice the beauty of flowers!

Any chance someone can give a TL;DR with simple words for the last mentioned blog post?
Some things it mentions are non-understandable for me!

I just realised that Stellar is still a thing and it's on 4th position, how comes? Aren't they the same thing as XRP? Since XRP is doing so great I was expecting Stellar to fall under the top50 positions.

Only a quick look in both of these two project's article titles and frequency is enough to get an idea of which project is moving faster,
https://ripple.com/insights/
https://www.stellar.org/blog/

Merit system is a perfect system which is used to reward only the most sophisticated and honour-worthy, long and informative posts.
 To be given 5 merits is a great privilege.
 To be given 10 merits is an honour which marks the rest of your life.
 To be given 50, you're a transcendent being (or Satoshi Nakamoto) and your posts cause ecstasy to the readers!

A perfect example of a god-like post with 50 merits: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2375142.msg24228465#msg24228465

That's true, I remember I had heard about them many months ago but their idea didn't seem interesting to me so I didn't follow up with their development.
From their roadmap they seem to be active though: https://persona.im/roadmap

This is also an interesting read: https://www.techbullion.com/persona-partners-with-fintrux-interview-with-stefan-neagu-ceo-of-persona/

They might have a future after all!

Συμφωνώ εν μέρη και πιστεύω πως κυρίως για τα κρυπτονομίσματα θα μιλήσουν και πως μπορούν να επιβάλουν κάποιους κανόνες για αυτά.
Αλλά το Bitcoin δεν είναι απαραίτητα η μόνη καλή υλοποίηση του blockchain, μπορώ να σκεφτώ μια ακόμα σημαντική λύση που είναι οι εκλογές.

Θα μπορούσαμε να πηγαίνουμε σε ένα εκλογικό κέντρο ή να συνδεόμαστε στο TAXISnet, να ψηφίζουμε, να παίρνουμε ένα transaction ID από το οποίο είναι δημόσια φανερό ένα ανώνυμο public key (που μόνο εμείς ξέρουμε ότι ανήκει σε εμάς) και επίσης δείχνει ποιον ψηφίσαμε.
Το εκλογικό αποτέλεσμα μένει για χρόνια καταγεγραμμένο σε blockchain που συντηρείται από πολλές διαφορετικές χώρες, έτσι δεν θα μπορούσε μια οντότητα να κάνει συμφωνία με όλους τους εμπλεκόμενους ώστε να πειράξει τα αποτελέσματα, και εκτός αυτού εφόσον ο κάθε ψηφοφόρος μπορεί να βρει με το transaction ID την ψήφο του στο blockchain θα ήταν πολύ προφανές αν θα γινόταν κάποια τροποποίηση.
Το μόνο θεωρητικό πρόβλημα θα ήταν η νοθεία από ανύπαρκτους ψηφοφόρους, αλλά όταν το blockchain από πολλές χώρες τότε θα είναι αρκετά ασφαλές.

"Η Μεσόγειος με συμμετοχή της Ελλάδας πρωτοπορεί στο blockchain"
https://www.newmoney.gr/palmos-oikonomias/texnologia/379833-i-mesogeios-me-simmetoxi-tis-elladas-protoporei-sto-blockchain

Να και σε κάτι που (μάλλον) δεν θα μείνουμε τελευταίοι!
Δεν φαίνεται να έχει να κάνει άμεσα με το Bitcoin, αλλά με ότι και αν ασχοληθούμε σχετικό με το blockchain θα έχει ως φυσικό επακόλουθο και μια παραπάνω εξοικείωση με τα κρυπτονομίσματα που ίσως οδηγήσει στο άνοιγμα επενδυτικών ευκαιριών... χλωμό το βλέπω αλλά λέμε τώρα.... η ελπίδα πεθαίνει τελευταία!