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Great event. I was there on Saturday. Great presentations and speakers (and audience). A bit intimidating being around all those powerful brains and uber developers. Definitely a very inspiring event.
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How long have you guys been staking, and are your coins all in one large address or have you spread them out? The most efficient way for 350K would be addresses of 25K or 50K chunks (you'll then have to wait for maturity), some would even say make it smaller if you have the time. I've not had any issues with staking but my coins haven't moved for months and I don't always stake them, so when I unlock my wallet it stakes OK. I want to start looking at the wallets at some point after the current projects are completed. This might include making changes under the cover. I took a look at Xapo. It reminds me of Coinsbank (https://coinsbank.com/). The CEO made a presentation at Coinfest. At the moment I'm steering clear of web purchases of kobo simply because of regulation. Legislation is not clear and the last thing I need right now is for my bank accounts to be frozen. Once there's clarity on that I'll be happy to move forward with it. I've been asked a few times where to buy kobo. At the moment I can only suggest the 2 exchanges we're on. Here in the UK, it was only last week that the very first crypto business was given an e-money livense which allows them to officially open a bank account (see here, check paragraph about FCA - http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/06/barclays-supports-uk-launch-of-circle-money-transfer-app). Also at Coinfest this weekend I was lucky enough to see the eMunie project and wallet. It's very impressive. It has the potential to make decentralized personal banking a reality. It's extremely user friendly in appearance and function. I had a quick word with the dev. It gave me some good ideas of what to do with desktop wallet to make it a lot more user friendly. The code is all there. It's just to give it a different, more recognisable appearance and make it more suitable for personal finances. For example, we already have encrypted address-to-address messaging but it could be updated to be more aesthetic and allow you to save a profile pic so you'd then have encrypted personal messaging with an address book within the wallet. Many ideas but development of a new wallet is still some time away. There's a few things that need to be completed before that can be looked at. |
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I've just updated the KOBO price ticker so it now includes the following: - BTC - USD - NGN (Nigerian Naira) - ZAR (South African Rand) - KES (Kenyan Shilling)  These are the currencies of the 3 main financial centres in Africa. |
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How much is 1btc to kobocoin and also can it be purchased from Nigeria
The BTC/KOBO price can be got from coinmarketcap.com (search for KOBO) but the quickest way to see current price is to check the twitter feed. https://twitter.com/kobocoindevThe price is tweeted every hour and shows the current price of 1 KOBO to BTC, USD and NGN. This is a link to the most recent price tweet https://twitter.com/kobocoindev/status/719057349596614657 At the time of me writing this 1 KOBO = 1.07 Naira, so KOBO is actually worth more than Naira right now!  It's possible to buy KOBO in Nigeria, but at this time it can only be done online through the cryptocurrency exchanges. 1. Purchase some bitcoin (BTC) 2. Goto a cryptocurrency exchange that sells KOBO 3. Use BTC to purchase KOBO 4. Send KOBO to your wallet I know it's a bit involved, but please be assured that I'm working on something behind the scenes regarding this. |
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You can buy back  .. I think Kobocoin is undervalued.. right now, with a solid dev and recent news it should be ranked in the top 100 coins , market cap of around 400,000 or 0.00004 BTC per Kobo. If the co-development project with bitsoko is successful, it should be in the top 20-50 coins or a market cap of $1M or around 0.0008 BTC per Kobo... It will be successful. There is real commitment from both sides. We're still troubleshooting the js libraries. We're able to get a private key generated but getting a KOBO address generated is the challenge now. We'll get there. Unfortunately this week I've been running up and down and also troubleshooting the Electrum server for UberPay. They ran initial tests. It was running fine but I think the electrum server stalled. I probably need to set up more than just the one. There's not enough hours in a day to get everything done. I'm actually writing this at 4.30am UK time. I've just arrived in Manchester. I'm attending Coinfest UK ( https://coinfestuk.org/). I'm looking forward to meeting some of the other devs in person, listening to current and future developments, and seeing what else I can do to take Kobocoin forward. This week Kobocoin has also become part of the Federated Blockchains Initiative. The aim of the initiative is to develop a sidechain that can unify blockchains, so there may be (in the near future if it's possible and works out) a way for independent blockchains to communicate with each other. I need to make an official announcement about joining the initiative but I've been running up and down the UK this week and time is a premium. London on Monday. Edinburgh on Tuesday and Wednesday. London on Thursday and Friday, and now Manchester for Coinfest on Saturday. All good stuff! (but tiring...) |
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NEWS: COINWALLETCO IS CLOSINGPleas withdraw any KOBO you have on CoinWalletCo before 1st MayOfficial Announcementhttps://www.coinwallet.co/closingThere was a data breach. Your coins are safe but CoinWalletCo has decided to close. A real shame.
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I get some kobocoins yestoday Good buy. Welcome to the community! There's lots going on the moment. Lots to get sorted (tech is trying to punish me, but it won't win!!), and lots to get into production over the coming weeks and months. |
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Tribesman I wish you did all this stuff when I still had my Kobocoins lol nevertheless I wish you the best of luck  I know. I can only apologise. There was some heavy personal stuff going on in the middle and end of last year which created a lack of motivation, but that was last year! No matter what, thanks for the continued support. I hope I can confirm that you were right to have faith in the project in the first place. |
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There are so many developments I'd like to get into including getting into Raspberry Pi once rokos flavours comes out. It's hard finding time with a day job and flying up and down the UK every week, but everything that's needed will be completed.
Would building the daemon for Raspbian Wheezy (1st Pi, model B) be of any use? Yes, all development is a step forward. Do you know if a lot of Pi owners remain on wheezy? I'm guessing that some people might still be afraid of the word 'upgrade'. Ok here it is: https://mega.nz/#!b9gjEJBB!ES939lrqS1c8qUqaOiFU-L79udj0hKlSB5Hdok8YUGw I've tested it, it works and downloads blocks but I haven't synced the whole chain yet. I'm not able to have it running 24/7 and a slow cpu like this takes longer to sync the chain. I've got no numbers on how many Pi-users are still on wheezy I'm afraid. I guess quite a few people got one and are not *nix-geeks so they might not see the reason to upgrade as long as the system does what they want it to. Security stuff is still backported so it chugs along Excellent news. Thank you for this. I'll be buying 2 Pi's this weekend. I'll get Wheezy on one and Jessie on the other and give this a tryout. Much appreciated! Sent you a PM |
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UPDATE:Our Electrum Kobo Server is now up and running. I've contacted UberPay to test it out from their end. I'll let you know how things get on. <localhost:/home/electrum/electrum-kobo-server> tail /var/log/electrum-kobo.log
[06/04/2016-18:53:45] blockchain: 627703 (0.427s)
[06/04/2016-18:54:36] blockchain: 627704 (0.383s)
[06/04/2016-18:54:57] blockchain: 627705 (0.683s)
[06/04/2016-18:55:17] blockchain: 627706 (0.273s)
<localhost:/home/electrum/electrum-kobo-server> ./electrum-kobo-server status
Server running (pid 9127)
<localhost:/home/electrum/electrum-kobo-server> ./electrum-kobo-server getinfo
{
"blocks": 627708,
"cached": 0,
"peers": 0,
"sessions": 1,
"watched": 0
}
root@localhost:/home/electrum/electrum-kobo-server#
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I like that less monster truck:)
Slick but classic, nice!
Thanks! I'm just happy that tiny little artifact at the interface of the | and < in the K is gone Haha, yes, it's gone! Also, these are nice as desktop backgrounds, but is there a clean, non-perspective-skewed, non-light/grit-FX'd version that can serve as the actual logo and logotype?
I'll get one mocked up myself. A head on logo using kobo brand colors. Now I have the high def artefacts I can use them in future images. |
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What a surprise I had today when I saw this!   |
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Very nice a bit aggressive, but nice.
Is this softer? Or still just as aggresive but in a different way?  |
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There are so many developments I'd like to get into including getting into Raspberry Pi once rokos flavours comes out. It's hard finding time with a day job and flying up and down the UK every week, but everything that's needed will be completed.
Would building the daemon for Raspbian Wheezy (1st Pi, model B) be of any use? Yes, all development is a step forward. Do you know if a lot of Pi owners remain on wheezy? I'm guessing that some people might still be afraid of the word 'upgrade'. |
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UPDATE:Our electrum server is kicking me in the balls right now. After days of syncing it stopped at block 624003 and I've been unable to get it moving. In the meantime while I'm working on it here's one of the new graphics designed for us. I'm hoping this one will be used for the ROKOS Flavour background. This was done by the now famous Logocreator. Great work, and this is just one of the new images. Yes, there's more! Hope you like this one. 
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UPDATE:Our new Electrum Server is built and is now downloading the blockchain. It'll probably take about 1-2 days. [03/04/2016-01:02:39] Starting Kobocoin Electrum server on localhost
[03/04/2016-01:02:39] initializing database
[03/04/2016-01:02:39] UTXO tree root hash: 5df6e0e2761359d30a8275058e299f4545f55cf43e41983f5d4c9456
[03/04/2016-01:02:39] Coins in database: 0
[03/04/2016-01:02:39] catching up missing headers: -1 0
[03/04/2016-01:02:39] headers file: 0
[03/04/2016-01:02:39] TCP server started on [::1]:50001
[03/04/2016-01:04:24] catch_up: block 1000 (95.624s 9.777s) c4a7ce8875f5866359cda220184b8a7150972c96d223e57cd9e9def7f332
[03/04/2016-01:06:10] catch_up: block 2000 (93.193s 13.140s) 8d4e8fbaf4cee85632eb4c881a7c3840f61f8d1d8468c1db2101d64ce2e6
[03/04/2016-01:08:07] catch_up: block 3000 (98.192s 18.718s) 1a0bca769ba77545820f3267ed329a49f7e35bd74cea45f8e553fc6e3afd
[03/04/2016-01:10:01] catch_up: block 4000 (98.305s 15.713s) dabd0d835160522638e5baf15c4669535dcbe1693a07fb208ec679a874f1
[03/04/2016-01:11:57] catch_up: block 5000 (98.841s 16.575s) 278f35838efa1345d0e2cd2f9946fbe28af1d86c4e7f37ef3a48662111a0
[03/04/2016-01:14:08] catch_up: block 6000 (110.901s 20.552s) 6217741b551d342fcab154508b84391c2a72e5381b2c267b740217d8af30
[03/04/2016-01:16:12] catch_up: block 7000 (103.482s 19.757s) 44b50378a1e58c2c7a462e1a4db4e953dc2a7f9a0280b712c3b39d9c0cbe
[03/04/2016-01:18:22] catch_up: block 8000 (107.301s 22.805s) 111c93b1381dab7d89f6b7eee735d5ef60cd0d659bdfccea72436b2d4e8f
[03/04/2016-01:20:24] catch_up: block 9000 (99.096s 23.313s) b0e1e991aaf13ad70c42f57d661d56fd7ca9da67e9d316ba5916adc02ab7
Once it's up to date I'll test out client connectivity. Once that's proven I'll let the UberPay dev know that it's ready. I'll be creating a weekly cron job to: 1. Stop the Electrum Server 2. Backup the Electrum database to .tar.gz format 3. Restart the Electrum Server That way if you want to build your own KOBO Electrum Server (yeah right) you'll have a distro that should cut installation/build time by a number of days. I'll also be taking a look at what it takes to create an android wallet for the Electrum server. I'm also now working with Bitsoko. We're troubleshooting the javascript libraries I built. Private keys are being generated successfully but addresses are not. Nothing is ever easy in this game. As I've said before, sometimes crypto development is all about your stamina and determination when things get flaky (and they always do!).
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UPDATE:Say hello to dns3.kobocoin.com DNS3.KOBOCOIN.COM2GB RAM 60GB Disk Bandwidth 2TB Ubuntu 14.04 64bit Installed Software
Kobocoind - done
Electrum-kobo-server (in progress)dns3 is also located in Frankfurt, Germany. I was hoping to locate it in either S.Africa or Hong Kong but I'll do that for the next full dns seeder. This is really specifically for hosting the Electrum server. I've finished recoding the forked Electrum Server and I'm hoping to get it up and running by the end of the weekend. I'm just in the process of building the kobo blockchain on the server. Along with dns1.kobocoin.com and dns2.kobocoin.com, this further stabilizes the kobo network and keeps your kobos flowing freely around the globe. Github source here - https://github.com/kobocoin/electrum-kobo-server
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