And we have a new logo!  And here's a sneak preview of the new site as well. It's about 50% done.  |
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Potatocoin explorer (abe.bitember.com) and the Bitember SPUDS pool (spuds.bitember.com) are both up and running again.
Potatocoin is now 100 days old! And the block reward is down to 402 spuds per block!
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Oh, and if you want to talk to me directly, you can always reach me in #potatocoin on irc.freenode.net We currently got 92 users in there  There's a webchat at potatocoin.net |
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Well, do have some things in store, but we have this thing at bitember to not hype things before they're done. Anyway, we at Bitember truly wants this coin to succeed so I have decided to go full public to alleviate some of the stress about the pre-mine. That way, if we do anything evil, you can come after me with torches and pitchforks  Here we go! I'm durilup, also known as lifeofcray on irc, reddit and twitter. My real name is Marcus Johnson and my facebook page is http://facebook.com/durilupAge: 26 Country: Sweden Education: MBA in Economy from MDH Twitter: http://twitter.com/lifeofcrayYoutube: http://youtube.com/durilupFacebook: http://facebook.com/durilupReddit: /u/lifeofcray Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100237595124185767306/postsCo-Owner and founder of Bitember.com Personal email: durilup ( a ) gmail.com (please don't spam me) Phone: +46720027158 (if you call me in the middle of the night i swear to god) I'd post my myspace account if I actually remembered it. Most of these accounts are from between 2005 - 2008 and all of them have my real face on them. This was already easibly accesible information since my username on here is durilup as well. But might as well just post direct links. I will also be adding this information to potatocoin.net and memorandum 1. And I promise you, we're trying to make the world a better place. And we truly want this to succeed. Thing is, as we said when we started this coin, this is not a pump and dump coin. So you won't get any hype from us. You will get results when they're ready. And remember, we're handling way more money at http://bitember.com every day than what we would get from trying to scam you guys with potatocoin. And if we did that our brand name would be tarnished forever. Anywho, we do have a couple of things lined up for the end of November. You'll see what when it's ready. Well, that's it for me tonight. If you got any questions, feel free to ask in the thread. |
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Yeah, they do, and it's not really about physical potatoes. It's about helping people. http://potatocoin.net for you who haven't read up on the coin |
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Bounties updates. Please check first site.
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Small update: We're currently working on an extensive SPUDS bounty list that's way bigger than we got right now. We at Bitember feel that this could help you, the community, and the coin for a better future.
Here's a pre-view of the upcoming bounties. This is just an example until we go public and could be subjected to change. Keep that in mind
Faucets: 5000
Exchange: 200 000
Secondary block explorers: 25 000
Articles: 50 000
+ Translations: 15 000
+ Getting someone to write about Potatocoin: 5 000
Blog posts 500+ words: 25 000
+Translations: 7 500
+Getting someone to write about potatocoin: 500
Videos to be used on potatocoin.net and other promotional venues: 5 000 - 50 000
(Depending on quality, time and effort put into the work)
Opening up a shop OR adapting potatocoin as currency in an existing shop: 200 000
+ Convincing an existing shop to start using Potatocoin: 100 000
Art
+ Potatocoin coin logo made well enough to replace the old one: 100 000
+ Promotional images to be used on potatocoin.net and other promotional venues: 5 000 - 50 000
(Depending on quality, time and effort put into the work)
Paper wallet site
+ First paper wallet site: 15 000
+ Secondary paper wallet sites: 5 000
Paper wallet designs: 5 000 - 50 000
(Depending on quality, time and effort put into the work)
Chinese ANN translation: 15 000
Russian ANN translation: 15 000
Korean ANN translation: 15 000
Indonesian ANN translation: 15 000
Spanish ANN translation: 15 000
German ANN translation: 15 000
Greek ANN translation: 15 000
Hebrew ANN translation: 15 000
French ANN translation: 15 000
Indian ANN translation: 15 000
Polish ANN translation: 15 000
Portugese ANN translation: 15 000
Romanian ANN translation: 15 000
Swedish ANN translation: 15 000
Turkisk ANN translation: 15 000
Gaming tournaments: 5 000 - 100 000 spuds depending on the size of the tournament and popularity of the game.
Remember, this is a premilliary draft of the upcoming bounties. These are not in effect just yet.
If you have any suggestions or think that the numbers doesn't fit the work load, let us know! We value your input!
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You're a true spuds hero! Make sure to join us in the chat for a chance for some free spuds! |
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PLANNED PRE-MINE MOVE:
We're moving 2 000 000 coins, to our PR-guy, from the S +B premine so that he can work more autonomously while offering up bounties for articles, bloggers and other marketing stuff. The coins are moved to address PVE6qzwNBL8oZ8ZveJggi346QehJUwQPwH
Any and all coins he spends will still be logged into the excel sheet at potatocoin.net
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3% pool rate is a bit high isnt it?
It's a fair price for a stable and reliable pool under a good brand name |
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some promotion?
We are planning some promotions as we speak, which we think will benefit everyone! |
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After some brainstorming among the development team, we have decided to increase the premine to 50% to ensure farmer control of the cryptocurrency. We will distribute these coins over a number of years in various countries, as opposed to all at once in Kenya.
this is brilliant! 1. Where ever potato farmers are in most need + ability to 'linkup' then they can get potato chips? 2. Slow distro, prove it works, document it case by case, get a well tested program of organizing local farmer groups/markets/local area coordinator. etc. Why not start with a potato farmer nearest to us? Swap them real potatoes for crypto potatoes, then in the spring they sell the cryptos to fund growning the next crop. 3. basic crypto dev 101 stuff ... working code, active exchanges, growing community. 4. the international potato bank - spuds on deposit everywhere on planet Earth - "We'll Feed the World" (long term) I would suggest you prove this a real deal. There are ways to 'verify'. And last the premine needs to be held by multi sig. Still interested. 1. Is there a SPUDS charity committee? 2. Who holds the pre-mine? addie? I hold the premine. Makes most sense since i'm also the face of the coin, with most of the responsibility. There's not really a "committee" per se, but we do everything at Bitember as a team. I'm Lifeofcray on the IRC if you guys wanna chat with me. there's http://gyazo.com/118252bcac626f1d88e3d38e78014148 @ potatocoin.net. There's also a block explorer at abe.bitember.com |
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how your provment?
We're working on a spuds shop as we speak! We'll go public with it as soon as we can. Until then, have this screen shot:  It's more than a novelty than anything. But if you meet up with me in person i'll be happy to trade some real life spuds for SPUDS. As long as you don't bring like a bazillion of them |
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Alright! We had a serious question on the IRC that I tried to answer to the best of my abilities! It's worth a read!
[22:48] <@lifeofcray> i got 120k spuds
[22:48] <@lifeofcray> i'm thinking of transfering them here
[22:48] <@lifeofcray> so that i can do more
[22:49] <@lifeofcray> !rain all
[22:49] <+SpudsHead> Usage: !rain <amount> [max people]
[22:49] <@lifeofcray> !balance
[22:49] <+SpudsHead> lifeofcray has 993.55934216 SPUDS (unconfirmed: 0 SPUDS)
[22:49] <@lifeofcray> !tip KeksCore 993 channelsoak
[22:49] * pengamat (~aku@173.214.161.236) Quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer)
[22:49] <+SpudsHead> lifeofcray tipped KeksCore 993 SPUDS! "/msg SpudsHead help" to claim.
[22:49] <@KeksCore> Such [Cray] lifeofcray is soaking 69 potatoes with much 14 SPUDS: johnbrainless FlyingMongoose mozy5000 earlz BrownPanick OnlyOne j4jackj arkiboy arki__ wawanarki __ron__ degenorate thispanda JimliteLaptop mmilbrat moriarty X3n0X`AFK KeksMan shack4 NeoJolt Banger Graphique le_killer El_Kabong brucevein jamenjaw t00tie
[22:49] <@KeksCore> byroe goodshibe pi_43 sbits fury sorrowfox nagzter MeckPomm Phil_3x ItsLuke Viperlin Allcryptocoins Scorpianz Jookly BtcBob VashTheStampede AltxF4 Vindyne8 Razerglass nOgAnOo ValiantThor hosler ad3847 justwalking buZz Caphits_ JCJr222 cosmo shivendra Jimlite kassado Charles_the_Gowl HarD2BeaT SoreGums AngryAdmin Atmalik
[22:49] <@KeksCore> VaultEX-icecube coinswap-jeremy PCFiL Devianttwo kernels10 tryphe
[22:49] <@KeksMan> wow
[22:49] <@KeksMan> thanks
[22:49] <Charles_the_Gowl> Thanks
[22:50] <@lifeofcray> well, price is down to to
[22:50] <@lifeofcray> two
[22:50] <Charles_the_Gowl> When will the premine be dumped?
[22:50] <@lifeofcray> Charles_the_Gowl now!
[22:50] <Charles_the_Gowl> Okay.
[22:50] * @lifeofcray dumps 300 mil coins
[22:50] <@lifeofcray> naa
[22:50] <Charles_the_Gowl> lol
[22:50] <@lifeofcray> the plan on the premine
[22:50] <@lifeofcray> we got the "ATF" right
[22:50] <Charles_the_Gowl> I was just about to ask about the plan for the premine.
[22:50] <Charles_the_Gowl> Yes, the African Trust Fund.
[22:51] <@lifeofcray> that one will never go below what it started with
[22:51] <@lifeofcray> if you've noticed, the PoW goes down by like 4 sats per block
[22:51] <@lifeofcray> after that we're going pos
[22:52] <@lifeofcray> so the ATF will never go below starting value AND will only be used for things that can profit farmers in africa directly
[22:52] <VashTheStampede> new wallet on the way then?
[22:53] <@lifeofcray> any direct profits to potatocoin will go directly into the ATF
[22:53] <@lifeofcray> VashTheStampede there's still like 300 days left
[22:53] <VashTheStampede> oh ok
[22:54] <@lifeofcray> then we got the "Initial distribution to African farmers"
[22:54] <@lifeofcray> we'll try to sell the african people on potatocoin
[22:54] <@lifeofcray> there's already a precendent that they like bitcoin
[22:54] <@lifeofcray> but potatocoin is 30x faster than bitcoin in terms of transaction time
[22:55] <@lifeofcray> (bitcoin is 15 min, potatocoin is 30 sec)
[22:55] <@lifeofcray> but we'll try our best to get down there and try to convience them to exchange potatocoin for M-PEsA or local currency
[22:56] <@lifeofcray> any and all M-Pesa or local currency we get from that
[22:56] <@lifeofcray> we'll put into either investments for the future
[22:56] <@lifeofcray> like stock options or similar
[22:57] <@lifeofcray> or trade directly towards spuds
[22:57] <@lifeofcray> i.e if we trade 100 of their local currency for 2500 spuds, we take those 100 and buy spuds for those
[22:58] <@lifeofcray> those will go into the ATF
[22:59] <@lifeofcray> if that doesn't work out, we'll find another way to helpt the african community
[22:59] <@lifeofcray> but those coins are earmarked for just that
[23:00] <@lifeofcray> helping the african community, where infrastrucute is the #1 priority
[23:00] <@lifeofcray> alright, then we got the bounty + server costs bounty
[23:00] <@lifeofcray> about 15 mil spuds
[23:01] <@lifeofcray> so far we've only put up bounties for pools, exchanges and shops
[23:01] <@lifeofcray> but our plan is to deplete the bounty part of the premine before we go pos
[23:03] <@lifeofcray> some of the bounty (about 100 usd max) is planned to be used to register us as a financial NPO as well. In the country of Sweden
[23:03] <@lifeofcray> Swedish laws makes us eligable NPO status as it is
[23:03] <@lifeofcray> so we could technically call us an NPO legally
[23:04] <@lifeofcray> but we refrain from doin so as of yet
[23:04] <@lifeofcray> there will also be more bounties coming in the future
[23:05] <@lifeofcray> for things that we feel could help the coin
[23:05] <@lifeofcray> these projects could be anything
[23:06] <@lifeofcray> from game tournaments with the prize money in SPUDS or individual projects
[23:06] <@lifeofcray> we're going to have a brainstorm about this at a later date
[23:06] <@lifeofcray> and we're always listening to the communitys wants and needs as well
[23:06] <@lifeofcray> so if you have a suggestion, please tell us
[23:07] <@lifeofcray> but yeah, that's about it
[23:07] <@Phil_3x> !tip AndChat|64721 10
[23:07] <@Phil_3x> hi AndChat|64721
[23:08] <@lifeofcray> also, we stake the bitember brand name and reputation of this coin
[23:08] <@lifeofcray> and i've also used my real name (Marcus)
[23:09] <@lifeofcray> and with my Bitcointalk username (durilup) you should have no problem finding my youtube or facebook page
[23:09] <@lifeofcray> so we're quite serious
[23:11] <@lifeofcray> Charles_the_Gowl does that answer your question?
[23:13] <@lifeofcray> or do anyone else have a question?
[23:13] <@lifeofcray> anything at all, i'll try to answer it to the best of my abilities
[23:16] <Charles_the_Gowl> It answers my question, lifeofcray. Thanks.
If anyone of you have any other question, feel free to ask! I'll try my best to answer anything |
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Potatocoin has decided on a Coin Symbol! The official coin symbol for Potatocoin is now Ꭾ
Unicode number: U+13AE
HTML-code: Ꭾ
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