Which smart-contract? Was it Steem attestation, where half of the reward was given right away and half was locked up in smart-contract? This smart-contract doesn't have any periods, it was just one time thing, you got reward for doing it once and half of it was just locked, so you wouldn't dump everything at once.

All the smart-contracts that you have should be visible on Home screen. Other than Steem attestation, smart-vouchers referral system for Real Name Attestation is using also 1 year time-locked smart-contracts when you want to withdraw your referral rewards.

Nonsense, DAI for example is very over-collateralized, so even more volatile altcoin could have even crazier conditions for collateral and liquidation. I think you don't understand the reason why there is the over-collateralization and automatic liquidation when collateral price drops.
There is nothing that would stop somebody to create a stablecoin with autonomous agents. You make it sound like developers build stuff just for themselves to profit and they could not make it profitable in any other way than using it themselves.
You are also assuming that everyone would instantly exchange all their funds to that stablecoin, so there would suddenly be too much bytes to be liquidated. And even if would get liquidated, some lucky one would get lot of cheap bytes and GBYTE would just find a new lower market price.

I am not saying that somebody should do a yet another stablecoin (don't see the need), I am just saying that it can be done even if it is not instant success. Your approach seems to be for everything that nothing cannot be done. Not sure why you are still here, weird fetish.

Maybe the cryptospace doesn't need any more stablecoins, many exchanges already have multiple. Especially, no need for more stablecoins, where you need to trust someone (Tether, Libra) or which require lot of collateral (Maker DAI).
There has been much more interesting ideas on developers contest than yet another stablecoin.

Those who don't listen to whiners FUD, but actually build something because they can see the potential and they have learnt how Obyte really works.
Already 6 rounds of developer contest done with new features on TESTNET, 1 more to go, but you still spreading pathetic FUD.
https://medium.com/obyte/sixth-round-of-obyte-autonomous-agents-developer-contest-6aa89bedd712

That's same nonsense as saying that can't trade GBYTE because there is no liquidity. If you don't put your bytes to order book and just talk that there is no liquidity, of course, then there is no liquidity. Less complaining and more doing.

I haven't yet had problems buying/selling GBYTE, I just put the order up near market price and within 12 it usually gets filled. If somebody decided to crash the price meanwhile, I adjust the price to market price and it gets filled in next 12 hours. So far, never taken more that 24 hours, price volatile enough to fill any order near market price.

Same with bytes as stablecoin collateral, can't sell the collateral if nobody makes a stablecoin that requires bytes for collateral.

If people need is fiat-backed stablecoin then I think these people have missunderstood one of the main points of any cryptocurrencies.
None of the fiat-backed cryptocurrencies are decentralized, you basically trust some company that they will give you back the fiat currency of your bags worth. There are many coins like that, basically every exchange creates one now, go load up your bags.

Anybody can make stablecoin collateralized with bytes on Obyte, make a grant proposal if you have a team to build it, autonomous agents will enable you to make them decentralized way, but native token pegged to USD just doesn't make sense.

it's a not a temporary price swing, there were many people who traded billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin when it was near 20k and now 150 billion of dollars worth of value has gone from their portfolio. You can loose more money with market leader drops 50% then when altcoin drops 95%. All depends on individual investor portfolio, but even if you held the total supply of GBYTE, you would have lost only 1/150 of what Bitcoin lost in value combined.

Are you sure that it is not even worse destruction for a market leader who should be bit more stable? That "little over 50% drop is f-ing 150 billion dollars gone from Bitcoin marketcap. That's billion with the B. There was lot of real hard-earned money in there. Most of Obyte holders are those who got the bytes for free, no institutional investors here.

Same with every other coin out there after almost 2 years of bear market.

Not any arguments, bring on the good arguments. Preferably something backed with data, not just opinions, we have internally bunch of opinions too, which are quite useless if they can't be proved.

You used to post normal posts, but it seems that it is you who has turned toxic lately. All you do now is post animated gifs and FUD. Maybe you are pissed that you bags are worthless now, but I can't see how posting FUD will help that, seems like you are digging bigger crave to your bags with every new FUD post.

That's makes even less sense. Your great idea is that we should pay companies to become witnesses? Like that is somehow going to work out great.
Or are you suggesting we should cover the fees of doing the witnesses? I am afraid you haven't even researched how witnessing works or how little is needed to run a witness.


Seems like you just have heard somewhere that lottery is stupid and now applying it to everything that mentions lottery, but Draw Airdrop mentions lottery just because it has elements of lottery, but is nothing like actual lottery.

Draw airdrop doesn't have the same risks that regular lotteries have. Normal lottery is stupid because there is almost certain downside of loosing the ticket price and unlikely chance of winning.
Regular lottery is stupid because you lose $1 and you have 1 of million chance of winning $1 million (minus taxes), you could just donate to government directly instead of participating in lottery.
Draw airdrop, it doesn't cost you anything to participate and you have 1 of 5500 chance of winning 100GB or 1 of 550 chance of winning 100GB if you have done Real Name attestation, which is not comparable how bad regular lottery is. Your only risk is that GBYTE value can go down.


Cannot please everyone, some say that the distribution fund should be spent faster, some say it should be on hold. I think it should have predictable distribution rate, that's probably why the draw airdrop was not totally cancelled, but reduced by exactly the amount that the new distribution, developer contest, spends every 2 weeks. So, the distribution rate would stay the same.


That's a sh1tty excuse for not doing some research. Actually data is always more important than somebody's opinion. Opinions are like assh0les, everyone has one.
One look at CoinmarketCap and you could have said something smart like: "changing the draw airdrop from every week to every 2 weeks has reduced the trading volume", but you didn't do that. I bet you could not run a successful company by just counting on your gut feeling and not the data. I don't have any data that draw lottery raises or lowers the price, it just seems it affects the volume.

Another example that you are not into doing some research first before voicing your opinion.


I think it is you who has problems with reading and writing, you literally say that somebody should pay you a bounty for Bitcointalk post.
"My two cents" expression is used to state that you had an opinion, not how much the bounty should be. Learn English and don't use expressions which you don't have idea when to use them!

Don't know the exact reasons, but here are possible reasons:
* the goal of the distribution fund is NOT to spend it as fast as possible. long distribution is preferred because long distribution will give free bytes to more users than just some early adopters.
* Bitcoin airdrop showed that distributing equally to all based on how much they already had didn't create adoption, just more sell off.
* the bigger the lottery reward in real world the more participants it usually draws into it. this worked in the beginning, but new participants on Draw Airdrop has stalled now.
* draw airdrop has predictable 200-400 GB cost after each 2 weeks.
* there are around 500 000 addresses with any history on Obyte.
* each storage unit fits around 100 payment transactions.
* the fee for 500 000 addresses would be up to 275MB (depending how many transactions in each unit and how much to set the minimum balance for airdrop).
* sending transaction to all addresses would waste up to 275MB of every full node disk space.

The funds are not meant to give away to institutions, they are meant to be distributed to users. There is around 10% for Obyte Foundation and around 20% for distributing to users left. Just giving large amount to some business for free would look even worse to the community. They can afford to buy the Bytes like everybody else, GBYTE is on sale for quite cheap at the moment.

Do you have proof (actual data) that draw airdrop is harming the project or that's just your opinion?

* Newsflash, draw airdrop doesn't happen every week, it's after every 2 weeks. It is not pointless, it motivates people to hold the bytes, exactly what some people asked for, a motivation to hold.
* Developer contest for Autonomous agents happens also after every 2 weeks. Draw airdrop happens on one week, the developer contest the next week, which makes the distribution fund burn for these 2 distributions around 300 GB per week. This distribution is for people who actually do stuff, but there isn't many of those people, I guess nobody wants to do anything to get free bytes.
* Around 2-3 GB per day is distributed on World Community Grid for people who voluntarily help to do the science calculations https://wcg.report/
* Then there is grants program, which is not only for developers, anyone can write a proposal project document, but not many do. I guess it is too much work to actually do something that would benefit the community, everybody just wants stuff for free. https://medium.com/obyte/byteball-grants-program-906a71b93d3c
* There is also Real Name attestation, on which anybody can get their document verified and a private KYC profile into their wallet app. Distribution funds are used to pay Jumio for doing this, give reward to users for doing this and reward users who invite others to do it.

These 5 distribution methods are not the only ones, but they are probably the biggest at the moment. You can come up with better methods and share it with the community, but you probably won't come up with anything better (more viral and less abused) https://medium.com/obyte/distribution-methods-revisited-we-need-you-b0a38800b722

All I can see is that you think that somebody should just give you free bytes for actually not doing anything really, just for writing a random misinformed Bitcointalk post.

Not sure how to see UTXOs or denominations of blackbytes, I think it is not displayed anywhere in app. What you can see is how much blackbytes you have on different addresses of currently selected wallet, for that you need to click gear icon on home screen, then Advanced and then Wallet information and then scroll down to Balance by Addresses.

Blackbytes have denominations like banknotes. Each message describes how much banknotes should be sent from previously unspent outputs. Each storage unit (transaction) can have limited number of messages, so you should place an order in smaller amounts because you have probably too many different unspent outputs and denominations.

You are asking multiple things from it: high volumes and privacy. Blackbytes are not really suitable as speculative asset because they should be only traded P2P without any middlemen between. Otherwise it would loose its privacy features if large volume would go through some single entity.

Blackbytes never listed on centralized exchanges, only listed on https://blackbytes.io/

No, it was said that it will run AT LEAST 6 months. It started only with 1 draw every week, then changed to 2 draws every week and now is 2 draws every 2 weeks. Next draw is on 20.09.2019 http://draw.obyte.org/

There are half a million addresses on Obyte, distributing to all addresses doesn't make any sense because we don't know, which addresses people still have access and which ones not. Also, if you add a Real Name attested address or Steem attested address with more than 60 reputation then you have bigger chances to win on next draw.

User on Discord said that they tried to backup and restore on iPhone and it worked as it was suppose to work by either saving the backup to "files" or to cloud service (Dropbox).