Anyone know why?

Thank you Nele for allowing me to post this here.

DNotes and GameCredits must have the best friendship in cryptocurrency and we are very grateful for all the DNotes holders in your community.

I sent out the following message to everyone who hasn't posted on the DNotes forum for a while, but want to make sure no one is missed. If there is anything you can do to give us a hand to get the word out or contribute to the Kickstarter, it would be greatly appreciated. Please feel free to drop in at our forum any time and say hi.

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 If you are not aware, Alan has finished his book "The Four Pillars of Business Success" and is looking for community support with the Kickstarter to help pay for publishing. We, as a community, are called upon very rarely to help with anything and have never been asked for any kind of monetary contribution (a rare occurrence in cryptocurrency). The following is a post from myself and one from Joe explaining what is going on and how you can help. Please help in any way you can.  Thanks    

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I had the privilege of reading Alan's book, "The Four Pillars of Business Success", before it went for publishing. It is informative, inspiring, and the principles outlined within it apply to so much more than just the business owner. Employees can learn what it takes to reach the top and how to identify successful companies that will provide them with those opportunities. There was a lot of valuable information that I could have used when working on various projects (outside of work) in the past, that would have made them much more successful.

There are so many new businesses starting up within the bitcoin industry, not only is the timing of this book perfect, but it can also prevent a lot of the inevitable failures that accompany new startups.

The Kickstarter has the option of a $5 donation or you can pre-order the book starting at $18. The revenue from book sales will belong to DNotes Global Inc., the new company that will own all of DNotes current and future properties as well as a certain amount of the currency. DNotes the currency, will own up to 25% of the company, meaning any DNotes holder will have a 'stake' in the company.

"The Four Pillars of Business Success" will also have it's own website - https://fourpillarsofbusinesssuccess.com/

"Membership at The Four Pillars of Business Success member site gives you exclusive access to information and materials that expand on the concept of the book. It will also provide you with access to Alan and his team and tools designed to help your business grow quickly. For the first year, while we continue to fill the site with useful guides and information, it will only cost $1 to join. After the first year, membership will cost $10 per month."   

I encourage everyone within the bitcoin and altcoin industry that have business or project ideas, to consider this book.

-Chase-

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What everyone can do to help: 

post from Joe:

Our efforts and focus at the moment is to promote The Four Pillars of Business Success to make this KickStarter a success. If you enjoy the book and want to help promote it, here is a list of things you can do over the next 25 days.

-Share your thoughts about the book, whether it is on social media or email, when talking with your friends, or in casual conversation. If you haven't already received the unedited copy of the book, I will offer at least a couple chapters for you to read over, just email me.

-Like and share content on the Four Pillars of Business Success facebook page for the website. As well as the page itself. Watch for new content.
https://www.facebook.com/Four-Pillars-of-Business-Success-774136606020431/

-Like and share content on Alan's Author facebook page for the website. As well as the page itself. Watch for new content.
https://www.facebook.com/alanyongfourpillars/

-Use the share buttons on the kickstarter and support the kickstarter.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/124571891/the-four-pillars-of-business-success-book-by-alan

-I will also be creating a twitter account, having a bit of trouble with that at the moment. But I will keep you updated. For now you re-tweet and favorite related posts:
https://twitter.com/search?q=Four%20Pillars%20of%20Business%20Success%20since%3A2016-04-01&src=typd (Twitter - Four Pillars @TFPOBS)

-Follow Alan on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-yong-9b2707a5
You can watch for his posts, comment like and share.
https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/0_1L6kZZmlo4-zyudRcVo58w?trk=prof-sm

How Do You Go About Starting A Great Company?

Ideally, your goal is to create the type of company that is almost impossible for your competitors to fully replicate. The thing is, though, that you cannot do that all by yourself. However, it all has to start with you, but at some point you will have to begin to rely on a team to help you achieve your vision. Ultimately, that team will end up being one of the most important factors in determining just how successful your new enterprise will be.

While it is clearly important for any team to strive for the ultimate success of a business venture, there are far too many instances where even the best team fails to follow through on the company’s vision. Entrepreneurs routinely start out with great visions and expectations and then find that everything seems to unravel on them within just a few short years, if not earlier.

The question is why? Why do even the most visionary entrepreneurs often find their best and brightest ideas failing to gain traction in the marketplace? In some unfortunate cases, successful and established companies took a sudden turn for the worst, and failed.  Why do so many businesses fail so early? More importantly, what steps can you take now to ensure that you’re not just another one of those statistics? This book’s purpose is to answer that question and many more, while helping you develop a new way of approaching your own quest for business success.

If there is one fact that is crystal clear, it is that your vision will be central to everything you do from this point forward. To succeed, you must start with a clear and coherent vision for your business, and you must be passionate about it. That vision, however, is not your mission. It is instead the ultimate goal that guides the strategic decision-making that you employ to reach your objectives.

Do you have that vision yet? It’s fine if you don’t yet have that perfect clarity, as long as you know that you’re not fully there. Problems occur when people think that they have a vision, but later find out that they began without any real sense of the bigger picture. Too often, they discover much too late that what they had were short-term objectives and a sense of a mission, but no overriding vision to help them get to where they needed to be to achieve their ultimate goals.  In other words, many entrepreneurs simply start out focusing on the wrong elements of the success equation, and then end up wondering why their plans fail.

Start with your vision, and that will provide the destination that you are ultimately trying to reach. From there, you work on establishing initial objectives and goals that you want to achieve. Then you develop the winning strategies that can offer you the best opportunity to reach those goals. Subsequently, you learn to master the art of flawless execution of your winning strategies.  Notice, if you will that none of the team members we mentioned earlier are even a consideration at this point in the process. There’s a good reason for that: you have to create the vision, mission, and short-term goals for your company before you even think about recruiting help. Those elements have to be firmly in your mind - or better yet, documented so that you have something to which you hold yourself accountable before you ever make that first critical hire.

Only when you are done establishing your vision, mission, goals, and strategies can you actually begin to build a team. At that point, you have to find the type of competent people you believe to be most likely to buy into your business philosophy and mindset. You need people who are capable of being inspired by your exceptional leadership style and strategic vision, as that is the only way to ensure that they are in turn capable of helping you to create the type of business culture that your enterprise needs for success. That culture should motivate everyone in the company to consistently deliver their highest level of commitment and performance, and thereby contribute to the efforts to reach your business goals. Once you reach that point, you will have created a system that basically channels the mindset of its leader even when your attention is elsewhere. You will have designed a system for effectively cloning yourself.

The key, though, is to ensure that the “you” that you’re cloning is the best “you” it can be! This book is designed to help you find that best part of you, so that you can begin to build a team with the type of unified vision and purpose needed to achieve true success.

Stay tuned for more:
Meanwhile, support my Kickstarter campaign and pledge as little as $5. Many small business owners are struggling and need help. Please join me in my quest to get the word out.

Visit:  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/124571891/the-four-pillars-of-business-success-book-by-alan

For more about the book including chapter summation visit:https://fourpillarsofbusinesssuccess.com/

GameCredits is growing into one of most popular cryptocurrency in Japan.
Japan is the country which produced Nintendo and Sony Playstation.

I think that GAME grows further in Japan.
And GAME will grow also in the world.

we're a social network site of the biggest cryptocurrency exclusive use in Japan.
http://cryptpark.com/

We will continue to support GAME.

The KickStarter is officially live!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/124571891/the-four-pillars-of-business-success-book-by-alan

FourPillarsOfBusinessSuccess.com is officially live!

https://fourpillarsofbusinesssuccess.com/

We also have an update on the book preview.

https://fourpillarsofbusinesssuccess.com/book-preview/

Press Release forthcoming.

Hi everyone! There is a great GameCredits article in today's edition of DCEBrief:




http://dcebrief.com/a-look-at-gamecredits-new-api/

Thanks Chase! Nick did a great job. This is a big step, making it easy for any game developer to easily integrate GameCredits.

Thanks for sharing this mate. This Grand Prix will be the most interesting one yet. I hope that it will be a big hit. Would be good if it could be played from a mobile device.  

Exactly. And it provides the ability to build and test apps in the cloud (more of like cloud computing) By integrating blockchain services into Azure, it will make it a pretty neat tool for developers to build and test apps on the blockchain. Plus, the addition of Gamecredits in there would make a bit hit and perhaps drive more interest into it for developers to deploy games in the blockchain.

Say I have been away from Gamecredits a little. What happened with Turbocharged game? Is the Grand Prix over? Sorry for asking, but since there have been many new posts since I have last made one here, it would take me some time to go along a few pages.  

Can someone explain what Azure actually is? In layman terms. Thanks in advance.

Yes and its free so Kick Ass  GMC

That sig was temporally.
Peter from SOIL is not directly involved with ENRG.

Some people are still running clients who give them headache after block 2.1M so update A.S.A.P!
I you have questions or problems about running the new client v1.5 contact EnergyCoinDev.

The coming weeks I shall not be online here or twitter about EnergyCoin for personal reasons.

I see a bright future for ENRG and application in green energy sector and the transition to a more circular economy.

With kind regards,
Jan
 

ROKOS v5 Flavors Released!

Support thread: ROKOS Flavors

Visit the New ROKOS website at: http://rokos.space


ROKOS v5 "Flavors" Released. Full OS with Cryptocurrency Clients, full nodes and much more. Faster, Easier, Stronger.



We've seen new services selling "stake miners" for different currencies, we support the new technology and uses for cryptocurrencies in the Raspberry Pi environments, hence we came up with a Free solution for every IoT enthusiast, developer, user, service that want to use their IoT devices with BTC, OK and more cryptocurrencies, or that would like to turn their Pi into a Staking device, It already integrates a fully functional Bitcoin + 11 Cryptocurrencies Clients and nodes as well to provide the users with the best and easier Out of the Box experience.


The First OS image release that merges the full power of Raspberry Pi 2, Banana Pi PRO & IoT Devices with Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies:
- ROKOS v5 "Flavors" comes with integrated Cryptocurrencies Clients / nodes .


Specs:

v5 "flavors" Release (Pi2) March 07 2016
- Full burnable OS Compatible with the Raspberry Pi systems.
- Full System / Programs Upgrade.
- Full Design Upgrade.
- Iceweasel browser.
- Autolog.
- Debian.
- Java Dev Tools.
- Easier to Use mod Update.
- Security and Optimization Update.
- Updated Out of the box Firewall ready for use (gui) (start in terminal: gufw)
- Includes Qt and complete set of Dev tools (For developers)
- Includes Qt 3.2.1 Native / Qt 5.5.1 for Cross compile !
- Works with other cryptocurrencies.
- 1024mb swap mod.
- Updated Cryptocurrencies Included:
Bitcoin, OKCash, Blackcoin, Gamecredits, Digitalcoin, Diamondcoin,
Energycoin, Europecoin, Soil, Metalcoin, Transfercoin, Mojocoin. (Readme.txt)
- Custom Login and Wallpapers.
- Cryptocurrencies nodes at /usr/local/bin/
- Easy Clients / Nodes Upgrades.
- Direct access to the Clients Via: Task bar and Menu > Internet.
- ZIP file - Compression: 2.2Gb image to download, 6.1GB uncompressed to burn.


Requirements:
ROKOS v5 "flavors":
- Raspberry Pi 2 (Pi2 full power use by debian jessie base)

- Min 8gb SD card and an External device (usb / hdd / ssd). To sync the Cryptocurrencies chains on the external device instead of the SD card.


Future Versions:
- Security updates.
- Chain Updates.
- More Cryptocurrencies will be integrated for an Out of the Box experience and adoption.
- Designs Updates.
- More wallets, programs or features, based on users/communities/developers feedback, support and/or cross collaborations.






*Raspberry Pi 2:
User: pi / Password: raspberry , follow normal setup.

a) Type: sudo raspi-config
b) Set your Time Zone, change your pi user password and Expand the file system, restart.
After restart the system you can type:  "startx"   to start the user desktop.
c) System ready for use.



a) Go to Menu > Internet and Click on your favorite Cryptocurrency Wallet

This will open the Cryptocurrency wallet and start sync.

*For some Cryptocurrencies the initial sync might take some days, wallets are fully usable after being fully Synchronized.



b) Always remember to make constant backups of your wallets and save them in USB or external media.

Use your wallets in ROKOS to plug HW and mine, Send/Receive, Stake, Share,
become a full node and support your favorite Cryptocurrency network, develop new applications,
etc, the limit is only in your imagination.


Important Security Notice:
*) Remember to create a backup for your Wallets, you can use the wallets to create them and save in different folders on a USB device.
You should ALWAYS have a backup of your wallet, Raspberry Pi Hardware, Raspbian and ROKOS Software are under development hence not responsible for missuses, electrical or compatibility issues that might cause a loss of information. It is as secure as one's ability to take care for it, same as a computer, so always have a backup of your wallets on an external device.

*) Some people tend to recommend getting a 128Gb MicroSD HC (High speed) , at the same time it does work, I do not recommend this solution, as microSD cards tend to get corrupted by the number of overwrites, to ensure the best functionality and security you should use an external HDD/USB storage device to store the chains.


You can start testing and developing new integration with ROKOS and your favorite cryptocurrencies for your IoT projects.







(I did this on a Windows computer, and I dont know what tool to use for Mac to install the iso file Image burner, for this guide you will have to figure out that yourself, if you use Mac)

1. Download and install SD Formatter 4.0 (This is the tool to format the SD card) from:
Windows: https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/eula_windows/SDFormatterv4.zip
Mac: https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/eula_mac/SDFormatter_4.00B.pkg
(or find it yourself at: https://sdcard.org/downloads)

2. Insert the MicroSD/MicroSDHC card into your PC/Mac. (You will probably need an MicroSD to SD adapter for this).

3. Start SD Formatter 4.0 and click the [Option] button. In there you change from "FORMAT TYPE: QUICK" to "FORMAT TYPE: (FULL)Erase", just leave the "FORMAT SIZE ADJUSTMENT" in OFF and click the [OK] button so start the format. When the card is completely formatted click the [Exit] button to close SD Formatter.

4. Download and install Win32 Disk Imager (This is the iso file Image burner) from:
Windows: http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/files/latest/download

5. Download ROKOS Core (rokos5.img.zip) and unzip the ISO file (This is the awesome ROKOS Core "Operating System" that we are going to install on the SD card) from:
Download: http://bit.ly/rokos5flavors
(or find it yourself at: http://rokos.space

6. Start Win32 Disk Imager, press the "little blue folder" and select the "rokos5.img" file that you did extract. Make sure your SD card is selected in the list to the right and press the [Write] button. It will tell you that it can corrupt the SD card, just press [Yes] to continue the installation, when the installation to the SD card is done press the [Exit] button to close Win32 Disk Imager.

7. Now "Safely remove" your SD card from the computer.

8. Put the MicroSD/MicroSDHC card in your Raspberry Pi 2, and make sure you got an USB Keyboard, Monitor (via HDMI), and and Internet cable connected to the Raspberry Pi 2 before you connect the power cable to your Raspberry Pi 2.




1. Type:
(and press enter)

2. Select:
(and press enter) press enter again on the <Ok> button.

3. Select:
(and press enter) press enter again on the <Ok> button. Type a new password (you will not see the letters) and press enter, type your new password again, and press enter. Then press the <Ok> button.

4. Select:
(and press enter) Then select:
(Choose your timezone)

5. Press the "TAB" button on your keyboard two times to get to the <Finish> button, and press enter. Then choose <Yes> to restart your system.

6. Type:
(and press enter) your system will now start up and you are DONE!

ENJOY THIS AWESOME OPERATING SYSTEM!

Hi Nele, Alex, and GameCredits community.

I just wanted to let you know that GameCredits is mentioned in the latest DCEBrief article.


Are Your Kids Ready For Satoshi Math?

http://dcebrief.com/are-your-kids-ready-for-satoshi-math/

                             

I want to try this, can I still play in the contest or is it too late?

That is an interesting idea.

Looks like MS is not going to miss the crypto revolution like they missed the internet and mobile, so definitely worth a look in.