[ANN][STEPS] Let's make a new altcoin environment

[Fire Rabbit]

Great to see some buy action on STEPS tonight, its been a rough week price wise but development is still moving nicely.

Looking forward to the store!

+1

I've been dreaming about the store!   

[locohammerhead]

I see the web wallet is up on STEPS site.  How are you planning on getting the payment gateway to work?  Will STEPS be added to a site like coinpayments or will it be a custom setup?  The online store will it be like ebay where people can put their items up for bid or like ETSY where you have a fixed price, or will the store be run by the devs only?

I didn't make any mention of my worries with the exchange before because TBH i didn't think STEPS would last this far.  But since I have already ROI'd and development seems to be humming along fairly well I feel I can express my worries now.

Don't you think 5 minute blocktimes are too slow to run an exchange on?  Look at NXT for example.  They have slower block times and their decen exchange is terrible!  

Bitshares 2.0 on the other hand is very responsive.  But they have 3 second block times. Over 100x faster than STEPS block times.  

Or will the exchange be centrally hosted with STEPS being the head currency like they do with DOT over at cryptopia?

IF the STEPS team could beat 3 second block times without implementing DPoS that would make the currency far more useful than BTS 2.0 is as everybody would be contributing to processing blocks versus BTS 2.0 where only 101 people are making all the money and processing all of the blocks.

Thank you for your well thought out post, will will provide some more information in due course. You did give us some food for thought and we will consider it.

We take this project very seriously and as stressed out before Steps is here for the long term.

Glad I could be of assistance.

I will tweet to shapeshift see if we can get them to add STEPS.

[andrepierre]

I see the web wallet is up on STEPS site.  How are you planning on getting the payment gateway to work?  Will STEPS be added to a site like coinpayments or will it be a custom setup?  The online store will it be like ebay where people can put their items up for bid or like ETSY where you have a fixed price, or will the store be run by the devs only?

I didn't make any mention of my worries with the exchange before because TBH i didn't think STEPS would last this far.  But since I have already ROI'd and development seems to be humming along fairly well I feel I can express my worries now.

Don't you think 5 minute blocktimes are too slow to run an exchange on?  Look at NXT for example.  They have slower block times and their decen exchange is terrible!  

Bitshares 2.0 on the other hand is very responsive.  But they have 3 second block times. Over 100x faster than STEPS block times.  

Or will the exchange be centrally hosted with STEPS being the head currency like they do with DOT over at cryptopia?

IF the STEPS team could beat 3 second block times without implementing DPoS that would make the currency far more useful than BTS 2.0 is as everybody would be contributing to processing blocks versus BTS 2.0 where only 101 people are making all the money and processing all of the blocks.

Thank you for your well thought out post, will will provide some more information in due course. You did give us some food for thought and we will consider it.

We take this project very seriously and as stressed out before Steps is here for the long term.

Glad I could be of assistance.

I will tweet to shapeshift see if we can get them to add STEPS.

I send a tweet to shapeshift, here is their response:

ShapeShift.io@ShapeShift_io
@AltcoinSteps Hi, there. I have added your coin to our discovery list. If we decide to add we will announce on social channels

PS: We now have 569 twitter followers, very good growth for Steps!!!

[ReturnOfTheMAC]

I see the web wallet is up on STEPS site.  How are you planning on getting the payment gateway to work?  Will STEPS be added to a site like coinpayments or will it be a custom setup?  The online store will it be like ebay where people can put their items up for bid or like ETSY where you have a fixed price, or will the store be run by the devs only?

I didn't make any mention of my worries with the exchange before because TBH i didn't think STEPS would last this far.  But since I have already ROI'd and development seems to be humming along fairly well I feel I can express my worries now.

Don't you think 5 minute blocktimes are too slow to run an exchange on?  Look at NXT for example.  They have slower block times and their decen exchange is terrible!  

Bitshares 2.0 on the other hand is very responsive.  But they have 3 second block times. Over 100x faster than STEPS block times.  

Or will the exchange be centrally hosted with STEPS being the head currency like they do with DOT over at cryptopia?

IF the STEPS team could beat 3 second block times without implementing DPoS that would make the currency far more useful than BTS 2.0 is as everybody would be contributing to processing blocks versus BTS 2.0 where only 101 people are making all the money and processing all of the blocks.

Thank you for your well thought out post, will will provide some more information in due course. You did give us some food for thought and we will consider it.

We take this project very seriously and as stressed out before Steps is here for the long term.

Glad I could be of assistance.

I will tweet to shapeshift see if we can get them to add STEPS.

I send a tweet to shapeshift, here is their response:

ShapeShift.io@ShapeShift_io
@AltcoinSteps Hi, there. I have added your coin to our discovery list. If we decide to add we will announce on social channels

PS: We now have 569 twitter followers, very good growth for Steps!!!

Awesome Andre! Also just a heads up - STEPS is half way through the 60 STEPS rewards now - within 4 days it will be 70 STEPS per block. If you haven't bought now its only going to get pricier week on week.

[grizzelbeard]

OK please do not hate on me to much as I am newer to mining. I want to solo mine stepscoin and do not know how. I always mine in a pool and wanted to give solo mining a go. Can anyone point me in the right direction??? As an addendum, yes I did do some goooooglin first!!!

Thanks in advance,

The Beard

[grizzelbeard]

Cool ty, yeah I mined on steak a bit but 10% is a high price to pay...
I really appreciate the input.

So I just go buy some steps???

[ReturnOfTheMAC]

Cool ty, yeah I mined on steak a bit but 10% is a high price to pay...
I really appreciate the input.

So I just go buy some steps???

Yes. Yobit is the best price/volume exchange to use.

[ReturnOfTheMAC]

Who's the shithead who just refuses to let STEPS rise? dumping every fucking hour!

[grizzelbeard]

OK I have some steps now how do I make them stake???

[ReturnOfTheMAC]

OK I have some steps now how do I make them stake???

Put them in the wallet and keep the wallet unlocked but encrypted.

[grizzelbeard]

OK I have some steps now how do I make them stake???

Put them in the wallet and keep the wallet unlocked but encrypted.

OK so I did that and it still says stake 0.00 so I just wait.

Thanks again for the help.

[ReturnOfTheMAC]

OK I have some steps now how do I make them stake???

Put them in the wallet and keep the wallet unlocked but encrypted.

OK so I did that and it still says stake 0.00 so I just wait.

Thanks again for the help.

It takes 24 hours for the coins to be eligible for staking - then you must wait a further day or so for the coins to gather weight.

You're welcome! Good to have you on board

[locohammerhead]

Who's the shithead who just refuses to let STEPS rise? dumping every fucking hour!

Well because the block coinout is increasing dumping is going to occur.  This isn't necessarily a bad thing though as it creates volume.  Probably a top wallet taking profit.  I'm getting around 8-10 stakes a day now so i'm probably going to be putting some up for sale soon too.  Can't keep em all to myself.

[locohammerhead]

STEPS unofficial IRC Now open

#stepscoin

If enough people join I will have a tipbot added.

[m3rt1x]

Who's the shithead who just refuses to let STEPS rise? dumping every fucking hour!

It's the shithead who sells me cheap coins!God bless him.

[m3rt1x]

Rt guys!
Shapeshift is a new open world for Steps! 

https://twitter.com/MariosMertikas/status/661441219583713280

Go Steps!

[ReturnOfTheMAC]

Nice to see STEPS up around 3000 sat - a much more respectable price for such a promising little coin.

[m3rt1x]

Nice to see STEPS up around 3000 sat - a much more respectable price for such a promising little coin.

'Some guy' bought all the coins till the 3000sat barrier on C-Cex!Few thousand left under 3k on Yobit!Things back on track!A lot of dumps will occur in the near future (inevitable due to high pos rewards and rise of BTC),but also stake cloud will always raise the price.
What I see is that by Christmas the top 20 will hold more than 80% of the coin(excluding the burn address)!

[reddibrek]

Hello. Trying to get some posting rep as a newbie! 

[ReturnOfTheMAC]

Hello. Trying to get some posting rep as a newbie! 

Welcome brother - great coin and community here