Hey guys, going to post some of the key points from the recent Discord meeting and look to address some of the things recently said in this thread.
Haha, possibly. That gives me some time to ramble on about what we've been working on - and are working towards.
So as usual, initially I will look to give everyone some brief updates in regards to where we're currently at and what we've been working on - and working towards; And then after that, I'll be taking questions relevant to the topics/things I've mentioned. Once were through that, I can then take misc questions so at that point AMA 😃
Okay, so lets begin
In terms of development, John and I have been working on a lot of things behind the scenes. Namely speaking we've been working on things that will be of use once we start integrating the new UI. Shortly after, you can expect us to release Baseball (MLB) and and Soccer (Premier, Champions). We could integrate these into the current site, but we've taken the stance it's time better spent preparing for integration to the new UI, rather than doing work on the current existing one only to need to repeat ourselves (and waste time) once it's ready.
Discord recently released an API, so it's possible that our on-site chat will be directly linked to our Discord. This allows people to take advantage of the Discord mobile app to communicate on our website, as well as provides us a myriad of other features that Discord natively supports just as name tagging with "@" - so we'll be keeping an eye on this and figure out if it's as useful as we hope it is.
Likewise, in the new UI we'll look to integrate a fully functional wallet. With that said, it's intended to support the majority of features the desktop-client wallet supports while storing your funds on our site. In regards to Staking with using the on-site wallet, I cannot guarantee that this will be available but know that we ARE looking into is a possibility. We want to reward our users and investors as much as possible 😉
Until then, we will be keeping re-depositing GBT and signing a message to prove address ownership disabled on the current working version of the site (there's no reason for it anyways since a cycle has not begun yet).
In regards to front end development, Sergey has actively been working on the front end and you've seen some of the screenshots of the work he's been working on. We're quite pleased with the work he's done so far and he definitely seems like a huge asset to the team so we're pleased to have him work with us. For the on-site chat at this point in time we're looking for something similar to how Twitch works (see
http://www.twitch.tv/riotgames for ex.) where it does not overlap with the site content and is collapsible. If possible, we would also like to integrate the site chat directly with Discord which opens up the doors to some nice features (in terms of what you may be familiar with - think Slack bots).
We've been discussing some behind the scenes partnerships as well with some upcoming e-sports teams, however none of this has been made final yet. So once there's more news available on this, I'll be posting an update informing everyone of newly formed partnerships as we go forward.
One of the things I'd like to stress right now is because currently we have not begun marketing, we're mainly focused on the Bitcoin-community side of things which is why there's primarily Gold betting going on right now, but a lack of Silver betting. Once the new UI launches one of the key things we'll be looking to utilize to draw in Steam users is the faucet system which will allow users to play Steam games and earn Silver on our website.
Another huge factor will be how we go about incorporating Twitch streamers in our website. Once we get the ball rolling with Steam users, support for Silver will gradually pick up.
We didn't expect it to happen out of the blue, but as you may know Steam has announced that they are endorsing Bitcoin by allowi.g users to use Bitcoin on Steam to purchase items and skins. This is HUGE for us because it helps widen our audience as well as strikes a blow to websites which in a way overlap our market such as opskins - however our goals are quite different so it does not effect us nearly as negatively.
I hope more people continue to come out to the Discord meeting as every week we get great questions. You can join in on the discussion at
https://discord.gg/0wRLI5uAyHxScJBDThank you for the continued support as always, and now I'll address so things mentioned in the thread:
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Do you see the issue? That $554 pool isn't Alternate Attax vs Platinum, but indeed Alternate ATTAX vs Dead Pixels instead. It goes back to me saying it's frustrating to not trust the site you're betting on because they have a history of incorrectly listing games for weeks now, with no improvement at all yet. Attax vs Platinum isn't a rescheduled game later either. No games of those 2 teams exist on gosugamers schedule. It's a non existent match.
So for this game, I bet on Platinum, who isn't even playing... if I had known Dead Pixels was playing (and I could've by checking gosu gamers first, but why the heck should I have to confirm who's playing on another site), I would've bet on Alternate Attax.
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I'm going to be frank with you. I'm honestly impressed how much you so avidly put forth false information. You know, we're not the only ones who make these mistakes right?
http://www.hltv.org/match/2302068-alternate-attax-platinium-uprise-champions-cup-season-4Google this link and you'll see this was the original match,
which was changed at last minute to vs. Dead PixelsSecondly, what's this nonsense about if you bet on Platinum and Dead Pixels won you wouldn't receive anything? Where did we say this? Where are you drawing this conclusion from? Honestly, it's starting to seem more and more like you have some sort of agenda but I'm not here to speculate about that merely correct your false information. Stop thinking about your bets as in
Attax vs
DP and think about your bets in the sense
T1 vs
T2. T2 changed, yes, this is correct
but you know what's still accurate? The odds of T1 vs T2! and
that is what matters when placing the bet. HLTV lists Attax with an odd of 1.22 and we list them as 82%. You want to guess what 1/1.22 is? If you bet on T2 (which we incorrectly listed as Platinum I'll admit due to that being the initial listing on many other sites) - it's no different than had you bet on Dead Pixels.
I hate that this part of my post comes off as so harsh, but it's really getting tiresome how often you try to stir up drama. It's becoming increasingly hard to stay neutral every time you do this. We
are working on handling this issue to ensure that our betters have sufficient information to place bets.
Something that needs to be addressed by the developers urgently. It's was asked at the beginning what are the legal protections that this profit share has for the investors?
There are pages of legal talk on the site clearly explaining the status of the gold and silver tokens on the site but no mention of GBT.
My concern is this and everyone who wants to hold this token long term that at any point in the future the developers could change the conditions even getting rid of the profit share scheme. The developers were very evasive of this question when asked and I think it's time it was addressed. It's simple, they add some legal protection for those who bought into the company or they don't. If they don't then actually you aren't protected or are future holders of the token....in fact they can be rendered worthless. This should of been addressed at ICO so now we are at Mercy of developers to legally put in place what they actually promised by word.
Balls in developers court now....
This was addressed in the previous weeks Discord meeting, we
are in the process of ensuring the holders of GBT have legal entitlement. I'll forward this to Doug (ddepker) and have him reiterate what he said last time during the Discord meeting as well as update you where we're currently at on this issue. Investor security is as important to us as it is to you. I apologize that this information wasn't posted in the thread sooner.
