Obyte: Totally new consensus algorithm + private untraceable payments

[the artful bodger]

Is the free airdrop for bitcoin holders still ongoing, or is it finished?

[Michail1]

Here is your link to receive 0.001 GB: https://byteball.org/openapp.html#textcoin?nephew-mountain-buddy-erupt-luxury-mechanic-shoulder-reject-calm-guilt-size-cinnamon

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Help needed please.  Inside Byteball, there is a Byte-BTC exchange. I accidentally sent all of my blackbytes to that address. Is there anyway I may recover? Thanks very much.

Do you have a sale-order now or did you sell them cheap?

I supposed to send GBYTE to that given address, I instead sent blackbytes to that address. I guess I lost all of my blackbytes.

That is correct, because that address didn't get them either since you have to be paired to the address in order for them to get them.

There is a slight chance you can pair if the received is willing and able to do the pairing.  It's difficult since it is a bot.

Just wanted to point out that they didn't just magically receive your blackbytes.

[Michail1]

Here is your link to receive 0.001 GB: https://byteball.org/openapp.html#textcoin?nephew-mountain-buddy-erupt-luxury-mechanic-shoulder-reject-calm-guilt-size-cinnamon

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Is the free airdrop for bitcoin holders still ongoing, or is it finished?

Still going.  Next one in March.
Information in the very first post and on  www.byteball.org

[xylem29]

Is the free airdrop for bitcoin holders still ongoing, or is it finished?

I think that's in Feb/March

[Marc De Mesel]

I have quite a lot of arguments for you... But I value my energy, it's my most precious asset. I'll say just this.. BRAND recognition. You cannot compare Byteball, as a brand, with Bitcoin. If Bitcoin would have sold in "bits" (1bit = 100 satoshi) instead of whole bitcoins, we'd probably be seeing a higher marketcap.

I've spoken with tens of people who are new to crypto-space, and most of them (i'd say 8 out of 10) initially tell me "this is cheap, this is expensive" based ONLY on price per unit.

There's actually a marketing science applied to price-tagging. Why do you think most of the prices you see in stores look like "$99.99" or "39.99"? Because most people think in the lines of "oh, this costs 90bucks, and this costs 30 bucks", when in reality it costs $100 and $40, respectively. Now this may not fool you or me and a few of the rest. But it damn works, and it boosts profits by 20 - 50%, based on industry.

I'm curious if there are actual concrete steps we could take on this direction. I'd be willing to put some effort into this.

Very good post on the topic, thanks man

[ByteFan]

Blackbytes Escrow Exchange Bot (BEEB) is offering you 1,000,000 Bytes!

Buy and sale your BlackBytes on BEEB bot - More info at http://beeb-bot.com


Here is your link to receive 1,000,000 Bytes: https://byteball.org/openapp.html#textcoin?grain-enough-kitten-shine-follow-decade-evolve-cinnamon-cliff-acid-point-result

[cryptohunter]

Where is tony ch??

where is his direct response to the fact the entire thread is discussing the moving of gbyte to mbyte

same as where was his direct response to the fact giving most of the bb away to competing ico managers was a shit idea.

I am not getting this lack of involvement on key issues?

bittrex will change the unit tag if tony ch tells them too 100% I have seen it done before with other projects.

[Wekkel]

Tony walks his own path. Perhaps the new Steve Jobs? 

[kashish948]

USD all time high incoming!!!

[dbt1033]

Guys... discussing changing the unit is just about as pointless as it gets.  Once upon a time, rare coins were all the rave.  Noobs chase fads... it's unavoidable.  Just because some people have it in their heads that noobs like cheap coins... doesn't mean that noobs don't also like rare coins.

Stop worrying about this shit OR the price.  Have you guys seen the $Gbyte chart?  It's bullish as fuck. 

[ayamark789]

Watching byteball gradually rise this month, very steady, first rushed to 1000 US dollars

[Hyena]

Just to mention, for the Byteball wallets of all my friends I always instruct them to change the default unit to MB. For the Slice&Dice Dungeon game I also use MB and soon I will probably even switch to KB. GB is simply not a practical denomination. You can say what you want about logic and psychology but GB is not practical! Most purchases made online will be less than 1 GB. Writing that comma is a source of errors. Is it a dot or comma? It can cause trouble. And it is stupid to cling to gbytes.

[LoyceV]

where is his direct response to the fact the entire thread is discussing the moving of gbyte to mbyte

Tony is a technical person, I don't think it matters to him, just like it doesn't matter to me. Moving to 1 MBYTE makes them 1000 times cheaper than 1 GBYTE, but there are also 1000 more units available: 1 BILLION! Now, there are only 1 million GBYTES, which is really not much.
Based on the same theory you could also move to kbyte, they'll be a fraction of a cent!

I've changed my mind on this though, I'm now in favour of moving to smaller units. For Bitcoin, I set all my wallets to mBTC too, and if you were to buy a coffee with either one of them, paying x "units" is more convenient than paying 0.00x units. It looks much more like dollars or whatever currency people are used to.

A friend of mine wanted to buy some altcoins, I mentioned a few, and she said she can buy Bitcore, because it's only like $15 and she can afford that.
I'd say move to MBYTE, and make that the default unit for newly installed wallets too.

Question for the exchange bot owners:
Would it be possible to create a GUI web interface to trade from? I like how it's possible to exchange in chat, but it's much less intuitive than a GUI would be. If we can setup trades in the GUI, then make the transaction from the Byteball wallet, that would be great, and I expect more people would use it.

[HALLASTERA]

Thinking you are guys very exaggerate Byteball, and it's not new consensus.

[CarlOrff]

Is the free airdrop for bitcoin holders still ongoing, or is it finished?

ngoing : next distribution on march.

[CorePrime95]

Guys!

I have built a BYTEBALL VIDEO FAUCET and I am giving away until END OF 2017 for FREE 5,000,000 bytes for every new Byteball user:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up5mWozjHhI

Another prove for units bias: The video is motivating (good job man!) because he talks about becoming a byte millionaire and getting 5,000,000 bytes. It wouldn't sound so great if he would talk about 0.005GB

[SatoNatomato]

Thinking you are guys very exaggerate Byteball, and it's not new consensus.

Do you know of any other project using the same or similar consensus algorithm?

Remember IOTA is a Ponzi scheme where nothing works as they claim and it is only a single SQL database behind the curtain, while RaiBlocks is different consensus design.

[Wekkel]

Remember IOTA is a Ponzi scheme where nothing works as they claim and it is only a single SQL database behind the curtain....

Ha ha, shots fired!

[tiaozhanziwo]

Just to mention, for the Byteball wallets of all my friends I always instruct them to change the default unit to MB. For the Slice&Dice Dungeon game I also use MB and soon I will probably even switch to KB. GB is simply not a practical denomination. You can say what you want about logic and psychology but GB is not practical! Most purchases made online will be less than 1 GB. Writing that comma is a source of errors. Is it a dot or comma? It can cause trouble. And it is stupid to cling to gbytes.

I also agree that the default unit will be changed to MB, which makes the buyer feel more cost-effective.

[Rogerdale]

Just to mention, for the Byteball wallets of all my friends I always instruct them to change the default unit to MB. For the Slice&Dice Dungeon game I also use MB and soon I will probably even switch to KB. GB is simply not a practical denomination. You can say what you want about logic and psychology but GB is not practical! Most purchases made online will be less than 1 GB. Writing that comma is a source of errors. Is it a dot or comma? It can cause trouble. And it is stupid to cling to gbytes.

I also agree that the default unit will be changed to MB, which makes the buyer feel more cost-effective.

Actually GB unit was not a problem in June when Byteball was second expensive crypto after Bitcoin... I believe noobs look mostly on the price dynamic, whether it is rising or falling. It doesn't really matter what the unit is if the price is falling. Now it is rising, maybe it will attract more attention.

However, MB unit looks better though. IOTA uses MIOTA units, not GIOTA.