Obyte: Totally new consensus algorithm + private untraceable payments

[Random-String-Symphony]

The Quiz bot Medium post was posted to Reddit and was instantly downvoted... if anyone here is on Reddit this post could use some upvotes. https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/87axwi/invest_a_little_time_to_learn_about_the_most/?ref=share&ref_source=link

I'm a moderator on /r/cryptocurrency and posts like this encouraging people to brigade will result in the post being removed, and in repeated cases or cases where there is implicit or explicit support from moderators of a coin's "official" channels, that cryptocurrency will be banned from the subreddit for some period of time, as has been the case for several coins recently.

As long as you also look at the opposite happening, which is what Hhugh asked to counter. Banning Byteball related posts from r/Cryptocurrency won't have any effect at all because people are downvoting anything Byteball related into oblivion already, effectively banning it for you.

[Karartma1]

Does Airdrop has been completely stopped from byteball team?
and how to sell blackbytes

Airdrop time is over, sorry. Other distribution schemes are in place.
Byteball wallet has a bot market where it's possible to activate independent blackbyte exchanges. Please use those GB to GBB trading bots if you need them.

[jwinterm]

The Quiz bot Medium post was posted to Reddit and was instantly downvoted... if anyone here is on Reddit this post could use some upvotes. https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/87axwi/invest_a_little_time_to_learn_about_the_most/?ref=share&ref_source=link

I'm a moderator on /r/cryptocurrency and posts like this encouraging people to brigade will result in the post being removed, and in repeated cases or cases where there is implicit or explicit support from moderators of a coin's "official" channels, that cryptocurrency will be banned from the subreddit for some period of time, as has been the case for several coins recently.

I support curbing efforts to prevent coordinated brigades in upvotes on Reddit, but IMO banning me (hhugh21) in /r/cryptocurrency for my comment on that thread is a bit excessive. The above post was a commentary on the fact that coins that aren't in favour with the moonboys get instantly downvoted and never see the light of day on the /r/cryptocurrency.  So it was a call to restore the imbalance... not to exploit the upvote button. I already don't see the value in participating on that subreddit because for reasons already mentioned... so to be honest by the time it took to write this I've already gotten over the 15 day ban.

It is often very difficult to detect brigading and it's a major issue on Reddit in general but particularly /r/cryptocurrency, so when it's done blatantly it will be removed and punished. The ban was for the comment here, requesting people to go upvote the post, i.e., brigade. 15 days seems lenient to me as normally it would be a permaban.

[Hhugh]

The Quiz bot Medium post was posted to Reddit and was instantly downvoted... if anyone here is on Reddit this post could use some upvotes. https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/87axwi/invest_a_little_time_to_learn_about_the_most/?ref=share&ref_source=link

I'm a moderator on /r/cryptocurrency and posts like this encouraging people to brigade will result in the post being removed, and in repeated cases or cases where there is implicit or explicit support from moderators of a coin's "official" channels, that cryptocurrency will be banned from the subreddit for some period of time, as has been the case for several coins recently.

I support curbing efforts to prevent coordinated brigades in upvotes on Reddit, but IMO banning me (hhugh21) in /r/cryptocurrency for my comment on that thread is a bit excessive. The above post was a commentary on the fact that coins that aren't in favour with the moonboys get instantly downvoted and never see the light of day on the /r/cryptocurrency.  So it was a call to restore the imbalance... not to exploit the upvote button. I already don't see the value in participating on that subreddit because for reasons already mentioned... so to be honest by the time it took to write this I've already gotten over the 15 day ban.

It is often very difficult to detect brigading and it's a major issue on Reddit in general but particularly /r/cryptocurrency, so when it's done blatantly it will be removed and punished. The ban was for the comment here, requesting people to go upvote the post, i.e., brigade. 15 days seems lenient to me as normally it would be a permaban.

My post here wasn't an explicit request to upvote but I understand your position. I would have appreciated being reinstated considering the spirit of my post here but whatever... I've unsubscribed from /r/cryptocurrency. If anyone notices Byteball posts no longer get instantly downvoted let me know and I'll check it out again.


edit... Random-String-Symphony that's a great point

[jwinterm]

The Quiz bot Medium post was posted to Reddit and was instantly downvoted... if anyone here is on Reddit this post could use some upvotes. https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/87axwi/invest_a_little_time_to_learn_about_the_most/?ref=share&ref_source=link

I'm a moderator on /r/cryptocurrency and posts like this encouraging people to brigade will result in the post being removed, and in repeated cases or cases where there is implicit or explicit support from moderators of a coin's "official" channels, that cryptocurrency will be banned from the subreddit for some period of time, as has been the case for several coins recently.

I support curbing efforts to prevent coordinated brigades in upvotes on Reddit, but IMO banning me (hhugh21) in /r/cryptocurrency for my comment on that thread is a bit excessive. The above post was a commentary on the fact that coins that aren't in favour with the moonboys get instantly downvoted and never see the light of day on the /r/cryptocurrency.  So it was a call to restore the imbalance... not to exploit the upvote button. I already don't see the value in participating on that subreddit because for reasons already mentioned... so to be honest by the time it took to write this I've already gotten over the 15 day ban.

It is often very difficult to detect brigading and it's a major issue on Reddit in general but particularly /r/cryptocurrency, so when it's done blatantly it will be removed and punished. The ban was for the comment here, requesting people to go upvote the post, i.e., brigade. 15 days seems lenient to me as normally it would be a permaban.

My post here wasn't an explicit request to upvote but I understand your position. I would have appreciated being reinstated considering the spirit of my post here but whatever... I've unsubscribed from /r/cryptocurrency. If anyone notices Byteball posts no longer get instantly downvoted let me know and I'll check it out again.


edit... Random-String-Symphony that's a great point

It was about as explicit as one could reasonably expect to see. Also, if you see people posting on here or telegram or other places asking users to go downvote some other coin that would warrant the same treatment.

[Alcibiades Agnes]

Can byteball offer free transaction fee for a year or two? To increase adoption. Or maybe offer it indefinitely. It works for Iota and Nano.
I know fees are very low but as a marketing campaing it is powerful to say, it is fee free.
Why not!

[TraderInc]

Is there anything I can do to help ?
I want to participate in anything possible related to Byteball 
I have just invested everything I had into coins and am out of funds lol
but I loving this Byteball   

[dncdog]

you surprise us with every new update.
On a slightly different note I wanted to share that an increasing number of merchants are supporting Byteball in Milan. There was a Byteball meetup a few days ago. Things are moving in the right direction!

Byteball project is one of the most top-notch cryptocurrencies which can change the crypto-ecosystem and contribute to save our planet due to its sustainable algorithm. No mining, no heat lost during mining process, and no carbon emissions. It is also one of the most green-cryptocurrencies in crypto history.
Currently, Byteball has several potential sub-projects under-developed by their team.

[mining_spaceship]

Can byteball offer free transaction fee for a year or two? To increase adoption. Or maybe offer it indefinitely. It works for Iota and Nano.
I know fees are very low but as a marketing campaing it is powerful to say, it is fee free.
Why not!

I don't think it's possible, and the reason is spam.
To be quite honest, I don't understand how Iota and Nano will manage to avoid that kind of practice, but if it is a plausible solution, I see no reason why we could not discuss it here.

[Arvydas77]

I was participating in Byteball distribution from the very start. I'm very happy that new features were introduced into Byteball and more user friendly development is ongoing.

[naska21]

Today, we are launching a Telegram bot that allows to pass a small quiz and get a $5.00 worth reward in Bytes.  It is paid from the undistributed funds.


Full story: https://medium.com/byteball/money-for-knowledge-distribution-via-telegram-quiz-bot-2dd400e22997

Telegram bot: @ByteballQuizBot

I have passed the quiz. It's eye-opening  and funny.It might take out most of us at the same time. The only disapointment was from the bot final message . "There was an error while trying to send your textcoin. We'll automatically retry until the textcoin is sent."

[Random-String-Symphony]

Today, we are launching a Telegram bot that allows to pass a small quiz and get a $5.00 worth reward in Bytes.  It is paid from the undistributed funds.


Full story: https://medium.com/byteball/money-for-knowledge-distribution-via-telegram-quiz-bot-2dd400e22997

Telegram bot: @ByteballQuizBot

We'll automatically retry until the textcoin is sent."  Where  he will send to? He didn't ask my Byteball address.

That's the beauty of Byteball. It just works

Read this article if you want the magic spoiled
https://medium.com/byteball/sending-cryptocurrency-to-email-5c9bce22b8a9

[Karartma1]

ByteballQuizBot is absolutely amazing! I have shared it with a few friends of mine alongside the Byteball wallet. They couldn't believe what they were witnessing (which to me seems quite easy to get). 
Nice job tony!

[misterbigg]

The actual sad part of tale is that a lot more started dropping interest in Byteball after seeing things that are happening, at this time this individuals are getting in need of selling their own Gbytes.

[IckyYak22871]

The actual sad part of tale is that a lot more started dropping interest in Byteball after seeing things that are happening, at this time this individuals are getting in need of selling their own Gbytes.

A sad part is that after a year beyond release byteball is still slow and centralized. But thanks to  tonych for $1000 worth of free tokens. This is not sad, I dump them with respect and best wishes

[wwzsocki]

The actual sad part of tale is that a lot more started dropping interest in Byteball after seeing things that are happening, at this time this individuals are getting in need of selling their own Gbytes.

A sad part is that after a year beyond release byteball is still slow and centralized. But thanks to  tonych for $1000 worth of free tokens. This is not sad, I dump them with respect and best wishes

This is sad to see this original project struggling so hard. There are many investors dumping Byteball after Tony canceled airdrop. From what I see this airdrop attracted few big investors and now they are selling because they were only counting on money from airdrop and not wanted to support the project and hold for a long time. This shows that Tony decision was not bad at all I think. The main reason for airdrops is to attract new users and this could not be achieved. There are not much Byteballs left and Tony has to come up with a good strategy on how to distribute them. Still when I see Byteball price and actual community reactions I fill sad that such a great and innovative project had such a bad time.

[kola-schaar]

Today, we are launching a Telegram bot that allows to pass a small quiz and get a $5.00 worth reward in Bytes.  It is paid from the undistributed funds.
...

Full story: https://medium.com/byteball/money-for-knowledge-distribution-via-telegram-quiz-bot-2dd400e22997

Telegram bot: @ByteballQuizBot

Nice idea for an unobtrusive advertising that appeals to interested people.
Also there is something to learn and the usability of Byteball is well presented - well done!

[Hhugh]

The actual sad part of tale is that a lot more started dropping interest in Byteball after seeing things that are happening, at this time this individuals are getting in need of selling their own Gbytes.

A sad part is that after a year beyond release byteball is still slow and centralized. But thanks to  tonych for $1000 worth of free tokens. This is not sad, I dump them with respect and best wishes

This is sad to see this original project struggling so hard. There are many investors dumping Byteball after Tony canceled airdrop. From what I see this airdrop attracted few big investors and now they are selling because they were only counting on money from airdrop and not wanted to support the project and hold for a long time. This shows that Tony decision was not bad at all I think. The main reason for airdrops is to attract new users and this could not be achieved. There are not much Byteballs left and Tony has to come up with a good strategy on how to distribute them. Still when I see Byteball price and actual community reactions I fill sad that such a great and innovative project had such a bad time.

To be honest I'm not concerned about this project atm. Yes it is struggling to moon, but mooning hasn't been core team's goal as of yet. Development is highly encouraging and a good foundation is being laid to ensure that this project has a fighting chance not only at surviving, but on boarding real users and use cases. I do agree that Tony should have signaled that the airdrop was being cancelled louder and sooner. But the arguments that support cancelling the airdrop IMO are much more compelling than the pro airdrop arguments I've seen.

But perception counts for a lot... if the GBYTE doesn't make new USD highs by the end of the next alt season or if governance or witnesses aren't distributed within a year then I'll get concerned.

[truclyiuh]

ByteballQuizBot is absolutely amazing! I have shared it with a few friends of mine alongside the Byteball wallet. They couldn't believe what they were witnessing (which to me seems quite easy to get). 
Nice job tony!

I am not familiar with this, but I will give this QuizBot a try to win these quizzes and get bytes.

[tonych]

Today, we are launching a Telegram bot that allows to pass a small quiz and get a $5.00 worth reward in Bytes.  It is paid from the undistributed funds.

Full story: https://medium.com/byteball/money-for-knowledge-distribution-via-telegram-quiz-bot-2dd400e22997

Telegram bot: @ByteballQuizBot

About 500 users have passed the quiz since launch (despite frequent offs due to bugs, running out of money, running out of daily quota, etc) but I observe some share of fraud too.  It is not very large but concerning.  To reduce the incentive for fraud, the reward will now be reduced to $2.50.