HoboNickels - HBN - High Fast Stake - Version 2.0! More Secure, Less Intensive

[FlungSpun]

Personally I am not switching into any ERC20 where one person holds all funds

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[dnp]

Personally I am not switching into any ERC20 where one person holds all funds

yup. i dont quite understand the fetish for such tokens

[CoinEraser]

Hi
Everyone, that wants to change now from the UTXO blockchain to a multichain (ETH/MATIC) network.
You can convert your HBN to HOBO

Officicial Thread is here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5384327.msg59154550#msg59154550

Whitepaper Release: very soon

Thanks

This is a good attempt to move the project forward, but i don't think it will do any good. Nevertheless I wish much success with it. I say goodbye to the HBN project. A cool project that unfortunately doesn't develop any further. 
I have closed the german ann thread because unfortunately no one needs it. 

[ProkhorZ]

The good news is that we reached 7 million blocks.

There might be some bad news too. Is the network dying or am I on a losing fork? I only see 4 to 6 peers, and some of my minting transactions are not accepted.



If you're getting more than a handful of peers, can you post some good IP addresses to seed from?

My node is running on an old Windows laptop which sometimes goes offline for updates. Can't do much more to keep the chain alive except post about it. Is it possible to run HBN on Linux?

[paramind22]

I hope this coin can keep going.  It's great as it's had a team that have kept it going over the tumultuous last year in crypto.   It would be great to get on another exchange but the two are ok (although unnamed has the wallet offline now, not sure for how long).

95.217.78.170:7372
91.206.16.214:7372
73.121.219.211:7372
92.10.171.217:7372
92.10.171.217:7372

I know it's a mortal sin to earn money in crypto without buying expensive miners, or spending your trust fund money, but the idea of having a wallet earn money by stakes is a great idea for some of us.

[paramind22]

Someone bought all the buy orders on freiexchange and most of them on Unnamed.

[HCLivess]

looks like it's over
no more buy orders

[paramind22]

looks like it's over
no more buy orders

Still about $15 in current DOGE orders at Unnamed. 

[samspaces]

looks like it's over
no more buy orders

Not over until the fat blockchain lady sings.

[CoinEraser]

Still about $15 in current DOGE orders at Unnamed. 

I can't recommend unnamed exchange. There are many reports of people not being able to withdraw their coins. Therefore I would not use this exchange. The risk is just too high. 
There is a new buy order for HBN on freiexchange. So I would recommend this exchange for HBN. 

[nutildah]

Damn, launched in Sept 2013.

I remember seeing it on early exchanges like CoinedUp and Cryptsy but I never bought any.

Somebody should tell Elon Musk about this coin.

[CoinEraser]

Damn, launched in Sept 2013.

Oh yes, this year HBN will be 10 years old. It's a shame that Tranz isn't developing the coin any further.  

I remember seeing it on early exchanges like CoinedUp and Cryptsy but I never bought any.

Argh, Cryptsy! I'm still trying to forget that name. Lost so much through this exchange. I hate that name and that will probably never change.
But yes, HBN was listed there. I think 1 HBN cost there 30,000 sat. Those were the days.  

Somebody should tell Elon Musk about this coin.

[paramind22]

Maybe if some of the bagholders could do an airdrop more people would buy it.  It stakes well but someone crashed the price.

[nutildah]

I think in the next bull market there will be a new wave of blockchain memento collectors interested in antique curiosities like this coin. Just like there was for "Historical NFTs." Its because blockchains like this are fun, weird, and ancient. Not sure it will be enough to have a dramatic effect on price but you never know.

[paramind22]

The problem is, someone has to pay for the explorer and possibly the exchanges.

InflationCoin is barely holding on as are other old coins like CompoundCoin.  Boat and RAIN look pretty much over but the latter has a lot of connections.  Explorers need some bandwidth but are relatively easy to create if someone knows how to code them. 

[ProkhorZ]

Is the network dying or am I on a losing fork? I only see 4 to 6 peers, and some of my minting transactions are not accepted.

OK, apparently my problem was that my stake was too low. My minting transactions do usually get confirmed after I bought more coins on Freiexchange. @paramind22 I guess you noticed that. Thanks for the IP list.

Last month, I noticed we went from 4 to 6 nodes, but a lot of coins must have stopped staking. Suddenly, I went from minting a few times a day to about every 10 minutes.

Today, my wallet says it's not staking because it can find only 2 nodes. Did somebody forget to restart their node after maintenance? There was another Windows update on Tuesday.

[ProkhorZ]

I think in the next bull market there will be a new wave of blockchain memento collectors interested in antique curiosities like this coin. Just like there was for "Historical NFTs."

Yes, I agree, even more so now that people are rediscovering that you can create NFTs and tokens on Bitcoin. It would be so cool if we could reach the 10 year anniversary in July. You can create a thousand tokens, but such a history is unique. Recently, I've been doing research in order to write about Hobonickels, and even from public sources there's so much lore...

I'll try to do *whatever it takes* to keep Hobonickels alive, but I have limited means. The first thing we need is more nodes.

I don't really care about the price. HBN is meant to be cheap, fast and plentiful. That's what keeps it fun. If it ever becomes an investment like Dogecoin, I'll sell.

As CoinEraser said, I can't recommend Unnamed Exchange either. There were some weird shenanigans with blocked withdrawals last year. So we need to rely on Freiexchange, where the price range is currently limited to 0, 1 or 2 sats.

[ProkhorZ]

I haven't seen it mentioned here yet, but while the dot info site disappeared, there's a new Hobonickels website: https://hobonickels.io/
I think this is from the same guy who runs the Twitter account and who made the HOBO token on Ethereum. In this case, he did a good job. It's a decent site which links to the code and binaries on Github, as well as a recent snapshot.

We could have a working explorer if someone wants to pay $15 a month to http://explorer.dognose.net:3011/ (that's a demo version now).

For inspiration, here's some quotes from Horus (the crypto hobo), to whom this coin was dedicated:

I'm a terrible trader. Technically, with my job, I can't really talk about investing and stuff like that, but even if I could, people wouldn't want my advice. I end up bagholding a lot, I just hold coins and hold coins and hold coins.

A lot of the time, pumping just means giving your money to better traders.

I remember watching some Wall Street traders coming in, some day traders. And they were just mystified, they lost their shirt right off the hop. Because they weren't used to such volatile markets. And they weren't used to 24/7 markets, they were used to markets closing at a certain time, and the place not changing.

When the Bitcoin price was around $250:

My uncle actually bought a bitcoin when it was 800. And now every time he calls me, he throws in a reminder that he bought a bitcoin at 800.

There's no quick 5-minute talk on Bitcoin. It's a multiple-hour discussion, when you're trying to talk to somebody about Bitcoin, not convince them, but just describe it. Their minds are so set in the traditional banking system, that they can't wrap their heads around it. It almost sounds to good to be true at first, and they don't buy it. Or too bad to be true, it depends on how they look at it.

These quotes are from an interview with Rick Stoner on his online radio show Doged Radio, undated but probably from March 2015.

[paramind22]

I think in the next bull market there will be a new wave of blockchain memento collectors interested in antique curiosities like this coin. Just like there was for "Historical NFTs."

Yes, I agree, even more so now that people are rediscovering that you can create NFTs and tokens on Bitcoin. It would be so cool if we could reach the 10 year anniversary in July. You can create a thousand tokens, but such a history is unique. Recently, I've been doing research in order to write about Hobonickels, and even from public sources there's so much lore...

I'll try to do *whatever it takes* to keep Hobonickels alive, but I have limited means. The first thing we need is more nodes.

I don't really care about the price. HBN is meant to be cheap, fast and plentiful. That's what keeps it fun. If it ever becomes an investment like Dogecoin, I'll sell.

As CoinEraser said, I can't recommend Unnamed Exchange either. There were some weird shenanigans with blocked withdrawals last year. So we need to rely on Freiexchange, where the price range is currently limited to 0, 1 or 2 sats.

I will trade you some Hobonickels for CompoundCoin, InflationCoin, RAIN, POSCoin (very active community), and/or HodlCoin(one of the coolest wallets, doesn't need to be on to get good returns). 

My Hobonickels wallet       Ei5N4vJJV1CNXiipLPHujFF88CDsrGzzcg


We could keep this economy going.

I do like these staking coins and wrote started writing a book about them:
https://telicalbooks.com/Staking_Book_RSPearson.html

but glad I didn't release it as a lot of them went down.

[dnp]

explorer has been funded for two months (thank you!) at http://explorer.dognose.net:3011/

a coin node is included with the funding, use: addnode=explorer.dognose.net in your coin config.
do not use an ip# for explorer.dognose.net since it does occasionally change without notice.