[PPC] Press Release - Peercoin is the official crypto for Trek Con Springfield

[PeercoinEnthusiast]

CoinDesk article coming later today discussing Peercoin as well as Trek Con involvement.

Souce: http://trekconspringfield.com/press.php

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PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: November 06, 2013

Contact: John Manglaviti
Coin: Peercoin (PPC)
Peercoin Website: www.peercoin.net
Trekcon Springfield Website: www.trekconspringfield.com
Telephone: 516-234-6587
Email: john.manglaviti@gmail.com

Peercoin the Next Generation Digital Currency According to Trek Convention

November 06, 2013 Springfield, MO - Trek Con organizers BlankFish, LLC announce that Peercoin (PPC) will be the official crypto currency of Trek Con Springfield May 9 - 11, 2014. According to the projected number of participants, Trek Con Springfield will be the largest convention to ever accept a digital currency for tickets, merchandise and vendor demonstrations. By accepting Peercoin, the third largest crypto currency, other digital coins such as Bitcoin also benefit from the exposure to Sci-Fi communities.

"The Peercoin community is honored to be asked to be the official crypto currency of Trek Con.  To show our support, we're giving away one Peercoin to the first 2000 people that attend the convention," said John Manglaviti, a Peercoin organizer. "As a next generation energy efficient crypto currency, we're excited about getting Peercoin into the hands of thousands of Sci-Fi fans."

"Peercoin actually brings us a little closer to what Gene Roddenberry originally envisioned where there was no centrally controlled currency and it's open source," noted Lawrence Blankenship, co-founder of BlankFish, LLC.

Trek Con Springfield has an impressive list of celebrities which have confirmed attendance including Robert O'Reilly, Cirroc Lofton, Tim Russ, Chase Masterson and Manu Intiraymi to name just a few. The Peercoin team will be working directly with CoinPayments.net to integrate the payment system in the next few weeks.


Announcement Video

Here is a YouTube video announcing Springfield Trek Con and Peercoin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXPlhrD7XrE


About Peercoin

Peercoin (PPC) is an open source peer-to-peer digital currency that's developed, promoted and organized by volunteers. As the third largest crypto currency, Peercoin can be traded at the following exchanges:

BTC-E
www.btc-e.com

Coin Market
www.coinmkt.com

Vault of Satoshi
www.vaultofsatoshi.com

Whether you are a developer, economist, artist, musician, social media lover, or just someone who wants to learn more about the Peercoin community, there are always ways to get involved. For more information, please visit: www.peercointalk.org


About Blankfish, LLC

Kevin Fisher and Lawrence Blankenship were Trekkies. When the closest Trek Con to them closed down they accepted their new destiny and began working like Scotty to engineer a better, more enjoyable, and more satisfying event than had ever been encountered before.

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[PeercoinEnthusiast]

Cheers to the guys over at Peercointalk.org for this one!

[FuzzyBear]

Big day for peercoin http://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/1q13l5/trek_con_springfield_announces_peercoin_crypto/

keep up the good work

Fuzzybear

[kjlimo]

Get ready for the pump & dump.

Register with Vircurex to take advantage!



In all seriousness, good luck!  I hope to find some time to look into this tomorrow in between celebrating new bitcoin price highs!

[pr0d1gy]

Peercoin FTW 

[Wekkel]

Nice that the Trekkies lead the way. Gratz to the people pushing this initiative.

[bobbahope]

Hopefully this will become PPC's "Bitcoin Pizza".

[muto]

Realy awesome. You guys are doing a great job on PPC PR. This is just the beginning!

[PeercoinEnthusiast]

Cheers to the guys over at Peercointalk.org for this one!

No and no. Still useless.

Something with use is useless? Good to know.   We appreciate you taking the time to read the thread and post your point of view.

[FiniteByDesign]

Can't say I am a Trekie, but this is certainly exciting!

[romerun]

ThiS is huge

[belltown]

I think this is dumb. You should promote Bitcoin at Trek Con and not an alt coin. It makes no good to people who never heard about crypto currency.

[PeercoinEnthusiast]

I think this is dumb. You should promote Bitcoin at Trek Con and not an alt coin. It makes no good to people who never heard about crypto currency.

Our belief is people should do what they want to spend their time doing. If the Bitcoin community wants to do the legwork for another convention, by all means, that's good for all of us. I understand your concern, however, we have it handled.

- Every person receiving a Peercoin will also have literature and tutorials

- Peercoin will have a booth of volunteers helping explain the crypto and how Peercoin fits into the mix

- We will have forum members available during the convention to help those wanting to get setup

- We'll have workshops

I'd argue, this is great for Bitcoin as well. While we appreciate the opinion, we don't agree with your "dumb" assessment when people are donating time out of their own busy schedules to make this all work.

[iGotSpots]

Nice job. Good to see other people trying to bring in outside traffic too

[hl5460]

There has been some trash talking on PPC among chinese cryptocurrency circle.
As far I know, most small asic miners in China started mining PPC then trade for BTC.
Anyway, I am trying to supply unbiased information to Chinese ppcers.

http://c.blog.sina.com.cn/profile.php?blogid=d3b90b76890002rz

[masterOfDisaster]

I think this is dumb. You should promote Bitcoin at Trek Con and not an alt coin. It makes no good to people who never heard about crypto currency.

Considering one of the concerns of Bitcoin (to overcome trust based models for financial transactions; chapter "introduction" on page 1) I can't find anything bad with the Peercoin approach.
Bitcoin definitely took up the cudgels for nothing less than a possible start of a financial revolution. And I admire Bitcoin for that. It has not been the first attempt to do that, but it is the first quite successful attempt as far as I can tell. I like the concept of trusting the currency but no other entities.
There was a time when no one has heard about Bitcoin. And there still are legions of people who haven't heard up to now. So I don't knwo why I should prefer Bitcoin over Peercoin if they don't know anything about crypto currencies. And if the already know Bitcoin, they can learn something new
So why not promoting Peercoin then if it overcomes one of the greatest drawbacks of Bitcoins concept? Peercoin relys on Bitcoin. It has its strength, but doesn't share its weknesses in terms of wasting elecric energy. For sure the energy is not really wasted. The security and integrity of the block chain is ensured by the Proof-of-Work process.
But isn't it much more elegant to do so without using so much energy? That's why I consider it a waste - compared to Peercoin's Proof-of-Stake.
In this area Peercoin does better. That's why I'm more committed to Peercoin than to Bitcoin. I love Bitcoin for having started this. The evolution has not stopped at Bitcoin

[FuzzyBear]

I think this is dumb. You should promote Bitcoin at Trek Con and not an alt coin. It makes no good to people who never heard about crypto currency.

Considering one of the concerns of Bitcoin (to overcome trust based models for financial transactions; chapter "introduction" on page 1) I can't find anything bad with the Peercoin approach.
Bitcoin definitely took up the cudgels for nothing less than a possible start of a financial revolution. And I admire Bitcoin for that. It has not been the first attempt to do that, but it is the first quite successful attempt as far as I can tell. I like the concept of trusting the currency but no other entities.
There was a time when no one has heard about Bitcoin. And there still are legions of people who haven't heard up to now. So I don't knwo why I should prefer Bitcoin over Peercoin if they don't know anything about crypto currencies. And if the already know Bitcoin, they can learn something new
So why not promoting Peercoin then if it overcomes one of the greatest drawbacks of Bitcoins concept? Peercoin relys on Bitcoin. It has its strength, but doesn't share its weknesses in terms of wasting elecric energy. For sure the energy is not really wasted. The security and integrity of the block chain is ensured by the Proof-of-Work process.
But isn't it much more elegant to do so without using so much energy? That's why I consider it a waste - compared to Peercoin's Proof-of-Stake.
In this area Peercoin does better. That's why I'm more committed to Peercoin than to Bitcoin. I love Bitcoin for having started this. The evolution has not stopped at Bitcoin

Very nicely put masterofdisaster +1

[Hazard]

I think this is dumb. You should promote Bitcoin at Trek Con and not an alt coin. It makes no good to people who never heard about crypto currency.

Considering one of the concerns of Bitcoin (to overcome trust based models for financial transactions; chapter "introduction" on page 1) I can't find anything bad with the Peercoin approach.
Bitcoin definitely took up the cudgels for nothing less than a possible start of a financial revolution. And I admire Bitcoin for that. It has not been the first attempt to do that, but it is the first quite successful attempt as far as I can tell. I like the concept of trusting the currency but no other entities.
There was a time when no one has heard about Bitcoin. And there still are legions of people who haven't heard up to now. So I don't knwo why I should prefer Bitcoin over Peercoin if they don't know anything about crypto currencies. And if the already know Bitcoin, they can learn something new
So why not promoting Peercoin then if it overcomes one of the greatest drawbacks of Bitcoins concept? Peercoin relys on Bitcoin. It has its strength, but doesn't share its weknesses in terms of wasting elecric energy. For sure the energy is not really wasted. The security and integrity of the block chain is ensured by the Proof-of-Work process.
But isn't it much more elegant to do so without using so much energy? That's why I consider it a waste - compared to Peercoin's Proof-of-Stake.
In this area Peercoin does better. That's why I'm more committed to Peercoin than to Bitcoin. I love Bitcoin for having started this. The evolution has not stopped at Bitcoin

PoS itself is highly flawed and opens the door to several vectors of attack. Double spending in particular becomes magnitudes easier. One can simply reuse their stake until the attack is successful.

[iGotSpots]

I think this is dumb. You should promote Bitcoin at Trek Con and not an alt coin. It makes no good to people who never heard about crypto currency.

Considering one of the concerns of Bitcoin (to overcome trust based models for financial transactions; chapter "introduction" on page 1) I can't find anything bad with the Peercoin approach.
Bitcoin definitely took up the cudgels for nothing less than a possible start of a financial revolution. And I admire Bitcoin for that. It has not been the first attempt to do that, but it is the first quite successful attempt as far as I can tell. I like the concept of trusting the currency but no other entities.
There was a time when no one has heard about Bitcoin. And there still are legions of people who haven't heard up to now. So I don't knwo why I should prefer Bitcoin over Peercoin if they don't know anything about crypto currencies. And if the already know Bitcoin, they can learn something new
So why not promoting Peercoin then if it overcomes one of the greatest drawbacks of Bitcoins concept? Peercoin relys on Bitcoin. It has its strength, but doesn't share its weknesses in terms of wasting elecric energy. For sure the energy is not really wasted. The security and integrity of the block chain is ensured by the Proof-of-Work process.
But isn't it much more elegant to do so without using so much energy? That's why I consider it a waste - compared to Peercoin's Proof-of-Stake.
In this area Peercoin does better. That's why I'm more committed to Peercoin than to Bitcoin. I love Bitcoin for having started this. The evolution has not stopped at Bitcoin

PoS itself is highly flawed and opens the door to several vectors of attack. Double spending in particular becomes magnitudes easier. One can simply reuse their stake until the attack is successful.

Agreed. This is the reason I never used PoS in any of the coins I run. I just don't trust it enough; it's too vulnerable and breaks too much shit

[Digicoiner]

I think this is dumb. You should promote Bitcoin at Trek Con and not an alt coin. It makes no good to people who never heard about crypto currency.

Considering one of the concerns of Bitcoin (to overcome trust based models for financial transactions; chapter "introduction" on page 1) I can't find anything bad with the Peercoin approach.
Bitcoin definitely took up the cudgels for nothing less than a possible start of a financial revolution. And I admire Bitcoin for that. It has not been the first attempt to do that, but it is the first quite successful attempt as far as I can tell. I like the concept of trusting the currency but no other entities.
There was a time when no one has heard about Bitcoin. And there still are legions of people who haven't heard up to now. So I don't knwo why I should prefer Bitcoin over Peercoin if they don't know anything about crypto currencies. And if the already know Bitcoin, they can learn something new
So why not promoting Peercoin then if it overcomes one of the greatest drawbacks of Bitcoins concept? Peercoin relys on Bitcoin. It has its strength, but doesn't share its weknesses in terms of wasting elecric energy. For sure the energy is not really wasted. The security and integrity of the block chain is ensured by the Proof-of-Work process.
But isn't it much more elegant to do so without using so much energy? That's why I consider it a waste - compared to Peercoin's Proof-of-Stake.
In this area Peercoin does better. That's why I'm more committed to Peercoin than to Bitcoin. I love Bitcoin for having started this. The evolution has not stopped at Bitcoin

PoS itself is highly flawed and opens the door to several vectors of attack. Double spending in particular becomes magnitudes easier. One can simply reuse their stake until the attack is successful.

Isn't PoS a good concept though?  The energy saving nature of it seems worthwhile.  If PoS has these issues can't they be addressed?