[ANN][XCP] Counterparty - Pioneering Peer-to-Peer Finance - Official Thread

[W2014]

I have high hopes for this project.

A question: my antivirus is blocking access to/warning about the blockscan site. This only began to occur in the last few days. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Thanks.

[xnova]

Counterparty peeps.

I heard about Counterparty on Coindesk.  I am looking to understand what are the big needs for this protocol as it is launched.

 I am interested in helping organize community and devteam bounties so that once the burn period ends, there will be ways to get more participation to building solutions for this awesome idea.  Are there community members currently already helping organize bounties for various new or high-demand features?

I'm new so please go easy on me, but I definitely want to be helpful. Yes, I have burn some moneys already

Awesome, we really appreciate the initiative. becherovka is starting to organize things at the bounty level starting shortly here. Perhaps you and he could work together on this. I'll let him either comment on this thread, or you guys can get in touch via PM.

We also just put up a wiki on the counterparty.co site (I have to finish setting up the permissions for it).  If there are any community members that want to help make content for the wiki, feel free to contact cityglut (solid writing skills would be a must here, obviously).

[jimhsu]

Trying my hands at some logo design to get the juices flowing.

My inspiration is the exchange aspect of counterparty, combined with some classic logography/typography (e.g. london underground). Font choice is Gotham Bold.

[BitThink]

Trying my hands at some logo design to get the juices flowing.

My inspiration is the exchange aspect of counterparty, combined with some classic logography/typography (e.g. london underground). Font choice is Gotham Bold.

I like the second one more.

[mtbitcoin]

Trying my hands at some logo design to get the juices flowing.

My inspiration is the exchange aspect of counterparty, combined with some classic logography/typography (e.g. london underground). Font choice is Gotham Bold.

Second one but with the "party" perhaps on the second line. Having it too long makes it difficult to place the logo in all places

cheers

[nathan_kia]

I just burnt another btc, the transaction has gotten one confirmation, but I don't see it on the blockscan.com ?  What should I do ? is my BTC lost ?

[mtbitcoin]

A question: my antivirus is blocking access to/warning about the blockscan site. This only began to occur in the last few days. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Thanks.

From what I see this report is stemming from WOT at https://www.myywot.com/en/scorecard/blockscan.com . There are reports stemming back from 2009?? However, I only registered the domain last year and have only actively used this year. So my best bet is the domain might have been registered in the past by someone else and perhaps used for other purposes.

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=blockscan.com

There does not appear to be way to report false positives but I did leave a comment on WOT

Cheers

[mtbitcoin]

I just burnt another btc, the transaction has gotten one confirmation, but I don't see it on the blockscan.com ?  What should I do ? is my BTC lost ?

what is your address?

[mtbitcoin]

That error doesn't have anything to do with how you're using Counterparty; it's a problem with pycoin.

Try changing the version of pycoin required (in reqs.txt) to 0.25 and then rebuilding from source again.

Yeah, apologies. I had updated the pycoin dep version on develop, but not master branch. Phantom got it updated on master...so we should be good.

Hi xnova

Is the current Master branch built updated as the develop branch ? I am currently running the develop branch but are seeing some issues with issuances. So I am not sure if this is just something with my develop build or something else

Cheers

[nathan_kia]

I just burnt another btc, the transaction has gotten one confirmation, but I don't see it on the blockscan.com ?  What should I do ? is my BTC lost ?

what is your address?

It just appeared, Thank you
One more question. I have burnt 5 BTCs so far using blockchain, with 5 different addresses/  how can I put my XCPs together ? 

[mtbitcoin]

I just burnt another btc, the transaction has gotten one confirmation, but I don't see it on the blockscan.com ?  What should I do ? is my BTC lost ?

what is your address?

It just appeared, Thank you
One more question. I have burnt 5 BTCs so far using blockchain, with 5 different addresses/  how can I put my XCPs together ? 

You can merge them by using the SEND command to send them to an address of your choice. This is how you have accounts with balances larger than 1500 XCP

http://blockscan.com/balance.aspx

Cheers

[nathan_kia]

I have a Mac machine. I think merging them is not an option yet for me as there is no client for mac.

[W2014]

A question: my antivirus is blocking access to/warning about the blockscan site. This only began to occur in the last few days. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Thanks.

From what I see this report is stemming from WOT at https://www.myywot.com/en/scorecard/blockscan.com . There are reports stemming back from 2009?? However, I only registered the domain last year and have only actively used this year. So my best bet is the domain might have been registered in the past by someone else and perhaps used for other purposes.

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=blockscan.com

There does not appear to be way to report false positives but I did leave a comment on WOT

Cheers

Thanks. It looks like McAfee has the URL blacklisted:

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/blockscan.com

[led_lcd]

Trying my hands at some logo design to get the juices flowing.

My inspiration is the exchange aspect of counterparty, combined with some classic logography/typography (e.g. london underground). Font choice is Gotham Bold.

Second one but with the "party" perhaps on the second line. Having it too long makes it difficult to place the logo in all places

cheers

I like the second one too. I like the inspiration from the underground.

Perhaps to satisfy the requirement to put the logo in small places, how about the circle/arrow is the 'shortened' logo?

[mtbitcoin]

A question: my antivirus is blocking access to/warning about the blockscan site. This only began to occur in the last few days. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Thanks.

From what I see this report is stemming from WOT at https://www.myywot.com/en/scorecard/blockscan.com . There are reports stemming back from 2009?? However, I only registered the domain last year and have only actively used this year. So my best bet is the domain might have been registered in the past by someone else and perhaps used for other purposes.

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=blockscan.com

There does not appear to be way to report false positives but I did leave a comment on WOT

Cheers

Thanks. It looks like McAfee has the URL blacklisted:

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/blockscan.com

I've already contacted WOT to report the false positive and it does appear that they have acknowledged this and reset the ratings.

If you would like to help you may also report the false positive where applicable

cheers

[Alias]

Counterparty peeps.

I heard about Counterparty on Coindesk.  I am looking to understand what are the big needs for this protocol as it is launched.

I am interested in helping to organize community and devteam bounties so that once the burn period ends, there will be ways to get more participation to building solutions for this awesome idea.  Are there community members currently already helping organize bounties for various new or high-demand features?

I'm new so please go easy on me, but I definitely want to be helpful. Yes, I have burn some moneys already

Awesome, we really appreciate the initiative. becherovka is starting to organize things at the bounty level starting shortly here. Perhaps you and he could work together on this. I'll let him either comment on this thread, or you guys can get in touch via PM.

We also just put up a wiki on the counterparty.co site (I have to finish setting up the permissions for it).  If there are any community members that want to help make content for the wiki, feel free to contact cityglut (solid writing skills would be a must here, obviously).

I might make a suggestion:

Counterparty (and similar projects) offer entirely new functionality to the Bitcoin system. As is evident from the cryptocurrency hearings in New York this week it is apparent that regulators and other financial types have had their minds blown by the basic functionality of Bitcoin, let alone the more advanced features.

They didn't even know how to react to the Colored Coins concept when Charles Lee of Litecoin brought it up. I can only imagine how they would have reacted if someone mentioned the concept of a decentralised exchange to them.

On that note, I feel that the world needs to see examples of what Counterparty can do. Think of it as a technological showcase of case studies. Each one consisting of taking ideas from conception to execution.

Case study 1: Mike wants to set up a new business but has no money. Instead of going to a bank for a loan he decides to utilise Bitcoin/Counterparty for everything from crowd-funding to share issuance and dividend allocation etc. No middlemen!

Case study 2: Jennifer wants to sell her home. Instead of going down the traditional avenues she decides to utilise Bitcoin/Counterparty for everything from payment to referencing her house deeds (Colored Coins/notary) etc. No middlemen!

Etc, etc.

This Dropbox video is a great example of what I am talking about - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFb0NaeRmdg

Ultimately, if people realise what you can actually do with Counterparty, they will use it.

[mtbitcoin]

Trying my hands at some logo design to get the juices flowing.

My inspiration is the exchange aspect of counterparty, combined with some classic logography/typography (e.g. london underground). Font choice is Gotham Bold.

Second one but with the "party" perhaps on the second line. Having it too long makes it difficult to place the logo in all places

cheers

I like the second one too. I like the inspiration from the underground.

Perhaps to satisfy the requirement to put the logo in small places, how about the circle/arrow is the 'shortened' logo?

On a side note, it does look similar to my whipped up logo for blockscan (but with the direction of the arrow reversed)

 

[led_lcd]

Awesome, we really appreciate the initiative. becherovka is starting to organize things at the bounty level starting shortly here. Perhaps you and he could work together on this. I'll let him either comment on this thread, or you guys can get in touch via PM.

We also just put up a wiki on the counterparty.co site (I have to finish setting up the permissions for it).  If there are any community members that want to help make content for the wiki, feel free to contact cityglut (solid writing skills would be a must here, obviously).

Will the bounties be something that the community might be able to vote on for priorities?

I've got a few things on my wish list 

[cityglut]

Awesome, we really appreciate the initiative. becherovka is starting to organize things at the bounty level starting shortly here. Perhaps you and he could work together on this. I'll let him either comment on this thread, or you guys can get in touch via PM.

We also just put up a wiki on the counterparty.co site (I have to finish setting up the permissions for it).  If there are any community members that want to help make content for the wiki, feel free to contact cityglut (solid writing skills would be a must here, obviously).

Will the bounties be something that the community might be able to vote on for priorities?

I've got a few things on my wish list 

If you have any recommendations for bounties, please feel free to PM me. We are very open to suggestions.

Speaking on behalf of myself and not the Counterparty team, I think that community voting as to the prioritization of bounties becomes a bit complicated and may ultimately lead to an - ironically - slower issuance of bounties. In my opinion, community members should make recommendations to the Counterparty Team for which bounties to issue, and, then, if the Counterparty Team agrees with the recommendation, it should post a donation address and the length of the bounty-period.

If a community member proposes a bounty to the Counterparty Team, which, for whatever reason, the Counterparty Team doesn't feel is a priority, he should feel free to issue his own bounties, but this bounty will be independent of those issued by the Counterparty team.

[SyRenity]

Speaking on behalf of myself and not the Counterparty team, I think that community voting as to the prioritization of bounties becomes a bit complicated and may ultimately lead to an - ironically - slower issuance of bounties. In my opinion, community members should make recommendations to the Counterparty Team for which bounties to issue, and, then, if the Counterparty Team agrees with the recommendation, it should post a donation address and the length of the bounty-period.

If a community member proposes a bounty to the Counterparty Team, which, for whatever reason, the Counterparty Team doesn't feel is a priority, he should feel free to issue his own bounties, but this bounty will be independent of those issued by the Counterparty team.

+1, just see for example what Nxt voting turned into - dozens of discussion pages without concrete actions.

So far XCP team had a good grasp of priorities, so it's reasonable to trust them on this. And if they miss something - raising private bounty should be also easy.