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[OctoCoin]

Liking what we're seeing - keep up the good work.

The Reddit OctoCoin Tip Bot is back online - we thought our Reddit Gold subscription would automatically renew each month but apparently that wasn't the case; the 3-month subscription we had expired and, as a result, CAPTCHA issues locked up the tip bot. We purchased a 12-month Reddit Gold subscription, made a couple tweaks to the bot, and fired it back up. If you notice any issues please inform us via PM or at:

admin@octocoin.org

Emails that go to the above address are forwarded to all of the OctoCoin team members so it's a good place to send anything urgent.

[edric]

I actually built some Mac wallets yesterday, the *coinds ran, but QTs did not. Even with all deps built as universal binaries its a mess building for i386 arch, especially a statically linked binary. About to move lots of stuff around and rework my entire setup so I can run Mac VM on intel x86-64 and build to that arch. Anyone know if it's worth my time to try Gitian for building Mac binaries?

The 1.8 Mac 888 wallet has been running great for me for about a week now - is there an issue I missed somewhere? Or are you just doing it for fun? If it's for a side project, the Octo devs should be willing to help you out as a thanks for all you've done for OctoCoin.

It's just for fun and learning, and I'm obsessive about things.

I was reading Mr Octo's posts and I totally get what you're saying about the whole multipool situation. Mine isn't planned to be geared solely towards 888 for that reason, but I'm planning at least some type of 888 reward system for those that want to hold. Lots of variables I need to consider, and lots of scripts to write.

I actually took most of a day off today. I must have been thinking of another game, though, I saw a trailer for watch_dogs a few minutes ago and it looks pretty awesome. I may have to give that a shot. Ended up playing Half-Life 2 ep's for a while and started getting all angry again for the first time in years. Where's Ep. 3? Actually, I think it may be coming, but still.. 7 years? Speaking of vaporware, I better get back to work soon, I don't want my new pool to be.

[edric]

thenotfatguy, have you already performed a giveaway for mintpal votes in the past? perhaps i just didn't see it but it's not popping into my memory. but yeah i think that it would be a great tool to start cranking up this engine. and just to be clear on my end, i'm not insinuating that if we got listed on mintpal tomorrow, all the services would be out the door the next day. I'm simply trying to anticipate a rough timeline in my head for when these are probable, and how to make sure that the community is up to speed for when they arrive. wanting to support this coin beyond the bumper-sticker level, i think that the community's main focus is indeed the mintpal listing. that's what we have power over, so that's what will get done.

*wait a minute, VOTE FOR OCTO 2014 bumper stickers! brilliant! and a poster like the Shepard Fairey "HOPE" one, with instead a 1/4 silhouette of the octo logo in blue and red, with "OCTO" at the bottom. we could mimic a whole political campaign replacing copy with "VOTE FOR OCTO" www.mintpal.com would be easy to rip-off, there's tons of source material for that.

anyways, my point is look at digibyte, they launched with a lot of fanfare, services, promo, 30 different languages, they had bounties, givaways, it looked like they did everything right. but they did this overnight, they tried to become an insta-celeb in the crypto world, and a lot of people didn't bite. the coin flopped, when it looked like it could have been the first coin in a while to get it right. I feel that for a community to have a real lasting interest in a coin, it has to be brought up grass-roots. So far, octo gets outstanding marks in this field, but we're plateauing.

So let's get that ball moving, let's get that momentum building.

A mintpal vote giveaway wordpress or something perhaps? a webpage that could easily be linked, facebooked, tweeted and retweeted? i want something that can be thrown around the web like a ragdoll. I can write copy (non-smutty i promise), but i have little technical expertise outside that. A slick 1-pager with site links, the BCT thread link, and a stat counter to show how many votes we have, if that can be pulled from the mintpal API at all, not sure on that one but would be cool. definitely a counter showing the total prize reward.

12 days till the bonus blocks end? let's start it tonight. 12 days of octocoin bam, done. link to the faucet to get a few octo in people's pockets, encourage them to mine, and then a contest for votes. I'll pledge 3000 octo for it right now. and another 3000 to whatever person or team makes it a reality.

blah. I'm bad with wording stuff. I had done a giveaway to draw attention to octocoin in the past. not for mintpal votes though

Expect to see your idea of the Shepard Fairey spin-off soon though

EDIT: Tadaaa! It's not perfect, but I'm happy with what I got done in an hours time

Wow, good job man!

If I could hurry up and get some stuff mined I will send you that bounty I owe ya. I'm so behind on stuff right now, I swear.. Hoping this summer is going to be a good one for the Octo crew!

[thenotfatguy]

Liking what we're seeing - keep up the good work.

The Reddit OctoCoin Tip Bot is back online - we thought our Reddit Gold subscription would automatically renew each month but apparently that wasn't the case; the 3-month subscription we had expired and, as a result, CAPTCHA issues locked up the tip bot. We purchased a 12-month Reddit Gold subscription, made a couple tweaks to the bot, and fired it back up. If you notice any issues please inform us via PM or at:

admin@octocoin.org

Emails that go to the above address are forwarded to all of the OctoCoin team members so it's a good place to send anything urgent.

Yup, woke up with 25 messages of "tip expired" in the Reddit inbox. Will keep an eye on things as always and will report to you

@Edric I told you twice to keep your bounty, but if you really are so insistent send it when you can and I'll find a good use for it.
^{Also, Valve can't count to 3}

[Stonerboy]

crazy buyer on bittrex 

[thenotfatguy]

crazy buyer on bittrex  

Yeah what's going on...

Could Octo be getting pumped? 

[Stonerboy]

crazy buyer on bittrex  

Yeah what's going on...

Could Octo be getting pumped? 

It's a try of a single person playing around i think. No real buy support in the moment and a small way down to 450.
Pumping at this volume isn't hard anyway...

[thenotfatguy]

OctoCoin is #90 on coinmarketcap.com

Also, CryptoAltEx has announced today that it is shutting down. be sure to withdraw any coins you may have there.

[joshycoin]

It's actually kind of funny how quickly we are destroying the other coins on the MintPal vote... Someone should have told them not to blink. 

[shellbunner]

It's actually kind of funny how quickly we are destroying the other coins on the MintPal vote... Someone should have told them not to blink. 

 

We should be able to grab spot 15 tonight. 

[frameLAlife]

It's actually kind of funny how quickly we are destroying the other coins on the MintPal vote... Someone should have told them not to blink. 

you sir are correct.

[OctoCoin]

We have almost finished the (not previously mentioned) revamped Reddit Tip Bot, by the way. There was an issue trying to convert 888 to various fiat options that was locking things up so we decided to build a new tip bot yesterday from the ground up specifically for OctoCoin. We will be using the same database, so statistics and pending tips (as long as they are still valid) should remain as they were. We will build some new features into the system down the line as well (open to community suggestions, of course).

Once things begin to heat up, we are expecting more activity on Reddit in general. We will be appointing a handful of you as moderators at /r/octocoin to help keep things on topic and running smoothly. As I have mentioned before, everybody on the OctoCoin team has minimal availability during business hours (all of us are now located in the US) due to our day jobs/etc and we have our hands pretty full as-is with OctoCoin development projects.

We're getting closer every day.

[thenotfatguy]

We have almost finished the (not previously mentioned) revamped Reddit Tip Bot, by the way. There was an issue trying to convert 888 to various fiat options that was locking things up so we decided to build a new tip bot yesterday from the ground up specifically for OctoCoin. We will be using the same database, so statistics and pending tips (as long as they are still valid) should remain as they were. We will build some new features into the system down the line as well (open to community suggestions, of course).

Once things begin to heat up, we are expecting more activity on Reddit in general. We will be appointing a handful of you as moderators at /r/octocoin to help keep things on topic and running smoothly. As I have mentioned before, everybody on the OctoCoin team has minimal availability during business hours (all of us are now located in the US) due to our day jobs/etc and we have our hands pretty full as-is with OctoCoin development projects.

We're getting closer every day.

That's great to hear!

Are there any new features for the new and improved Tip Bot?

Will be putting it to good use soon enough

[Stonerboy]

Say Hello GPU-Coin! 

It sometimes looks like at any point some of the coins gave up voting.
But so don't we. 

[thenotfatguy]

Say Hello GPU-Coin!  

It sometimes looks like at any point some of the coins gave up voting.
But so don't we.  

GpuCoin's last breath

[Stonerboy]

Say Hello GPU-Coin!  

It sometimes looks like at any point some of the coins gave up voting.
But so don't we.  

GpuCoin's last breath

I killed it! 

[joshycoin]

We have almost finished the (not previously mentioned) revamped Reddit Tip Bot, by the way. There was an issue trying to convert 888 to various fiat options that was locking things up so we decided to build a new tip bot yesterday from the ground up specifically for OctoCoin. We will be using the same database, so statistics and pending tips (as long as they are still valid) should remain as they were. We will build some new features into the system down the line as well (open to community suggestions, of course).

Once things begin to heat up, we are expecting more activity on Reddit in general. We will be appointing a handful of you as moderators at /r/octocoin to help keep things on topic and running smoothly. As I have mentioned before, everybody on the OctoCoin team has minimal availability during business hours (all of us are now located in the US) due to our day jobs/etc and we have our hands pretty full as-is with OctoCoin development projects.

We're getting closer every day.

Glad to help in anyway! Thanks for the update!

[djslick]

nice update octoteam, and congrats to all on the ritualistic slaying of GPUcoin! on an unrelated note, would anyone like to purchase my 50k GPUcoins?  I bought 0.1btc of their IPO, forgot about it, and just found out that they totally dropped the ball. too bad cause they had a neat concept, but looks like for several reasons they didn't succeed, one of which i'm sure is that they launched an online store selling products without having the market movement/stability to reinforce their coin as a currency. would have been interesting to see what would have happened to them if they did their mintpal voting campaign before the store launch, and not after.

speaking of voting campaigns! i'm all fired up about our progress on mintpal, but if we're being honest we need twice as many votes as we have right now just to be a contender for #1, and everyday that limit keeps raising. I'd love to contribute to a campaign for "getting out the mintpal vote", but i think that in order to put the time in to creating a webpage, i'd need to know if it's technically feasible. can any of our more technically-inclined members please inform me if there's a way to "tally" registered mintpal votes from individual users? and to do so in a way that would be impossible to cheat? i'm really not sure about this, and at the back of my head i don't think it's possible, not without giving out your mintpal login, and who would want to do that? potential security risk for minimal potential profit. if anyone has some insight, please let me know!

[Stonerboy]

Cheap coins on bittrex!!!

[Stonerboy]

It makes me angry that mintpal adds every fuc*in' shitcoin. It makes me hate that exchange more and more.
Everytime you have to watch this Pump & Dump shit, plus a bunch full of dead cryptos (like WC) while coins like Octo aren't being noticed.
I really hope Octo will be different. After hundreds of alts, it could still be the first one to be respected and making sense.