opticoin
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July 09, 2015, 04:52:29 AM |
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right now.. price is stable @ around mid 70s.. successful trial of remittance and outdoor ads will likely push this above 100s... gone are the days when you can scoop posted 100ks-300ks or wait when somebody dumps 100ks to 300ks.. it's more difficult now to get into the top 10 list without upwardly distorting the price.
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TheTribesman (OP)
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July 11, 2015, 07:34:14 PM |
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UPDATE: (Screenshot heavy!) I think I spoke too soon about no late nights. More android developer issues so I'm back to doing it myself again. Anyways, I've added the exchange rate feature. Below is the landing page showing Nigerian Naira (NGN) as the default currency. The Exchange Rates menu item is enabled. If you press the wallet balance it also takes you to the exchange rates. Exchange rates selection is as with other crypto wallets. Pin a currency to make it your default. KOBO price is taken from Cryptonator (we might be the first android wallet to use their service). Nigerian Naira is default in screenshot below. Send/Receive in default currency For now, the following African currencies are supported. - Egyptian Pound (EGP) - Kenyan Shilling (KES) - Nigerian Naira (NGN) - South African Rand (ZAR) KENYAN SHILLINGSOUTH AFRICAN RANDTHINK GLOBAL, TRADE LOCALWith the exchange rate feature added we can also start to push our 'Think global, Trade local' initiative. How it works: 1. Go to a supported nation. 2. Select the local currency as the default for your wallet 3. Trade with other local kobocoin users in local currency (we're already doing it with KOBO/GBP in London - amongst friends) This means that Kobocoin users can trade in local currency for goods and services (P2P) wherever they are in the world. That's a simple statement with very big implications! I'll be cleaning the code and uploading the update over the next few days to Play, Amazon, and BBWorld. If you want the apk before then to play with, PM me and I'll send you a link to it. Over the last few days I've been upgrading the Abe servers and software. The wallets are syncing fine now with no workaround, but once in a while the Kobocoind daemon keeps falling over. I'm looking into this. There's a few more things going on, but I'll leave it at that for now.
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TheTribesman (OP)
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July 11, 2015, 07:35:31 PM |
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NO!
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LionOfNarnia
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July 11, 2015, 08:42:42 PM |
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NO! PMSL! I bet I hate rap more than you do, Bro - Being a 40+ year Prog Rocker.
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"I don't always kill & eat things - but when I do it's because I'm a Lion & they were things"
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TheTribesman (OP)
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July 12, 2015, 12:35:33 AM |
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NO! PMSL! I bet I hate rap more than you do, Bro - Being a 40+ year Prog Rocker. Lol. I love rap, hip hop, and poetry. I'm just not a rapper! It would be sad, not funny.
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LionOfNarnia
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July 12, 2015, 10:16:41 AM |
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NO! PMSL! I bet I hate rap more than you do, Bro - Being a 40+ year Prog Rocker. Lol. I love rap, hip hop, and poetry. I'm just not a rapper! It would be sad, not funny. Give this a whirl, dude - it'll be like a jacuzzi for your music glands https://youtu.be/3E98C5BcXnE
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"I don't always kill & eat things - but when I do it's because I'm a Lion & they were things"
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panagot
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July 12, 2015, 08:10:49 PM |
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Wonderful job so far. This coin has a great developer and it's surprising low in the radar from many people involved in crypto.
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Provide a little Bitcoin with bitfortip.com to give the incentive for people to search for you online in order to win the bitcoin reward.
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torrantz
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July 13, 2015, 10:33:55 AM |
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This is by far the most interesting altcoin in the last years. Even if it will take 10 years,KOBO will get there with hes one man army.
Much respect to TheTribesman!!!
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TheTribesman (OP)
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July 13, 2015, 02:48:17 PM Last edit: July 14, 2015, 12:03:11 AM by TheTribesman |
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Thanks for the kind words and great support! We're still here! A reminder Micropayments, on a massive scaleOne of the core features and selling points of kobo is that the naming of it's subdivisions is human friendly. This USP allows users to more easily trade at different levels depending on what they're buying or selling. The screenshots below demonstrate the massive scale of micropayments possible using the different kobo denominations. KOBOMANILLA (1000 MANILLA = 1 KOBO)COWRIE (1000 COWRIE = 1 MANILLA)MANSA (100 MANSA = 1 COWRIE)Same as satoshi unit. Not yet displayed in the wallet. Manilla and Cowrie have their own internal icon (manilla icon shown below): With the ability to trade in local currency, it really now makes it a formidable micropayment tool. Let's hope it doesn't take 10 years though!
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vince232
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July 14, 2015, 12:14:30 AM |
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Lucky guys who were able to buy at below 200
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torrantz
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July 15, 2015, 09:59:46 AM |
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Lucky guys who were able to buy at below 200
FOOLS who sold @ those prices
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TheTribesman (OP)
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July 15, 2015, 11:18:16 PM |
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UPDATE:
We have an opportunity to become a traded coin on Bittrex. This means KOBO will be traded against all cryptos listed on Bittrex. With the low volume we're experiencing I'm not sure if it's wise at this time. There's also a cost involved that's not trivial.
Any comments?
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July 16, 2015, 01:56:35 AM |
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UPDATE:The full list of African currencies supported by the v2.1.2 mobile wallet is shown below:AOA Angolan Kwanza BWP Botswanan Pula DJF Djibouti Franc DZD Algerian Dinar EGP Egyptian Pound KES Kenyan Shilling LRD Liberian Dollar LSL Lesotho Loti LYD Libyan Dinar MAD Moroccan Dirham MZN Mozambican Metical NAD Namibian Dollar NGN Nigerian Naira RWF Rwanda Franc SCR Seychelles Rupee SDG Sudanese Pound SLL Sierra Leonean Leone SOS Somali Shilling STD São Tomé & Príncipe Dobra SZL Swazi Lilangeni TND Tunisian Dinar TZS Tanzanian Shilling UGX Uganda Shilling ZAR South African Rand ZMK Zambian Kwacha ZWD Zimbabwe Dollar My biggest irritation is that I couldn't get the Ghanaian Cedi (GHC) listed before the update. I've since found out that Ghana has changed their ticker from Ghana Cedi (GHC) to Ghana New Cedi (GHS). This will be added to the next update. So, African currencies to be added to the next update (where possible) are: ERN Eritrean Nakfa ETB Ethiopian Birr GHS Ghanaian Cedi GMD Gambian Dalasi GNF Guinea Franc The full list of currently supported (and unsupported) world currencies can be found here: http://kobocoin.com/KOBO_Currencies.xlsI'll be making a full list for the website to give it a bit of bling (sorted by continent). For now, it'll just be links to the spreadsheet.
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July 18, 2015, 03:14:28 AM |
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+ for this... this might solve the apparent lack of participation/interest among traders and boost the volume.. any update on the remittance trial?.. I saw the twitter pic with payments to taxi, meats, onions, bola (what's a bola?).. is kobo accepted in some markets already? thank you Tribesman! UPDATE:
We have an opportunity to become a traded coin on Bittrex. This means KOBO will be traded against all cryptos listed on Bittrex. With the low volume we're experiencing I'm not sure if it's wise at this time. There's also a cost involved that's not trivial.
Any comments?
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July 18, 2015, 08:25:31 AM Last edit: July 18, 2015, 08:46:25 AM by TheTribesman |
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+ for this... this might solve the apparent lack of participation/interest among traders and boost the volume.. any update on the remittance trial?.. I saw the twitter pic with payments to taxi, meats, onions, bola (what's a bola?).. is kobo accepted in some markets already? thank you Tribesman! UPDATE:
We have an opportunity to become a traded coin on Bittrex. This means KOBO will be traded against all cryptos listed on Bittrex. With the low volume we're experiencing I'm not sure if it's wise at this time. There's also a cost involved that's not trivial.
Any comments?
Bola is a Nigerian name . The listings in the screenshot are an example to show the transaction and address labelling feature of the wallet when it's being used, rather than random listings. In crypto we're used to what the mobile wallets look like. When someone (who's not heard of cryptocurrencies before) checks the app they'll be less confused about what they're looking at. The signs are positive that we'll be on a payment gateway this week. If it happens then I can contact the online retailers we've discussed on this thread (and others) about integrating payments on their site. If we can achieve that for one of the retailers then we'll have a good marketplace for kobo users. The remittance trial is still being worked out. There's a few choices being looked at for redeeming kobo at the receivers end. I can't give a date at the moment. The yellow light is flashing again on the Bittrex listing. With the constant threat of being delisted I'm even wondering if KOBO is better off on Yobit. On yobit we'd have a decent volume and we'd still maintain our listings on coinmarketcap and all the relevant sites. I'm not sure becoming a traded coin will help the situation. It might increase participation, or it might not, or there might be a volume threshold for maintaining a traded coin listing that we also won't be able to maintain.
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EleanorZ
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July 19, 2015, 07:04:18 AM |
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The yellow light is flashing again on the Bittrex listing. With the constant threat of being delisted I'm even wondering if KOBO is better off on Yobit. On yobit we'd have a decent volume and we'd still maintain our listings on coinmarketcap and all the relevant sites. I'm not sure becoming a traded coin will help the situation. It might increase participation, or it might not, or there might be a volume threshold for maintaining a traded coin listing that we also won't be able to maintain.
That needs to be weighed against the optics of Bittrex delisting, though. Do you think the benefit of better volume on Yobit outweighs the cost of negative delisting-related PR, and the potential perception that Kobo is flatlining? I don't know the answer, but until some of the cool things in the Kobo pipeline are operational I think we need all the exposure we can get. Re: being a traded coin on Bittrex, I think that's a great idea at some point, but if there's a cost involved that could otherwise go to Kobo development, I don't think there's any reason to rush into it. I haven't posted in a while but have been following the progress with interest--thanks for all your good work!
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July 19, 2015, 11:10:08 PM |
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The yellow light is flashing again on the Bittrex listing. With the constant threat of being delisted I'm even wondering if KOBO is better off on Yobit. On yobit we'd have a decent volume and we'd still maintain our listings on coinmarketcap and all the relevant sites. I'm not sure becoming a traded coin will help the situation. It might increase participation, or it might not, or there might be a volume threshold for maintaining a traded coin listing that we also won't be able to maintain.
That needs to be weighed against the optics of Bittrex delisting, though. Do you think the benefit of better volume on Yobit outweighs the cost of negative delisting-related PR, and the potential perception that Kobo is flatlining? I don't know the answer, but until some of the cool things in the Kobo pipeline are operational I think we need all the exposure we can get. Re: being a traded coin on Bittrex, I think that's a great idea at some point, but if there's a cost involved that could otherwise go to Kobo development, I don't think there's any reason to rush into it. I haven't posted in a while but have been following the progress with interest--thanks for all your good work! Thanks, and I'm glad to see you're still with us I agree with you (especially about the negative perception in being delisted), but we've been fighting that battle for some time now. It won't actually be better volume on Yobit, but we won't be delisted for a few slow days. We had a sustained increase in volume for a few days on Bittrex, but now it's slowed we're again threatened with delisting. I guess I'm preparing in case, at some point, volume does not exceed .2 BTC for seven days. CoinToPay should be adding KOBO tomorrow (let's say sometime this week to be safe). We're constantly moving forward, but there's generally less exchange interest in PoS coins than PoW. I've looked into other methods of getting volume increased but other projects have had mixed results and there's no definite fix. Personally, I want to remain on bittrex and I'd like KOBO to be a traded coin (at some point - it's evolution), but right now we seem to be struggling to keep our listing. We are lucky to still have our Yobit listing as contingency. It might come to our rescue one day.
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EleanorZ
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July 20, 2015, 06:42:05 PM |
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Thanks, and I'm glad to see you're still with us Oh I'm here--got a Kobo or two stashed away for a rainy day, after all I'll see if I can help with the volume in a day or two.
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