Quote from: Macno on May 27, 2015, 04:33:25 PM

Hi, I stumbled by chance on this coin, spend an hour reading a bit of the history and theoctoparty.com and even watched those 2 youtube videos, but I still do not really get the point of the coin.
The user Octoparty seems to be very devoted to the cause and a nice guy, but what exactly makes this coin so special?
I am not trying to offend anyone, but to someone like me just stumbling upon it, it seems like only emotional attachment to the former versions are keeping this (somewhat) alive? What am I missing and why should anyone spend some BTC on this coin and not the hundreds of other alts?

^^ what cabbage said.

Thanks for your interest. At this point if you decide to purchase OCTO its for pure speculation. We were a dead altcoin that conducted a burn and moved to Counterparty. At this point I'm the only person working on OCTO and I'm not even a dev that's why I call myself a project manager. We have not had any interest from any devs that weren't looking to be paid a salary. I have a job and I can only devote a specific amount of time to OCTO and I've done so only receiving donations and zero salary in Bitcoin or OCTO at this point.

However, we do have plans for 2 specific functions that are listed in cabbage's response above. The first one is the one I'm most active in and that is setting up a website that is marketing related and will hopefully generate income for myself and to fund the actual OCTO project. It shouldn't be long as I'm waiting for thegrid.io to launch before I can test their website service to see if it will be functional and also allow some of the token control access like letstalkbitcoin.com.

Once I have this site going hopefully I will generate enough revenue that I can afford to put way more time into OCTO and also pay some developers to begin working on our "working model" of a fantasy sports/fantasy mma website that will allow you to play with whitelisted Counterparty tokens such as FoldingCoin, OCTO, XCP, Storj, Swarm, GEMS & LTBCoin.

The plan is to take revenues from the "working model" to advertise and run the site and eventually hold a crowd sale once we've attracted developers to fund an actual complete fantasy sports website that uses Counterparty tokens and allows you to charge a fee in whatever token you wish, in our case OCTO. The code will be open sourced so that any Counterparty asset can apply this to their sites and have an extra use for their tokens and websites that the wish to gain revenue from. So we have a plan for an actual use that not only helps us but helps Counterparty in general.

It's a slow process as you only have myself working on it and that I expected thegrid.io to be running by now. Unless we get lucky and have devs come along that see this vision and wish to help out for a stake in OCTO, then I don't see it speeding up.

I am passionate about this and spend quite a bit of my time working on this. I'm so passionate that when I launch the first marketing website I'm not even taking 100% of the profit and I'm using the money to fund developers to build what we need to make OCTO successful.

No offense taken. Most people should be so smart to ask what exactly they are sinking their BTC into before just trading for random coins.

If you know of any devs looking for a home, please spread the word and send them our way. Be looking for the marketing related site to launch as soon as I can get it up and running. I may not be a dev but I work for an online directory that does huge volume so I'll take what I know from that and try to make my site successful. We don't even need huge volume to pay me what I need to survive monthly and still be able to fund some devs and launch the fantasy mma site.

That's my plan and pretty much where we are at in OCTO at the moment.

I am always open to people willing to help and ideas. This isn't even s set in stone plan, as OCTO is a token that was created from an abandoned alt. You never know what other ideas or people may come along and use OCTO as a platform for their ideas.

But for now since I am the only one really working on this, that is the plan