https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoins-dollar-value-wreaks-havoc-cloud-mining-industry/
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-ponzi-cryptodouble-disappears-least-2233-bitcoins/

In the last month bitcoins USD exchange rate has been cut in half, meanwhile bitquark's exchange rate with bitcoin has remained fairly steady IMO.  Personally I just look at the fact that 80 bitquarks buys me 10 cherry tomatoes and 100 bitquark buys me 2 regular tomatoes and that that price has remained consistent for 3 months whereas $4.00 buys me 3 regular tomatoes, $1.79 buys me a bunch of green onions but I can get the same bunch for only 20 bitquarks.

Another good sign for bitQuark.  Personally I don't trust online wallets (cold storage only for me), but I'll sign up for one and make a small deposit to show support.

http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitquark/

Finally they've updated BTQ charts!  Still waiting for inclusion into coingeicko.

I mine occasionally, mist of my btq comes from playing blackjack lol.

Hard to believe after a year of mining we're almost at the 2 million coins mined mark.  I think I'm lucky in my area because there are a few of us who've adopted and actively use bitquark as a currency. 

We have:

The bitquark blackjack party @ Sheridan Ocean Club
TT's Organic Produce
Desilva's Photography


How about the rest of the bitquark community?  Who's actively using bitquark?

info@bchain.info
Markus Tervooren
Am Steinhardt 18
44894 Bochum
Germany

Anyone know if there are any special requirements to get the bitQuark blockchain listed at bchain.info?  Sent an email, but no response yet.

http://auction.bitquark.info/Set-of-3-Hungarian-2-Forint-Coins-1980-to-1990,name,100144,auction_id,auction_details
3 Hungarian Forints from 1980's


http://auction.bitquark.info/XFX-AMD-R9280XTD-3-GB-GDDR5-SDRAM-PCI-Express-30-x16-Video-Card,name,100141,auction_id,auction_details
XFX AMD R9-280X-TD 3 GB GDDR5 SDRAM PCI Express 3.0 x16 Video Card

Just a few of the items up for auction at the bitQuark auction site!

Wait a minute...I haven't paid attention to Karma since the Poloni delisting a while back and rather than catch up on 150 pages of posts, Karma isn't scrypt anymore and all my old coins are garbage?

Planning to auction of a few more items over the holiday weekend.  Latest item added:

http://auction.bitquark.info/auction_details.php?auction_id=100140

which is a steal considering the following:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/220863527337?lpid=82

Bitquark could use more sellers.  If you have faith in the coin or just want to make a few BTC profit without mining and clean up your garage too, the auction site could be the place to do it.

Thanks Dev!

http://auction.bitquark.info/Subway-Gift-Card--1500-USD-PreLoaded,name,100138,auction_id,auction_details

Get a $15 value subway gift card cheap!

I've lost coins or had issues on every single exchange I've ever used (Cryptsy, Mintpal, C-CEX, SwissCEX, EuropEX, PoloniEX).

I've also washed $40 in the washing machine more than once to the point it was totally destroyed and unusable.

So what?

Cash or Crypto, both can disappear in an instant if you're not careful.

http://auction.bitquark.info/Subway-Gift-Card--1500-USD-PreLoaded,name,100138,auction_id,auction_details

Live.  I see the c-cex price went from 390 to 154 right after I added the item lol.  Anyway, as I said in the ad, I'll negotiate the price on any item I sell through the auction site.  If the BTQ price goes down, I'll eat the loss and if it goes up, I will work with the buyer on the price and I won't leave negative feedback for the winner if they bow out of the deal.

So I created a draft of one of the gift cards.  It has a $15 USD value and I plan to list it with an opening bid of 2500 BTQ (about $5) and a reserve price of 4000 BTQ (about $8.00) which is a good deal, as long as I'm trusted to actually send it LOL.  I mean a USD $15 value for only USD $8 in BitQuark actually is a good deal.

Two questions though, one for the community and one for the dev:

1.  I'm happy to sell these types of gift cards online when I get them as gifts from vendors.  Do you think 60% to 75% of the USD value is fair?  I think it's a great way to help promote the site and bitquark in general.

2.  How the hell do you edit the item in draft mode LOL!!!  I wanted to create a better description but can't figure out how to edit.  Otherwise I'll just delete it and re-create it.

One suggestion, waive the listing fee for the first ad, or cut out the fees for an introductory/promotional period to get more people listing stuff.

Other than that this is just what I've been waiting for from a coin!

I have some gift cards I'll list later this week.  FYI, upon signing up I got a security alert in my browser.  Nothing important (something like the https:// certificate didn't match) but just wanted to let you know.  I added an exception and went ahead, but it might put off some people from signing up.

That's good news.  Especially if the community puts up some good items for sale.  Could really help generate buyers and miners.

Holy crap someone bought the hell out of bitquark today.

That's what I thought too, but the funny thing is the Cryptonator "BTQ" price appears to be from C-CEX which clearly shows BTQ as bitquark.  Sort of makes me not trust Cryptonator at all, even if it looks good.

BitQuark isn't the only coin CoinMarketCap needs to update.  I guess they're losing interest in alts.  Just sucks since Bitquark is so useful (for me anyway).

In other news, my wife got a new phone and realized she couldn't pay my bitquark fee for her back massage.  She downloaded the mobile wallet real quick after that.

What's up with this?

https://www.cryptonator.com/exchange/ccex/
https://www.cryptonator.com/rates/BTQ-BTC

BTQ is Bter?  I thought it was BitQuark?

Also, is there anyway to get bitquark info updated on coinmarketcap?

http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitquark/#markets

Could, they're cheap enough, but still, if you're keeping up with EBT then there would be 2 sites for people who've never heard of bitcoin talk to get confused by.  Plus whoever currently owns ebt-coin.com, it won't expire until 2016-01-27

Personally, I don't think saving the coin as it exists is possible.  We'd need to create a new coin code/wallet and there are too many of them out there already.  Then there's the whole branding issue and EBT has already put a bad taste in a lot of peoples mouths.  

Talking about community takeover, look at quarkbar.  They're having very slow growth after the community takeover because of the original dev's scam.  They're doing a great job with it, but it's difficult.

Personally I'm just done with EBT and sticking with bitquark as my alt of choice that's not one of the big 3's.

If the dev can be gotten ahold of and will turn over the domain ebt-coin.com to the group I have a friend with a hosting company that can set up a site for the relaunch.