On the bright side...
Imagine a world where you streamed a hot cam girl to talk dirty to those horny guys are the Bitcoin meetup...
I really hope you are not a prude, because this project could be a real player in the lucrative adult cam niche...
Random financial data really has no value... but the world is full of weirdos spending big $$$ for kinky live interaction.

http://www.alternet.org/inside-rapidly-growing-cam-industry-thats-changing-porn-industry-we-know-it
 

Why CoinMarketCap doesnt show CNC market cap? 

Any available block explorer??

Hi CoinXCoin - I wanted to respond a couple days ago, but, ya know... couldn't Anyway, I can't help but ignore the more trolly parts of your questions that have been asked and answered multiple times, but I'm happy to address a few that I guess we haven't really answered well enough yet.


No, I think you're really misreading things here. The purpose of Alexandria is to take advantage of a combination of P2P technologies to give content creators a platform to permissionlessly publish and distribute their work in a un-censorable and permanent way, in which they can monetize directly from their audiences. Because we have zero interest in making it a haven of piracy, our front end requires that the types of media which are most often pirated have been individually authorized by some individual in a position to do so. Publishing a movie requires providing a 'chain-of-authorization' from the IMDBid of the movie to a social media post from someone in it's production credits. Likewise with Music and eventually Shows when we can enroll a few internet tv shows to try the platform out. Videos, Podcasts and other media types require no authorization to be provided, but we plan to combat piracy in these media types through two channels: 1) a clear warning to publishers that interested parties could potentially track their submissions to their IP address and pursue them with DMCA violations, and 2) a list of content ids that we publish to the blockchain as a "piracy list" - all users on our Alexandria web portal will be forced to consider this filter list, so pirated content will not show up for them. Users of the Alexandria client will be auto-subscribed to this list to protect them from unintentionally downloading and sharing pirated media, but since this is open-source software in which forced-rules are just reasons to fork the app and fracture the user base, it really makes the most sense for us to let users of the client disable the filter if they chose (and again have to dismiss a disclosure message about why it would be a bad idea to support pirated content on the platform themselves). This is the route we need to travel, because in order for Alexandria to work as a permission-less publishing platform, there is simply no way to actually block someone from choosing to publish pirated content (since someone truly determined could just copy the format of the messages Alexandria uses to publish on the Florincoin blockchain), and it would be a major flaw if we did no allow users to chose to ignore our filter list, as doing so would make us a very clear central point of failure, which interested parties could exploit to crowbar-engineer certain content they don't like into those mandatory filter lists - by turning it on by default but letting users turn it off if they chose, there would be no significant value in anyone else taking control of our filter lists.


Because the point was to decentralize all of the parts of a digital content library/market: publishing (the announcing of a piece of media and how to find it), distribution (file storage and sharing) and payments. Distribution is handled through the IPFS DHT, publishing (and commenting) is handled with Florincoin, and payments are handled with Florincoin, Bitcoin and whatever other coins publishers ask to get tipped in. I'm not sure what you are referring to by "forcing a massive download" - if you mean that you are assuming the media file is stored in the Florincoin blockchain, it's not, it is distributed via the IPFS network and only the IPFS id (a 46-character hash) and the piece of media's descriptive info get stored in the blockchain. If you mean that we're forcing the user to download the florincoin blockchain, that's also incorrect. If the user wants to use the app through an entirely decentralized pipeline, it is true that they'll have to have a local copy of the blockchain, as they'd also need a local copy of the Bitcoin blockchain if they want to use it without relying on any 3rd parties at all. But for the sake of convenience and letting people have access to the library through a web browser, we will be running a gateway at http://alexandria.media which returns the same API responses to a users front end that a local wallet would provide, so if they don't want to download and sync the blockchain, they can just have their local client point to our gateway. We're working on a 'keys-only' web-wallet, so that users can publish and comment through the gateway as well, but it's not a super high priority at the moment.


In an archiving sense, the function that Alexandria can provide is to show a proof of publishing with a timestamp - it could be used for tweets, documents, news reports, etc - anything in which there is possible value in being able to point back to prove something was said at a certain time in a certain way at some specific time in the past. Your question about why anyone would trust that "the Alexandria project" would have "reliable information" suggests that you think we would be relying on our reputation for anyone to trust the information, but in fact it is the indelible and permanent nature of the record (I'll go out on a limb and assume that you understand that one of the most basic functions of a blockchain is that past entries in its ledger can't be changed after the fact) that gives it 'trustworthiness' and value. How much value it has will be entirely up to the people who chose to use it. It sounds like you don't think you'll be one of them, which is fine of course

This function was born from the idea of capturing and storing everything mentioned on a social media platform about a given topic so that the 'immediate records of history' can be preserved in a decentralized and non-destroyable way for future use. Twitter is a great platform for sharing micro-news about things that interest you, and its a great way to get a sense of what other people around the world are saying about various topics right now - but if I wanted to try to browse and understand what kinds of things were being said about something by the whole of twitter at some past time period, this gets much more challenging, especially since tweets can be deleted. Like the media publishing aspect of Alexandria, this functionality relies on a blockchain for publishing and a DHT for distribution of actual content - in this case, the content is the raw archives of captured tweets and the publish message points to the archive on the DHT and includes plain-text summary information about the archive to make indexing, browsing and searching the data faster. The idea is to be able to store archives about the world scraped from 'the public forums' of our time.


We chose the name as an homage to the ancient library of Alexandria, because it is known to most people for two reasons - 1) it was a great historical example of a monumental effort to collect as much recorded knowledge and history as possible for the benefit of its people and future generations and 2) most of its contents were unfortunately destroyed, a failure made possible by the fact that it was centralized.


Sorry you're not a fan of the project - to be honest, you've actually been pretty rude, but I must admit I don't spend much time in the BCT forums myself, so I guess I'm not too desensitized to coin trolls yet  But, hopefully my answers can be of value to others who are a bit more open minded about new things. Have a great day, and enjoy your FLO.

Alexandria allows for direct publishing of media to an audience without censorship through DMCA takedown or beause the company in control of the platform dislikes the content. It gives the potential for direct revenue for content creators in an environment that has made it increasingly difficult for musicians and other creative people to make money from their work. It allows for the archiving of information in a decentralized fashion to prevent "data loss" like the original Library of Alexandria.  

You have been given multiple explanations and links to more info. The potential seems obvious to me, and has for the better part of a year. If you don't get it, you don't get it.

The ideas may not be new, but please point me to any other project actively developing those ideas daily with tangible progress already available and proven. Where is Alexandria's competition?

+1

Also ISOHunt has $100,000 bounty on development of a truly decentralized, unkillable torrent service called OpenBay. So while this project isn't following the guidelines of that project (working directly on OpenBay), the idea is not exactly worthless.

re: "Alexandria isn't such a great idea" -- to be honest most ideas and apps aren't breathtaking on paper. Twitter and snapchat are great examples of this. Execution and network effect play a big role in deciding how long anything stays relevant. The features we've implemented with ferross's webtorrent and the protocol structure that powers alexandria (you can see it in the block chain) are very cool, at least in my opinion.

Hey man, haven't followed the whole discussion - but for what it's worth, I received a copy of an alpha client for  Alexandria which does actually function, and tracking its network connections - it aims to do what it says and no shenanigans noticed. One of the primary devs has also livestreamed himself coding the project if you want to actually see work being done and get your eyes on some code.

I don't disagree with your points about insider trading - every crypto project will do that. You really think every altcoin needs a new codebase to do their project? The primary reason for launching a new coin is to give yourself as much manipulation potential as possible, not for some new ideal or platform. Maybe 1 out of 100  are legitimately trying to build something on top of the profit potential. All of this is a profit game and until regulation/consequences convince people to not pump/insider trade/build scamcoins, we can only accept it as part of the landscape. That being said - even if Blocktech does own a huge percentage of FLO (or more likely unnamed, officially unaffiliated partner(s) hold it) and this project is all about cashing in on that - the project IS real. I've seen it. I can send you the copy of Alexandria I have if you want (though it may be outdated at this point, I haven't been following so I'm not sure if a newer client is around). Pretty sure it's supposed to be privileged access, and I'm certainly no insider, but if you hang in crypto IRC's this thing was making the rounds.

Again, it's entirely possible and I'd say even basically certain Alexandria is primarily to make them money - but that doesn't mean Alexandria isn't real. That's more than most projects can boast/pump with - at least this manipulation is built on something tangible. If they wanted a fast pump cash-in and escape, they'dve made their own coin. At the very least Blocktech is very public, we know they're doing real work, and we know they didn't have the manipulation/scam potential of launching a fresh coin themselves so we know they're on the hook to WORK to make this profit happen.

I mean, that really leaves us with the conclusion that they're working on a project to get paid from their investments and time spent. There may be a lot more curtains around here, but uh, I feel like Alexandria is about as legit as you get around altcoin projects. Insider trading is a wash because it happens on every coin, every project, every group in crypto. To be expected.

What you are referring to is a "wash sale" which is traditionally used for other purposes.  Creating volume by buying and selling to yourself may attract some attention to a market, say from those who watch for that sort of thing, but most people look for heavy volume along with directional price movement which indicates the market is either under accumulation or distribution.  This coin is under accumulation.

Livermore:

"A stock which it is desired to distribute should be manipulated to the highest possible
point and then sold. I repeat this both because it is fundamental and because the public
apparently believes that the selling is all done at the top. Sometimes a stock gets
waterlogged, as it were; it doesn't go up. That is the time to sell. The price naturally will
go down on your selling rather further than you wish, but you can generally nurse it
back. As long as a stock that I am manipulating goes up on my buying I know I am all
hunky, and if need be I buy it with confidence and use my own money without fear
precisely as I would any other stock that acts the same way. It is the line of least
resistance. You remember my trading theories about that line, don't you? Well, when the
price line of least resistance is established I follow it, not because I am manipulating that
particular stock at that particular moment but because I am a stock operator at all times.

When my buying does not put the stock up I stop buying and then proceed to sell it
down; and that also is exactly what I would do with that same stock if I did not happen
to be manipulating it. The principal marketing of the stock, as you know, is done on the
way down. It is perfectly astonishing how much stock a man can get rid of on a decline.
I repeat that at no time during the manipulation do I forget to be a stock trader. My
problems as a manipulator, after all, are the same that confront me as an operator. All
manipulation comes to an end when the manipulator cannot make a stock do what he
wants it to do. When the stock you are manipulating doesn't act as it should, quit. Don't
argue with the tape. Do not seek to lure the profit back. Quit while the quitting is good
and cheap."

Long and Strong

Is there a decent blockexplorer with richlist for this anywhere?  Would be interesting to see the distribution of coins after all this time

"The technicals on this coin right now are abysmal. Go to bittrex and select the maximum time period. Like a lot of pump coins it looks like someone tried to use fake volume to create a technical pattern. It's laughable."

No volume is fake volume.  By that statement alone you have disqualified yourself from even deserving a response.

Actually, your primary assumptions are incorrect, so it sure feels fuddy to me

No, we don't have 40%-80% of the florin out there - in fact Blocktech has less than 5%, and we got what we have almost entirely from mining. My guess as far as the reason that there aren't a lot of sellers is that the few folks who'd been accumulating it over the past year have their eye on this project right now. Obviously I wish we had a lot more of it, but we couldn't afford to spend the minor investments we did get over the past year on anything but development costs (servers, services, developers themselves, feeding them, office space for some time). Our intent really is the project as described, and we are in fact doing it - making something work does take time, so i'm not sure why you're so callously writing it off simply because it hasn't been released publicly yet.

Edit: Also, no, we did not pay for bittrex and polo listings. We emailed them to tell them about Alexandria and they were happy to list the coin.

Anyway, just felt the need to clear up that assumption since it was so far off the mark - no hard feelings tho, I can understand your general distrust of the XYZceo monikers

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Just an FYI,

The coin is advancing correctly from a technical perspective, i.e. higher lows and higher highs, but we do appear to be entering an area of large overhead resistance near .0018 LTC.  I would advise all the large holders, of whom I am one now also, to not be short sighted.  If you believe in this coin - hold it.  Trust me when I tell you that these coins can run farther than anyone ever imagined.  A 100 fold gain from here is not an outlandish proposition.  Please don't dump on every rise as we go up from here, as you will find it much more profitable to just let the coin run into new all time highs.  Thanks.

http://www.thebitcoinchannel.com/

P.S. Don't blame the guys from Blocktech or Alexandria Project for pumping this coin.  I can assure they are not.  I am accumulating this coin on a very long term basis because I believe in it and it's promise.  From the market testing I have performed so far, the interest in this coin is very strong and very legit.  If there is a dump to this pump it will not be me.

A lot of folks are calling this a better alternative to "the existing solutions" for Torrenting pirated content, because by replacing a website that can be shut down with a blockchain as the torrent index/repository, it is considerably more robust, but I want to be clear that this was not our actual goal - the purpose behind Alexandria is to use the P2P technology that piracy sites rely on for free wide distribution to enable artists to be in direct control of their works and how they are distributed and monetized.
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Hahaha.  Son, I was trading futures while you were still in diapers, and trading crypto when Vircurex and BTC-E were the only games in town.  Learn to read a chart:

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