Adam (PhantomPhreak) interviewed for Upstart Business Journal, regarding Counterparty and cryptosecurities: http://upstart.bizjournals.com/entrepreneurs/hot-shots/2014/08/01/the-man-who-would-undo-wall-street-by-offering.html.

I talk about CounterParty in my latest blog posting at
http://www.impulsecorp.com/bitcoin_2_making_money

- Eric

Everyone that wants the price of XCP to go up is just waiting for the betting feature of Counterparty to be more widely adopted. That will be the main price driver for XCP.

The adoption of the Counterparty protocol and adoption of betting related businesses which use the Counterparty protocol are two different things and while they both affect the price of XCP, one is clearly more focused and directly related to a rapid increase in the price of XCP.

While Counterparty does do marketing and business development (quite a bit actually...), businesses like xbet.io, my soon-to-come site, and other sites that come later, are all going to market their businesses and Counterparty will benefit from that exposure. In return, those new businesses will benefit from Counterparty's previous marketing efforts and the earlier success of the pioneers in this space like Digital Tangible Trust, Swarm, and so on.

This time period is a very early slice of what will become a full and active Counterparty ecosystem where the promotion of various businesses and the promotion of the Counterparty Protocol has a synergistic effect for both the protocol and new businesses that enter the Counterparty ecosystem.

It's important that as a community, we support various businesses on Counterparty that add value to the ecosystem as well as Counterparty The Protocol. The success of Counterparty based businesses is an important step to the ultimate success of Counterparty, however, the success of Counterparty based businesses cannot be lumped in with the promotion and success of Counterparty The Protocol. Buy some gold, bet on some football, support an artist coin, get in there and mix it up.





Announcement:

I no longer volunteer full-time with Counterparty, although I will still help out informally whenever I can.

My experience at Counterparty was fantastic. I learned a lot and was able to have a positive impact on a project that created the future of finance. Very cool.

My shift in focus will allow me to spend more time on my Counterparty-powered startup which will have an official announcement shortly.

Come be a part of bitcoin history:

Bet on the opening match of the Brazil 2014 world cup between Brazil and Croatia.

The match will start in a few hours and you have the time to get to know the new decentralized way to make user based bets on the bitcoin blockchain.

The match will demonstrate our automatic system and failsafes - the result of the match will be displayed on XBet.IO with streaming live updates.

Minutes after the match is over, users will have the chance to report if XBet.IO has made a mistake and displayed the wrong result. If a line is reported. it must go through manual authorization, and until that happens, a result will not be broadcasted and the funds will be held in escrow by the bitcoin network.
If you haven't tried it out before, here is our 1 minute demonstration:
https://xbet.io/how_to_bet

xbet.io in the news: http://www.bestbitcoincasino.com/xbet-io-enables-sports-bets-using-blockchain-and-counterparty-xcp/

Sports betting blog on Counterparty: http://knircky.blogspot.com/2014/06/peer-to-peer-sportsbetting-in-5-steps.html

The chinese volunteer has post article on 8btc: How to bet using counterparty:
http://8btc.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=5750&page=1&extra=#pid16181

counterparty中国志愿者论坛出品：如何使用xcp参与bet
http://8btc.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=5750&page=1&extra=#pid16181

Enjoy it!

http://bitcoinmagazine.com/13500/crypto-investing-better-normal-investing-users-guide/

"Another very cool thing is programmable dividends. It is now trivial in Bitcoin 2.0 technology, at least with Counterparty (XCP), to issue dividends. However dividends don’t have to be in Bitcoin or any currency, they can be  a token that represents a free coffee at your favorite coffee shop."

This is an insanely good idea.