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Re: BitcoinWisdom.com - Live Bitcoin/LiteCoin Charts
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mrmate
on 07/08/2014, 20:20:43 UTC
How come buys are listed as sells sometimes? Also vice versa?

The 228 sell at $590 in this image for example (http://i.imgur.com/ba9xyof.png) was actually a 228 buy at $590.
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Re: [ANN][GUE] Guerillacoin - 1 Min Blocks - PoS - Dynamic stake, on BITTREX
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mrmate
on 29/06/2014, 19:07:55 UTC
I think there very little dumping only because mintpal guerilla deposit has very big issues...

I deposited GUE with ease on MintPal earlier today, and not a small amount either.

Thanks. I'll be sure not to buy the coins you're dumping Wink
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Re: BitcoinWisdom.com - Live Bitcoin/LiteCoin Charts
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mrmate
on 27/06/2014, 14:05:24 UTC
Thanks for adding Bitfinex to the top bar. Why is Litecoin still in the top bar?
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Re: Vertcoin | Scrypt N | Beat ASIC | Stealth Address - Alpha Testing
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mrmate
on 11/06/2014, 17:41:36 UTC
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Re: Vertcoin | Scrypt N | Beat ASIC | Stealth Address - Alpha Testing
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mrmate
on 11/06/2014, 17:29:04 UTC
Where can I find the announcement about the testing of stealth addresses?
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Re: [ANN] Cinni | PoS | No premine | No IPO
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mrmate
on 25/05/2014, 12:52:51 UTC
What are the devs currently working on/where can I find updates etc?
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Re: [ANN] BlackCoin (BC) | PoS | No premine | No IPO
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mrmate
on 06/05/2014, 20:40:33 UTC
Suggestion: veritasBS, colinfx, TheBlackDogeOfWallStreet, morituri13,  Soepkip, Gritt, vizique, IconicExpert and all those supposedly involved in this current situation, make a group call on skype and talk things out.

Then make a public joint announcement of how the situation was resolved and how we are moving forward together, untill then: stop posting.

Regardless of who is right and what is true, the posting today is embarrassing for all parties involved. If both groups in this argument can not resolve this situation (that has been going for weeks now) by themselves then no group deserves any support from the community, which is us by the way, we are where the money and success is.

How can we possibly convince you we had no part in something completely fabricated? That's like proving there is no aether in which light propagates, or perhaps a more mundane example, that there is no God.

I have provided a link to my wallet in the past. You can see that for the past 4-6 weeks I have had the exact same amount of BC that I currently do (well not exact it ranges from 450kish to 410kish). That is about the best proof I can offer anyone and I don't see IE posting his HUGE wallets (or so he claims) etc. My official stance on this (official only onto myself) is to ignore baseless accusations.

I have talked with most of the people accused on a conference call today... What did we talk about? Improving the landing pages for blackcoin.co, blackcoinpool.com, and what type of articles we want the PR firm to promote. This was a much better use of our time, I promise you that.

I understand your point and appreciate the sane responses from your side. Yet the community is still divided. While I understand this is difficult given the situation you are presented with, either party will have to do something to sway the community so we can move forward united and on the same page as a community. All time spent posting today by all community members could have been productively spent working towards the future.
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Re: [ANN] BlackCoin (BC) | PoS | No premine | No IPO
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mrmate
on 06/05/2014, 20:14:02 UTC
Suggestion: veritasBS, colinfx, TheBlackDogeOfWallStreet, morituri13,  Soepkip, Gritt, vizique, IconicExpert and all those supposedly involved in this current situation, make a group call on skype and talk things out.

Then make a public joint announcement of how the situation was resolved and how we are moving forward together, untill then: stop posting.

Regardless of who is right and what is true, the posting today is embarrassing for all parties involved. If both groups in this argument can not resolve this situation (that has been going for weeks now) by themselves then no group deserves any support from the community, which is us by the way, we are where the money and success is.
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Re: Selling World of Warcraft account
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mrmate
on 06/05/2014, 09:41:05 UTC
Probably you should post your thread somewhere around Marketplace: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=5.0

Thanks, I thought this was too off-topic to put on there.
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Selling World of Warcraft account
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mrmate
on 06/05/2014, 09:32:51 UTC
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Re: [ANN] BlackCoin (BC) | PoS | No premine | No IPO
by
mrmate
on 02/05/2014, 19:23:11 UTC
BlackCoin Community Plan


As promised I came up with a basic plan that we all can build upon over time. I think as a community need to be on the same page to achieve our common goal to make BlackCoin  #1.
Before starting I was going to put this into a PDF and I decided to post it here so everyone can add whatever suggestions and comments to the plan. This is very long so please take a few minutes to read it.

Introduction:
Over the past few weeks this community has accomplished some amazing things in the name of BlackCoin, but lately we have lost focus on our main goal of making BlackCoin #1. Some of us have been conducting ourselves like juveniles on this forum, including myself. The first thing that needs to change around here is our decorum. We cannot continue to act the way we have been acting. There are some very talented and intelligent individuals here , and we do not have to attack each other to get our point across. We can have intense debates and still be respectful of each other. If and when trolls do enter our thread, we have to adopt a no tolerance policy. Do not quote them and kindly ask them to refrain from posting FUD. Do not aggressively engage or argue with them. This thread is key to attracting new talent and investors, and it needs to remain open but it also needs to remain fairly professional.

Mission:
Everyone keeps making the mistake of suggesting we can be the next Bitcoin. I do not want to be the next Bitcoin. In the eyes of the world Bitcoin doesn't exist. Yes we know about Bitcoin, and maybe 1 or 2 million people know about Bitcoin. However, if you ask 20 random people on the street if they know what Bitcoin is, I am willing to bet at least 19 of them would not have a clue what Bitcoin is. So although Bitcoin was the first, there is a very good opportunity to become the standard crypto-currency everyone knows and uses. There have been many examples in recent history when the first product to market is overshadowed by the newcomer because the newcomer had better marketing and branding.

Our mission is to strive to be the most recognized and used crypto-currency in the world.

Structure:
This is a hard one. BlackCoin is not a corporation and it will never be a corporation. It is a community funded project with many moving parts. However, it seems to have turned into a central organization with a community that has limited say. There are major issues with this approach but I will not address that now. Moving forward I propose we decentralize BlackCoin and turn it back into a community controlled project.

1. The development team focuses on development and the technical aspect of BlackCoin

2. The BlackCoin foundation focuses on supporting projects and whatever else they feel passionate about.

3. The community focuses on building the brand and handling the business side of BlackCoin. No one person or small group should decide the fate of BlackCoin.

I own the domain GoBlackCoin.com and we can turn that into a community hub for discussions, new ideas, projects, events,  and everything else related to BlackCoin. We can have tutorials, market info,...etc..etc. Senior members of the BlackCoin community can be admins and mods. it will be a complete social network for the BlackCoin community. I can have that up and running by mid June.

Technology:
The current BlackCoin client is based off the original Bitcoin client. We should begin to move forward with a more unique design that is tailored more for BlackCoin. Every wallet client is pretty much a carbon copy of the previous client with little differences here and there. It is hard to portray unique and innovative when the software for the wallet is similar in design to every other wallet.

Using BlackCoin at retail locations will be made easier using CoinKite, but I must admit I think cypto is going backwards with this approach. Using cards and terminals to make purchases is 20th century technology, and I have no idea why the currency of the future needs to use redesigned 20th century technology. Google has it right with their technology using an ordinary smart phone to make purchases.

We need to make it easier and cost effective for any merchant to accept BlackCoins without the hassle of extra terminals and cards. There are tons of locations that already support Google's technology, and maybe we need to tie into that network somehow.

Marketing & Brand Awareness:
We have already  proven that press releases have a positive effect on getting investors excited and garnering the attention of the crypto-community. But there is so much more we can be doing
a) Social media should be a top priority. We have members who have graciously offered to Tweet regularly and upload photos to Instagram. We must utilize every aspect of social media.

b) Events will be crucial to building brand awareness. The Wall Street event is just one example of how we need to be creative and think out the box. We need to sponsor small concerts, raise money for charities,  and sponsor high profile non-crypto related events

c) Traditional print ads in magazines is an option we will need to explore. Bitcoin placed an ad in Wired Magazine. That was a good idea but I would have opted for one of the financial magazines first. We need to go where the money is, and financial magazines is where we need to be.

d) Times Square billboard! Yes we need to go big! At this time it is not feasible to buy a billboard in Times Square, but as the marketcap of BlackCoin increases we can have a BlackCoin billboard in the middle of Times Square.

e) Radio is also an option we need to pursue. Radio is not expensive at all and can be effective with the right ad and audience.

f) Celebrity endorsements. A-list celebrities are expensive, but there are very popular celebrities that are not exactly A-list but have a huge following. Their fees are significantly less than an A-list celebrity but can be just as effective at making BlackCoin popular.

g) Sponsor poker tournaments and have the players paid in BlackCoin.

Infrastructure & Partnerships:
We have been very lucky to have been added to some of the top exchanges and services in such a short span of time. I think as a community we have been very effective in this area and we just need to keep contacting services and keep requesting they add us.

Coinbase is a Bitcoin only service but I think they are rethinking their position on that. If we can show how powerful and innovate BlackCoin is, maybe in the future we can convince them to add us.
Every time I send BTC to an exchange it takes a lifetime to  confirm. However, when you compare that to BlackCoin it seems almost instant. This is a major advantage and we need Bitcoin only services to understand Bitcoin is yesterdays technology.

Recruitment:
We need the most talented people onboard to help with this project. Talented and knowledgeable people are priceless, and we need to establish an environment that welcomes and nurtures talented people.
BlackCoin will succeed or fail based on the efforts of the community. Without a passionate and active community BlackCoin will slowly die like many coins before it.

"If you do what you have always done you will get what you have always gotten".....


How about just use blackcointalk?
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Re: [ANN] BlackCoin (BC) | PoS | No premine | No IPO
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mrmate
on 28/04/2014, 17:12:46 UTC
Iconic, could you make a picture holding one in yellow (regular bulb) lighting?

In a few short days people will start receiving the cards and they can take as many pics as they want in the lighting of their choice. I am not the best at taking photos...

Ok.. just thought yellow lighting would really make the gold on the cards come out. Would've been cool to see.
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Re: [ANN] BlackCoin (BC) | PoS | No premine | No IPO
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mrmate
on 28/04/2014, 17:05:10 UTC
Iconic, could you make a picture holding one in yellow (regular bulb) lighting?
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Re: [ANN] BlackCoin (BC) | on exchanges | PoS | No premine
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mrmate
on 19/04/2014, 20:41:27 UTC
http://i.imgur.com/PH7pr9j.jpg



I have the PSD file for anyone to make it better, more direct anything. If anyone want to put this out there let me know,  I will help fund any advertising!

This would be great. Where are you planning to advertise?

I don't have a direct plan,  if anyone would like to run with it, I will chip in! I can also provide the PSD file for anyone to make it better.

Could we get a "getting started" guide on the multipool? I can't imagine it would be that hard to convince gamers to make money. As a community we could probably afford a really huge marketing campaign for the multipool.

Also, has anyone bought a Steam gift card from blackcoinstore.com yet? I'm guessing "run your computer while your not using it for steam games" would be extra effective.

Reddit, facebook, and adwords all seem like good places to start. Also, in some way pointing out that it's been consistantly the most profitable multipool would be good.

Wonder how many amateur miners we could get.

edit: If you think about it, it's kind of funny. Advertising in order to get cryptocurrency miners for other coins would be stupid, you would be only increasing your competition as a miner. In this case you would be increasing the value of the coin and growing the coin's community at the same time.

this would be great. I know a few 'gamers' that are not into crypto, and because I'm super new, I'd wager it's almost impossible for me to explain it well to them and how to get on board here.

It's quite easy.

Download sgminer, create a .bat file with this line in it: sgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://www.blackcoinpool.com:3333 -u BCADDRESS -p PASSWORD -I 12 and run sgminer and you should be up and running. Further specifications can be added to the .bat file to optimize performance. I'm not quite the right person to do a good guide but it's as easy as this so it's a good idea to get that out there. Post it in some of the gaming communities (like Razer).
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Re: [ANN] BlackCoin (BC) | on exchanges | PoS | No premine
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mrmate
on 19/04/2014, 20:16:22 UTC
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Re: [ANN] BlackCoin (BC) | on exchanges | PoS | No premine
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mrmate
on 16/04/2014, 18:48:07 UTC
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Re: [ANN] BlackCoin (BC) | on exchanges | PoS | No premine
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mrmate
on 16/04/2014, 18:29:40 UTC
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Re: [ANN] BlackCoin (BC) | on exchanges | PoS | No premine
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mrmate
on 13/04/2014, 20:24:57 UTC
Pointing out a legitimate bubble is not FUD.  There's no uncertainty here.  There are clear patterns in the alternate digital community and I provided two good examples.  Each time there's a downturn in digital currencies some random coin is always pump and then left to die.

 There's no incentive for subsequent investors to come in and buy BC when it's valued at $10 million as the ROI isn't there anymore.  Meanwhile the Whales, who bought in for pennies when the capitalization was less than $100K, have incentive to convert their BC into BTC or a portfolio of new alternates.

First you have to stop comparing BC to other alt coins. That is like comparing a Kia to a Ferrari. Yes you are right other coins are pumped and then when the ROI is not there anymore investors sell off and pump another coin. I dumped roughly 9 Million Mint weeks ago and bought BlackCoin. I haven't sold my own personal holding of BlackCoin and I wont. BC is the coin where investors come for stability and preserve their wealth. You also have to factor in many other coins have one or a few people holding millions of coins. BlackCoin is fairly distributed so a massive dump from one or a few people is not likely to happen. As BlackCoin value continue to increase and more people hold it, the chances of a dump because less possible.

I also want to point out many other coins can't be used to by things. We are quickly overcoming that problem, and the devs and myself are working behind the scenes to make sure BC can be used as a legitimate currency.

So BlackCoin is the real test to see how viable can a POS coin be with all the right ingredients.

0.24 cents in about 12 hours and $1.00 by the end of the week.

Factor in other coins have one or a few people holding millions of coins? I'm really liking Blackcoin so far. But this, the exact opposite of what you claim:

http://agran.net/bc_getbalance.php?top=100

And the fact that there was a one week ''fair'' PoW mine period - which is bullshit because one week is far too short for it to be a fair distribution make me hesitate to buy in. Now don't tell me that if I think this way the coin is not for me, convince me.


You do realize many of those addresses are exchanges? You also do realize BC has over 74 million coins? If someone dumped 500,000+ coins (which we already seen happen a few times), guess what the effect is? It gets absorbed by smarter investors and quickly taken out of circulation.

Which ones are exchanges? How many of them? Can you tell? The total of that 100 addresses is roughly 45 milion coins. To me that looks like people waiting to sell at a higher price.
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Re: [ANN] BlackCoin (BC) | on exchanges | PoS | No premine
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mrmate
on 13/04/2014, 20:15:10 UTC
Pointing out a legitimate bubble is not FUD.  There's no uncertainty here.  There are clear patterns in the alternate digital community and I provided two good examples.  Each time there's a downturn in digital currencies some random coin is always pump and then left to die.

 There's no incentive for subsequent investors to come in and buy BC when it's valued at $10 million as the ROI isn't there anymore.  Meanwhile the Whales, who bought in for pennies when the capitalization was less than $100K, have incentive to convert their BC into BTC or a portfolio of new alternates.

First you have to stop comparing BC to other alt coins. That is like comparing a Kia to a Ferrari. Yes you are right other coins are pumped and then when the ROI is not there anymore investors sell off and pump another coin. I dumped roughly 9 Million Mint weeks ago and bought BlackCoin. I haven't sold my own personal holding of BlackCoin and I wont. BC is the coin where investors come for stability and preserve their wealth. You also have to factor in many other coins have one or a few people holding millions of coins. BlackCoin is fairly distributed so a massive dump from one or a few people is not likely to happen. As BlackCoin value continue to increase and more people hold it, the chances of a dump because less possible.

I also want to point out many other coins can't be used to by things. We are quickly overcoming that problem, and the devs and myself are working behind the scenes to make sure BC can be used as a legitimate currency.

So BlackCoin is the real test to see how viable can a POS coin be with all the right ingredients.

0.24 cents in about 12 hours and $1.00 by the end of the week.

Factor in other coins have one or a few people holding millions of coins? I'm really liking Blackcoin so far. But this, the exact opposite of what you claim:

http://agran.net/bc_getbalance.php?top=100

And the fact that there was a one week ''fair'' PoW mine period - which is bullshit because one week is far too short for it to be a fair distribution make me hesitate to buy in. Now don't tell me that if I think this way the coin is not for me, convince me.