Hope to not be the only one!

I wanted to invest also in Cryptoraise, but seems more difficult to win there, too many active investments...

I just invest +1BTC! Who joins me? I think this can go up again!

Thanks for your positive comments!

I take good notes about how to do first iteration and get sponsors. Also think a initial trial can be done easly.

I am wondering that because It is hard to ensure that the launch of the first balloon goes well (perhaps it falls quite near to the lanuch location or into the sea), could be a good idea to launch it with the qr code but not funds. And send the bitcoins to the qr addresss only after a successfull deployment of the device.

Let's think a little bit more about this idea and hope more feedback will come from community! Thanks everybody

Idea about promoting bitcoin and creating a fun experience around the world.

I've seen some posts in this forum about treasure hunt and geocaching. What I try to do is a little bit diferent:

Let's imagine there is a hidden treasure somewhere on the planet. The treasure is going to be a certain amount of bitcoins, funded through participants small fees (0.001-0.01 BTC) and donations.

I am thinking about printing a private key as a metal qr code, so you are looking for a physical and durable object.

http://i.imgur.com/53UZlRg.jpg

An important point is how to ensure a secret treasure position, so even the person who organize the treasure hunt, doesn't know where the treasure is located.

One option is to place the qr code with a geolocation system into a box and attach them to a weather ballon or similar device. The place and the day/hour of the release of the treasure are public announced, but nobody know where the treasure will ends (may be hundred of miles from the starting point, because of wind and altittude reached by the balloon)

http://i.imgur.com/qrucnji.jpg

Players are encouraged to find the treasure, using GPS, radio o even more difficult: only looking at the photos made with a camera inside the device. The treasure can be easy to find (if it falls on the garden of your house) or an extreme adventure (in the middle of Amazonas) .

A couple of things are needed for the project:

The design of the device:
     balloon + box (qr code, mobile phone with gps and camera) + parachute?, good insulation (for high alltitudes, extreme wheaters), wind resistant, waterproof.

The project website:

• treasure funding
• participants inscriptions
• calendar of release dates and locations
• map of trajectories of launched treasures
• hall of fame

To ensure that only participants can look for the treasure, only registered users can acces information about treasure location and password is going to be needed to redeem the treasure amount.

Any suggestions or ideas? Also anybody who wants to help is welcome...

First, I am going to wait for community feedback, and then I will create the website. I don't expect donations just for a draft, but if somebody wants to donate, this is going to accelerate the project:
BTC donating address: 12A6T34USKFCXYbTwbLCFx9xwSV4mxUVEu

Hi! your idea is very interesting! Unfortunately it seems that you give up with it, the web doesn't work.

I am wondering about security issues. Do you know if an advanced user can cheat about his geolocation usign some hacking?

Yes, finally! I am going to try it

Retina identification can work well!

Also I thinked about heart-wave identification, perhaps it is more confortable and cheap: http://article.wn.com/view/2014/02/13/Bionyms_Nymi_wristband_lets_you_use_your_heart_to_open_your_/

It is an interesting concept of game. I like very much the options about a personalized bet. Hope that game with coins starts soon!

Molt bona idea!

heu pensat en contacte amb botigues online de per exemple material independentista, potser podrien ser dels primers en acceptar aquesta moneda?

Per altra banda, fa temps tenia ganes de llançar alguna cosa similar, xo enlloc de fer una moneda que es reparteix entre els ciutadans d'un territori, pq no fer una moneda que afavoreix una causa politica?. Per exemple una moneda de la qual hi han 1.000.000 que es comencen a minar sense preminat. El preu es va consolidant i suposem que arriba als 1000 euros = 1 coin, llavors si un dia, es declara la independencia de catalunya, es fa el repartiment de 1 moneda per cada habitant, i en existencia passa a haver-hi 1+7,5 milions = 8.500.000. D'aquesta manera el posar una condició s'afavoreix que els ciutadans perseguixin la causa, , doncs el dia despres de la independica tindran 1000 euros que abans no tenien.

Aquest es un esbos molt simple, xo es podria estudiar millor. En un moment en que sorgeixen tantes monedes experimentals, perque no, provar-ho? si creieu pot ser interessant podem desenvolupar-ho!

I just saw this:

http://www.coindesk.com/heartwave-sensing-wristband-doubles-bitcoin-wallet/

Perhaps it can be the personal identity system that we are lookin for, TCraver?

Well, your idea about what "economy" is or isn't, is the result about how you have been educated. Nothing stops us to think a diferent "economy". Anyway, all new idees should be discussed, not just to disqualified.


A less radical approach, about Reset-coin, could be to change the reset-function to a correction-function.
Let's imagine Paul, John and Alice have 1.000 coins each at the genesis point.
After 6 months Paul has been able to own a total of 1.200 coins, John is a business genius and gets 2.000 coins and Alice have only 300 coins.
When the correction event happens, the network take some coins from the "wealthy" account and give them to the "poor" accounts, but in a proportional way, and without changing the positions. So now Paul is going to have 1.150 coins, John 1.800 coins and Alice 500 coins.

6 months later: Paul = 1.500 coins, John = 300 coins, Alice = 800 coins
Correction happens: Paul = 1.400 coins, John = 500 coins, Alice = 850 coins
and so on.


About how to guarantee one humang being = one account:

Perhaps an new technology like google-glass could help. Let's imagine everybody have a google-glass or something similiar, that comes with an iris identification system connected to your wallet. So, nobody else can use your coins and even when somebody dies, that account just become inaccesible.

En què havies pensat pel Mobile world congress?

Crec que seria interessant fer visible d'alguna manera el Bitcoin aprofitant el ressò mediàtic de l'esdeveniment. Llàstima que queda poc temps per organitzar.
Si algú tingués una idea disruptiva, per aconseguir màxima publicitat amb el mínim de recursos... Algú expert en marketing en el fòrum?

Per altra banda, si no estic equivocat John Matonis, membre de la fundació Bitcoin, estarà donant una conferència.

Hi,

I am very interested in your ideas, I wrote something related, Reset-coin:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=427306.0

the approach is different, but the aim in the same, how to guarantee a mínimum wealth to every human being and equal starting conditions to everybody. And even how to correct too big differences between rich and poor in the future. The idea of a reset function, could look too radical, but it is just an starting point of discussion.

Like you said, the key point is some kind of "proof-of-human-work", I have some ideas about that i hope to write on a next Update on Reset-coin post.

Hope to know you feed-back.

Busco bàsicament col·laboradors, persones que vulguin implicar-se en el projecte. Tot i que si aconsegueixo finançament, acabaré contractant gent.

No puc donar masses detalls, xo si et puc dir, que el projecte està en la línia de fusionar xarxes socials, videojocs i bitcoins. i que incorpora el concepte "crowd-randomness" de manera que són els usuaris que amb les seves decisions generen resultats difícils de preveure, que poden ser utilitzats en diversos jocs.


M'alegra veure que el tema bitcoin es mou a la nostra ciutat. Conec una empresa que ven Miners usb i està desenvolupant un ATM. I tinc noticia de la "comuna" on es desenvolupen projectes de "wallet" totalment anònima. Xo el que em sembla més interessant és la idea d'organitzar un congrés sobre bitcoin, alguna manera de contactar amb les persones que ho volen organitzar? També seria molt interessant aprofitant el Mobile world congress d'aquest febrer, per fer visible el bitcoin d'alguna manera.

Hola!

Sóc un estusiasta de Bitcoin i estic posant en marxa alguns projectes d'start-ups relacionades amb bitcoin. Algú està interessat en col·laborar? Crec que bitcoin té un gran potenical com a element dinamitzador i per empendre, perquè no fer-ho a casa nostre? amb una mica d'esforç es pot crear un ecosistema d'iniciatives relacionades amb bitcoin a Barcelona/Catalunya!

El perfil que busco és persones amb coneixements de programació i back-end de webs (html, php, javascript, mysql) i interès per les criptomònades i apendre a utilitzar apis de coinbase i blockchain, així com bitcoin-qt. Pots contactar amb mi a: upin1000@hotmail.com

Espero la teva resposta! Salut i bitcoins!

RESET-coin?

Have you ever thought about a second chance? Why not to create a coin for a better equal society and give everybody not just a second chance but a N-chance?

All actual crypto-currencies are just a migration to the virtual world of the same monetary-financial model of society of our times. But, not always things have been this way. In many ancient society, past errors and debts where annually burned in big ritual fires. Many of this traditions persist in modern times, but with their meaning lost. Why not to try a completely different crypto-currency? Let's call it RESET-coin.

RESET-coin will be the first crytpocurrency with a reinitialization function.

On the creation phase (genesis point), everybody can create a wallet and will receive a fixed amount of RESET-coins (1.000?). People can sell, exchange, work for, or do whatever they want with their RESET-COINS.

An algorithm inserted in the RESET-coin source will automatically choose a “reset point”. On that day and time, everybody balances are going to return to the initial amount of coins.

The aim is to create a dynamic economy and guarantee same opportunities to everybody. With such ecosystem, doesn't have any sense to store large amounts of coins for a long period of time. On the other hand, you have to carefully administrate your coins in order to not get out of balance. The “reset” event will occur between some maximum and minimum period (for example: 6 months / 4 years) to ensure that is not predictable, creating “cycles” of economy.

This is just a sketch idea, waiting for community feed-back and ideas. From my point of view, the two keys problems to solve here are:

1. How to ensure a completely random and without manipulation, selection of the reset point.

2. How to ensure that on start point and reset point, each living human being receive the same amount of bitcoins, not more, not less. This have many consequences:
- Prevent one person to have more than one “account”.
- Computers and bots cannot substitute humans.
- Guarantee that only grow-up responsible people can have an “account”.
- when somebody die his account gets destroyed/inaccessible.
Some sort of “proof-of-live” should be created, can be a combination of Turing test and identity checking. Of course, anonymity is scarified, but in benefit of many other advantages.

What do you think about, is a interesting start point or just a bold, crazy, too radical and difficult idea?

Ok, gracies!

x cert, he vist en algun lloc que es planejava una trobada a BCN, cap noticia?

I un altre que s'afegeix...

Algú sap si existeix cap web/bloc sobre BTC en català?