Topic: [ANN] ArtByte - the cryptocurrency for the arts! - page 43. (Read 143553 times)

Yes this is the official thread and is quite correct. From day one we have built AppleByte with a focus on the real user community. In our case that is artists and art lovers. If you read our website, you will see that it is directed at the user community, not the technogeeks. We have always believed for an altcoin to be successful longterm, it is the everyday people who use the coin that are important, not the number of speculators on the exchanges or the members of this forum, who are more interested in the newest technology. Although AppleByte combined features from Litecoin, Peercoin (automatic checkpointing) and Darkcoin (DGW2) that is old news.

For all the grief Doge is given in these forums, they certainly showed the power of a focused community.

What we have found from the beginning, when we are talking to the general public, that 80% have still never heard of Bitcoin, and 90% of those that have, believe all the negative press about it. And no one we talked to has ever heard of Ripple, Stellar, NXT, Counterparty or any other bitcoin 2.0 coin.

I think it is probably because Applebytes is a social media based coin--bitcointalk isn't really social media. It is the center stage for a lot of cryptocurrency discussion that happens to take place on an archaic medium (a forum). Discussions are difficult to follow here, which is why a coin's bitcointalk thread alone cannot be the only thing you judge adoption or success from.

I am confused 

You have 12k followers on twitter! roughly the same on facebook but you have a thread that is pretty much dead, 12 pages in around a year! even if 1% of you're followers posted here it would be kinda lively imo

Is this the official thread?

Have you already raised the $1,000,000 for phase II?

The AppleByte Foundation announces Phase II of its fund raising campaign with a budget of $1,000,000.


Here is a clip from our Phase II Indiegogo Campaign:


In Phase I the AppleByte Foundation raised $50,000+ ($5,000 via crowdfunding), and the remainder from substantial individuals who support the arts) to fund the development and server infrastructure for the digital currency, AppleByte. That work was completed in 2014. Learn more at http://applebyte.me

AppleBytes have since been donated and tipped to 500+ artists around the globe, to musicians, painters, sculptors, dancers, actors, film makers, writers, photographers, designers, directors and many more. Meet some of them on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/applebyteme

AppleByte went live May 1, 2014, and since then has grown by word of mouth to a user community in the tens of thousands, 35,000+ on social media alone.

In Phase II our budget is $1,000,000 raised from individual art lovers, art foundations, and substantial donors supporting the arts, including $50,000 raised from crowdfunding. The funding will be used for marketing & advertising, additional staff, and increased server infrastructure.


Here is what we accomplished in Phase I

 - The AppleByte Infrastructure and digital currency has been developed, tested and proven successful worldwide.
 - Over 500 artists have received awards, donations & tips of AppleBytes from the foundation and art lovers worldwide.
 - The foundation gives artists many places to redeem AppleBytes, including gift cards from Amazon, American Express, Visa, AMC Theaters, music downloads, restaurants and many others.
 - We have a dedicated social media community of 35,000+ artists & art lovers who discusses, supports and promotes artists around the world.
 - An app for tipping artists, allows fans to send tips & donations instantly to any artist, anywhere via their Twitter account.
 - A music download site that pays musicians 100% of the sales proceeds, (free to list, no fees ever), is now the highest paying music download site for musicians.
 - A wallet app that runs on MAC, Windows, and Android allows artists and fans to earn AppleBytes on their own, simply running in the background on their computer.
 - We have an established, experienced team of developers from the US, UK, Germany and Finland.

You can learn more about these features at www.applebyte.me


Please consider supporting us in our Phase II campaign so we can support thousands of artists in 2015.

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Here is the link to our Phase II Indiegogo Campaign: AppleByte Crowd Funding Phase II

AppleByte is currently ranked 5th out of all altcoins on Coingecko.com when sorted by user community size & engagement.

We have 13,400+ twitter followers and 11,700+ Facebook followers.
AppleByte supported over 500 artists in 2014 with donations, awards and tips.

The key to long term growth of an altcoin is not the number of speculators it has on exchanges, but is the growth in real users of the coin.

Please check out the communities yourself:
Website: AppleByte.me
Facebook: AppleByteMe FB Page
Twitter: AppleByteMe Twitter

As to this thread being shorter than the ANN threads of many coins, there are two reasons:

1. If you scan through most of those threads, you will find many pages of posts about things not working. You will not see that often on the AppleByte ANN thread. When we release something, it works.

2. For the most part, the members of Bitcointalk are enamored with "technological" improvements, searching for the next botcoin. We can tell you from experience, promoting AppleBytes to the normal man on the streets, 80% of them still do not know what bitcoin is. The Bitcoin or Crypto 2.0 altcoins popular here are light-years from being accepted by the general public.

i was interested in applebyte and read somewhere it had a lot of followers,
but i don't really see alot of posts here and that volume is not that big on bittrex,

does it have a decent community ?

It is not being delisted. That is an automated response if volume drops below minimums for the last week. The coin then has a week to get the volume back up.

I have noticed so far this week that the volume is up above the minimum.

Bittrex is saying theyre discontinuing applebyte. Not enough trade volum or some such. Any word on this? Still alive or what

Great idea, thanks. We have contacted them.

I came across this great site which is an alternative to using kickstarter. This is for smaller ongoing works and would be well complemented by using applebytes as a payment option. I have emailed and asked them if this is possible. Could someone from the applebytes team see if this is possible?

www.patreon.com

Thanks First.Bit! Will head to twitter and create and feed.

Have a good friend in the Movie industry, Will get him onboard and started in this area. He has no comprehension of Cryptos,
nor did I until a few months ago.

His social network is expansive as he has played in quite a few films including "Oz the great and Powerful".

His advertisement would definitely help push this puppy!

Have a great day all!

Thanks for the comment & welcome!

If you are on twitter, please join in tipping your fellow artists. We all need recognition and support.

I like this coin. Although rather new to Cryptos at least it's going to be resistant to Farms and the cause is worthy. I've mined a few and will continue to do so as I am an Artist, Songwriter, Musician, Sculptor.. Blah blah blah.

(Will Donate to others in the industries and help promote)...

Great to see a coin for a specific cause.

Excuse my post being off base but just wanted to say thanx!

Since Nov, over 280 artists have been tipped more than 85,000 AppleBytes by their fans via their Twitter account!

Join us and make a difference in an artist's career!
tips.applebyte.me

Thanks, we needed to upgrade it! There are so many projects we are working on, I am glad we got that one finished. We are working on a video for it as well.

The new site is great.

If you are talking CPU solo mining, it is currently running  100 - 150 a day, with the bonus we pay to miners using a small amount of hash.

If you are talking solo mining from windows, using an attached ASIC, it can be 10s of thousands, depending on the size of the ASIC.

What type of payout would solo mining in windows give?

Check out AppleByte's new website!


AppleByte Main Site