Ok, here it finally is, the official BANANO Bitcointalk announcement thread. BANANO already started more than a year ago, on April 1st, 2018 and a lot has happened since then (check it out /here if you like). Now we will also will give regular updates here.
Since BANANO is shaped by its rapidly growing community, I think it's best to give a brief summary here for now and amend/edit over time as needed. Everyone's input is highly welcome, may it be questions, suggestions, memes, contributions, whatsoever!
Key Features of BANANO
- forked from NANO/XRB
- main-net since April 2018
- instant & feeless transactions
- ongoing free & fair distribution through airdrops & innovative faucets
- ongoing tech development (privacy layer, on-chain messaging, faucet games, mining faucets & more)
- monKey implementation as visual account representatives, similar to cryptokitties
- aiming to onboard people being new to crypto
- yes, we also have memes, and we don't take ourselves too serious
- ripe infrastructure with sleek wallets & tipbots on multiple social media platforms
- welcoming, multi-cultural community (e.g. our Discord Server has 26k+ members)
- currently traded on 5 exchanges, see more tech/market details here at coingecko
- current market cap is approx. 1 Million USD, with around 25% of all coins being distributed so far
What is BANANO?
BANANO was forked in April 2018 from NANO. BANANO offers instant, feeless and rich in potassium 🍌 transactions, thanks to the fact that BANANO developers (several of them having being involved in NANO itself) have kept big portions of the original code unchanged to keep cross-chain compatibility between existing code libraries. However, they have fined-tuned some parameters, such as Proof of Work requirements and currency units. While the focus for now is on having an ongoing free and fair distribution, BANANO is also experimenting with feature additions such as a privacy layer (Camo BANANO), on-chain messaging (MonkeyTalks) and more.
In context of distribution, we aim to use our meanwhile ready-to-strike infrastructure with easy-to-use mobile wallets (Kalium) and tipbots on several major social media platforms to onboard normies and crypto-noobs who have no idea yet what a cryptocurrency is. We also might do IRL airdrops at some point. Of note, key here is to make the start with crypto as easy as possible, use a fun attitude and gamification to get new users started without all the usual hassle, and then educate them to handle crypto in general in a responsible way.
Want to learn more? Read the BANANO Yellowpaper: All details about BANANO technology and its innovative features, and also animations, videos, and of course memes! ALSO, it's interactive and truly unique every time someone reads it!
How to get started with BANANO?
First, you'll need a wallet. The easiest way is to download Kalium - BANANO's mobile wallet (available for iOS and Android). We also have a web wallet, BananoVault. Check our official website for more information, and if you need help getting started you'll find it at banano.how.
monKeys as Visual Account Representatives
In Kalium, as well as in our webwallet and our network explorer, you will also notice that every account has a unique monKey as visual acccount representative.
Learn more at monkeygen.com.
How To Get Free BANANO?
You can currently buy BANANO at 6 different exchanges (Mercatox, Txbit, Citex, QBTC, qTrade, Unnamed.Exchange, overview here), more to come over time.
Apart from that, you can get BANANO easily for free in multiple ways:
- Participate in airdrops (keep posted for announcements)
- Join our discord server and get tips/rain (how-to)
- Join our sub-reddit and get tipped for good memes/contributions
- Join one of our Telegram groups and get tipped/participate in contests
- Follow us at Twitter and participate in regular giveways
- Get BANANO for free from our Faucets:
BANANO Faucets
MonkeyTalks
An instant & self-sustaining faucet, combined with on-chain messaging!
https://monkeytalks.cc/
BANANO Miner:
Earn BANANO by Contributing to Medical Research (CPU/GPU-Mining)!
https://bananominer.com/
BANANO Powerplant
Browser-based altcoin mining that pays rewards in BANANO (CPU-Mining)!
https://powerplant.banano.cc/
Crane Faucet
Play captchas to get Banano. A variety of captchas that suit every player
https://faucet.banano.coranos.io/
Black Monkey
A game of comparing monKeys & finding the unique one to earn Banano.
https://blackmonkey.banano.cc/
Meme Faucet
Describe memes & other images to earn Banano. Proof-of-memework!
https://memefaucet.banano.cc/
…even more options to get free BANANO and all relevant links can be found at banano.how
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