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Topic: [ANN] BillionCoin | First coin with integrated chatroom in wallet - page 17. (Read 96051 times)

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it doesn't seem like anyone cares about this coin...
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this coin going anywhere with the price? someone work and get this onto another exchange coinedup sucks ass
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sorry for not digging through all  the posts... didn't see the following info on the first/original post of this thread.

% premined
current number of mined coins (active link).

Thanks.
anyone? this should be clear in the first post.

this link is broken
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https://github.com/billioncoin/bil
full member
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sorry for not digging through all  the posts... didn't see the following info on the first/original post of this thread.

% premined
current number of mined coins (active link).

Thanks.
anyone? this should be clear in the first post.
full member
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sorry for not digging through all  the posts... didn't see the following info on the first/original post of this thread.

% premined
current number of mined coins (active link).

Thanks.
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NoHoooo
legendary
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newbie
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Hi,

Since not all users of this coin are as active as you are, may I ask for a feature in a future wallet version?

Please implement one of the following features:
1) an autoupdate feature which automatically keeps the QT updated without the user doing anything (or with the user just clicking an "update" button which only appears when new updates are available - but where the entire update process is done automatically)
2) a notification feature where the user can enter his eMail address into the wallet and the wallet sends him an eMail when a new version is available? That requires - of course - that the wallet has a way to check for updates. But since Microsoft/Apple/Adobe/andalltheothers can do it, so can you :-)
3) (for those who don't even run their QT all the time) a notification feature where the user can enter his eMail address into the wallet and the wallet sends that eMail address plus its own version information to a central server of yours which then sends out an eMail when a new software version is available. And which sends a warning eMail when a mantatory update has to be performed.

Naturally, as of today, the Cryptocurrency-community has been very active but with the price explosion of the Bitcoin last month, more and more "normal users" will enter the market.
They will not keep their wallet running all the time.
They will not check the forum all the time.
But they might spend hard cash on buying this coin at an exchange and then send it over to their wallet. As a community, we even need that kind of passive user - and we need their money buying this coin.
And when they find ways to spend or donate the coin, they will. And for that purpose they will open their wallets - but not in between.

Having said this, I personally prefer feature (3) because it has a few advantage over the other 2:

  • It keeps even those "passive" users in the loop that do not run their wallet regularily.
  • That way, if a really important change has to be made (e.g. a new blockchain), even those users won't lose their money because they get a notification. Think of the bad publicity when "normal users" start losing their money because they simply ignored their wallets for months only to find them not working anymore because weeks before, a new blockchain or equally invasive measure was introduced without them knowing.
  • That feature can be extended for marketing purposes: add a checkmark "the makers of this coin are allowed to send me exciting news about this coin yaddayaddaya" - and voila you get yourself a free marketing database with tons of eMail addresses that you can use to keep engaging your users. Notify them of new shops where they can pay with this currency. Notify them of faucets. Notify them of exchanges that trade this coin. Notify them of the rise in value of that coin. And so on. Just keep engaging even the passive users - because to make a currency successful, you need every hand and every dollar you can get.

You guys and all the other professionals or those that have privacy concerns won't use that feature - and should never be required to do so. But the regular passive user will get that fuzzy feeling that he will be informed of important stuff without him spending much time checking bitcointalk or their wallets. And that will give him extra confidence when it comes to him spending the coin or buying the coin with his FIAT.

Just a few additional remarks:

  • Naturally, the best possible combination would be (3) with (1) where the users gets a "move your ass and update your wallet or else..." eMail (friendly version, of course) - and then he opens the wallet and clicks on the "update" button and that's it for him.
  • May be the required serverside portion (the thing that collects all version information and the eMail addresses and which also allows for sending out mass eMails to all users in that database) could be written in a generic way so that other virtual currencies can implement that feature, too?
  • May be, future wallets should have a default setting that causes them to run in the background as a service whenever the computer starts. That way, even many passive users will contribute to the P2P network without them even knowing. But that was just a sideline remark and describes a completely different feature request. But then again, while you are at it... :-)

Don't know. What do you guys think about that feature request?
Does anyone second that request?
Does anyone have a better idea how to solve the above mentioned challenges that this new species of regular, passive users will introduce in the weeks and months to come?

Thanks
Matt
BIL: BiJaDV3LKQKw3osiC5bjRbsQuZZBviL3F7


P.S. Just a full disclosure: I have posted this same feature request to the thread of some other cryptocurrencies as well.
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When will the wallet for Mac be available?
newbie
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Still no luck getting coin on cryptsy?
We need to wait for Cryptsy.
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Still no luck getting coin on cryptsy?
sr. member
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I'm happy the coin didn't hit a bigger exchange yet, already collected more than 10.000.000 Billioincoins on low difficulty :-)
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newbie
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we have heavy ddos on bil server...we neet to take it down
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The wallet is still not synchronized. Version 1.1.1 wallet.
I have a Windows XP system with SP3
I'm sorry for the mistakes, I use google translator
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just curious my new miner should be hitting about 2600 to 3000 mh, is it worth soloing? or joining a pool, and if so how many bil coins are you getting at this speed?
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Will Bitcoin Rise Again to $60,000?
BillionCoin is now on Ecrypto!

http://ecrypto.net?ref=404
hero member
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this is the first coin ive mined but I hope your right....im hoping it goes up in value.....so far im holding almost 100k....
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I'm going to say the same thing here as I did in the Lottocoin thread. People worrying about the price on Coinedup need to relax. Both coins are only a few weeks old. Coins don't constantly go up in a straight line. BIL has only been on the exchange for a few days and Coinedup trade is very small volume. You will always have people dumping new coins the second they hit the exchange. If you've noticed, most of the people selling cheap are people with small volumes. Also it's Christmas, so things are generally slow as it is. BIL is a good coin with active devs who so far have done a pretty good job. Just hold on to your coins and you will see results sooner or later.
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