Author

Topic: [ANN] FACTOM - Introducing Honesty to Record-Keeping - page 390. (Read 2115876 times)

legendary
Activity: 1057
Merit: 1000
The Experience Layer of the Decentralized Internet
the price in yuanbaohui is stable now.
sr. member
Activity: 350
Merit: 250
Ups, a nice price dump. It seems Chinese New Year and exchange of crypto into Yuans has had a lot of infuence on Factom. Let s hope this is temporary.

Is this a Chinese coin? Why should it have anything to do with Chinese New Year? I thought it is Western coin.

Factoids(FCT) an American coin (token) created by the Factom company from Austin, TX. Just the main buying / selling of this coin in China.
It is therefore natural Chinese New Year effect on trading in this coin (token).

http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/factom/#markets

Statistics today (volume 24 hours):

Yuanbaohui (China) FCT/CNY   $ 181,496 = 62.61 %
Poloniex (US) FCT/BTC   $ 106,981 = 36.90 %   
Bittrex (US) FCT/BTC $ 1,413   $ = 0.49 %   

Total Factoids: 8753720 (today)





Well, Chinese New Year effects will cease by the end of this week and then we turn towards the next milestone.

The Factom project should only work in 1Q 2016, so we still have two months before the end 1Q 2016.
So do not expect anything soon, maybe wait until April.

Chinese New Year lasts 15 days, from February 8 to February 23, 2016.
http://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/festivals/spring-festival/chinese-zodiac-years-of-2011-to-2020.htm
legendary
Activity: 1652
Merit: 1007
DMD Diamond Making Money 4+ years! Join us!
Ups, a nice price dump. It seems Chinese New Year and exchange of crypto into Yuans has had a lot of infuence on Factom. Let s hope this is temporary.

Is this a Chinese coin? Why should it have anything to do with Chinese New Year? I thought it is Western coin.

Factoids(FCT) an American coin (token) created by the Factom company from Austin, TX. Just the main buying / selling of this coin in China.
It is therefore natural Chinese New Year effect on trading in this coin (token).

http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/factom/#markets

Statistics today (volume 24 hours):

Yuanbaohui (China) FCT/CNY   $ 181,496 = 62.61 %
Poloniex (US) FCT/BTC   $ 106,981 = 36.90 %   
Bittrex (US) FCT/BTC $ 1,413   $ = 0.49 %   

Total Factoids: 8753720 (today)





Well, Chinese New Year effects will cease by the end of this week and then we turn towards the next milestone.
sr. member
Activity: 350
Merit: 250
Ups, a nice price dump. It seems Chinese New Year and exchange of crypto into Yuans has had a lot of infuence on Factom. Let s hope this is temporary.

Is this a Chinese coin? Why should it have anything to do with Chinese New Year? I thought it is Western coin.

Factoids(FCT) an American coin (token) created by the Factom company from Austin, TX. Just the main buying / selling of this coin in China.
It is therefore natural Chinese New Year effect on trading in this coin (token).

http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/factom/#markets

Statistics today (volume 24 hours):

Yuanbaohui (China) FCT/CNY   $ 181,496 = 62.61 %
Poloniex (US) FCT/BTC   $ 106,981 = 36.90 %   
Bittrex (US) FCT/BTC $ 1,413    = 0.49 %   

Total Factoids: 8753720 (today)

sr. member
Activity: 1274
Merit: 278
Ups, a nice price dump. It seems Chinese New Year and exchange of crypto into Yuans has had a lot of infuence on Factom. Let s hope this is temporary.

Is this a Chinese coin? Why should it have anything to do with Chinese New Year? I thought it is Western coin.
legendary
Activity: 1652
Merit: 1007
DMD Diamond Making Money 4+ years! Join us!
Ups, a nice price dump. It seems Chinese New Year and exchange of crypto into Yuans has had a lot of infuence on Factom. Let s hope this is temporary.
legendary
Activity: 1960
Merit: 1128
The Block Chain Conference to include key presentations concerning development, deployment of blockchain-based approaches by global businesses

(...)

Honesty is Subversive – How to Build Transparent and Accountable Business Systems with Block Chain Technology - Factom has tools to leverage the security of the blockchain, without the scalability limitations of bitcoin. See the three latest tools that could change data as we know it. Take away knowledge to influence your industry and learn what is in store for blockchain in 2016. It will be presented by Tiana Laurence, CMO of Factom.
http://www.bitcoinisle.com/2016/01/28/the-block-chain-conference-to-include-key-presentations-concerning-development-deployment-of-blockchain-based-approaches-by-global-businesses/
legendary
Activity: 1652
Merit: 1007
DMD Diamond Making Money 4+ years! Join us!
Just be patient and get as many FCT as possible in the meantime. This token s got a nice team and a great idea behind it, I expect the price to go up at least 4x it s now by the end of the year.
legendary
Activity: 1960
Merit: 1128
Speakers announced for Blockchain and Bitcoin Africa Conference 2016

(...)



The speakers announced so far include:

Alakanani Itireleng, CEO of SatoshiCentre Pty Ltd.
Jared Tate, founder and creator of Digibyte.
Jonathan Levin, co-founder of Chainalysis.
Marcus Swanepoel, co-founder and CEO of BitX.
Tiana Laurence, CMO of Factom.
Verengai Mabika, lead business developer at BitFinance.

https://coinreport.net/speakers-announced-blockchain-bitcoin-africa-conference-2016/
sr. member
Activity: 350
Merit: 250
Deloitte: New Blockchain Applications Will Accelerate Adoption
http://www.coindesk.com/deloitte-report-blockchain-use-cases-adoption/

All these applications can be built on the basis of Factom Project.
sr. member
Activity: 350
Merit: 250
Need to join on the Yuanbaohui chinese exchange and the need to verify the account normal working Chinese number for SMS, searching in Google, but unfortunately could not find a workable number, who knows the service in which you can buy or get free Chinese number for SMS?
Thanks for the help Smiley
full member
Activity: 144
Merit: 100
A few questions as I work to wrap my head around Factom and determine if I want to invest or not:

1.  Why will 73,000 FCT be created each month?  Why not 75,000 or 50,000?  It seems to me that initially, there will be substantial inflation once the Federated servers go live and at some point, potentially substantial deflation.  Why not just create as many FCT each month as are used to purchase Entry Credits to keep the number of FCT static?

2.  As I understand it, Entry Credit holders will be able to vote for the Federated Servers.  What is to stop me from purchasing a ton of Entry Credits not to use for Entries, but to use to vote my servers and the servers of my friends to Federated status.  What's to stop me from, "Selling" my votes?  Why not have a Darkcoin masternode system where anyone can run a Federated Server who puts up the necessary collateral and they are paid in turn.  More decentralized and less prone to vote stuffing.

3.  As I understand it, X Factoid were sold at the public offering, and Y Factoid are held by Factom Inc or its employees.  Is this correct, and if so, does Factom Inc. hold those tokens or employees?  And what rules are in place for those tokens?  For example, is there a lockup period where they can't be sold and if so, what is the expiration date?  Or are they actively being sold by employees for profit or the company to raise additional funds?

Thank you for your insight as I conduct my due diligence.



1. As described in the initial token sale documentation, to pay for the server+engineering time, new factoids would be created at a rate of 20%/year of the token sale amount.  4379795.611338 factoids were sold, which corresponds to 875959.1222676 per year or 72996.5935223 per month.

The federated servers goal is to make each unit they are granted become more valuable.  The best way they have of doing this is to increase the amount of value people are sacrificing to place data into the blockchain.  The more people are using the system, the more demand there is for the tokens, and the higher the market price.  If we were trying to make factoids be money, only paying transaction fees would keep the supply stable.

In contrast to many other projects, Factoids are not trying to be money.  We already have internet money, and that is bitcoin.  Factoids are a tool to pay the servers in a scalable decentralized way, coupled with a way to provably show that value was destroyed.  

The closed loop feedback nature of the system means in the long term (absent speculation), the dollar amount of the factoid inflation will match the dollar amount of entry credits being purchased.  Speculation thrown into this will drive the dollar price up or down from this equilibrium.  Now when we have this mismatch between the source (inflation) and the sink (entry credit purchases) then the increased or decreased supply will tend to correct the price towards equilibrium.  

Contrast this with your transaction fee model, where speculation would be the whole point of the token.  At that point factoids would be competing to be money, which goes against what we are trying to do.

2. most systems can be attacked by throwing money at them.  The best we can do is to make it so that an attacker needs to expend more value than the rest of the network combined.  

Optimally we would use thermodynamic proof of work, but as history has shown, unless you are Bitcoin, using proof of work is more of a liability than a benefit.

The darkcoin masternodes seem like proof-of-stake.  Daniel Larimer has some interesting recent thoughts on proof of stake.

Quote
I have long been of the opinion that proof-of-stake is superior to proof-of-work. Today I would like to challenge my own beliefs against the lessons I have learned from over a year of experience with proof-of-stake.

http://bytemaster.github.io/article/2016/01/04/The-Benefits-of-Proof-of-Work/

We think that the people who have the most interest in the success of the system are the ones who are actively using the system.  The ones purchasing entry credits are the ones using the system.

On that note, we are setting up a delegation system, so you can direct your Entry Credit support to your favorite blogger, who presumably actually pays attention to what is going on.   They would then vote on your behalf.

3. 40% of the token sale amount was granted to early purchasers.  60% of the token sale amount was granted to early contributors.



http://allcoinsnews.com/2015/05/16/factom-raises-2278-btc-in-software-token-crowdsale/
full member
Activity: 144
Merit: 100
If I understand correctly, the Factom (FCT) will be added to Trezor.
https://github.com/FactomProject/go-bip39
https://www.bitcointrezor.com/


no.  google decided to finally retire some of their go crypto repositories, and we needed to compensate so that it would continue to compile.  although bip39 was developed by the same people behind the slush pool and trezor, there is no connection.
sr. member
Activity: 350
Merit: 250
If I understand correctly, the Factom (FCT) will be added to Trezor.
https://github.com/FactomProject/go-bip39
https://www.bitcointrezor.com/
sr. member
Activity: 350
Merit: 250
The Chinese Exchange Yuanbaohui is almost entirely taken away trade FCT

Data at this time (the volume for 24 hours):
Yuanbaohui 91.04 %  = $ 1,607,930
Poloniex 8.86 % = $ 156,578
Bittrex 0.10 % = $ 1,766
legendary
Activity: 1554
Merit: 1000
Factom in TOP 50 Built In Austin startups to watch in 2016
"Factom helps enterprises migrate applications to the blockchain with custom tools and services built on the company’s proprietary, open source software..."
http://www.builtinaustin.com/2016/01/25/50-austin-startups-watch-2016

[snipped photo]
What is "proprietary, open source software"?
One of those new Oxyblockon's!  Tongue
donator
Activity: 1736
Merit: 1010
Let's talk governance, lipstick, and pigs.
Factom in TOP 50 Built In Austin startups to watch in 2016
"Factom helps enterprises migrate applications to the blockchain with custom tools and services built on the company’s proprietary, open source software..."
http://www.builtinaustin.com/2016/01/25/50-austin-startups-watch-2016

[snipped photo]
What is "proprietary, open source software"?
sr. member
Activity: 350
Merit: 250
Factom in TOP 50 Built In Austin startups to watch in 2016
"Factom helps enterprises migrate applications to the blockchain with custom tools and services built on the company’s proprietary, open source software..."
http://www.builtinaustin.com/2016/01/25/50-austin-startups-watch-2016

legendary
Activity: 2898
Merit: 1017
Look at Ether, pumped without any visible reason.
But the 'pump' is not followed by the usual dump. Thats not a contrived pump. Thats a rotation of funds from BTC, because of people speculating that ETH now has a better chance of real-world adoption than BTC, while BTC's blocksize/scalability/consensus problems continue.


ETH is being pumped by a few..
legendary
Activity: 1526
Merit: 1002
Waves | 3PHMaGNeTJfqFfD4xuctgKdoxLX188QM8na
Look at Ether, pumped without any visible reason.
But the 'pump' is not followed by the usual dump. Thats not a contrived pump. Thats a rotation of funds from BTC, because of people speculating that ETH now has a better chance of real-world adoption than BTC, while BTC's blocksize/scalability/consensus problems continue.


It s still too early to say whether we re going to see a dump or not. I d bet 60% we re going to see Ether dump withing this week. I just do not see a basis for 300% growth withing 2 weeks time and I ve seen these pumps many times so far.

For an ordinary "pump and dump" clone altcoin I would say "yes, you're right!"

But Ethereum is nothing like that, it's potential is huge and I think we just ain't seen nothing yet.

Ethereum for dummies is a nice video that shows what it's potential is, though we could use a shorter version of the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_LK0t_qaPo

Same for Factom, today's price is not even relevant for what it will be when they achieve their goals.

2016/2017 will be a great year for Bitcoin 2.0 projects.
Jump to: