Topic: [ANN] Guncoin(GUN) - New GUN Core V2.0 Released - Masternodes are HERE! - page 95. (Read 187710 times)

Yes, I was referring to getting a bunch of people from here to send you cash, you order stuff and disburse it, or have it direct-shipped to us, in order to get bulk pricing.

I carry all my ammo and cleaning stuff to the range or to go hunting in ammo cans..  I want to put guncoin stickers on those and on my truck, and leave a few around the range I go to, and wear the denim shirt to the range and elsewhere..  Lapel pins and embroidered patches won't help there.

OK, you got me confused here.  You wanting me to pool the money for the orders?  Or order direct from me?  I did get a quote on some nice 3" patches that were 75% embroidered with the Guncoin icon for $232 for 200 of them.  These are a good size as they can be put on hats, jackets, shirts or whatever.  Of course, by the time you add in shipping and tax, it is more, but it is a reasonable price and something we could start with.

I also have pricing for 200 3/4" Guncoin Lapel pins that would cost about $550 for the 200.  That is what we are talking about.....same company will do coins also, and those seemed to be even better for about the same price.......

I would think walking around a Gun Show with a Guncoin lapel pin or patch on your shirt or hat would stimulate a lot of interest and questions if you stopped at every table to chat.  Most would ask about Guncoin and you conveniently have a brochure or bizcard with the URL on it to hand them.  Pretty painless, cheap and easy!

Price me out a pack of 50 6" guncoin stickers, and a 2x denim button up shirt with embroidered guncoin logo.  If its affordable, I'll pay before ordering. (you have paypal?)

If we get bulk ordering together the price should dome down a little.

BTW, currently gun is about 7,000 coin to a $USD, so listing prices on the ad site in dollars and 'accepting guncoin as payment' might not scare as many people away while looking at the listings.  BTW, I've got a few pieces/parts to list when I get my sh!t together and list them, but being from NY don't really want to list any guns or ammo as those have to go through an FFL here..

Yes, I have a 14 MH/S Hashra ASIC mining GUN now and for the past month - trying to catch up with you guys who have been around for while.  It does a nice job with just a Raspberry Pi controller.  That being said, we get emails all the time from Hashra, Zeusmining, etc. with all their new 300 MH/s miners out there.  We are not just stirring the pot here with our comments and questions.  We are seriously considering updating the algorithm soon.  Have been talking to some programmers with more experience making this type of transition than us and trying to line one up to get the work done in the near future.  X15 seems like the safest and most cost effective upgrade for us.  Although Neoscrypt would be a jump ahead of everyone and looks very interesting.  Problem is that it is still very new and getting a good programmer experienced with it, who likes GUN to work on it right now is difficult to find.  From what I have seen, only Phoenixcoin has made the jump successfully and Feathercoin has it in work.  Other issue is any help we get wants USD or BTC to do the work.  While the GUN price has stabilized between 25-30 for the most part.  Most programmers are not interested in a GUN bounty.  

We did come across a non-cryptocurrency firearms website very interested in us.  We are in the process of writing a GUN article for him which should jumps start our introduction to the outside world.  I have tried twice to join the Ar15.com site with no luck.  For some reason, they reject me and label me as business partner and try and send me through another door with a $2500/month business partner entry fee - a bit frustrated with them right now.  But not giving up for sure.  We have identified a few firearms websites with decent traffic with affordable advertising for us.  I hope to get some of our new banners and buttons going on them over the next few weeks.

Our Twitter account continues to grow by leaps and bounds.  Non-crypto Twitter members are flocking to see what we are about and following us at the rate of about 5-8 new ones per day.  These are all firearms users and websites, not some manufactured Twitter following scam - real users.  I encourage you to follow us on Twitter and checkout our other followers - if you know any of them - please tell them more about GUN.

I have got pricing quotes back on patches, stickers, coins, pins, etc.  Right now trying to decide which to do.  I am thinking I will do one and others in the group should do some of the others.  All are basically cheap, but I think it is best if it is a community project to get the GUN word out there, rather than just one person or small group.  We were all very dependent on the original developer and when he had to step back for personal reasons, no one really stepped forward to keep the coin going until we took it over. The most successful coins are the ones where the community pushes the coin forward, not just the developer - although I will be there pushing as hard as anyone. Bottom line, the more effort and support we get from the community here, the more successful GUN will be.  Honestly, we are not asking for a 40 hour a week commitment or thousands of BTC to help out.  I tell you what - if every one bought 500 -5000 GUN per week on the exchanges, posted one comment in this thread, maybe posted in other forums, favorited our Tweets once about GUN - you would be amazed at how fast we would grow.

Finally, we are seeing almost zero usage on our new site at GuncoinAds.com.  I know we were a little slow getting the SSL certificate up and going and approving new members, but it is fully functional now and we really encourage you to use it to post what ever types of ads that you want - the more the better.  When these new Twitter followers check us out, it is great to see activity - here and there.  Me posting updates by myself and selling items there is not a big deal - we need some numbers and activity to help keep the interest up.  I have much more to share, but need to go write the article I mentioned and get it done.  Again - keep the ideas coming and thanks for your continued support of GUN!

KNCMiner is starting to ship their 300 mhs scrypt miners on monday.
Instamining would be really easy with one of these.
Getting asic resistant is a must, i think we have enough coins mined already until the coin gets more acceptance.
Going pure POS would aso be a solution, but i'm more in favor of changing the algo
the x11 to x17 algo's are already under fpga threat
https://darkcointalk.org/threads/darkcoin-fpga-mining-co-op.836/

Maybe it's a good idea to start offering ammo that is in short supply like 300 blackout with guncoin, or a guncoin themed ar-15 in a givaway funded by the community.
And let the guys of http://www.ar15news.com/, soldiersystems.net and so on know that you exist.

BTW great camo

http://soldiersystems.net/2014/09/07/maybe-the-army-should-take-a-look-at-multidoge/

Changing to an algorithm that is currently asic proof is definitely good to have ready to keep the insta-mining (insta-profit) crew away, but the core issue is acceptance..

Right now, Gun is only accepted on a few exchanges, and nowhere in public that its target market can use it.  Getting it usable in its target market is a key to it's success.

Thanks so much for all the useful info.  We will review it and add it to the list of items to consider for our next upgrade.  The good thing about X15/Neoscrypt etc. is that each of these relatively protect the coin and the miners which is always a concern against the next generation of ASICs.  When you have a coin like ours with divergent public views, there is always the risk of GUN being targeted by anti-gun groups.  This is the primary reason we are considering upgrade options and are relatively happy to stay just below the radar level of the major coins until we can move forward.  Of course with any changes we choose to make down the road, there is a ripple effect to our users, pools, exchanges etc.  We need to make sure what ever changes we roll in are well vetted in the public domain so there is no loss of liquidity on the exchanges or something that shuts down our miners.  While we lean towards something like X15 (since we have dealt with X11 before) as the safe choice, something like Neoscrypt may be the better choice for long term acceptance by the crypto community and better security for GUN miners and users.  Please let us know how things are going with Phoenix coin. Please keep those ideas coming!!!

Currently mining Phoenixcoin with neoscrypt.
Their fork went fine and they have a pool up
http://pxc.theblocksfactory.com/
I'm currently cpu mining but the gpu miners are almost ready
This is the dev tread to follow
https://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?/topic/6626-changing-the-hashing-algorithm/
they have p2pool and gpu mining working on testnet

Very good - any word on how Phoenixcoin is doing?  I found a post from the Feathercoin team where they were looking for a developer to help them - so guessing they have not switched yet......

http://phoenixcoin.org/archive/neoscrypt_v1.pdf

Sounds like a very good option once these two coins are stable and their are sufficient mining tools available to support it - which may be very soon.  Do you have a link to the white paper they mentioned??? 

Why don't you switch to neoscrypt ?

http://www.feathercoin.com/neo-scrypt-press-release.pdf

Smartest way to go away from scrypt, phoenixcoin and feathercoin are paving the way.

Well, that is the first feature everyone always mentions - We are considering that as one option as well as some other options that will improve the coin. X11/X13/X15 really only makes the coin ASIC proof for a while.  Until a better ASIC comes out that can figure out X11, etc.  Not now, but eventually.   Many of our miners are using ASICs including us to mine GUN today.  Switching the coin now shuts those miners down and our hash rate will drop a lot.  Exchanges, pools and other services judge us on our hash rate as well as many other things.  There are a lot of other options and features out there in regards to new coin features that many think are much more desirable for GUN than X11, etc.  However, when we see the next generation of ASICs coming out in 6 months or less where GH/s are achievable very cheap - that is a good time to seriously consider switching.  A few of those could sure put a dent in supply.  So we continually watch and monitor our hash rates for trends.  If we need to go that direction, we think that we could implement it pretty fast if it was necessary for the community.  

Making any changes costs time and money and has a ripple effect on all our users.  We need to see a strong benefit for the coin and community before we fork with anything new.  Bottom line - right now we are keeping our options open as to the best direction to push GUN.  Ultimately, I think whatever will be easiest or most accommodating for the end-user/retailer who is using it to support her/her business is the direction that we need to go.  Right now, we are pleased that we have a very stable coin, with a solid and updated infrastructure in place and good community support with a growing number of non-crypto users taking notice of us!  Please keep the ideas coming!!!!

DEV, we will change to X11/13/15 or other?

There were no changes made to the source code at all.  Only a thorough code review was done - no updates.  Thought this was warranted since we just took over the coin and several users had concerns.  All we did was recompile the existing source code again and save it on top of the old one.  Some people had issues with the Windows version, so we just recompiled it to make sure.  No word back from any of them yet if they still have issues.  You are correct though, if and when we do official updates and forks, it will be different version numbers and everything will be different. Plus we will have to redo all the wallets, not just the Windows one.

If you updated the wallet on the website, why did you not update OP?  Also, why on the website does it still say the last update was May 10th?  Quite confusing!

Thanks , I'll try the new wallet .

Good news all around!!!

More pools =  peeps have more choice for mining!

Twitter activity = more general net activity, never a bad thing..

I'll try out the new wallet.  No changes = probably no change in my solo mining issue, but that's an assumption..  (we all know what assumptions are not proof)  

Nice to have active DEV's!!  Props!!

We have had two independent coin developers/programmers audit our source code over the past weeks since several have expressed concerns over the Windows version of our wallet.  Both came back with the same response - nothing to be worried about and no security or virus-related issues were found.  We were VERY glad to hear that.  To be on the safe side, we took that source code and recompiled it to a new Windows wallet and have replaced it on the website (the newly compiled one is there now).  Just to clarify - there were no changes made to the source code as no issues were found - we just recompiled it for Windows users.  We recommend that all Windows users first backup their Windows GUN wallets and download and run the new Windows wallet at their earliest convenience.

A different topic......I am curious as to which exchanges every one uses and why.....Please share here.  I have setup accounts on all the exchanges that GUN is on and buy on all of them frequently.  It appears in general that our price ranges from about 20-25 satoshi.  That is pretty low from where I have seen it before, but in my opinion a real deal for those who want to accumulate now.  Additionally, I think that represents a decent arbitrage opportunity for traders who trade all of them.  Hopefully, with the completion of the transition to the new team and solidifying the infrastructure, moving forward we will see renewed buying enthusiasm on all the exchange.

It appears that Mintpal has changed ownership - not sure what happened to the votes we had or what the status is.  We have submitted our info to Cryptsy and they are reviewing us now.  It would not hurt if Cryptsy users ask for Guncoin there also.

I have been actively working the Twitter account this week.  If you do not follow us on Twitter, please do so at http://www.twitter.com/TeamGuncoin - the more the better.  With the current Twitter push, I have manage to bring in about 50 more Twitter followers this week alone.  It is very interesting to see the wide diversity of the people who follow us and are now following Guncoin for the first time.  We hope this trend continues !!! Thanks for your support!