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Topic: [ANN] OCTO - Resurrect 888 - New Counterparty Asset (Read 37854 times)

hero member
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Some guy was just promoting this as one of the cheap coins to look into.  I was buying a bunch of cheap coins recently because I learned the lesson of not buying bcn, rdd, dgb when they were cheap, even when I had hope they could come alive.  I thought I researched it because I do research every coin.  So I was surprised to see the state of this coin.  I don't think I bought more than a couple bucks worth but I also synched the wallet and sent some 888 to it about 30 minutes ago and they are not showing up.  It's at least no big loss for me.  Can we at least keep this thing alive so the wallet stakes for bagholders?  I'm a newbie to the tech side of crypto so not sure all that's involved.  
hero member
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So OCTO is officially dead. Anyone who wants to do something with this token, please, take it. I'm def not coming back or doing anything with this Counterparty token anymore. PM me if someone out there would like to use this token for anything.
hero member
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I'm taking some time off. There's a lack of interest in OCTO. Will continue in the future.


So OCTO is not going back any time soon?

Can we still do folding for OCTO?

It will be sometime soon. I'm not sure when. I really don't know what to use OCTO for at this point. None of my ideas seem to stick and I am limited on time I can spend. I'm not sure if Robert is tracking for OCTO but if he still is after the last 2 months, I will eventually distribute to folders I suppose. But at this point OCTO has no value, and no use and not very much interest. I'll update as soon as I can figure something out.
sr. member
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I'm taking some time off. There's a lack of interest in OCTO. Will continue in the future.


So OCTO is not going back any time soon?

Can we still do folding for OCTO?
hero member
Activity: 532
Merit: 500
I'm taking some time off. There's a lack of interest in OCTO. Will continue in the future.
hero member
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Ok, so I would like the community's thoughts on this if anyone here is into Fantasy Sports and Trading Card Games. We know that Fantasy Sports are points based games. Most Trading Card games utilize the cards attributes for points. I am going to begin laying out the point scheme for the game and Fantasy MMA is fairly simple but I have to find the best way to implement the trading cards. I hope we can come up with some unique uses.

So, in Fantasy MMA Pick 'Em you are rewarded points for:

Choosing the winner of the fight
Choosing the way the fight is won
Choosing the round in which the fight is won
Choosing the minute of the round the fight is won
Bonus points for choosing all 4 of the above correctly

Usually, it's a 10 point bonus for choosing all 4 categories correctly. It's rare to hit this. While choosing the winner and how they win can be somewhat easy if you follow the sport and really look at each fighter and the % of how they win fights. Choosing the round and the minute are difficult. You do have some data from prior fights to see if they finish fights in earlier or later rounds and the typical minutes. But that is still very random.

So, when you introduce another way to have bonus via trading cards there are a few ways that you can do this. It needs to be based on risk and reward, how often that card type can be used on one fight card, etc.

Different types of cards:

Fighter Cards - Play the fighter card and if they win you receive say 5 bonus points, if they draw you receive 3 bonus points, if they lose you receive 0 points. You can only play this once per fight card because they only fight once on the card.

Finish Cards - Play the finish card and if ANY of the fights on the card are finished in this way, you receive points. I would say that because you can choose Decision, Knockout, Technical Knockout or Submission, and multiple fights on the card can be won in this way, you have a potential to gain many points. This needs to be considered in the risk and reward department. Are you more likely to gain a few points out of 8 fights? I would say your chances are greater to gain points there than with the fighter cards because between 2 fighters in one match, it's a 50/50 chance either way.

Specific Finish Cards - These are similar to Finish Cards but more specific. I can have 8 fights and choose the Submission Card and 4 fights end in submission. But if I choose the Armbar Card, you only receive points for armbars. I would say the risk is greater to choose a specific submission or strike over choosing the vague Submission Card, so the reward should be greater. Now compare submissions to strikes. Submissions have one category. Striking has two categories to win, either by Knockout or Technical Knockout. You also have to consider if a fighter is cut or injured that a fight can end in a Doctor's Stoppage and that's considered a Technical Knockout.

So, there is a lot to consider when you add these points. When you consider the difference in choosing the winner of a fight and having a 50/50 chance for your Fighter Card to gain you points based on picking 1 match, it is totally different than using a Submission Card and having the chance to gain points from multiple matches on the fight card.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this project and any input or ideas that you have.

The artist is working on some of the artwork for the first basic cards. I will also be doing a special set of cards that I design Smiley Put them graphic design skills to use.

I have been talking with a few other devs who may be able to take this from a form input game and put this to an actual fantasy MMA site.

We are also waiting on news for the Counterparty mobile wallet IndieSquare available on iOS & Android. They are developing an API that allows you to use Counterwallet on mobile and websites. This should make it easier for any site to implement Counterparty transactions. Much easier to use an API than develop your own code from scratch. The podcast interview stated that this version is scheduled for late January 2016. I asked IndieSquare if this was for the mobile version or web version first, and he was not sure which one would be released first. But their wallet on mobile is awesome and getting better. They are working with SOG. I am hoping when the time comes we can work closely to make our actual website easy to use.

Another thing to consider is how we make it easy for average MMA fans who are not into Bitcoin or Counterparty. I know Adam from letstalkbitcoin said that swapbots would integrate credit cards from Stripe eventually. I think as long as users can purchase OCTO & OCTO Trading Cards from us with credit cards and not bitcoin, you will have an easy on ramp for non bitcoin people.
hero member
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The OCTO swapbot should be coming back up. It was down yesterday because we had no sales of OCTO and I had to send BTC to the bot. Should be back online for the month.

We are no longer on Bittrex.com so you can still purchase OCTO through this bot. All funds raised go to pay for the bot and will be used for development of the Fantasy MMA game. I will be upgrading the OCTO website to host the game soon.

https://swapbot.tokenly.com/bot/FrameLAlife/octo-by-wwwtheoctopartycom#choose
hero member
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well i figured out what happened to my disappeared funds.  I had to create a new address in the web wallet. Thankfully that brought back the old counterparty address where my new octocoins from the burn first appeared.

Glad to hear you figured that out Hashbrown! That would have sucked. Counterwallet is weird like that sometimes.
sr. member
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well i figured out what happened to my disappeared funds.  I had to create a new address in the web wallet. Thankfully that brought back the old counterparty address where my new octocoins from the burn first appeared.
sr. member
Activity: 427
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Need some help recovering my counterparty web wallet. I went to my quick access link for the wallet and was directed to change the link to wallet.counterparty.io, instead of counterparty.io. I put in my quick access password and the new wallet opened up with a different BTC address with 0 coins.

I know my old counterparty address and tried to import it, but it did not work.  has anyone else had these issues?
hero member
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interesting news: Octocoin is back with a new wallet and dev... in case anyone cares or still holds Octocoin.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/888-octocoin-core-104-1243963

In OCTO news, I am still talking with the dev team about the possible Fantasy MMA site for OCTO. I also am interviewing artists regarding the trading card aspect of the fantasy sports site.

I attempted to do a last moment alpha test for the Dan Henderson vs Vitor Belfort card but I had no response. We will actually promote the next one further out.

Here is one of the artists early graphic for the first trading card:

http://imgur.com/o4jIEwY

We still have more artists to interview. We still have a lot of planning. However, we are making some connections needed and have a few extra people working on an actual dev team for the site. More news coming soon!

Stay tuned for the Alpha test. We would love to have a good turnout to test the game idea with the trading card aspect included in the betting and gameplay.
hero member
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So, I spoke with one guy this afternoon. He is not a dev, but he is part of a team that has a dev. I do not think that the dev is very high level or well versed in Counterparty. They may not want to be involved in OCTO but may be able to offer OCTO development services in the future as they grow their plan to  build a fantasy sports site.

However, I will continue to speak and work with them on a normal basis because they may lead us to a dev, or contract out their dev to us if we can come to an agreement. They are in the early stages like us.

I do have an actual developer from Washington DC that may be a good fit. We are planning to speak this weekend if our schedules permit. I'm hoping that he may be more what we are looking for.

Nonetheless, it is good to see people see potential in this idea. I also was shocked to see that most of the devs I have spoken with are not to familiar with Counterparty and that shows that even Counterparty is still a small niche in the Bitcoin ecosystem. I suspect with the success of other tokens like GEMZ, STORJ and specially Spells of Genesis BITCRYSTALS, that this will change in the coming year.

On a high note, if anyone does not know, you can now download an iOS/Android wallet for Counterparty that is great to use OCTO with. The app is called Indie Square and it has a red checkered logo. They really have spiced up the UI in the last update and made this wallet user friendly. It is the ONLY mobile wallet for Counterparty tokens and this newest version works great. I am super impressed.

A recent XCP Update podcast, Robert from FoldingCoin interviewed the guy that helped Koji and Indie Square update the UI. They also talked about Spells of Genesis integration with Indie Square's mobile wallet in their upcoming game. It shows that CP is going to be a great tool for developing games. Which is why I think it's a great idea for OCTO to get in on this action.

Part of the interview they discussed Indie Square developing an API so that you can integrate the wallet, tools and CP into your app. I do wonder if this will work well for desktop web integrations as well. However, it doesn't really matter. Mobile is huge and mobile also fits with fantasy sports. If we can find a way to build a mobile version of a fantasy MMA app that uses the Indie Square API to allow us to use OCTO as the token to play with, that may be the way to go.

I would rather have a desktop web version, but when it comes to giving OCTO value, I wouldn't say that has to be first. SOG is doing a great thing building their mobile trading card arcade game on Counterparty. And, I wouldn't say that may not be the best way to go. You also see huge support from the Tokenly swapbots selling the SOG cards every week. Now, Indie Square is coming on board for the wallet in the game.

Sometimes the best thing to do in our situation is let other build the pieces and integrate their APIs in our site and only white list our token as the access token to play with. Instant value for OCTO and not very costly on our end for development.

I do wish that we could find a good dev though that would be interested in equity in OCTO, future crowd sale funds and of course profits from the site. So that is the end goal. Even they would love to be able to use some already built tools and APIs to make the development of our game easier.

I'll be back with more once I speak with the other dev. Have a good weekend!
hero member
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We will see. I know that the guy i've spoken with has a small team with 1 dev, himself and a person that handles VC investment. I'm not clear on what the relationship will be with OCTO, however, I hope to speak with them at the very least in helping us build a fantasy MMA platform. In return of course they would receive quite a large sum of OCTO and some BTC from a token sale. We will see how this works out. I also received an email from another dev who has similar interests. I do not know much about him yet. I am scheduled to speak with him sometime this week whenever we can have our schedules meet.

I am hoping that we can really finally dive into the fantasy MMA or fantasy sports as a whole. Even if they decide to develop their own platform, we may be able to pay them to develop ours. And I personally do have something to offer them in form of crowd sell ideas.

Fingers crossed. I'm hoping this may lead to something good. In reality, no matter how you cut it, you need to have some proof of what you are working on and an ideal scenario includes a dumbed down working model. The hardest part of finding a dev to do this is having someone do the work to create a working model with little to no funding minus the offering of OCTO. We do not have enough Bitcoin, nor does anyone in their right mind want to give Bitcoin to a swapbot or crowd sale in HOPES that you actually build something so they see a return on their investment.

We will see! I'll keep updates coming as the talks proceed.
hero member
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I have had some interest from a dev in having some talks about OCTO and the Fantasy sports/Fantasy MMA site. They actually have their own project geared towards fantasy sports and ran across a listing I had looking for devs.

Nothing to get too excited about. But figured I'd let you guys know I will be speaking with these guys soon. I had a brief 15 minute convo and a few texts. I'm not sure exactly how this will fit in with OCTO yet.

If they are decent developers that can get the job done, you never know, they may be the ones to get that kind of project off the ground for us.

I'll update you when I know more. For now I'm waiting on more info from them.

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Hey guys it's gotten awful quiet here so I'm going to put this out there.  I would like to propose selling some game-keys for OCTO.  It is a way of helping support the OCTO(and prevent delisting) price while also getting something in return.  This one is for FPS fans, and I would like to see others to do something similar.  It would also require someone trustworthy to do ESCROW.  Getting the game keys would require buying OCTO on Bittrex(from todays date) and sending a screenshot of that purchase, I will not take hoarded OCTO.  

I am also open to contributing a percentage(or even all the OCTO towards the lottery Faucet or wherever the community sees fit)

Anyway here is the list of games and prices I propose(Uplay Keys).

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six®     -  10,000 OCTO

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Gold (Raven Shield / Athena Sword)      - 10,000 OCTO

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas    -  10,000 OCTO

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory®    -  10,000 OCTO

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon®     -   10,0000 OCTO

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Siege - Multiplayer Beta     -  10,000 OCTO

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2    -  10,000  OCTO

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction™ Deluxe Edition    -   10,000 OCTO

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell®    -   10,000 OCTO

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier™       -   10,000 OCTO

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell® Blacklist™         -   10,000 OCTO

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent®       -   10,000 OCTO

Tom Clancy's EndWar™    -   10,000 OCTO


Let me know what you all think!
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Great cards. Awesome!
hero member
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Cards marked down to $200. Message me.
hero member
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I have been folding for some time and already received some OCTO Wink

I would like to know more about the roadmap for this Token. what will be its main utility?

currently the price is very Low so I might as well hold it to sell at better prices!

This token was created from the altcoin Octocoin, after it was abandoned by the original devs. Community moved to Counterparty. We burned Octocoins to create and distribute the first OCTO tokens. We set up a distro plan for folding@home and through the LTB faucet.

As for a road map and projects, it is certainly unclear at this point. I have spoken with and talked to devs about doing some things for OCTO but nobody will work for only OCTO. They would like some Bitcoin as well.

So, for now, we are still looking for devs. We do have one person that has began work on a Bitcoin directory that will use OCTO but it is very early stages.

We are always looking for devs who may have interest in building something with OCTO. We will fund them with a high amount of OCTO for their work. We also have  swapbot set up to raise BTC to fund devs with BTC. Sales have been fairly low.

http://swapbot.tokenly.com/public/FrameLAlife/1feaa10d-b793-4abb-801d-7b782581faa5#choose

If you want to help raise some BTC, please consider purchasing OCTO from the swapbot. This swapbot is for the purpose of funding devs who can give OCTO more value and a use for the token on their creations.
legendary
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I have been folding for some time and already received some OCTO Wink

I would like to know more about the roadmap for this Token. what will be its main utility?

currently the price is very Low so I might as well hold it to sell at better prices!
hero member
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I am selling 6 Gigabyte Radeon R9 290X 4 GB cards & 4 Sapphire Tri-X R9 290X 4 GB cards. If you are folding or if you plan to mine Ethereum, these will be great for you. Or if you are looking for a great gaming card, this is the one.

http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-GDDR5-4GB-2xDVI-Graphics-GV-R929XOC-4GD/dp/B00HS866AK

http://www.amazon.com/Sapphire-Version-PCI-Express-Graphics-11226-00-40G/dp/B00HJOKARI/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1438659711&sr=1-1&keywords=sapphire+tri-x+r9+290x

$300 each or best offer. You will save some money buying these used. They hash great. They only mined about 3 months total. Most were NOT running 24/7 or overclocked while mining. They are still in great shape.







Really nice cards, shame your in US.   I'd be interested only for I would get murdered with customs and VAT:(  Still you should have no trouble at all selling those both fantastic gaming cards.

If you are interested, make an offer. I will let my roommate know. He may go lower.

My roommate has dropped the price to $250 per card.
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