We are proud to introduce the Spectrecoin "Community Chest", a fund of 300,000 XSPEC (to be funded after the hard-fork) available to the community. Any member of the community can apply for funding from this fund for projects, initiatives or other engagements that benefit Spectrecoin. If you are a coder / programmer and want to add features, upgrade or improve, put in an application. We also want to encourage any other ideas around adoption, use cases, community, outreach, marketing and whatever else that will directly benefit the project, the community and all investors. If you have an idea let us know through the application form. This is your chance to get involved in an exciting privacy project!
https://news.spectreproject.io/spectrecoin-community-chest/
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September 11, 2019, 05:31:20 PM
September 09, 2019, 05:08:11 AM
The Spectrecoin Foundation CIC released the production version of Spectrecoin v4.x today on our GitHub repo. This release will activate a planned hard-fork on Friday 27/09/2019 (27th September 2019) @ 2000 hours (GMT) (1569614400 unix epoch time) and this is a MANDATORY upgrade and you will need to get the v4.x wallet up and running ahead of the hard-fork to be able to continue staking. Spectrecoin v4 will generate a one-time 3,000,000 XSPEC staking reward for The Spectrecoin Foundation CIC at address SSGCEMb6xESgmuGXkx7yozGDxhVSXzBP3a to cover increasing development costs.
https://spectreproject.io/index.html#downloads
https://news.spectreproject.io/spectrecoin-v4-x-upgrade-guide/
https://spectreproject.io/index.html#downloads
https://news.spectreproject.io/spectrecoin-v4-x-upgrade-guide/
September 07, 2019, 01:38:06 AM
Spectrecoin [xspec] has been on bISQ almost two years now......and frankly, it seems smaller cap coins like it and others get little play on the dexes. Personally I thought it would be a boon to the project but, sadly its never been much of a factor.
Well... tomorrow's a new day.
Meanwhile, someone *ahem* is willing to buy XSPEC at a 50% premium on Bisq to whatever the centralized exchanges are offering now. That door-crasher special will probably be available all weekend or until someone musters the resources (effectively loads the software on a computer and sends some XSPEC to the provided address to allow the arbitration mechanism to kick in) to make that peer-to-peer exchange happen.
Hopefully that seller can appeal to some smart person's venality this weekend (thereby helping to push the price up in the long run bcs ... hypothetically... if the XSPEC buyer were myself ... I would only sell stakes anyhow [being a long-term focused individual and into stuff like the following: https://mises.org/library/money-bank-credit-and-economic-cycles . To give the Cliffs Notes version of that: it makes a comprehensive case for why personal retained savings are a more optimal form of investment while central banking and debt-finance [fractional-reserve banking] should be recognized as relics from the 16th through 19th centuries that had their era -- replete with periodic boom-and-bust cycles that are documented in detail.
So, help make the world a better place, stick your finger in the eye of technocratic command-economy-infatuated plutocrats, and trade some XSPEC for some better prices! Or be the plaything of inertia and don't seize the day. ^_^
September 07, 2019, 12:45:19 AM
If it is like a coin for business, I wonder how the isseu of volatility will be resolved. this is a pretty important point.
I see and understand your point (volatility can suck if one has exposed his- or herself inopportunely). However, volatility is "bread-and-butter" or fresh air if someone is trading and can recognize in a chart where the aggregate buying-and-selling has painted a chart. Stability should be recognized as a chimera if a person values all concerned parties coming to their own conclusions about what is valuable and what is not using their own judgement (rather than relying on some supposedly-authoritative opinion that might not have sound premises).
Moreover, if someone figuratively mortgages the farm and auctions off their own and their posterity's life-savings to pile into a position ** in any single thing -- no matter what it might be ** there is a lesson to be learned in diversification and timeliness of predictions. Hopefully, such a person manages their affairs more sagaciously in the future.
September 03, 2019, 04:02:42 AM
August 19, 2019, 02:53:08 PM
I think that we are still building the foundations we need to stand on if we are to survive into to future. There is no point in having lofty goals if you can't deliver. We and most other crypto projects have such a limited reach and I am sure that 99.9% of the population has never even heard of Spectrecoin or even Monero. Most people don't read Bitcointalk, Discord or watch the Twitter or read the newsletters. I think we need to secure funding, retain good developers and then marketing needs to happen.
In any case, in order to get used as payment, we need to get listed on major exchanges and do that we need trade volume but nobody is trading. Then there are all the AML / KYC regulations, not so much for us, but for any legit business that would work with us.
It's all well and good to say that we want to be this and that, but we also need a realistic way to get there.
In any case, in order to get used as payment, we need to get listed on major exchanges and do that we need trade volume but nobody is trading. Then there are all the AML / KYC regulations, not so much for us, but for any legit business that would work with us.
It's all well and good to say that we want to be this and that, but we also need a realistic way to get there.
Yes you have a very professional approach, which is good! But I think you are underestimating the potential of Spectrecoin in its current form. Yes having a mobile wallet etc. would be nice, but XSPEC is technically very strong already! Proof of anonymous stake has been a major milestone in the development of cryptocurrency technology.
But still, what is giving a blockchain its value is not the technology (because technology can be copied, as it has happened in numerous cases), but having a strong community of actual users! So driving forward acceptance should be a major priority at any point in development, but especially now after PoAS has been implemented I think we shouldn't be afraid to show our coin to other people and invite them to use it.
The point when Spectrecoin will actually give value to the world is when it starts giving people the ability to make anonymous payments in an environment-friendly way (PoS). That's a great foundation for marketing and PR activities, everyone likes environment-friendly things nowadays.
And in the same way I think that most people will like Spectrecoin in its current form, as soon as they get the opportunity to learn about it.The usability might not be perfect yet, but things never get perfect. Perfectionism often gets in the way of making progress, and what helps is to realize that you will never be perfect and keep pushing forward with something that is "good enough" to make a difference.
August 18, 2019, 11:56:17 AM
Spectrecoin [xspec] has been on bISQ almost two years now......and frankly, it seems smaller cap coins like it and others get little play on the dexes. Personally I thought it would be a boon to the project but, sadly its never been much of a factor.
August 17, 2019, 06:32:46 PM
** Sorry, I'm not able to access Discord right now (I promise to delete or otherwise tinker with this message upon achieving the end desired). **
Over with the tumbleweeds and Monero community on the Bisq platform ( https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/bisq/ , https://bisq.network/markets/ ), there's a Willing-to-buy (XSPEC) order that's 35% higher than the highest sell-offer on Livecoin (this, or similar, can be expected on almost any given weekend).
As indicated before, the Bisq platform is a decentralized exchange where the coins don't leave your computer and get sent to some honeypot in say... the U.K. or the Netherlands... or New Zealand (Cryptopia). It also avoids situations like this:
https://www.coindesk.com/quadrigacx-crypto-exchange-users-say-they-still-cant-get-their-money-out . Bisq operates over TOR natively and assigns the traders .onion addresses.
Notably, for citizens of the "Land of the Free", since the coins are in your possession and not in a "Foreign Financial Account" there is no FBAR reporting requirement that is expected to be filed with the U.S. Treasury each year. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Secrecy_Act#FBAR -- the penalties for reporting falsely or not reporting are noted on the form with virtually medieval penalties of five years in prison and/or $10,000 for each instance). Truly nasty stuff ... That form is intended to force people to report their maximum balances annually in say Switzerland, the Bahamas, Panama, and other "offshore" tax havens -- people don't realize or choose to ignore how the State probably views crypto-exchanges. I don't think that self-serving, mendacious, mercantilist, con-man president is likely to drop that requirement to file with the Treasury (in addition to the IRS-filing) anytime soon; and, unfortunately, I don't think Andrew Yang will win the election in 2020.
As a tool against encroaching serfdom (the situation those people protesting in Hong Kong are facing), I think Spectrecoin should focus on code-review, long-term planning, and maintaining a viable product. Marketing is important as a secondary priority but there are the cliches about "making a silk purse out of a sow's ear" and "selling the sizzle and not the steak" that need to be considered too. I think too many in crypto want to become insta-billionaires and are not focused on principles, ideals, or the long-term. Many are probably looking at trading (into bitcoin or fiat/statist/Empire-currency) when the real, long-term prize is really considering the PoS character as potentially a viable income source not so tied into the ethically-bankrupt political-banking/debt symbiosis.
Moreover, in society at large (where corporations are treated as "people" that can flout laws internationally far into the future and many people seem to let their emotions or tribalism dictate their conduct) I think people need to look into stuff like:
www.seasteading.org and https://www.mars-one.com/about-mars-one/current-mission-status. Hopefully there'll be more political and economic options someday -- preferably, IMO, incorporating ideas along the lines of this: https://www.amazon.com/Liberalism-Lib-Works-Ludwig-Mises/dp/0865975868 or this: Karl Popper [ https://www.amazon.com/Open-Society-Its-Enemies-One/dp/0691158134 or this:
https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/spencer-the-man-versus-the-state-with-six-essays-on-government-society-and-freedom-lf-ed , the voluntary taxation scheme advocated at this "joke" site: http://gunsanddopeparty.net/spooner.html (see especially L.S.'s excellent "No Treason" series of essays: https://oll.libertyfund.org/people/lysander-spooner -- these should be required reading for everyone that ever had a civics class in high school , or maybe some Buckminster Fuller futurism (_Critical Path_, _Grunch of Giants_).
Anyway, someone please give that Bisq order (and Bisq in general) some consideration and make 20 or 30 bucks off my generosity.
Over with the tumbleweeds and Monero community on the Bisq platform ( https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/bisq/ , https://bisq.network/markets/ ), there's a Willing-to-buy (XSPEC) order that's 35% higher than the highest sell-offer on Livecoin (this, or similar, can be expected on almost any given weekend).
As indicated before, the Bisq platform is a decentralized exchange where the coins don't leave your computer and get sent to some honeypot in say... the U.K. or the Netherlands... or New Zealand (Cryptopia). It also avoids situations like this:
https://www.coindesk.com/quadrigacx-crypto-exchange-users-say-they-still-cant-get-their-money-out . Bisq operates over TOR natively and assigns the traders .onion addresses.
Notably, for citizens of the "Land of the Free", since the coins are in your possession and not in a "Foreign Financial Account" there is no FBAR reporting requirement that is expected to be filed with the U.S. Treasury each year. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Secrecy_Act#FBAR -- the penalties for reporting falsely or not reporting are noted on the form with virtually medieval penalties of five years in prison and/or $10,000 for each instance). Truly nasty stuff ... That form is intended to force people to report their maximum balances annually in say Switzerland, the Bahamas, Panama, and other "offshore" tax havens -- people don't realize or choose to ignore how the State probably views crypto-exchanges. I don't think that self-serving, mendacious, mercantilist, con-man president is likely to drop that requirement to file with the Treasury (in addition to the IRS-filing) anytime soon; and, unfortunately, I don't think Andrew Yang will win the election in 2020.
As a tool against encroaching serfdom (the situation those people protesting in Hong Kong are facing), I think Spectrecoin should focus on code-review, long-term planning, and maintaining a viable product. Marketing is important as a secondary priority but there are the cliches about "making a silk purse out of a sow's ear" and "selling the sizzle and not the steak" that need to be considered too. I think too many in crypto want to become insta-billionaires and are not focused on principles, ideals, or the long-term. Many are probably looking at trading (into bitcoin or fiat/statist/Empire-currency) when the real, long-term prize is really considering the PoS character as potentially a viable income source not so tied into the ethically-bankrupt political-banking/debt symbiosis.
Moreover, in society at large (where corporations are treated as "people" that can flout laws internationally far into the future and many people seem to let their emotions or tribalism dictate their conduct) I think people need to look into stuff like:
www.seasteading.org and https://www.mars-one.com/about-mars-one/current-mission-status. Hopefully there'll be more political and economic options someday -- preferably, IMO, incorporating ideas along the lines of this: https://www.amazon.com/Liberalism-Lib-Works-Ludwig-Mises/dp/0865975868 or this: Karl Popper [ https://www.amazon.com/Open-Society-Its-Enemies-One/dp/0691158134 or this:
https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/spencer-the-man-versus-the-state-with-six-essays-on-government-society-and-freedom-lf-ed , the voluntary taxation scheme advocated at this "joke" site: http://gunsanddopeparty.net/spooner.html (see especially L.S.'s excellent "No Treason" series of essays: https://oll.libertyfund.org/people/lysander-spooner -- these should be required reading for everyone that ever had a civics class in high school , or maybe some Buckminster Fuller futurism (_Critical Path_, _Grunch of Giants_).
Anyway, someone please give that Bisq order (and Bisq in general) some consideration and make 20 or 30 bucks off my generosity.
August 16, 2019, 04:42:28 PM
I think that we are still building the foundations we need to stand on if we are to survive into to future. There is no point in having lofty goals if you can't deliver. We and most other crypto projects have such a limited reach and I am sure that 99.9% of the population has never even heard of Spectrecoin or even Monero. Most people don't read Bitcointalk, Discord or watch the Twitter or read the newsletters. I think we need to secure funding, retain good developers and then marketing needs to happen.
In any case, in order to get used as payment, we need to get listed on major exchanges and do that we need trade volume but nobody is trading. Then there are all the AML / KYC regulations, not so much for us, but for any legit business that would work with us.
It's all well and good to say that we want to be this and that, but we also need a realistic way to get there.
In any case, in order to get used as payment, we need to get listed on major exchanges and do that we need trade volume but nobody is trading. Then there are all the AML / KYC regulations, not so much for us, but for any legit business that would work with us.
It's all well and good to say that we want to be this and that, but we also need a realistic way to get there.
August 16, 2019, 04:39:00 AM
I know that the majority of the XSPEC team doesn't want me to participate, but what this coin is lacking right now is a greater vision. Technology is not everything, you need a public plan on how to receive large-scale adoption in the future. And you need big goals to stimulate investments. The current roadmap is very realistic but it doesn't really carry the fire necessary to make people invest in it.
In the very beginning such a "big goal" was to be adopted for remittances and to build a digital version of the Hawala system. Maybe the time has passed on that but this is the scale that a coin should aim for, in order to motivate people to place a bet on it, make an investment or to stay invested even in bear markets. So basically we need to find a position in the market that we want Spectrecoin to fill. Should it become the main currency used in Darknet markets? Maybe it could become the defacto currency used for buying anonymous services (VPN, anonymous root servers etc.) on the Internet? That might be realistic and is a good goal to work towards. So when the goal is fixed then you can start getting in contact with VPN providers, build partnerships etc.... Just an idea.
And for the marketing vocabulary I would suggest to incorporate the word "lightweight", as it represents the advantage that PoS has over anonymous PoW coins on an emotionally accessible level.
In the very beginning such a "big goal" was to be adopted for remittances and to build a digital version of the Hawala system. Maybe the time has passed on that but this is the scale that a coin should aim for, in order to motivate people to place a bet on it, make an investment or to stay invested even in bear markets. So basically we need to find a position in the market that we want Spectrecoin to fill. Should it become the main currency used in Darknet markets? Maybe it could become the defacto currency used for buying anonymous services (VPN, anonymous root servers etc.) on the Internet? That might be realistic and is a good goal to work towards. So when the goal is fixed then you can start getting in contact with VPN providers, build partnerships etc.... Just an idea.
And for the marketing vocabulary I would suggest to incorporate the word "lightweight", as it represents the advantage that PoS has over anonymous PoW coins on an emotionally accessible level.
August 15, 2019, 04:01:49 PM
Have you ever had similar project here at BCT? Seems like I've already seen such project here. Maybe i am mistaken though...
There has never been a project with anonymous staking via ring signatures, we are the first with that.
August 14, 2019, 10:43:37 PM
.....This exchange is a NO-KYC exchange and you only need an e-mail to trade SPECTRE.....
......In this day and age with increasing surveillance and KYC procedures, we encourage everyone to support these rare exchanges so we can continue to trade in private in the future.
A beautiful description of your wonderful exchange. Thank you.
August 14, 2019, 10:40:54 PM
Anonymous SPECTRE trading now live on TXBIT.IO
I was pushing for this to happen. Now that it has happened, I congratulate the Spectre developers and marketers for getting SpectreCoin listed there on the best NO KYC EXCHANGE for cryptos.
Thanks a million !!!
August 13, 2019, 11:37:37 PM
NEW EXCHANGE
Txbit.io: https://txbit.io/Trade/XSPEC/BTC (anon SPECTRE in/out + trade)
This exchange is a NO-KYC exchange and you only need an e-mail to trade SPECTRE.
Please have a quick look at the link below for some more info:
https://news.spectreproject.io/spectre-at-txbit-io/
Also, if you are unfamiliar with the Spectrecoin dual-coin system please have a look at the white-paper (pages 14-15):
https://spectreproject.io/Spectrecoin_White-Paper.pdf
In this day and age with increasing surveillance and KYC procedures, we encourage everyone to support these rare exchanges so we can continue to trade in private in the future.
Txbit.io: https://txbit.io/Trade/XSPEC/BTC (anon SPECTRE in/out + trade)
This exchange is a NO-KYC exchange and you only need an e-mail to trade SPECTRE.
Please have a quick look at the link below for some more info:
https://news.spectreproject.io/spectre-at-txbit-io/
Also, if you are unfamiliar with the Spectrecoin dual-coin system please have a look at the white-paper (pages 14-15):
https://spectreproject.io/Spectrecoin_White-Paper.pdf
In this day and age with increasing surveillance and KYC procedures, we encourage everyone to support these rare exchanges so we can continue to trade in private in the future.
August 13, 2019, 05:18:07 PM
Anonymous SPECTRE trading now live on TXBIT.IO
https://txbit.io/Trade/XSPEC/BTC
https://txbit.io/Trade/XSPEC/ETH
https://txbit.io/Trade/XSPEC/XLR
August 11, 2019, 11:04:24 AM
How to run Ubuntu wallet?
I get an error:
I get an error:
Code:
./spectrecoin
./spectrecoin: error while loading shared libraries: libQt5WebEngineWidgets.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
How to install this library on Ubuntu 18?./spectrecoin: error while loading shared libraries: libQt5WebEngineWidgets.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Discord has a dedicated RasPi/Linux channel. You are probably getting faster help there: https://discord.gg/xn66j7N
August 11, 2019, 05:28:35 AM
How to run Ubuntu wallet?
I get an error:
I get an error:
Code:
./spectrecoin
./spectrecoin: error while loading shared libraries: libQt5WebEngineWidgets.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
How to install this library on Ubuntu 18? ./spectrecoin: error while loading shared libraries: libQt5WebEngineWidgets.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
August 08, 2019, 08:51:26 AM
The boot strap is the way to go especially for those with slower net connections.
For everyones' convenience...here's How to use the Spectrecoin bootstrap
And now you can stake Spectrecoin in other ways....
Members in the Spectrecoin discord can place smaller amounts in their Panda-Bot wallet and move the amount to the bot pool.
And people outside US that use the citex exchange can stake there! https://citex.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360029350012
For everyones' convenience...here's How to use the Spectrecoin bootstrap
And now you can stake Spectrecoin in other ways....
Members in the Spectrecoin discord can place smaller amounts in their Panda-Bot wallet and move the amount to the bot pool.
And people outside US that use the citex exchange can stake there! https://citex.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360029350012
August 06, 2019, 05:10:43 AM
Using the bootstrap method saves you hours if not days in syncing time.
August 04, 2019, 07:09:26 PM
Using the bootstrap method saves you hours if not days in syncing time.
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