Topic: [ANN] TOURIVA (Read 2192 times)

Hi,

I fully agree with you on that. We are planning on replacing that video with a more informational video down the line. We are currently working on a big upgrade to our blockchain the Touriva 2.0 release so once that is finished we will likely start actively working on a new video. You can find out more info on our upcoming release on our Discord and we also invite you to join us on the 21st on November @ 17:00 UTC for our first ever public meeting where we plan to discuss this update with the community.

That little paper plane animation if nifty. It doesn't, however, give me any insight into the project!

An Invitation to the Touriva Community.

The Touriva team and myself would like to invite you to our first public meeting.
In this meeting we want to talk with everyone about our upcoming Touriva 2.0 update and the future progress of the project.
The meeting will take place on Saturday the 21st of November @ 17:00 UTC. This meeting is open to everyone no matter how much you have invested in Touriva.
In preparation for this meeting we would like to ask everyone to leave any questions they might have in the #questions channel on our Discord All of these questions will be answered during the meeting. We hope to talk to you there!

On a philosophical side note, we are as a micro-nation currently evolving from a democraticly run virtual-kingdom ( me dah King! ) to a democratic republic by virtue of the new technology which Martin is spearheading the development of. I intend to oversee this transition smoothly as powers are devolved away from my grasp and into the machine code. I've enjoyed holding the reigns of power, but I see this as neccesary and positive step forwards in our on going evolution.

If you don't understand how much of an achievement that is, I suggest starting your own crypto and thinking hard about the ramifications of your actions for a year or two!

Ok a couple of things to talk about in the proceeding comments;

1) Someone said it would be hard to compete with big competitors... yeah sure, but embedded in that sentiment is the same old typical bias that pervades the entire crypto-culture... everything has to be the biggest, the best, the most competitive it's incredible how much megalomania dominates the way people think around here. Touriva is not here to try and take over the world, we are not attempting to out do booking.com or Travala.com (although a Touriva location on Mars would be sweet!!!), as I've said at the start and many times since; we at Touriva believe in a future which will have millions of blockchains, small and large enterprise alike will utilise the power of deflationary economics to grow their businesses and we are simply looking to get ahead of the curve by setting up to do business now the way we envision it will be common place to be done in 10 or so years from now. Touriva is a small business in the pre-startup phase being worked on by a bunch of guys who are having a good time doing so. If this doesn't excite you, that's not our problem! If we get to a point where we are booking 100 guests a day in locations run by partners we will be making ourselves a nice little normal guy level of income that will likely mean we don't have to work full time anymore and can work on getting to 1000 guests a day, at which point you will most likely find us on a beach somewhere in the Mediteranian.

2) People's impatience for results will not effect how fast we proceed in building our business plans. Things will be ready when they are ready. If that means you feel we are too much of an adhoc and unprofessional outfit to invest in, then that's fine.... we don't care... Touriva is a self-funded business endeavour and it's a lot of fun to be part of. You should pick some slick well funded project with beautiful graphics and plans of how they are going to dominate the entire industry to do your crypto-gambling on.

Of course you can feel free to come and actually join in and talk to us on our discord, we are usually online everyday and you don't need to own any Touriva coins to receive our hospitality at that level.

We understand that people have moved on as Touriva has always been a long term project as we have small part time team who work on Touriva in their free time. But we are still as committed as ever to grow and develop our platform in the more recent months most of us have gotten some more free time and we have commited to working more on the platform. Since then we have been hard at work planning our Touriva2.0 release and we hope to be brining some real tangible progress on that in the near future.

This post made my day! 
Don't be offended Touriva team, but hopefully this will serve as a challenge to your project.
So many projects have passed and disappeared, and yet, you are here, still trying to figure out your short and long term goals.
I guess most of your followers already moved on. But you can always prove that you can still turn this project into a reality.
Better post some solid developments because people are fed up with words only, they are now looking for tangible progress.

Today we are announcing blah blah ... Better dont. Dont do anything, stay where u are and enjoy the nods to ur posterior from squalls and fluctuations of air flow. Time will elapse and Touriva will die, and u will forget Touriva. Your devotion to Touriva is a fleeting emotion of your character, one of many emotions that strike ur neck with cold sweat as your heart becomes denser from love to each second u spend behind ur screen making Touriva better.

A look into Touriva's Future!

Today we are announcing our second article in our Touriva2.0 series.
In this article will we be going over some of our short and long term goals.

https://medium.com/@Touriva/a-look-into-tourivas-future-fe37c135b833

We are currently hard at work planning and developing all the Technology. Our upcomming Touriva2.0 release will bring a lot of new technologies to the platform which will help us with decentralizing the Touriva booking platform. With everything currently going on in the world it is hard to market a travel platform. but we feel like this is the perfect time to develop such a platform as we can focus on the technology while not having to wory on missing out on selling holidays.

Interesting if this platform can realize their tourism aspect. I remember a project named Sojourn before, they are into travel industry also and thought that they are serious with launching their booking platform but ended up just a front only. But here, it seems that team behind is serious because if they are not, this has long been abandoned already. As the pandemic is still not over, travel booking platform will be a hard to sell. Not yet. So I understand that you are not ready for that aspect of your business. But hopefully, I will see that sector up and going in the future.

Hi,

We don't have a defined date as to when our travel app will be ready all I can say on that is that it is under construction and we have finished a large part of it already.
The reason it is so hard to give a date for this is that we are working on this part time next to our fulltime jobs. What this means is that we don't need to take anything out of the project but in return things take longer to get released. Some countries are starting to open up again and we are monitoring our options with forming potential partnership as we are keen travellers ourselves. We are also still looking into having premium locations on the platform with the Touriva branded toiletries and travel accessories.

When is your expected release of your travel app?
Some countries are slowly opening up and so with some of other travel destinations.
Are you still going to push thru the customized items like toiletries & other travel accessories that I have seen in your old website?

Hi, Thanks for your response.

Our end goal for Touriva is still and has always been to build a travel platform. This update is not changing that goal. The Touriva 2.0 blockchain will even help is more with this goal as we will have great smart contract and data oracle technology provided by Komodo. and on top of that we will have Safecoin's MATCH protocol protecting the chain against 50% attacks. With this update we are more determined than ever to develop and release our Travel application as we are aiming that every part of the booking process will be governed by a decentralized mechanism. And as you said there are a lot of competitors already out there. However we feel that with the Touriva 2.0 chain we have a good framework to compete with them.

I hope this answers your question and concerns.

It is good to see that this project is still alive and i just saw your brand new website. however, your booking platform is still not up and running? I remember that you are developing one part of your business which is the booking platform and now that section is already gone. Are you still going to pursue your booking app? As I believe that was your main objective before, the reason of having the Touriva name. Tourism industry is down these days but this is good opportunity for you to develop your platform on that specific use case. Because without strong use case and employing smart contracts or data oracles will give you tough competition on that field. There are already popular platforms that are focusing those areas. So I don't know if you can really compete with big names in crypto.

Announcing Touriva 2.0! Our biggest release to date!

Touriva 2.0 is our biggest release to date and we are really excited to share it with you.
This release will be bringing many awesome and exciting features to the Touriva blockchain such as: Smart-contracts, Data Oracles, Stable-coin support, and many more!
You can read more about this upgrade in our first article on medium.

https://medium.com/@Touriva/touriva-2-0-4e182227985d

We will be posting many more articles about the transition from the Touriva 1.0 chain to the Touriva 2.0 chain in the weeks to come.
Some of the topic we will cover are: Touriva 2.0's new rewards structure, and How to claim your existing Touriva 1.0 coins on the Touriva 2.0 chain.

If you have any questions regarding this update feel free to ask them and we will do our best to answer them.

Sincerely,
The Touriva Team

To further elaborate on this our average masternode reward time is around 14 hours so expect to receive your first reward somewhere in the first 24 hours after setting it up. And for the Watchdog expired like Simon said it's not a problem and you will still receive your rewards as long as the wallet on the masternode (VPS) is enabled. you can check this with the following command if you are unsure assuming that you used our Masternode install script to setup your node

Watchdog expired is not a problem, your MN is still running and will recieve rewards as normal.

As for lack of rewards, we occasionally experience chain stalls if someone with a large amount of hashpower disconnects. It's most likely to be the cause of any periods with no rewards. This stalling is always a temporary situation and service resumes as normal as soon as the remaining miners find the next block. We have plans in place and a wallet dev working on converting our chain to Equihash_192 in the hope that it will smooth out the problem because it's not supported by big-rig rental places like nicehash. The problem should also vanish when Touriva has matured further as a project and has a larger number of miners operating. With a bigger mining pool the disconnection of a single large miner will have less of an effect.

what could be the problem? the node on the VPS shows the working state of the node, but in the wallet this status is WATCHDOG_EXPIRED. for more than 5 hours, there were no status changes, no rewards

We pray that the world will recover from viruses that endanger the world today, not only disrupted travel activities, in fact many activities today are severely hampered by covid19

We are very happy about the launach of our new website

You can also read the full announcement for the our new website over on Medium

also feel free to join us on our discord server or to sign up for our mailing list (we aim to send out an email bi weekly)

Yes the world has gone crazy!!

This is not a show stopper for Touriva, the world will recover from this virus and Travel and Tourism will exist again in the future. We hope to be ready for that when the time comes!

1, I'd say most projects of any type don't take off. Either because they are scams to start with or because they are being created by young entrepeneurs who have no real dedication to the long term task it really is to do something like this.

2. We are developing it slowly yes, we all have full time jobs and busy lives! I've always made it clear to all involved that this is a long term project and we will be slowly and deliberately rolling out functionality and developing the business over the long haul. We have built a tight-knit core team who are all regularly checking in at our discord HQ and discussing the project and ideas to move forwards.

3. Certainly the more the merrier, the value of this enterprise is absolutely connected to the volume of trade we eventually hope to be doing.

but the current situation is very unlikely for this project to quickly expand because, we all know that the state of the world is in turmoil with covid19 virus disease, so let the team think about facing difficult situations like this

Waiting to see what's the new development here. Most travel-related projects here didn't take off to what they wanted to achieve. So even if this project seemed to move slow, at least I think this will gonna go. If those 300 users will be active in using your platform, that's a start already. You just need to collaborate with more people that are willing to include their place to your listing or hotels and accommodations that want to be part of this project. But I think you need to reach out those establishments, they will not come to you as they don't know your presence in the market.

Announcement!

We are about to launch our new look home information page.



Check with us soon to see it!

We have over 300 registered users so far, a couple of known likely future locations are :

Lac De Gurson : https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g1903579-d5541398-Reviews-Lac_de_Gurson-Villefranche_de_Lonchat_Dordogne_Nouvelle_Aquitaine.html

That's in southern France.

And we have a guy in Denver Colarado with this place to offer :

https://www.tripadvisor.com/VacationRentalReview-g33440-d10711618-Vacation_Rental_Lake_House_Georgetown-Georgetown_Colorado.html

The price you see there is for renting the entire building, but he's quite willing to do it on a per room basis for around $100 per night.

Prices for accomations will always be listed in USD, part of the plan is for the majority of tourists to never know or care that the system is using crypto-currency under the hood. They pay in USD and the system handles the rest. This way sales of TOUR coins can be made to people who don't care at all about the spot price, only the service. This means the spot price can end up arbitrarily high depending on the amount of traffic the system is eventually processing. Owners of TOUR can obviously pay direct using their TOURs, but until we reach sufficient volume their choices on the system will have to be limited to location providers who are happy to accept TOUR and don't want to convert to USD through our system ( otherwise we would need a large reserve of USD ). These location providers may convert at their leisure on the exchanges, or they can hod'l or spend them to fund their own adventures.

We share more information about the current status of the project on our Discord
We are still hard at work developing the Touriva travel and it will be for quite a while to come. Yes countries are slowly starting to open up again but we think that there won’t be a lot of traveling going on this year that’s why we want to focus our time on refining the booking app instead of rushing it to market. I hope you understand the reasoning behind this decision.
We will be upgrading our website this coming week to a more modern and refined design. Keep an eye out for that announcement 

Watching what developments are you talking about here.
I've checked your website and nothing new from the last time I visited it.
Since countries are slowly opening up again from this lockdown, are you going to activate now your booking platform?
And where will you start? I mean what countries are you going to focus first to launch Touriva?

The past few weeks the team has been hard at work developing a lot of different aspects of the project.
We hope to have an announcement out shortly providing more information the current state of the project.

It's all relative.

I've seen far too many coins come out, issue hundreds of millions of tokens and have those tokens to head straight for 1 satoshi or less because the market is just completely flooded and each individual holder has hundreds of thousands of tokens each on average.

We wanted Touriva to be scarce and difficult to obtain through any means other than sharing accomodation services through the app, and a low coincap makes it easy for myself and other supporters of the project to maintain a value above zero. Actually at time of writing the mast majority of Touriva on the market are above or well above $1, with significantly less than $1000 worth available below that threshold.

Another aspect is that the smaller the coin cap, the more volatile the pricing. This is a key part of the business plan for Touriva because ultimately the plan calls for selling tokens to tourists who will not care one dot about the actual spot price as they are likely by design to be completely unaware that the project uses crypto under the hood. This is achieved through the app and marketing; the plan is to market the vacation options in a similar way to a traditional vacations company. For instance : https://www.holiday-factory.com/ which is based here in the UAE. A typical tourist will find the app from our marketing, look at the prices in dollars ( or AED ) and if they make a booking the system will internally convert their payment to Touriva tokens, depending on the location providers settings;

1) Instant cash-out : any tokens the location provider earns will be sold for $$$ immediately for the best available price.

2) Balanced cash-out : their tokens will placed on sale for an amount which is equal to their listing price and they wait until the system completes their order.

3) Investment mode : their tokens can either be withdrawn for them to hold personally or placed on sale at a price they specify. Again they will need to wait until the price reaches their goal before they get their $$$.


The more tourists we accomodate, the more throughput the system will have in delivering rewards to anyone who is holding coins or collaborating as a miner or location operator. With a very low cap, the price will be able to spike skywards very fast with only a small number of tourists using it. Some people will use such spikes as an opportunity to dump and be gone and that's fine it's inevitable and if this works it will be their loss! Others will be able to use the spikes to expand their location offerings by saving up coins whilst the price is low and then selling when it gets high in order to fund opening new, bigger and better locations.

Again the key to it all is getting actual tourists in beds. It's the beating heart of the plan, and I would consider this a rip-roaring success if it reaches a point where we have say 100 tourists sleeping in various locations on an average night paying say $50 / night each, giving a daily turn over of $5000 annual of $1,825,000

We don't need to be the size of AirBnB for this to work, even matching the output of a small classic tourism agency company will result in a working throughput which will drive profits for all involved. It would be nice to reach the stated endgame of having Touriva branded luxury resorts around the world, but realistically if that happens it won't be for at least 15 to 20 years from now unless this really takes off in a huge way in the coming few years.

Hi Simon,

I am researching your coin. I like how passionate you are about building your idea.

Question, why did you decide to only have 3 Mil total coins, that seems like an odd, and small number to pick. Your mining rewards will be small to non-existent  in no time.

Booking platform and the rest of the ecosystem is under development by me. I originally built a bunch of the planned functionality out quickly in PHP, but someone found an exploit in the internal exchange, I believe it was a mysql injection attack. That forced me to step back and rethink my strategy, and since then I've been taking a lot more time to work on a far more robust and secure replacement using NodeJS and QuasarJS (https://quasar.dev) for the frontend. I've been detoured for the last couple of months doing freelance work for another startup called Zovento (https://zovento.com) which is not in the crypto-space and was founded by a colleague of mine at my fulltime job here in Dubai. The Zovento App is built using the same stack that I am going to deploy Touriva using. The difference is a matter of details and UX design.  Zovento was launched just prior to the lockdown and I'm still finishing up some of it's functions, but when I'm done with that I will be turning my attention back to Touriva and swapping out various bits of the stack to create the Touriva App.

Hi, To answer your question. We are hard at work behind the scenes to develop the Touriva booking platform among other things we are also hard at work on our V1 Whitepaper and a redesign of the info page. We hope to have the Whitepaper and info page out shortly while we keep working on the Touriva booking platform. Our goal is to come out of this crisis better than when we went in. I hope I've answered your question. If you have any other question please feel free to leave them here.

Sincerely,
Martin | The Touriva team

how about your booking platform? will there be development during this time of pandemic? I think it is a good opportunity to develop your platform because once the lockdown is over to almost all parts of the globe, people might consider using the booking services again. Also with actual working platform, it might help in changing your market value to positive direction.

@everyone we are pleased to announce our latest wallet update: v1.1.1 this update brings a completely reworked UI to our QT wallet.
Note that this wallet is just a cosmetic upgrade and is not mandatory
Downloads are available on our GitHub:
https://github.com/Touriva/TOUR/releases/tag/v1.1.1a

It is not the real coinmarketcap site. this is the real one - https://coinmarketcap.com/ . so if you check on this site, Touriva is not yet listed. but the site cmc.io is also fine, at least there is a point of reference to your coin. and by the way, checking the price of your coin in crex, I think it is better than most of alts. you managed to keep this coin for more than 5 months now and the current price is about doubled from your initial price. so you are not doing bad here. but I think, the actual implementation of your platform will make your coin increase its value in the market

Update : Where are now listed at CoinMarketCap : https://cmc.io/coins/touriva

Update : We are now listed on Masternodes.online

https://masternodes.online/currencies/TOUR/

And we are about to start a 1M banner impression campaign with them.

We've seen a strong upturn in price from around 250 sats to around 800 sats in the last few days as a result of the listing, and we are hoping to see further upward movement when the banner ads kick in.

Hi John,

Whats the listing costs like?

Right now we are trying to raise the money for listing with Masternodes.online.

That's exactly the whole point of the project; think about how much people spend annually on travelling... it's one of the worlds biggest industries.

Personally I spend several thousand dollars a year travelling. If we can get together a reasonable sized group that uses the system annually for their travel needs, the buying pressure will send the coin sky high. I have a friend I met here in Dubai who has recently bought a holiday resort in southern France called "lac de gurson". He's busy renovating it right now and hopes to have it open for business from around April. We are planning to do the first TOURIVA gathering there in August. I also have a contact who owns a bunch of timeshares in high end resorts who will be willing to rent them out for payment in TOUR when there is enough buying pressure to ensure he can cash out efficiently. I would say that with luck, some investors and a year to work on it we will have a bunch of good options available and a strong price point that we can build on to further the project and the quality and quantity of the accomodation options available through it.

Better hurry, the cheap coins are selling out fast. A few days ago there was 75K TOUR on sale, right now there is 41.7K and I expect shortly it will be down to about 35K.

Also the donators panel have decided to up the collateral to 1000 coins at the next wallet release which we are hoping to have ready in a few weeks.

Hello
Yep, this project is great
I also took MN while it is possible
And by the time it’s will hard to do,
they will bring me coins  for travels
 

Hello, i saw your posting on New Coins discord. after reading the whole thread here i wish you luck and feel this is a solid project. I look forward to getting the opportunity to own a masternode one day soon. i will be anxiously awaiting more developments.

Brazilman37BTC

Hi there, not sure to be honest.

I was about to get stuck into coding it when it was discovered that the existing internal exchange system had a security hole which was allowing people to manipulate their balances, so I shut it down and now I'm building a new one in NodeJS and VueJS. It's going to be much better and much more secure! I'm done with PHP... never again!!!!

With regard to project failure... not going to happen...

I'm not some script-kiddie from eastern Europe playing crypto-entrepeneur! I'm a 20+ years experienced web developer with a full time well paid job in Dubai working for a company that trades in rough diamonds.

I won't let this project fail, it's my retirement plan.

Soon I'll reach the point where I can get commodity traders here in Dubai's DMCC onboard and then we will see some sparks fly price wise

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Touriva got a lot of great improvements currently under construction:

- Switching to a more stable mining algorythm and masternode collateral increase and block time halving.
- Rewrite of their official website and home exchange and mobile optimization of it.

Results will be a more stable moving chain, faster transaction times and lower server costs for masternode holders.

The community is expanding and work is done to increase exposure for Touriva. I still consider this project a diamond in the rough, happy holder. Thanks

btw when will you launch your booking platform?



been couple of months in the exchange already but nothing important is happening here. your coin will be worth if you have working platform otherwise just another tourism coin wannabe but no real developments happening.
hope your ending will not be like sojourn - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-sojourn-nova-exchange-active-on-fork-now-with-dgw-2016889

We are pleased to announce that TOURIVA has recently been listed on Crex24:
https://crex24.com/exchange/TOUR-BTC

You can also track your TOURIVA coins on:
Coingecko: https://www.coingecko.com/coins/touriva
Delta: https://delta.app
Blockfolio: https://blockfolio.com

Hi, you can find all the published information on the site homepage in the 'invest & earn' section.

I haven't actually paid much attention to marketing materials such as a roadmap and whitepaper. The roadmap is tricky because whilst I can sketch out roughly the steps needed to reach the end goals, pressures on my time such as my fulltime job, the family nursery business and my 3 year old daughter mean that I can't predict how much time I will have to dedicate to development week to week so there are two levels of uncertainty ( the other being how long a given section of code requires to build ) and therefore any prediction I make is likely to be so wildly inaccurate that it's next to useless.

I've written about 3 A4 pages worth of whitepaper material so far and there is more to add to it. It's been released in it's current form within the donators only section on the discord for feedback.

My stance is that my time is best used actually building stuff rather than making up stuff about how I'm going to build stuff. TOURIVA is my ambition becoming manifest and it's not like I'm trying to raise millions of dollars and open plush offices or anything like that. If you want to drop a token donation, even just a dollar, into the donations pot you can get access to the donators room where you can talk to the others about the project and where we are going with it. Everyone in there is part of an extended distributed team.

Thank you for your response regarding my post. Appreciate it.
I hope you are honest with your answers above.
If in case this will push thru, I wish all the best for Touriva then!
The number of travelers are getting higher each day so they deserve better options where they can get it at economical price.

at the end of all
there are a real transparent project with serious intentions
I am pleased to
Thanks to this team !

where can see the detailed infomation of te members and the roadmap,whitepaper?

It's already there :

https://touriva.info/investor-info/team/


At the moment the only info and links on there is about me, but I will get round to updating with the other key players soon. Also I've been told that the picture on there doesn't look like me... it is me... but something about the angle I took it and not wearing my glasses makes people feel like it's a picture of someone else so I will update that soon as well.

TOURs are held by about 800 people right now, with the bulk of the coins in my hands and smaller amounts in the hands of the team and early adopters and donators to the project.


A bit of both, of the premine only 720K remains in my hands, the rest has been manually distributed. I have not sold any TOUR, nor have I deposited any coins to the exchange. The premine exists so I can do deals with commodity traders here in Dubai's DMCC. The plan is to have them invest in bulk and use the funds to buy listings and support the price at the exchange.




Absolutely I am, but your cynacism is well understood and in this market it's frankly healthy to be skeptical and suspicious. If you would like to come to our discord I can prove to you my real world identity which I am showing publically as the founder of this project. I can also prove that I am positioned in Dubai's DMCC area and have access to the commodities trading hub here.


I haven't taken a single penny from the project into my pocket and in terms of both time and money I am currently it's biggest investor by a long way. I'm going for the biggest prize here, the ability to stay at any one of many quality TOURIVA locations worldwide anytime I want for the whole of my future retirement... I'm not going to let the potential go for a handful of BTC.



Completely understandable, I too have been burned on various shitcoin projects. It's a fact which has always weighed on my thinking and whilst I've been capable of launching something like this for many years now, I never had a concept which I believed I could make work before I came up with TOURIVA and decided to go ahead with it.

I fully understand and appreciate that at this stage I need to prove myself and my project in the eyes of the crowd. I have no problem with that and I fully intend to do so. So please feel free to interogate me to your satisfaction

I am wondering who are the current holders of your TOUR coin as you already started the trading in crex?
Are those from mn owners or from the premine of 1.27M TOUR coins?
I am not being negative here but I hope you are sincerely developing this platform for travelers.
And not just a way of earning money for your pockets.
We are already tired of seeing platforms that use a good front to grab cash from unknowingly customers.

Can you put a section on your website regarding your team details and links? Not all people can read the details your team are posting in this thread. I have seen several projects exploring the tourism sector, yet, they have no success in actually implementing it. I wish you all the best for this project because we need more of this app for the travelers to get more benefits while traveling.

By the way, I like the part that you will have your Touriva store as well. Where hosts can purchase customized items for their place. Looking forward to the time of implementation of this platform... Good luck!

I have started discussions with several commodities traders within Dubai's DMCC with a view to securing investments in the coin in the near future. It's tricky because these guys are always really busy buying and selling things like Diamonds, precious metals and other commodities, but there is interest and the DMCC itself has fairly recently had adverts up in Almas tower raising awareness of crypto-currency to promote their Crypto-currency trading licence which I will be seeking in the future so I can bulk advertise in the DMCC rather than just meeting people socially.

We have just launched our official Touriva Twitter account go and follow it now: https://twitter.com/TourivaOfficial

More awesome new to come 

I don't have a specific date yet for everything to be up and running as I'm working a fulltime job and doing this in my available spare time.

Still to be done is :

- fixing the recently discovered bugs in the internal exchange
- 2FA
- improvements to the home and information pages
- the bookings web app

I suspect if I was working fulltime on the project it could all be accomplished within about 6-8 weeks of sustained effort, but I do have a day job so it's going to take a lot longer than that.

Having said that, I've just recently been talking to a friend of mine who used to work here in Dubai as the manager of the local branch of IGI ( International Gemological Institute ). He has retired from the diamond industry now and bought a holiday village in the south of France which he is currently renovating with a view to opening to the public from about April 2020. We are discussing doing a get-together for the TOURIVA community there this coming summer, and the place is likely to be the first holiday resort type offering available through the TOURIVA system.

For details of the location google "lac de gurson"

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g1903579-d5541398-Reviews-Lac_de_Gurson-Villefranche_de_Lonchat_Dordogne_Nouvelle_Aquitaine.html

Regarding phase2: webbased ecosystem

Are there dates set when first beta version will be available?

About 10% of the coins available on the exchange have already sold.

I am not selling any coins myself, this is not an ICO or any sort of fundraiser, it's simply the opening of trading and the market is deciding what the value should be based on what people know about my plans, skills and positioning.

First Third-Party exchange added, it is Crex24. Trading of the Tour is live now: https://crex24.com/exchange/TOUR-BTC

Links:
Homepage : https://touriva.info
Discord : https://discordapp.com/invite/wnteRpR
Download : https://touriva.info/investor-info/download/

Explorers:
Touriva Explorer: https://explorer.touriva.info/blocks

Wallets:
Windows: https://github.com/Touriva/TOUR/releases/download/v1.1.0/tour_windows1.1.0.zip
Mac: https://github.com/Touriva/TOUR/releases/download/v1.1.0/TOUR-Qt1.1.0.dmg
Linux: https://github.com/Touriva/TOUR/releases/download/v1.1.0/Tour_linux1.1.0-1604.tar.gz
Github: https://github.com/Touriva/TOUR/releases

Pools:
MinePool: https://minepool.online/
Pool137: https://pool137.com/

Exchanges:
Touriva ExchangeBeta: https://exchange.touriva.info/
3rd party exchages:
Crex24 https://crex24.com/exchange/TOUR-BTC

Hosted Masternode / Shared Masternode:
IhostMN: https://ihostmn.com/hostmn.php?coin=TOUR
Masternode-World: https://masternode-world.com/

Masternode Setup Guide:
Easy install script: https://github.com/YellowFeveRs/Tour-1

Hi

My name is: Martin Schillhorn

I am a student living in the Netherlands.

I have a great passion for crypto and love tinkering around with code and wallet designs.
I have been in crypto since late 2014 and have been developing for about 2 years.

My role within TOURIVA is co-founder/developer, I take care of most day-today operations and provide scripts and support for people in the community I also take care of most blockchain development and I compile all Mac wallets.

here are some links to my socials:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MartinSchillhorn
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MSchillhorn
Github: https://github.com/MartlnS
and if you don't already have me on discord: @Martin#3523

If you have any other questions about me or what I do please leave me a comment on Discord!

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Hi thanks for your question!

The team are myself and Martin Schillhorn, joined by our panel of 12 donators.

About me :

My full name is Simon James Odell, I am 39 years old and I live and work in Dubai.

My online details :

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/simonjodell
Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/user/simonjamesodell
LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonjamesodell/

My fulltime job is working for a company which trades in rough diamonds through Dubai's DMCC ( https://www.dmcc.ae/ ) The software I am writing for them is a stock control and valuation system which tracks the stones through their journey from the mines to the jewellery stores and calculates the value of the stones according to a complex set of market information and pricing rules which were devised by the directors of the company.

On almost a daily basis people who I know through working in Almas Tower ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almas_Tower ) for the last 4 years, and who I have been speaking to about my crypto-project, are asking me for updates about what is happening with the project. The DMCC allows for crypto-currency to be traded as a commodity and it's part of my plan to obtain a DMCC trading licence so I can legally trade TOURIVA and other crypto's within the DMCC.

My role within TOURIVA is the founder/leader, 'visionary' of the concept, and lead ( currently only ) programmer for the web ecosystem. I also created the TOURIVA genesis block and I compile the Windows and Linux versions of the wallet.

I'll let Martin explain his background and role for himself, and perhaps one or two of the donators will chime in ( if they feel like it! )

Who are those apart of the Touriva team?

That's because I don't have time to create crap like that I'd much rather spend time working on the code and making the system better.

InternetOfThings#6136

I joined Touriva last autumn. And in many ways he was not like other projects. There are no beautiful pictures with graphs and charts and pathos statements. This is what distinguished TourCoin from other projects when developers, after a couple of months, apparently flew away to the personal moon, forgetting to notify the community about it. But Simon is a real developer who does not hide behind false photos stolen from microstock and understands how his project will look and why he creates it. It also answers any questions, as you can see by reading the previous posts. In most projects, we don’t even know who is its developer. As an obvious example of a fake Tour, the creator of which is probably already making a new fraudulent project.

Great question, thanks for asking!

Let me tell you a little story...

About 18 months ago my wife and I were out shopping at a local supermarket and She entered our details
into a competition. A couple of weeks later we got a phone call saying we had won a gold coin and a free
getaway vacation and all we had to do was attend this short presentation at a Novotel hotel here in Dubai.

The company was called Novo Elite vacations and initially I thought they were connected to Novotel but
that was not the case ( I have a feeling they did that deliberately! ) Anyway during the presentation a pressure
salesman convinced me to join their club so I could use them for my vacations for the next few years. Now
to be fair I have been to New York twice, Bangkok and a weekend getaway in Abu Dhabi and I still have
more credit with them, but their customer service was, well let's say they were not terribly professional.

Anyway it was on the first trip to NYC when I had the idea to create a crypto-based tourism club with
franchise branded locations worldwide which can then be marketed here in Dubai in a similar manner to
the way Novo Elite market their offering.

Getting to that stage means bootstrapping through lower stages however because I can't sell a premium
vacation offering without being sure that I'm sending people to a suitable destination. Intially therefore
I intend to target the low end of the tourism market, which is why phase one is titled 'Bedspaces for Backpackers'

The TOURIVA app will work very much like NovoElite app, and at first I will be promoting to backpacker
online social spots and signing people up with a free welcome bonus of enough TOURIVA for a weekend
getaway provided by 3rd parties wherever they are. The coins I allocate for free will not be withdrawable and
can only be used to create a booking on the app. I will also be suggesting to these backpackers that since TOURIVA
is a crypto-currency based project they may benefit from buying up some TOURIVA for their future travel plans.
Some will get it some won't, but I'm sure it's possible for me to send tourists from here in Dubai to the TOURIVA
locations once they become available.

Another approach I have is making sure that the TOURIVA app for the most part conceals the crypto-currency
aspect such that an end user need have no experience at all of using crypto in order to be a customer. This
has the added benefit that the company can be promoted on Facebook, circumventing their rules about
advertising crypto-projects. Unless they spend a bunch of time really digging into the app they should be
entirely oblivious to the fact it's a crypto-project.

Thanks for your answer to my previous question....
How will customers get to know about accommodation that is being offered, what marketing will be done?

Thanks _I_O_T_A... what's your discord name?

I am part of the Touriva community for some time now and want to let potential future investors know
that these guys are serious about what they're doing and also have the development skills to pull it off.
A lot better then most of the other crypto projects who don't even have developers and only vague ideas.
Forget those, focus on Touriva! 

Look, the scammers start off day one with a big push to sell coins or masternodes, making alsorts of big promises and typically having setup the reward structure so that masternodes.online will report a crazy high ROI a couple of weeks later so that noobs will come along and buy in. They do this under a cloud of anonymity and as soon as the coin gets on the exchanges they dump and run.

TOUR has been growing slowly over a year now, we have never sold any coins, I've never taken a penny to my pocket. Feel free to discuss the project with anyone in our channel, they have learned to trust me.




TOUR is a low cap coin, only 3mil will ever be minted, 1.4mil are currently in circulation of which I am holding 750K. I started out with 1.2mil and I have distributed the difference for free to a group of about 800 people. I did that to help people build masternodes to secure the network, we currently have 379 active nodes. I haven't sold any coins and I'm not going to.




I'm not going to dump my coins, building this is a career move not a get rich quick scheme. It's a get stinking rich very slowly scheme! I've been working on this for over a year now without putting it on any exchanges, and you think that means I must be looking to dump? No way!!

What is your interest in TOURIVA? Are you hoping to just mine some of the coin so you can dump it on an exchange and move along? If that's the case then really your just looking to scavenge some free money from my efforts and your not really interested in what we are doing at all.




None really, we have both a huge premine and an 'old' chain. I don't intend for TOURIVA tokens to be easily obtainable through any method other than through offering accomodation services on our planned app. Whilst we are in the bootstrap period anything you can do to contribute to the project will be useful and rewarded with free TOUR.



Most of the people who are holders in the project only check in with it's progress from time to time, I'm sure a few of them will popup eventually.



People can mine it if they want, they won't get a whole bunch of reward for doing that, certainly not at this stage anyway. The settings of the coin are intended to make offering accomodation services the absolutely most rewarding strategy for being involved in this.




Over the years I've been scammed in crypto so many times I'm naturally suspicious of everything, and you should be as well. I wholeheartedly encourage anyone looking at this ( or any other project ) to do due dilligence and research. It's only sensible to be cautious in this sphere.






No, 100% of all money ever collected in the donations pot is still in the donations pot. It's about 0.34 BTC right now, and when it's big enough it will be spent on listings. I pay $200 a month to support the web ecosystem whilst I'm developing it in my spare time.




Well that's your choice, we are not going to reboot the chain now it's running nicely and a lot of people have put a lot of effort into setting up Masternodes and keeping them up to date with the releases as the project evolved over the last year. Once again; We are looking for people to collaborate with us in bootstrapping a Tourism company, if that's interesting to you then join us, if your just looking to get some free money for doing basically nothing then I think you will find this project a disappointment.

Links:

Explorers:
Touriva Explorer: https://explorer.touriva.info/blocks

Wallets:
Windows: https://github.com/Touriva/TOUR/releases/download/v1.1.0/tour_windows1.1.0.zip
Mac: https://github.com/Touriva/TOUR/releases/download/v1.1.0/TOUR-Qt1.1.0.dmg
Linux: https://github.com/Touriva/TOUR/releases/download/v1.1.0/Tour_linux1.1.0-1604.tar.gz
Github: https://github.com/Touriva/TOUR/releases

Pools:
MinePool: https://minepool.online/
Pool137: https://pool137.com/

Exchanges:
Touriva Exchange^Beta: https://exchange.touriva.info/
3rd party exchages:
Crex24: https://crex24.com/exchange/TOUR-BTC

Hosted Masternode / Shared Masternode:
IhostMN: https://ihostmn.com/hostmn.php?coin=TOUR
Masternode-World: https://masternode-world.com/

Masternode Setup Guide:
Easy install script: https://github.com/MartlnS/Tour-1

Social Media
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TourivaOfficial

Nice!

For the moment if your interested in the project you can hang out in our discord and monitor progress. I'm hoping to have the main app up and running with a crop of initial locations by next summer so I can go on what I call the MegaTOUR. I'm hoping to circumnavigate the whole world going from TOURIVA location to location all on camera to put on youtube. The operators of those locations are going to get handsome amounts of TOUR and exposure for their location.

When things are ready the experience of listing will be similar to AirBnB, you just put the details of the location your offering on the app and hopefully start recieving guests. You can then either hoard the TOUR and build masternodes or you can exchange it for fiat and cash out, that's your choice.

For me, the age of the chain does the exact opposite. It makes it look LIKE a scam, because who has all those coins if you just announced it? You have a mil coins yourself now? Do you have 371 mn? Nobody else is posting here, etc.

I'm interested in pow, but I didn't mine this because it's already nearly a year old and not on any exchanges, with today being the first announcement. Looks sketchy to me. Not looking for another coin to waste my time mining for it to just be dumped by the devs.

Tell me, what's the difference between a premine and announcing the coin after you mined it for a year? Like you said, it's a low cap coin. So, a million coins being in circulation for a low-cap coin that was just announced. Of course, I'm going to assume that you have them all. lol. If you don't, who does? Why aren't any of these other people posting in here? (inb4 a bunch of copper and below noobs start posting random support)

Your ann also has no links to anything but your website. No wallet, no block explorer, etc. No mention of pools. Very little content. Your website is basically the same, but at least has a block explorer and wallet link. It's almost like you don't even want miners to mine it.

You also talk so much about not being a scam that it's fishy. lol.

Most crypto scams don't make sense, so your "slowest scam in history" point is moot. "Touriva is entirely funded by donation" and "I don't take any money for this project" don't work well together. If I donate to the project, you take the money, right? It goes to your pocket, right? Sure you might invest it into the network, but you're benefitting from that too. Ultimately using someone else's money for your (and hopefully our) gain. Is that not taking money and profit?

Don't get me wrong, not saying you are definitely scamming people, or not, just explaining what I feel when I read over this thread, why I am not mining it, etc. Once I ran the wallet and seen 46 weeks, it was a wrap. lol

I have a 5 bedroom home in the united states. The entire upstairs used to be rented out since is has a bathroom, kitchen and 2 bedrooms. I would be interested in renting it out and would like a breakdown on how that would take place.

Hi BlockBob thanks for your question!

If your just looking to earn a bit of quick fiat currency there are many options online right now for you to do so, you can just list your accomodation option on AirBnB or Booking.com. Either option is safe, simple and .... boring.

TOURIVA is like a worldsized game of Monopoly where the goal is to build your very own TOURIVA hotel using the deflationary effect of crypto to your advantage such that hospitality services you offer early gain you far more tokens than you're likely to get later in the game for the same amount of effort.

Do you remember the 10,000 BTC pizza?

Offering a bed to sleep on the TOURIVA network is the equivalent of connecting an ASIC. Why would you spend hundreds of dollars buying ASIC hardware when you can just put those dollars in a bank or buy some stocks with them? The answer is because you expect to make a much larger return on your investment than you can on other options.

Later on in the development of the system I hope to obtain a tourism licence here in Dubai, and armed with that I will be able to send paying customers from here to stay in accomodation options around the world. If all goes to plan ( and it may not ) at that point these accomodation options will be like franchises, decorated and furnished with the TOURIVA brand, so that from an end users perspective it's like TOURIVA is hotel chain they can use and expect a uniform quality of service anywhere there is a TOURIVA location in the world.

The people who own and run these locations are going to be the ones who get the concept early and find ways to collaborate to make it happen. A determined group of people can achieve anything in this world.

As I've said in a previous comment, at this early stage I recognise that I need to earn your trust. There are many scams out there, but this is not one of them. I am quite open about the fact that this might not work at all, but if it does fail it will not be for lack of trying or because I was not on the level.

If the guest is paying in Fiat, why would i as a accommodation provider risk to be paid in your tokens?
What are the benefits of receiving payment in this form?

Hopefully the age of the chain will support our claim to being a geniune project and not some scam! Certainly if this was a scam it would have to be some sort of record holder for the longest slowest scam in history.

Another thing to consider if your going to join us is that as a low-cap coin, which has already been running for a significant time there is very little  inflation running now and any coins you obtain are not going to be swamped out by a high ROI peak 2 minutes after you buy them.

Yup, it's been running a fair old time. Originally this project was called TourCoin but there was another group who took the name and announced right before we were about to. It seemed at the time like they had just copied the idea and made a high ROI scam out of it. An argument ensued and the anonymous dev called me a theif of their idea! ( If you search TourCoin it might amuse you to read the threads ) The other TourCoin died not long after and I gave a bunch of their users a free swap out.

Anyway after that event it was decided to take a step back, rebrand the project and develop it quietly until it was in a much more advanced state and ready to start being open again.

TOURIVA is that new branding, the concept has been developed and refined for many months now.

If your thinking of obtaining some, you can do so on the exchange, I will not sell any TOURIVA directly and I've never taken a single penny to my pocket whilst running this. I won't be rewarded until I succeed in bringing this concept to market, I don't need to take anything I have a good job anyway.

We could do with any help in the form of donations, TOURIVA is 100% funded by donations and I personally spend $200 / month supporting the web servers for the ecosystem.

Didn't expect the chain to be almost a year old. 202k blocks and 371 mn, but announced today. lol

Like Simon said the current favorite 3rd party exchange is Crex24 but this is subject to change as our Donators ultimately decide what exchange we are going to list on. as for other sites we are planning to get listed on we are already on ihostmn and masternode-world for shared and hosted masternodes and we are looking at sites to add to this list.
We are also planning to get listed on all the major tracking sites ones we get listed on a 3rd party exchagne. so for example Coingecko, Blockfolio, Delta and obviously coinmarketcap.

Hi, thanks for your interest in Touriva!

We are not currently listed on any exchanges, trading is possible through our internal exchange which is in beta testing now. The internal exchange is key to how the TOURIVA system will work in the future because it will exchange tourists payments using creditcards to tokens. To understand that further consider the scenario when the main app is up and running and being promoted like any other tourist club and an end user who has no knowledge of crypto wishes to make a booking for a stay in a given location. From their perspective the App will work like any booking system, accepting their credit card details and notifying the host of the booking. Under the hood the system will use the funds from the credit card payment to purchase the lowest priced TOURIVA tokens from the TOUR / USD section of the exchange, and it will send those to the host as payment for the stay. This way the flow of end users taking vacations will provide a constant upwards pressure on the TOUR / USD market, and given that some of the hosts will prefer to hoard in order to build masternodes rather than immediately dump, it seems likely that somewhat less than 100% of the TOUR will re-enter the market, creating a deflationary pressure which increases as more tourists use the app and more hosts use their ASIC like income from their bed-mining activity to build up their Masternode holdings.

We do recognise that at this early stage trust in our systems is something we need to earn, and because of that we are also saving up in our donations pot towards getting listed on a 3rd party trusted exchange. I believe the current favourite choice is crex24, but that could change depending on future donations and/or the market value of BTC at the time the donator panel decides to spend from the donations pot to get listings or advertise the system.

TOURIVA The World is yours!

Homepage : https://touriva.info
Discord : https://discordapp.com/invite/wnteRpR
Download : https://touriva.info/investor-info/download/


Introduction

We believe that crypto-currency is more than just a new type of payments system; it's a revolution which is going to fundamentally change
the way we do business both online and in the real world. We believe that in the future there will be millions of blockchains running
concurrently providing the basis for real world distributed business collaboration providing all manner of goods and services. Furthermore
we believe that the very notion of employer and employee will give way to a new paradigm of leaders and collaborators. Leaders will be anyone
who has a vision of how to use a blockchain to implement a real world business plan and collaborators will be anyone who participates or invests
in the plan to bring it to market. In the future deploying a new blockchain will be an action as uncontentious as setting up a webserver is today,
and the technology which powers the blockchain will be as unremarkable as the developers choice between using NGINX or APACHE.

TOURIVA is an attempt to model that future paradigm and bring it into the market in the here and now, by providing a platform through which
a globally distributed group of collaborators can provide services aimed at the travel and tourism industry. We seek collaborators worldwide
to provide TOURIVA branded services in exchange for TOURIVA tokens. Collaborators will not be employees, but rather independent service
providers who follow a set of guidelines in order for end users to enjoy a uniform experience when using the TOURIVA system to enjoy travelling.


Ways to Collaborate

Mining : TOURIVA offers 25% block reward for network hashpower support.
MasterNode : TOURIVA offers 75% block reward for Masternode holders with a 500 TOURIVA collateral.
Bed-mining : In TOURIVA, offering accomodation services is the real world equivalent of connecting to the network with an ASIC,
and due to the low coin cap, the quickest way to obtain TOURIVA will always be to provide the end user service of a place to
sleep in a desirable location.
Donation : The TOURIVA network is entirely funded by donation, and donators recieve access to a private channel on our discord.


Project Roadmap

Phase 1 (Complete) : Genesis block, wallets for Windows/MAC/Linux, establishment of discord channel
Phase 2 (Ongoing) : Development of web based ecosystem and infrastructure to facilitate trading and growth of the network.
Phase 3 : Bedspaces for Backpackers

It has been determined that the easiest way to bootstrap the TOURIVA global tourism network
will be in promoting the lowest cost types of accomodation first. From a simple airbed to a bunkbed dormitory,
the focus will be on providing simple cheap accomodation to thrifty backpacker travellers on a budget.

The Touriva travel app will work in a similar manner to AirBnB and will for the most part hide the fact that TOURIVA
uses crypto-currency so that end users will not need to know or care about crypto in order to make bookings. This is
crucial in many ways, and it also allows for the system to be marketed on Facebook to backpackers and other tourists.

We are not planning on having fees or commissions for listings on TOURIVA, however if the situation calls for it in
the future we reserve the right to do so, for instance to cover marketing or other costs, and we pledge that TOURIVA
fees will always be very small.

Phase 4 : Dedicated Rooms for Couples / Families

Granted success in phase 3, many early accomodation providers will likely become large holders of TOURIVA, and given that
TOURIVA is a Masternode based network with a low coin cap, it seems likely that the value of an individual TOURIVA token
will rise with demand generated in phase 3. This will enable collaborators to begin providing larger scale accomodation options
such as renting a whole apartment to rent out the rooms to tourists who want a double or kingsize bed.

Phase 5 : Small hotels

In many parts of the world it's possible to rent small dedicated hotel units and furnish them under the TOURIVA branding. We hope
that success in the earlier phases will enable the biggest collaborators to begin offering this level of service under the TOURIVA
branding. It is also possible that at this point collaborators will be able to negotiate with small hotel owners to bring their
hotels into the TOURIVA system.

Phase 6 : Large Hotels / Resorts

We believe it's possible and we hope it will happen, that the most profitable ventures in TOURIVA will eventually be able to afford
to purchase or even construct dedicated large hotels and resorts around the world. This represents the ultimate end game for TOURIVA,
the bootstrapping of a true global competitor in the hospitality market, one which can perform to the same standard as any existing
luxury accomodation experience provider.