[ANN][AUR] Auroracoin - a cryptocurrency for Iceland - page 85.

NickPortland

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Quote from: Klacik on March 26, 2014, 06:43:55 AM

Quote from: Bimmerhead on March 25, 2014, 08:51:30 PM

Wow, lot of negativity on here, yet no suggestions of a better way of executing an airdrop.

Kudos to Baldur. Even if this is a total flop, he has led the way and others can build on this experiment.

However for every seller of AUR there is a buyer who is willing to hold for longer term. Because they know this isn't a 3 day experiment. I remember when BTC were less than 10 cents and I still have some I bought back then because that experiment isn't over yet either.

Quote from: leewilson on March 25, 2014, 05:39:57 PM

The majority of the population segment that has been cut out of the airdrop (35yo+) because of the validation chosen (facebook)
is also the same segment that owns the majority of businesses. I am guessing they might be a bit put off because of this
alone.

In less than 3 minutes after reading your assertion I was able to determine there are 116,000 people on Facebook who claim to live in Iceland and are aged 35 and over. And there are 220,000 people on Facebook who claim to live in Iceland and are 13+, so in fact more than half of the people that can participate in this experiement are in your segment of the population that are 'cut out of the airdrop'.

I can't think of a more efficient way for one person to execute an airdrop at such low cost than using FB to validate, can you?

Sure there will be fraud. This is a project that involves humans. If you're looking for perfection let us know when you build it.

yeah.. some people are just unbelievable

first, it was a total scam coin (after only a few days of its life), then balduro was a scammer - who's going to dump all the premined AUR, then there was that airdrop scam, etc etc.. now when the airdrop is actually taking place, there are people who try to bury this coin after only one or two days.. and it doesn't stop here.. now there's the "stupid" claiming process and people attack the creator because it's not perfect.. but how many of these trolls actually helped with something ?? ideas , coding, press, etc.. ?
sheesh...

His post is just plain trolling. As mentioned countless times you can redeem your AUR also using SMS.

Next he'll claim that no people over 35 have a cellphone so that's why it's gonna fail.

fantis1337

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This idea is fucking brilliant if the people get along and the dev doesnt just dump everything few months down the road. I put up an ad on an online market and I´m accepting AUR. Mostly stuff I had problem with selling but it sold up in hours and now I have few hundred AUR coins in my wallet

Saw it dropped last night but that was expected and I think it will keep on going on a rollercoaster rider until the airdrop slows down.

I got the hang of the exchange sites and I´m finding a way to withdraw BTC and maybe USD onto paypal/bank wire? for future use.

Still don´t understand mining and how it works.

Any info would be appreciated.

coin-table

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Klacik

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Quote from: Bimmerhead on March 25, 2014, 08:51:30 PM

Wow, lot of negativity on here, yet no suggestions of a better way of executing an airdrop.

Kudos to Baldur. Even if this is a total flop, he has led the way and others can build on this experiment.

However for every seller of AUR there is a buyer who is willing to hold for longer term. Because they know this isn't a 3 day experiment. I remember when BTC were less than 10 cents and I still have some I bought back then because that experiment isn't over yet either.

Quote from: leewilson on March 25, 2014, 05:39:57 PM

The majority of the population segment that has been cut out of the airdrop (35yo+) because of the validation chosen (facebook)
is also the same segment that owns the majority of businesses. I am guessing they might be a bit put off because of this
alone.

In less than 3 minutes after reading your assertion I was able to determine there are 116,000 people on Facebook who claim to live in Iceland and are aged 35 and over. And there are 220,000 people on Facebook who claim to live in Iceland and are 13+, so in fact more than half of the people that can participate in this experiement are in your segment of the population that are 'cut out of the airdrop'.

I can't think of a more efficient way for one person to execute an airdrop at such low cost than using FB to validate, can you?

Sure there will be fraud. This is a project that involves humans. If you're looking for perfection let us know when you build it.

yeah.. some people are just unbelievable

first, it was a total scam coin (after only a few days of its life), then balduro was a scammer - who's going to dump all the premined AUR, then there was that airdrop scam, etc etc.. now when the airdrop is actually taking place, there are people who try to bury this coin after only one or two days.. and it doesn't stop here.. now there's the "stupid" claiming process and people attack the creator because it's not perfect.. but how many of these trolls actually helped with something ?? ideas , coding, press, etc.. ?
sheesh...

Klacik

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Quote from: yaboymarvo on March 25, 2014, 02:19:50 PM

I feel bad for anyone who actually thought this was going to be a success. Glad i sold all mine when it hit 1 billion for a day.

i feel sorry for people like you...

you just can't see the bigger picture, but oh well.. suit yourself mate and be happy with your early sold AUR coins

dewdeded

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Respect to balduro.

Klacik

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guys, this crypto is getting better by the day

just found an article about the Auroracoin airdrop on one of our internet portals (Slovakia)

http://www.dsl.sk/article.php?article=15385

great job!

minerjav

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Quote from: FreeJack2k2 on March 25, 2014, 08:48:49 PM

People were warned repeatedly about what would happen with this coin, but they kept holding. I guess it shouldn't shock me that I'm seeing posts from people who are just going to go down with the ship and lose every bit of value they have left in their AUR, as the recipients in Iceland cash it in. It wasn't hard to do the math on this. There's no infrastructure, nobody can or will use the coin, it is simply acting as a mechanism to transfer YOUR money to Icelanders. They're cashing it in - as anyone would - for something with actual value in their daily life.

Take your loss and lick your wounds, lesson learned - don't go down with the ship, because it's only just begun taking on water and with the volume of coin yet to be distributed, it has nowhere to go but down, from here.

The world is watching how the Icelanders are reacting on this huge opportunity for the country.
If the price start stabilizing in the near future, a bunch of new investors and infrastructure will be in place faster than any other coin.

From my 3 point previous prediction: the #1 is absolutely discarded, (Thanks Balduro/developer)

The prediction #2 is important. Some Icelanders learn the hard way today that selling as crazy is the worst decision that they can make. I'm confident that they will not do the same thing when they claim the second batch. Many lost their coins in just 1 day and leave to short term investors, easily and fast. People can't see long term changes (like child grow or fiat devaluation). Humans forget easily. But between the first batch and second batch is only 4 months (a genius solution). They will not forget how easily lost their valuable coins in the first batch. They will not make the same mistake twice.

At the end, my prediction #3 will be the final position.

minerjav

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Quote from: solex on March 25, 2014, 10:33:13 PM

Baldur has done a fantastic job.

Now the local ecosystem needs developing, like an AURpay version of BitPay!

+1
Agree

avw1982

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Quote from: surfer43 on March 25, 2014, 09:26:55 PM

Looks like 0.0085 was the bottom. Cool

Could even bought some coins for 0,0075 Tongue

fairglu

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ArirDrop claims watch at http://chainz.cryptoid.info/aur/claims.dws now catching up.

Auroracoin client daemon server hardware failure for a few hours :/ now moved to a backup server.

Currently identified more than 10250 drops, so a best case estimate of almost 3.2% of Icelanders.

Drop rate has drastically slowed down now, but TBH, I think 3% of penetration is already quite an achievement.

tokyopotato

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Quote from: toldy on March 25, 2014, 11:42:35 PM

Quote from: Bimmerhead on March 25, 2014, 08:51:30 PM

Wow, lot of negativity on here, yet no suggestions of a better way of executing an airdrop.

Here's some ideas..........

How about a longer [PRE-ANN] about the new coin to let people become aware of your intentions and debate the best way of rolling out out?

Why did it have to launch so fast? Why did the block awards have to be that large? Why did the coin have to be forked?

How about giving longer than <2 months to attract developers, businesses, pools, exchanges, games, etc to get ready for this coin?

How about having your forums populated, a complete announce list?

There is plenty that could have been done. Two months to convert an entire country over to some cryptocurrency? It boggles my mind that anybody thought it could have been possible.....

People need to think for a change and get out of their trance of chasing every new flashy coin that is released without asking questions first. If people lose money on auroracoin it is their own stupidity. This hasn't played out by far yet.......

It will probably take at least another 3 to 6 months before auroracoin has the same following as Netcoin [NET] or Sexcoin [SXC]

If somebody wants to release a coin for Iceland and do it properly, then start planning now, get a team together, and have it ready for 2015. THAT'S HOW YOU DO IT

Have you ever heard the phrase: No good deed goes unpunished.

tokyopotato

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Quote from: dragonseer on March 26, 2014, 12:40:02 AM

Quote from: megashira1 on March 26, 2014, 12:03:49 AM

Quote from: FreeJack2k2 on March 25, 2014, 08:48:49 PM

People were warned repeatedly about what would happen with this coin, but they kept holding. I guess it shouldn't shock me that I'm seeing posts from people who are just going to go down with the ship and lose every bit of value they have left in their AUR, as the recipients in Iceland cash it in. It wasn't hard to do the math on this. There's no infrastructure, nobody can or will use the coin, it is simply acting as a mechanism to transfer YOUR money to Icelanders. They're cashing it in - as anyone would - for something with actual value in their daily life.

Take your loss and lick your wounds, lesson learned - don't go down with the ship, because it's only just begun taking on water and with the volume of coin yet to be distributed, it has nowhere to go but down, from here.

qft

I'll keep buying and increase my share until I can go to Iceland and spend Auroracoins on a range of services, I'm sure it will make for a nice holiday

You will be able to spend them outside of Iceland as well. See https://moolah.io/merchants/learn-more

tokyopotato

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Quote from: Bimmerhead on March 25, 2014, 08:51:30 PM

Quote from: leewilson on March 25, 2014, 05:39:57 PM

The majority of the population segment that has been cut out of the airdrop (35yo+) because of the validation chosen (facebook)
is also the same segment that owns the majority of businesses. I am guessing they might be a bit put off because of this
alone.

In less than 3 minutes after reading your assertion I was able to determine there are 116,000 people on Facebook who claim to live in Iceland and are aged 35 and over. And there are 220,000 people on Facebook who claim to live in Iceland and are 13+, so in fact more than half of the people that can participate in this experiement are in your segment of the population that are 'cut out of the airdrop'.

I can't think of a more efficient way for one person to execute an airdrop at such low cost than using FB to validate, can you?

Sure there will be fraud. This is a project that involves humans. If you're looking for perfection let us know when you build it.

Classic!

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Quote from: megashira1 on March 26, 2014, 12:03:49 AM

Quote from: FreeJack2k2 on March 25, 2014, 08:48:49 PM

People were warned repeatedly about what would happen with this coin, but they kept holding. I guess it shouldn't shock me that I'm seeing posts from people who are just going to go down with the ship and lose every bit of value they have left in their AUR, as the recipients in Iceland cash it in. It wasn't hard to do the math on this. There's no infrastructure, nobody can or will use the coin, it is simply acting as a mechanism to transfer YOUR money to Icelanders. They're cashing it in - as anyone would - for something with actual value in their daily life.

Take your loss and lick your wounds, lesson learned - don't go down with the ship, because it's only just begun taking on water and with the volume of coin yet to be distributed, it has nowhere to go but down, from here.

qft

I'll keep buying and increase my share until I can go to Iceland and spend Auroracoins on a range of services, I'm sure it will make for a nice holiday

megashira1

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Quote from: FreeJack2k2 on March 25, 2014, 08:48:49 PM

People were warned repeatedly about what would happen with this coin, but they kept holding. I guess it shouldn't shock me that I'm seeing posts from people who are just going to go down with the ship and lose every bit of value they have left in their AUR, as the recipients in Iceland cash it in. It wasn't hard to do the math on this. There's no infrastructure, nobody can or will use the coin, it is simply acting as a mechanism to transfer YOUR money to Icelanders. They're cashing it in - as anyone would - for something with actual value in their daily life.

Take your loss and lick your wounds, lesson learned - don't go down with the ship, because it's only just begun taking on water and with the volume of coin yet to be distributed, it has nowhere to go but down, from here.

qft

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Quote from: Bimmerhead on March 25, 2014, 08:51:30 PM

Wow, lot of negativity on here, yet no suggestions of a better way of executing an airdrop.

Here's some ideas..........

How about a longer [PRE-ANN] about the new coin to let people become aware of your intentions and debate the best way of rolling out out?

Why did it have to launch so fast? Why did the block awards have to be that large? Why did the coin have to be forked?

How about giving longer than <2 months to attract developers, businesses, pools, exchanges, games, etc to get ready for this coin?

How about having your forums populated, a complete announce list?

There is plenty that could have been done. Two months to convert an entire country over to some cryptocurrency? It boggles my mind that anybody thought it could have been possible.....

People need to think for a change and get out of their trance of chasing every new flashy coin that is released without asking questions first. If people lose money on auroracoin it is their own stupidity. This hasn't played out by far yet.......

It will probably take at least another 3 to 6 months before auroracoin has the same following as Netcoin [NET] or Sexcoin [SXC]

If somebody wants to release a coin for Iceland and do it properly, then start planning now, get a team together, and have it ready for 2015. THAT'S HOW YOU DO IT

solex

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100 satoshis -> ISO code

Baldur has done a fantastic job.

Now the local ecosystem needs developing, like an AURpay version of BitPay!

pjviitas

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Quote from: Bimmerhead on March 25, 2014, 08:51:30 PM

Wow, lot of negativity on here, yet no suggestions of a better way of executing an airdrop.

Kudos to Baldur. Even if this is a total flop, he has led the way and others can build on this experiment.

However for every seller of AUR there is a buyer who is willing to hold for longer term. Because they know this isn't a 3 day experiment. I remember when BTC were less than 10 cents and I still have some I bought back then because that experiment isn't over yet either.

Quote from: leewilson on March 25, 2014, 05:39:57 PM

The majority of the population segment that has been cut out of the airdrop (35yo+) because of the validation chosen (facebook)
is also the same segment that owns the majority of businesses. I am guessing they might be a bit put off because of this
alone.

In less than 3 minutes after reading your assertion I was able to determine there are 116,000 people on Facebook who claim to live in Iceland and are aged 35 and over. And there are 220,000 people on Facebook who claim to live in Iceland and are 13+, so in fact more than half of the people that can participate in this experiement are in your segment of the population that are 'cut out of the airdrop'.

I can't think of a more efficient way for one person to execute an airdrop at such low cost than using FB to validate, can you?

Sure there will be fraud. This is a project that involves humans. If you're looking for perfection let us know when you build it.

+1

No doubt credit needs to be given where it is due...this endeavor was bound to be difficult no matter how you slice it. Kudos to Baldur.

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Looks like 0.0085 was the bottom. Cool

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