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Topic: [ANN][XCP] Counterparty - Pioneering Peer-to-Peer Finance - Official Thread - page 272. (Read 1276789 times)
May 25, 2014, 01:22:34 PM
May 25, 2014, 09:03:55 AM
FYI: tomorrow we’ll be launching our first volunteer-led taskforce, which will be our Social Media Taskforce.
These “taskforces” sound fancy, but they’re really just ways of making it very easy for anyone to chip-in and support the project.
In a few months we’ll have dozens of volunteer “roles” (spread across multiple taskforces), all on a big list, so that anyone new to the project can pick a task that matches their skills and start contributing immediately. With this in place, will have a structure for handling the influx of new volunteers as Counterparty gains wider support.
Unlike some of our competition, we can’t throw piles of stock and cash around to get stuff done. Our best leverage is our community, right here, and over on the main forums.
Over the next 6 months, we'll be working on building a large and effective network of volunteers and getting everyone pulling in the same direction. If we’re successful, I think we’ll outpace the competition not just on the quality of our technology, but also on the basis of superior organisational ability and sheer force of numbers.
If you want to be among the first to contribute, please PM me.
These “taskforces” sound fancy, but they’re really just ways of making it very easy for anyone to chip-in and support the project.
In a few months we’ll have dozens of volunteer “roles” (spread across multiple taskforces), all on a big list, so that anyone new to the project can pick a task that matches their skills and start contributing immediately. With this in place, will have a structure for handling the influx of new volunteers as Counterparty gains wider support.
Unlike some of our competition, we can’t throw piles of stock and cash around to get stuff done. Our best leverage is our community, right here, and over on the main forums.
Over the next 6 months, we'll be working on building a large and effective network of volunteers and getting everyone pulling in the same direction. If we’re successful, I think we’ll outpace the competition not just on the quality of our technology, but also on the basis of superior organisational ability and sheer force of numbers.
If you want to be among the first to contribute, please PM me.
Maybe its possible make some "default" post where is explain all what need about counterparty and countersport. And then xcp holders who like can translate it to own language and go write to local betting forums and tell about this new system.?
Yeah, we'll definitely come up with boilerplate descriptions that people can pick up, translate and use.
May 25, 2014, 09:01:12 AM
pay attention to the last question he was asked - and to his answer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkf04kQw1YU
59:15 he is considering listing overstock on a bitcoin 2.0 platform
Counterparty Devs do your magic - this can be HUGE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkf04kQw1YU
59:15 he is considering listing overstock on a bitcoin 2.0 platform
Counterparty Devs do your magic - this can be HUGE.
Overstock started to talk with Nxt, but I am sure they will choose XCP because Nxt is not really "bitcoin 2.0". It would be stupid leading in accepting BTC and then change to Nxt.
That is huge!
May 25, 2014, 08:03:48 AM
Lol, my bets on mastercoin nabbing overstock
May 25, 2014, 07:21:54 AM
pay attention to the last question he was asked - and to his answer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkf04kQw1YU
59:15 he is considering listing overstock on a bitcoin 2.0 platform
Counterparty Devs do your magic - this can be HUGE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkf04kQw1YU
59:15 he is considering listing overstock on a bitcoin 2.0 platform
Counterparty Devs do your magic - this can be HUGE.
Overstock started to talk with Nxt, but I am sure they will choose XCP because Nxt is not really "bitcoin 2.0". It would be stupid leading in accepting BTC and then change to Nxt.
May 25, 2014, 06:56:23 AM
pay attention to the last question he was asked - and to his answer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkf04kQw1YU
59:15 he is considering listing overstock on a bitcoin 2.0 platform
Counterparty Devs do your magic - this can be HUGE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkf04kQw1YU
59:15 he is considering listing overstock on a bitcoin 2.0 platform
Counterparty Devs do your magic - this can be HUGE.
May 25, 2014, 05:23:25 AM
FYI: tomorrow we’ll be launching our first volunteer-led taskforce, which will be our Social Media Taskforce.
These “taskforces” sound fancy, but they’re really just ways of making it very easy for anyone to chip-in and support the project.
In a few months we’ll have dozens of volunteer “roles” (spread across multiple taskforces), all on a big list, so that anyone new to the project can pick a task that matches their skills and start contributing immediately. With this in place, will have a structure for handling the influx of new volunteers as Counterparty gains wider support.
Unlike some of our competition, we can’t throw piles of stock and cash around to get stuff done. Our best leverage is our community, right here, and over on the main forums.
Over the next 6 months, we'll be working on building a large and effective network of volunteers and getting everyone pulling in the same direction. If we’re successful, I think we’ll outpace the competition not just on the quality of our technology, but also on the basis of superior organisational ability and sheer force of numbers.
If you want to be among the first to contribute, please PM me.
These “taskforces” sound fancy, but they’re really just ways of making it very easy for anyone to chip-in and support the project.
In a few months we’ll have dozens of volunteer “roles” (spread across multiple taskforces), all on a big list, so that anyone new to the project can pick a task that matches their skills and start contributing immediately. With this in place, will have a structure for handling the influx of new volunteers as Counterparty gains wider support.
Unlike some of our competition, we can’t throw piles of stock and cash around to get stuff done. Our best leverage is our community, right here, and over on the main forums.
Over the next 6 months, we'll be working on building a large and effective network of volunteers and getting everyone pulling in the same direction. If we’re successful, I think we’ll outpace the competition not just on the quality of our technology, but also on the basis of superior organisational ability and sheer force of numbers.
If you want to be among the first to contribute, please PM me.
Maybe its possible make some "default" post where is explain all what need about counterparty and countersport. And then xcp holders who like can translate it to own language and go write to local betting forums and tell about this new system.?
May 25, 2014, 03:22:12 AM
FYI: tomorrow we’ll be launching our first volunteer-led taskforce, which will be our Social Media Taskforce.
These “taskforces” sound fancy, but they’re really just ways of making it very easy for anyone to chip-in and support the project.
In a few months we’ll have dozens of volunteer “roles” (spread across multiple taskforces), all on a big list, so that anyone new to the project can pick a task that matches their skills and start contributing immediately. With this in place, will have a structure for handling the influx of new volunteers as Counterparty gains wider support.
Unlike some of our competition, we can’t throw piles of stock and cash around to get stuff done. Our best leverage is our community, right here, and over on the main forums.
Over the next 6 months, we'll be working on building a large and effective network of volunteers and getting everyone pulling in the same direction. If we’re successful, I think we’ll outpace the competition not just on the quality of our technology, but also on superior organisational ability and sheer force of numbers.
If you want to be among the first to contribute, please PM me.
These “taskforces” sound fancy, but they’re really just ways of making it very easy for anyone to chip-in and support the project.
In a few months we’ll have dozens of volunteer “roles” (spread across multiple taskforces), all on a big list, so that anyone new to the project can pick a task that matches their skills and start contributing immediately. With this in place, will have a structure for handling the influx of new volunteers as Counterparty gains wider support.
Unlike some of our competition, we can’t throw piles of stock and cash around to get stuff done. Our best leverage is our community, right here, and over on the main forums.
Over the next 6 months, we'll be working on building a large and effective network of volunteers and getting everyone pulling in the same direction. If we’re successful, I think we’ll outpace the competition not just on the quality of our technology, but also on superior organisational ability and sheer force of numbers.
If you want to be among the first to contribute, please PM me.
May 24, 2014, 09:34:42 PM
As someone who uses betfair exchange frequently I can see the benefits of Countersports (no credit record or commission are big ones for me) but I have a question:
Do you have a specific plan for marketing this to your average user? The benefits seem clear to me but I am someone who owns xcp and bitcoin. Most of my friends would happily continue using betfair regardless of the disadvantages because they know it, trust it and can use fiat currency to bet. Many wouldn't like the idea of even using bitcoin let alone heading over to poloniex or bter to get some xcp to bet with.
So correct me if I am wrong but it seems like the use of Countersports will be relatively niche (i.e. used by those who are into crytpocurrencies) until bitcoin becomes more mainstream. Traditional bookmakers have elaborate advertising and marketing, luring people in with all kinds of free bets, so you're tackling giants here.
With all that said I am very impressed and will be placing some bets myself on the World Cup. I know this is just the start but I'm interested to hear how you think widespread use of Countersports will occur?
Do you have a specific plan for marketing this to your average user? The benefits seem clear to me but I am someone who owns xcp and bitcoin. Most of my friends would happily continue using betfair regardless of the disadvantages because they know it, trust it and can use fiat currency to bet. Many wouldn't like the idea of even using bitcoin let alone heading over to poloniex or bter to get some xcp to bet with.
So correct me if I am wrong but it seems like the use of Countersports will be relatively niche (i.e. used by those who are into crytpocurrencies) until bitcoin becomes more mainstream. Traditional bookmakers have elaborate advertising and marketing, luring people in with all kinds of free bets, so you're tackling giants here.
With all that said I am very impressed and will be placing some bets myself on the World Cup. I know this is just the start but I'm interested to hear how you think widespread use of Countersports will occur?
Personally, I feel that obviously it's a long way away from mainstream recognition, but gamblers who are familiar with cryptocurrency understand turning 1 DOGE, or 1 BTC or 1 XCP or whatever into 2. The underlying token is not so important, although there is a little extra friction to acquire it that's offsetted by some of the benefits.. They may no have a requirement for XCP beyond this, but they can then cash in/cash out back to BTC afterwards or trade on DEX for whatever else as adoption picks up..Buy XCP, gambl, trade to digital asset representing gold, that shit is amazing. It should have positive effect on liquidity, let's not forget XCP is not being consistently inflated by mining.
I think that betting platform built upon counterparty offers many benefits to a gambler. for example, no longer do you have to trust the operator of a site once you've deposited BTC to their wallet. and there have been some large scams in the past mostly due to counterparty risk undertaken by sending your btc to a wallet some other untrustworthy or incompetent owner has private key to. no longer do you have to make 'withdrawal requests', or pass over sensitive information. Some countries do restrict gambling and anyone residing in those countries may naturally value their anonymity a little more.
Countersports enables you to be your own bookie in the same way bitcoin enables you to be your own bank. And this is one application, built upon one subset of the protocol feature set. It benefits Bitcoin as much as it does Counterparty. Fantastic to see that someone has taken the initiative to put this project together. So many of these 'coins' today are clones with added gimmicks, their popularity is based on short term speculation and creative marketing, XCP stands head and shoulders above the rest. Truly believe it's a dark horse. Good job Countersports team on your project. Really excited to see some of the future projects built upon counterparty platform!
May 24, 2014, 08:45:15 PM
What is responsible for the big rise lately? Is it all CounterSports?
They say you will never find a poor bookie. There is always money in gambling and CounterSports should make Counterparty very valuable.
May 24, 2014, 08:39:20 PM
crap overslept the final 
May 24, 2014, 11:27:15 AM
Be a part of history! Bet on the first sport event using 2.0 platform (XCP).
Bet on the Champions League Final:
http://test.countersports.com/index.php/match/0000000308/Real%20Madrid%20vs%20Atl.%20Madrid%20at%202014-05-24%2018:40:00
Use testnet XCP for free!
PM us your XCP testnet address and get some free testnet XCP to bet.
Bet on the Champions League Final:
http://test.countersports.com/index.php/match/0000000308/Real%20Madrid%20vs%20Atl.%20Madrid%20at%202014-05-24%2018:40:00
Use testnet XCP for free!
PM us your XCP testnet address and get some free testnet XCP to bet.
May 24, 2014, 10:37:55 AM
As someone who uses betfair exchange frequently I can see the benefits of Countersports (no credit record or commission are big ones for me) but I have a question:
Do you have a specific plan for marketing this to your average user? The benefits seem clear to me but I am someone who owns xcp and bitcoin. Most of my friends would happily continue using betfair regardless of the disadvantages because they know it, trust it and can use fiat currency to bet. Many wouldn't like the idea of even using bitcoin let alone heading over to poloniex or bter to get some xcp to bet with.
So correct me if I am wrong but it seems like the use of Countersports will be relatively niche (i.e. used by those who are into crytpocurrencies) until bitcoin becomes more mainstream. Traditional bookmakers have elaborate advertising and marketing, luring people in with all kinds of free bets, so you're tackling giants here.
With all that said I am very impressed and will be placing some bets myself on the World Cup. I know this is just the start but I'm interested to hear how you think widespread use of Countersports will occur?
Do you have a specific plan for marketing this to your average user? The benefits seem clear to me but I am someone who owns xcp and bitcoin. Most of my friends would happily continue using betfair regardless of the disadvantages because they know it, trust it and can use fiat currency to bet. Many wouldn't like the idea of even using bitcoin let alone heading over to poloniex or bter to get some xcp to bet with.
So correct me if I am wrong but it seems like the use of Countersports will be relatively niche (i.e. used by those who are into crytpocurrencies) until bitcoin becomes more mainstream. Traditional bookmakers have elaborate advertising and marketing, luring people in with all kinds of free bets, so you're tackling giants here.
With all that said I am very impressed and will be placing some bets myself on the World Cup. I know this is just the start but I'm interested to hear how you think widespread use of Countersports will occur?
May 24, 2014, 12:32:38 AM
Sign transactions in Counterwallet =D
May 23, 2014, 07:20:58 PM
^^^ Awesome Tom, I signed up.
Also, there appears to be a binary betting tab in Counterwallet.
Also, there appears to be a binary betting tab in Counterwallet.
May 23, 2014, 07:00:23 PM
Just found this : Sillicon Valley Counterparty Meetup link: http://www.meetup.com/Sillicon-Valley-Counterparty-Meetup/
May 23, 2014, 04:18:22 PM
I've decided to go ahead and take the donations we've raised so far (0.97 BTC) and add my own money to it to get this thing started. Time is of the essence. We need to be primed and ready with informational videos for when the market turns bull.
If you still feel like donating, all donations will go to equipment and marketing efforts. Please also consider donating to Matt Y, as he is the lead on marketing. Marketing is very key right now! We aren't just marketing for 'our' benefit, we're marketing for the benefit of the entire financial market.
Counterparty Forum Thread:
https://forums.counterparty.co/index.php/topic,261.0.html
Donors:
Flayaway 50 XCP (Exec. Producer)
XNOVA 0.2 BTC (Exec. Producer)
LED_LCD 0.1 BTC (Producer)
Sparta_Cuss 0.1 BTC (Producer)
Freedomfighter 0.1 BTC (Producer)
Frozen123 0.1 BTC (Producer)
Amy_Bit 0.01 BTC (Producer)
Something 0.025 BTC (Producer)
I'd like to request an update on this project - It's been over a month and Halfcab seems to have dropped away from the project without having delivered the video he raised funds for.
Who could have expected this from the author of other great projects such as: https://forums.counterparty.co/index.php/topic,164.msg1124.html#msg1124
Oooooo that stings!
May 23, 2014, 03:23:58 PM
I've decided to go ahead and take the donations we've raised so far (0.97 BTC) and add my own money to it to get this thing started. Time is of the essence. We need to be primed and ready with informational videos for when the market turns bull.
If you still feel like donating, all donations will go to equipment and marketing efforts. Please also consider donating to Matt Y, as he is the lead on marketing. Marketing is very key right now! We aren't just marketing for 'our' benefit, we're marketing for the benefit of the entire financial market.
Counterparty Forum Thread:
https://forums.counterparty.co/index.php/topic,261.0.html
Donors:
Flayaway 50 XCP (Exec. Producer)
XNOVA 0.2 BTC (Exec. Producer)
LED_LCD 0.1 BTC (Producer)
Sparta_Cuss 0.1 BTC (Producer)
Freedomfighter 0.1 BTC (Producer)
Frozen123 0.1 BTC (Producer)
Amy_Bit 0.01 BTC (Producer)
Something 0.025 BTC (Producer)
I'd like to request an update on this project - It's been over a month and Halfcab seems to have dropped away from the project without having delivered the video he raised funds for.
Who could have expected this from the author of other great projects such as: https://forums.counterparty.co/index.php/topic,164.msg1124.html#msg1124
May 23, 2014, 01:58:55 PM
Counterwallet not sweeping in my funds for some reason.
This is my balance: http://www.blockscan.com/balance.aspx?q=1HgCn9B5BaYJK4WwvRPANfpdq2rJ82CaMA
And I followed these instructions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P33jqIjg67E
But when I put in the address and click Sweep nothing happens. Also there is no extra box that appears that asks how much I want to sweep. Any help would be appreciated!
This is my balance: http://www.blockscan.com/balance.aspx?q=1HgCn9B5BaYJK4WwvRPANfpdq2rJ82CaMA
And I followed these instructions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P33jqIjg67E
But when I put in the address and click Sweep nothing happens. Also there is no extra box that appears that asks how much I want to sweep. Any help would be appreciated!
IIRC, it's best to use Chrome for your browser.
Tried that too. Should I trust this wallet yet?
Do you put the address or the private key? you should the private key.
If not works please send me by email ([email protected]) the private key, I will check what the problem with it. Thank you.
May 23, 2014, 12:50:53 PM
Counterwallet not sweeping in my funds for some reason.
This is my balance: http://www.blockscan.com/balance.aspx?q=1HgCn9B5BaYJK4WwvRPANfpdq2rJ82CaMA
And I followed these instructions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P33jqIjg67E
But when I put in the address and click Sweep nothing happens. Also there is no extra box that appears that asks how much I want to sweep. Any help would be appreciated!
This is my balance: http://www.blockscan.com/balance.aspx?q=1HgCn9B5BaYJK4WwvRPANfpdq2rJ82CaMA
And I followed these instructions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P33jqIjg67E
But when I put in the address and click Sweep nothing happens. Also there is no extra box that appears that asks how much I want to sweep. Any help would be appreciated!
IIRC, it's best to use Chrome for your browser.
Tried that too. Should I trust this wallet yet?
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