Topic: - AURORACOIN - - page 66. (Read 137050 times)

Hello any Icelandic football fans looking to attend EURO 2016 in France?

I have 4 tickets for Iceland v Austria in paris (st dennis) on june 22nd and would like to sell them for Auroracoin.

PM if interested.

Old coin, new jacket?

Well we are in discussions with some large companies in Iceland that have shown Auroracoin interest. If just any of those we are talking to shows interest it would give us great use cases and a lot of publicity.

We are also preparing for some good media exposure which I can't really talk much about at this time.

We have increased our supporter group a lot here lately and these people are all working on spreading the word and starting to talk to merchants to get them accepting Auroracoin.

So even though we don't post here all the time it doesn't mean that we are not working. 

That is a very good idea

The primary focus for the team right now is merchant tools.  We're building them from scratch to align with our standards, so it's taking some time.  However, that is the biggest goal for us at this time because it will allow us to really push adoption with merchants and possible partners.

-Fuse

Hi,

What is the next big thing coming up after the bus campaing?

Just looking forwards to the next surprise

Is it possible to record documents on the auroracoin block chain?

I have also seen people ask on Facebook groups if someone can sell them bitcoin.

There are some people in Iceland that mine bitcoin and sell to others, others have for some reason money abroad, since before the currency controls or they are living abroad and can move some money to foreign exchanges. The normal person living here can't wire transfer money to a foreign exchange to buy bitcoin because of the currency controls.

Most people in Iceland buy bitcoin using localbitcoins.com , and if they have AUR there is nothing stopping them from exchanging to BTC. AUR can be used as a middle man currency between ISK and BTC.

I don't think there's much of an Icelandic remittance market.


There is no krona<=>bitcoin exchange


The 1 million AUR is the Auroracoin foundation. The next two biggest holders are thought to be Cryptsy and that exchange that went bust in Switzerland that I can't think of. The largest address of all is the 5 million+ coins that balduro burned after the airdrop ended.

It's worth mentioning that Peter seems to think it's a rebranding:

http://cointelegraph.com/news/auroracoin-makes-a-comeback-in-iceland-the-country-mired-in-financial-scandals

Anyway, couldn't the same distribution method that was employed with Auroracoin be employed with a fresh coin?



Does Bitcoin's failure to penetrate the remittance market in any country make you think that Auroracoin would fail to do the same in Iceland?



It is legal to exchange the krona for AUR but illegal to exchange it for BTC?



Do you know who controls the address containing ~40% of the AUR?

We are not rebranding AUR, it's still the same coin. Starting a fresh coin in Iceland will never get the same distribution within Iceland. 10% of the population is a good starting point.

Yes.

We love BTC but the problem in Iceland are currency controls that prohibit people form buying BTC, therefore Auroracoin was distributed to the people of Iceland.


Currently there are no merchants that accept AUR. But this is about to change. The development team is producing merchant solutions, which will be linked to the isx.is exchange which can convert AUR back to ISK for merchants.

The project is funded from our own pockets.

Here is the Aur richlist https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-auroracoin-addresses.html

I didn't know it was down.

Yes, there are 9 in the official development team. Then there are other Icelanders part of the Auroracoin foundation



Pétur Árnason (Skarfur) - Chairman of the Auraráð foundation (IS)

Hermann  Finnbjörnsson (apcoins) - Boardmember of the Auraráð foundation (IS)

Hlynur Þór Björnsson (dinobotta) - Boardmember of the Auraráð foundation (IS)

Craig Dellandrea (bimmerhead) - Community development (CA)

Martin Jansen (LTEX) - Marketing & PR (NL)
 
Jess Foddrill (ny2cafuse) - Developer (US)

Myckel Habets (biomike) - Developer (NL)

Tom Hendriks (thsminer) - Developer (NL)

Yan Crevier (soltantgris) - Social Media (CA)


No, none of us gets any compensation we all have 9-5 jobs and do our best to develop and promote Auroracoin in our spare time.

Hi guys, way to hang in there with this project.  It's been around a long time and things are looking really professional.

A few questions...

Why rebrand AUR at this point instead of starting fresh with a new coin?

Is the goal of this project for people in Iceland to use AUR when paying each other?

Why would someone use AUR instead of BTC?

How many merchants accept AUR currently?

How is this project funded?

Is there an AUR richlist?

Should aurstats.com be up?

It looks like there are 9 people listed as being on the Auroracoin team.

What are their roles in the project?

Do any of them receive compensation?

I had some luck finding blocks with my Nidia 970 gtx on the groestl algo mining at around 30 MH.

Did anyone try the AMD package yet? I really want to know if they work.

bittrex often has very slow updates of the blockchain. I've seen hours there while block were rolling in normally on the chain.

Yeah, the message I was referring to was derived from Bittrex; forgot to mention that in my post 

damn, I wish I had a GPU ;|

Guess my old gaming gpu is one of the only ones mining qubit right now

Thanks. I failed to find one that took longer than a couple of minutes.

Well, the only block that took more than a couple of minutes around the time of Georges post was: [252698]



That one took 17:03 minutes