Topic: AURORACOIN - Empowering Financial Freedom - page 18. (Read 138034 times)

Nice to hear Ltex. I hope it is ready in time  
I want to give it a try!

We are almost done in setting up a new version of http://aurpool.com that will support all algo's. Obviously we hope other pool operators are going to facilitate such upgrades as well, but that's beyond our control. I did understand http://Hashgoal.com is working on it too.

Is there already knowledge in the dev team how we can mine with the new algo? Which pool, mining programs and so on?

One more day!

We have been working on a detailed marketing plan that involves real commercials in Iceland. Tomorrow we start a campaign with huge posters in all 100 bus terminals around Reykjavik, which will look like this:


The terminals have over 5 million driveby's a week! This means that in one week most people have become familiar with our logo and name. It also makes Auroracoin something that is real. Once we start unfolding our releases to the press people in Iceland are going to say "Hey, I saw that at the busstop before" Rather then "Hmmm, some internet thing from a couple of nerds".

Next week a lot of news will spread around the opening of the AUR - ISK exchange http://isx.is, that will create a lot of momentum for Auroracoin.

Also next week the new multi-algo goes in effect, please make sure you have updated your wallets!

That first paragraph makes an extremely good point. I like that last sentence, too, because it hints at the fact we really construct our world using thought, language and tools like that.

It makes me happy that there is a group of extremely constructive people pushing forward Auroracoin adoption in Iceland very thoughtfully. Thank you guys!

I believe that the higher price for AUR is a result of their work, not what their work is.

That said, I do believe we will see a price a lot higher than even now.

Ooops, looks like this should be here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1067036.60

Great post, that captures the essence of the Aroracoin project.

I guess this just turned you into Solid12345678910! 

This is a hell of a good post.

I explained the situation to you.  He doesn't work with the team.  He will state the same if asked.  If you take the time to read the thread, you'll see that this is the case.

With regards to your points about why you would think he's part of the team:

Paying someone to write an Ebook is not being part of a dev team.  These crypto EBooks are scams anyway.  Anyone can do a copy paste job on coin info in a book to turn a buck.  It's not worth the money.

1% of the coin supply being in SA doesn't mean anything.  1% of the market cap is only like 80k AUR, or around $20k-30k.  That's not something that changes the goal.  There's 1% in USA that I know of right now.    Does that make the coin something that's being developed for use in USA?  No, it just means that someone bought some coin.

-Fuse

We don't have a SA dev.  They will state this as well.  They are not part of the team, nor were they ever involved with the development of AUR.  The dev team and foundation members can be found in the OP, including their nationality.

We do have foreign developers, like myself.  It's not hard for us to develop something for a country when the team works as closely as we do with Icelandic citizens.  We have constant communications in the team and with Icelandic citizens who support AUR through our Slack channels.  Additionally, foreigners can operate businesses in Iceland with Icelandic citizens.  So we are able to work on projects that push us towards adoption in Iceland with Icelandic citizens without having to be there.  We're not trying to build AUR for other countries, like SA or in my case USA... we're building for Iceland.

Hope this clears up your confusion.

-Fuse

AUR is special because Balduro was the first person to come up with a solution to the problem of how do you get crypto into the masses without convincing them to go sign up for a shady service like Gox and get screwed in the end or find a drug dealer to sell drugs for Bitcoin with. Because for the first few years of its life that was the only way for a normal person with no mining equipment to get into Bitcoin.

I still remember the drama over AUR when it first broke on this board and all the Bitcoin maximalists frothing at the mouth with hatred, guys like BitcoinEXpress coming in to fork it, people marching in line to call it a scam even though real Icelanders were proving they were getting their coins etc. etc. but how many of these Bitcointalk "legends" would have been willing to give away even 5% of their Bitcoin hoard to people all across the world in hope of spreading its adoption? Virtually none of them. And once AUR's marketcap was driven into the ground they all had a good laugh and went on their merry way.

People on here tell everyone crypto is literally "earth changing technology", yet they constantly talk good projects down like its worth nothing more than a few small burger joints from the midwest. The local business I work for alone pulled in $9 million last year and all we do is print paper products with a 10 year-old website, I didn't even know it existed in town when I interviewed. But there are small businesses like this all across the world making 10x the marketcap of even the top alt coins in crypto.

It kills me when I see kiddies saying things like Bitcoin with a $7 billion marketcap "is alot". LOL, just Mcdonalds alone is worth $90 billion.

It's one thing to attack the technological fundamentals but history has proven time and time again the best tech doesn't always wins. It's all about the best combination of solid and STABLE tech, a bit of marketing pizazz but also commitment to knowing who your customers are. Not trying to say AUR is like a product, but I believe the fundamentals of business and commerce is all the same regardless. It's all money at the end of the day right? The AUR team is one of the few who knows their target market versus alot of github autists who "think" they know what the average person wants or needs. AUR is one of the few alts with potential for real world use, versus all these other coins on CMC which are all designed to trade and make more Bitcoin and have no hope of ever being used for anything.

If you are going to treat crypto like trading baseball cards, than that is all it will ever be. But I personally think it can be much more.

Hlynur,

You guys often point out financial regulation + Aur distribution as an advantage for Auroracoin over Bitcoin, and it is indeed a huge factor.

But for me foreigner, the edge of Auroracoin is its singularity. A lot of projects around try to have bitcoin adopted by country/business, and this may succeed in the long run. But having a somewhat independant attempt that may succeed EVEN if bitcoin get bumped by another coin, is of paramount importance. That set the project appart, and for me this is a huge factor too.

And hate it love it, I feel the project somewhat need external support to reach enough leverage - and it is way more easy to attract foreign workers/supporters when the market cap is still so thin. I know you dislike the word ''invest'' - but still, auroracoin is very sexy to invest in, and then to help spread its ideology/goal, so improving this investment value. 

I don't point at traders (they are coming no matter what) - i point at people wanting to put some ressource in a good project and helping out. How great it is to have the feeling to do the right thing, and having a chance to profit doing so. 

I agree, there is nothing special about AUR as a coin, the idea is not to invent new stuff within Auroracoin but to copy good solutions from others. Where Auroracoin stands out is its potential for adoption that is unmatched anywhere in the world.

I also agree with you there is good potential for much higher price for Auroracoin, given the coming advertising campaign and Multi algo fork along with opening of the https://beta.isx.is/ exchange. This might look like a pump, but has now taken about 5 months to build up and is continuing.

I have never seen such a long pump building up unless there are fundamentals behind, which means it's not a pump but more and more people are interested in the project.

I hope skeptics can look at this project and see the reasons behind it, even though they believe perhaps Bitcoin is a better solution for Iceland.

No one in Iceland owns Bitcoin. No one in Iceland can buy Bitcoin, because of the currency controls. No one in Iceland is building any infrastructure for Bitcoin.

Then again 10% of Icelanders own Auroracoin!

It comes down to this and it's really simple, if you are bagholder it's not a scam, if you not a bagholder it is a scam.
There is nothing special about AUR as a coin. Buying at these prices regardless if it's a scam or not is dangerous as the coin it's copying aka Digibyte has a lower marketcap then AUR by $800k.
This is a obvious pump before the rollout of the advertising and Multi Algo fork.

Ef þú ert Íslendingur ertu velkominn í hópinn. Við höfum verið að hittast ca. aðra hverja helgi og spjallað um framgang verkefnisins. Þú og aðrir eruð velkomnir að hitta okkur á næsta fundi.

Sendu mér PM ef þú hefur áhuga og ég skal bæta þér í hópinn.

(English)

If you are from Iceland you are welcome to join us. We have been meeting every other weekend where we talk about the progress of this project. You and others are welcome to meet us on our next meeting.

PM me if you are interested and I'll let you know of next meeting.

Pétur (skarfurin), Hlynur (Diabotta), Hermann (apcoin), Larus and some others are in iceland.

I am from Quebec, french speaking part of Canada, and support the project the last 12 months +- as much as I can.

Are you guys posting here all from Iceland?

I would suggest 3rd part may get involved once action kick in in iceland.  So decentralizing the effort.  An ATMs may generate profit - so someone outside the team could get in and invest and operate such device. 

So is an approach to Mr Vogel being contemplated then?