Love BIP, keep up the good work!
excellent man. Thank you.
just put this out there, BIP on livecoin is not Bipcoin. I noticed the market section on the pools showed BIP at 27000 satoshi's and ran to find what exchange that was on. I found this livecoin exchange but it is for a different coin called bitpark coin but using BIP as a ticker. anyway thought I'd put that out there.
Yeah, there was about five minutes this morning when I thought the Universe had given the coin a Christmas present. Until I realized there was a coin that was idiotic enough to release a coin this week with the ticker of an existing coin. Yes, they did announce their ICO before we released BipCoin but they didn't decide on the ticker symbol BIP until recently, way after we were trading on BipCoin. I contacted them, I doubt they'll do anything about it, they don't seem competent.
The last couple pages of their announce thread, starting about here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1575177.100
seem to be largely people who invested money saying they never got their token, and that the dev team is no longer responding to their emails.
I did contact them by email and also posted the same message here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.17294066
Some investor did respond (with nothing useful) but the devs did not respond (and they're in Japan, so it's not a holiday there).
Here's what I posted:
The ticker symbol "BIP" is taken
BIP is used by our coin BipCoin which was released Aug 20, 2016:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bip-bipcoin-now-live-mineable-cryptonote-bipcot-nogov-licensed-1592050
The first 3 letters of every BipCoin address are BIP.
We're already on an exchange (Cryptopia) as BIP.
We're already on coinmarketcap.com as BIP:
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bipcoin/
BipCoin was written up in CoinTelegraph this week:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bipcoin-to-provide-censorship-proof-dns-succeed-where-namecoin-failed
BipCoin is an active coin with active development.
The first time I see you mentioning "BIP" is November 9th, 2016:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.16828194
I STRONGLY suggest you change your symbol from BIP to something else, while it's still easy and non-embarrassing to do so.
I'd suggest maybe
BPC
which is not taken according to a quick search on
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/views/all/
coinmarketcap. (Surprising that you didn't search there before deciding on "BIP.")
I wish you you and your coin well. But it's going to be a constant hassle for you and for us if you don't change it. Including that you may lose business from people buying our coin when they think they're buying your coin.
I think this is something that people investing in your ICO would not be happy with.
I know you are on at least one exchange, LiveCoin, but they would probably change it if you ask them now before there's a lot of volume.
Please let me know what you decide to to.
Take care,
MWD, BipCoin Dev team.
