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Perhaps you can think of some words that you feel you want to be represented in the logo. Like secure, long term ect. Things like that maybe? If there's a message you want to convey with the logo then that might help. Modern or classic style? Old world currency influence or modern design trend?

Is Bitmark out yet? Exchange or mining?

logo design
Mymenace has kindly responded and asked for the following information in order to design a logo for the project:

• currency symbol
• symbol type design  (instead of a letter or currency symbol)
• color that would be best (purple is unique at the moment and represents royalty)

I will think on this, if anybody else has any input please feel free to offer it up.

update

• bitmark core wallet cleaned and all functionality verified and modified as applicable
• bitmark: scheme url support added and tested
• various unit tests updated and passing
• various documentation updates
• message signing/verification and wallet encryption tested
• block chain difficulty adjustments checked

Someone will come along for sure. If anyone reads this and can make a logo, let us all know.

I will start sharing this thread with people over the next few weeks.

I'm a firm believe that each person should play to their real world strengths. I am a programmer specializing in architecture, system integration, and standardisation. Hence the project.

You specialize in guerrilla marketing, so perhaps concentrate more on plans to target specific sectors or demographics when the time comes, grass roots adoption with small business and single entities will be important. There are perhaps some people around here who would be good to target, but they are the ones who are interested in development projects and adoption, not the speculators. If you're willing to help out with the project that is, any input is appreciated.

I'm sure somebody will come along who is a good designer, in the worst case and if I manage to secure an initial development budget I can hire a good logo designer or offer up a competition for the logo. Mymenace already offered one suggestion, of a very good quality, but not quite unique enough IMHO. I may send him a pm and see if he has any further input.

I could maybe make a logo, but I do not have any experience with like design, just photoshop. So if you know like what you want and I can make it from stuff on Google images I could do that.

I have also read a few books about online marketing and Guerrilla marketing and studied the history of Guerrilla theater and stuff. And I am pretty well known on a few different forums and I have a Google+ and stuff, so I can share the coin with people there and Facebook and everything.

Thank you, a logo is number one. Professional, simple, recognisable.


Technically: Light and stable with a modern codebase, maturing features from the alternative currency sector which benefit users added on a faster timeline than bitcoin. Think of it more as standardization rather than innovation.

User focussed: Most development effort and innovation goes in to making bitmark as user friendly, and simple to integrate with, as possible.

Adoption: In line with being user focussed, all marketing and outreach will be to potential adopters, such as microtransaction marketplaces. The project is crafted in such a way that encourages all involved to focus on adoption.

Earned Value: no hype, no rush to get on exchanges, no ipo, premine, it's not a cash cow, it's a project to make a viable every day currency, any value will be earned.

Longevity: 0.250% (max) of the block reward goes to the bitmark development fund, supporting long term dedication to to the project, and future growth as value grows.

Distribution: A configuration which aims to ensure fair distribution whilst using proven PoW which has had substantial investment in hardware.

So, no hype or gimmicks, just a project which focusses on becoming a stable every day currency. Remember the days when the first bitcoins were gifted to each other, when buying a pizza was a milestone, when it was about developing a useful currency, when we asked how can we get x to use this, rather than what it it be worth tomorrow? this is about getting back to that ethos, whilst recognising the space has moved forward.

Project Status: We are close to releasing the first clone-able reference implementation (technically already complete), it's 90% of the bitmark foundation and serves as a modern, tested, codebase which other can fork and use to make their pump and dump clones. They're going to do it so we may as well ensure they're using safe tested code rather than copy and pastes of redundant code.

A brief overview needed, anyone?

I could maybe help with branding.

qt complete, reference implementation nearing completion
I've compiled and tested the user interface of bitmark core using qt4 and qt5. All works well. I've been using it on multiple computers for the last few hours.

The clone-able reference implementation of bitmark is now technically complete.

Work is now focussed on minor informative changes, branding, and ensuring the RI release of bitmark meets the quality expected.

The project desperately needs help with branding, help to fund a dedicated development server and some graphical resources, see previous posts for details.

This looks awesome.

First transaction on the (temporary) main network:



Happy

update

I can safely say that we have a new scrypt codebase for people to clone. Bitcoin 0.9.2.1 with Scrypt support added and all unit tests passing*. I will fork the project tomorrow and release a new RI which people can fork for their clone coins... it's entirely possible that clones of Bitmark will be released before Bitmark is.

* I need to generate new test blocks for miner_tests

• stratum-mining bug is classed as fixed, I'm on to block 300+ on a temporary chain via mixed mining software and all works
• plenty of discussion about technical choices made can be found on this thread
• temporary testnet and mainnet chains are progressing well, test transactions will follow

Many posts above need replies. I will continue.

A discussion on Non-IPO funding is going on in a different thread. Please contribute if you can.

Update

• Work has been begun on preparing a clone-able reference implementation (RI) of Bitmark
• Ahmed Bodi has agreed to modify stratum-mining to support both the RI and Bitmark (issue)
• Plans for long term Bitmark support and devolved development to ensure longevity clarified

A dedicated server is urgently needed.

Request alternative proposals for an icon or logo for the Bitmark Project.

Update

• testnet and mainnet both on version 2 blocks, checkpoints added, regression network has no genesis yet
• mining tested with internal miner, minerd, cgminer, others

The "stratum-mining" project appears to be partially incompatible, it's passing block height through incorrectly, I will patch it when I have a chance, unless somebody beats me to it.

Thanks to gjhiggins there is a temporary testnet node up at 5.9.56.229.

update

• added a temporary main network genesis block in order to run unit tests
• have all quality assurance tests passing, except the miner_tests as new test blocks need generated for it
• added unconditional support for BIP16, BIP30, BIP31
• in progress, updating to version 2 transactions and block from genesis on main/test/regression networks
• ann updated for the tl;dr's

do build and test, do not mine, all chains will be reset before public launch

edit: also changed the client name to "Pfennig".

Update - First Test Released

The first release of the new code base is up on github, it's TESTNET only. Appears to work well.

Need to organize a dedicated server for a main test node, and some people to help test... run it, mine testnet coins, send transactions, break it.

This release is essentially what you'd get if litecoin was created today, the latest bitcoin code with scrypt added.

Tester Requirements: somebody who can pull the source from github, build on the command line (autogen, configure, make), and use the cli/daemon.

All details of the project and plans are on the wiki.

If anybody can help test, or feels confident enough to help raise funds (a small amount) for a development server+domain, it would be appreciated.

Update

I've effectively forked the latest stable bitcoin, thoroughly renamed, configured with all proposed chain, config and port configurations, updated all supporting documentation, updated all tools, demos, dns seeder, build files for all targets, and importantly all tests.

bitmarkd and bitmark-cli compile with 113 QA tests passing, and no obscure references to bitcoin other than in license headers.

Next:
Change to scrypt PoW, create signing certificates for releases, configure alertnet.

Once ready I'll commit all code so we can test compilation and testnet.

technical needs:
1. soon, people interested in testing and building.
2. soon, dedicated server for main node and project websites
3. soon after, dns seeders

I've added https://github.com/coinsolidation/bitmark/wiki/Scratchpad a place for some thoughts. Copied here:

Thoughts which need fleshed out

* Option to run on Random Port instead of Static.
* x509 certificate based authentication for http+tls api
* focus on https+tls (https) api
* modular extensible design, focus on light fast daemon where apps interface through api
* web based management interface, needs tight security, consider apps as agents with their own auth details
* ui easy to access like webmail, hooks in to the api of whichever node is specified
* bitcoin's old ip transactions is an abstract request payment address api which could be updated and run with urls
* one time addresses can be proven by provider signing it with a key they are known to own
* need neat api call to show chain download progress, block xxx of yyy
* maybe x509 certificates can be used to provide rsa encryption for messages, so messages are optional and require no processing weight to clients, but can be access if available and supported.
* signing one time use addresses is important, prevents against mitm attacks on payments
* messages relating to transactions can be detached and sent by different communication methods, a hash of them can be put in transaction as proof of their validity
* worry over reliance on dns for dnsseeds, there should be another way
* bitcoin design was based on everybody running a node, block time had to account for huge network latency, with increase in spv clients and api clients it can rationally be decreased
* existing services are important, but new services can be created to accept bitmark, file hosting is always important
* faucets which deliver free coins that can be used to purchase real services drives adoption, ensure rate limiting by ip address subnets
* api integrations are important, adding bitmark support should be as easy adding a wordpress plugin
* uri scheme for sending payments which can invoke specified client is important
* look at transaction notifications api, perhaps push instead of listtransactions/getbyaccount, perhaps transactions since x
* check if javascript apps can post to localhost, could be nice for detached clients
* institutional momentum is to stick to the last decision made, so bitmark should be secure before targetting existing service providers, if they deny it first time they will probably keep denying
* api documentation should include example code for well known language(s), important to have before pushing adoption
* people should not need complicated tooling to fix stuck transactions and errors, there should be an easy way to do it automatically
* ensure json-rpc over http is http compliant
* does caching need covered, in daemon, or as a layer above, perhaps a wrapping application that caches json responses and acts as a middle man
* simplicity first, the network only needs to prevent against double spends, if it does that, and people can interface easily, it works.
* discuss starting with a fixed reasonable transaction fee
* make block chain downloads available at each checkpoint?

any discussion is welcomed.