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rlh
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November 25, 2015, 03:26:41 PM
#54
Personally, I prefer that ICOs have their own, single payment BTC address, instead of an exchange.  You can easily track the funds going into a BTC address that belongs to the creators.  If the funds go into an exchange, you have no idea if they will take the funds and re-invest back into the coin, pumping the perceived value of the coin.

Unrelated, I'm moving my funds to coinbase, before transferring to the ICO address.  Has anyone worked with coinbase in this manner?  I know I've had the same send/receive address from them for years.  Anyone had trouble with using coinbase for ICOs like this?

Personally, I'd prefer to not use Blockchain.Info for this, but I will if I have to.  :/
legendary
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November 25, 2015, 03:16:32 PM
#53
I don't get it. You guys are high profile legend types. Even the crappiest altcoins cut a deal with CCEX or TREX to make sure there is  a trading environment once the market goes live.

This is beneath you guys?

A lot of new account here.

And only shitcoins need to make deal to be sure they will have an exchange. If exchange operator see the potential of IOTA they will add it, or if they see that a lot of people want to trade it.

And if no exchange want it i have 1k NXT reserved to make a NXT asset that will be peged to IOTA at 1:1 so we will be able to use NXT AE.
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November 25, 2015, 02:04:57 PM
#52
Their premine is how many tokens they buy themselves with their own BTC. 

Since the BTC goes to themselves there is no cost, adjusting for whatever % they want ...

An easy math task for you - how much BTC is required to adjust it to 99%?

I see you don't deny the premine is how many tokens IOTA will buy for itself.

Adjusting for a certain % is irrelevant ...



There is no premine at all. Individual team members must use their own personal funds to purchase their own personal iotas. All funds raised here goes to development of IOTA ecosystem which includes hardware.

Is there a theoretical possibility that we could lend bitcoin from someone to 'cheat' the system? Yes, this is true for all crowdsales whether it is Ethereum or IOTA.

We promise that this is not something that we will do and that's all that we can do, it's entirely up to you if you want to buy iotas or not.
legendary
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November 25, 2015, 02:04:19 PM
#51
I see you don't deny the premine is how many tokens IOTA will buy for itself.

Adjusting for a certain % is irrelevant ...

I don't deny. I can even say that I will buy some iotas, it would be silly not to buy the right to use Iota knowing what I know.
sr. member
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November 25, 2015, 02:00:57 PM
#50
Their premine is how many tokens they buy themselves with their own BTC. 

Since the BTC goes to themselves there is no cost, adjusting for whatever % they want ...

An easy math task for you - how much BTC is required to adjust it to 99%?

I see you don't deny the premine is how many tokens IOTA will buy for itself.

Adjusting for a certain % is irrelevant ...

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November 25, 2015, 01:57:15 PM
#49
I don't get it. You guys are high profile legend types. Even the crappiest altcoins cut a deal with CCEX or TREX to make sure there is  a trading environment once the market goes live.

This is beneath you guys?

It's not about it being beneath us at all, but there are big legal hurdles and bureaucracy that we prefer to stear clear of and not waste time on. Realistically I deem it highly unlikely that exchanges won't want to list and start trading of one of the hottest crowdsales this year, but we can't GUARANTEE anything.

sr. member
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November 25, 2015, 01:44:27 PM
#48
I don't get it. You guys are high profile legend types. Even the crappiest altcoins cut a deal with CCEX or TREX to make sure there is  a trading environment once the market goes live.

This is beneath you guys?
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November 25, 2015, 01:38:57 PM
#47
Are there specific plans for an exchange or trading environment after the crowdsale closes? Or is the talk about long term holders only in the OP to be taken as a statement of principle?

There's exchanges that have reached out to us and we will assist them to add IOTA, but we take absolutely no responsibility for their actions pertaining to this.
sr. member
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November 25, 2015, 01:37:20 PM
#46
Are there specific plans for an exchange or trading environment after the crowdsale closes? Or is the talk about long term holders only in the OP to be taken as a statement of principle?
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November 25, 2015, 01:33:43 PM
#45
i don't know why you went this route. Why not have a conventional POW / blockchain phase for distribution, then shift to the DAG? In this case, the blockchain would really be used as simply a record of distribution.

This is described in 'Purpose of Crowdsale'.
legendary
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November 25, 2015, 01:25:48 PM
#44
i don't know why you went this route. Why not have a conventional POW / blockchain phase for distribution, then shift to the DAG? In this case, the blockchain would really be used as simply a record of distribution.

And give all coins to a single botnet master? Hm, not sure it's a good alternative...
legendary
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November 25, 2015, 01:24:27 PM
#43
i don't know why you went this route. Why not have a conventional POW / blockchain phase for distribution, then shift to the DAG? In this case, the blockchain would really be used as simply a record of distribution.
legendary
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November 25, 2015, 01:21:43 PM
#42
Their premine is how many tokens they buy themselves with their own BTC. 

Since the BTC goes to themselves there is no cost, adjusting for whatever % they want ...

An easy math task for you - how much BTC is required to adjust it to 99%?
legendary
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November 25, 2015, 01:18:15 PM
#41
So most wallets now do not re-use addresses or even let you specify the specific address you are sending from. This seems like a very unnecessary complication.

I agree, step 3 will make people lose money.

Actually, it will cause a transfer of money from those who do not know how to follow instructions to those that do. Given that unsophisticated shouldn't be investing in ICOs it seems pretty reasonable.
sr. member
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November 25, 2015, 01:17:23 PM
#40
999 999 999 iotas is up for sale
and how many total of iotas?
you should show all detail info .  how many iotas that dev team hold it , what about the development fund ?


I thought I had written it as clear possible, but I'll reiterate: THERE IS NO PREMINE. 999 999 999 is the total amount of iotas that will ever exist. ALL of them are up for sale. The development fund comes from the Bitcoins that we raise.

Their premine is how many tokens they buy themselves with their own BTC. 

Since the BTC goes to themselves there is no cost, adjusting for whatever % they want ...
legendary
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November 25, 2015, 12:53:23 PM
#39
So most wallets now do not re-use addresses or even let you specify the specific address you are sending from. This seems like a very unnecessary complication.

I agree, step 3 will make people lose money.

Invest only if you know how to redeem your IOTA.

You can use Bitcoin Core ( control features ) or blockchain.info to reuse address so i don't see any problem here with step 3. It's not an unnecessary complication.
newbie
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November 25, 2015, 12:34:01 PM
#38
So most wallets now do not re-use addresses or even let you specify the specific address you are sending from. This seems like a very unnecessary complication.

I agree, step 3 will make people lose money.
hero member
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November 25, 2015, 11:46:41 AM
#37

Can blockchain.info control which address BTC is sent from, is this suggested?


Yes, this is so that we can confirm afterwards that you are indeed the rightful owner of the iotas.

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Also is there a minimum $$ amount that needs to be raised to continue this project?


There is no exact number precisely because it's new technology, there are way too many variables. We're quite confident that we'll have IOTA done for testing by Christmas.

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From the Risk Paper:

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As the IOTA team plans to spend the proceeds of the IOTA crowdsale on development of
IOTA, Jinn (IOTA hardware support), marketing and community growth, a negative
fluctuation in the fiat value of Bitcoin could leave the project without sufficient funding to
complete all the milestones and goals.

What are these milestones & goals?


1. IOTA Software
2. JINN Hardware support for IOTA
3. Building a healthy ecosystem for IOTA
legendary
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November 25, 2015, 11:46:07 AM
#36
As as said in your announcement thread, let's see how it goes. Wink
Lot of people from NXT scene out there Roll Eyes

People from NXT know what is good Smiley
legendary
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November 25, 2015, 11:37:18 AM
#35
So most wallets now do not re-use addresses or even let you specify the specific address you are sending from. This seems like a very unnecessary complication.
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