Topic: [KOBO] Kobocoin - An African peer to peer payment/micropayment system - page 8. (Read 127507 times)

That's just a mockup to get the look/feel sorted out. They're still around and we have some other relevant images ready for the real thing

Felix,

I love the initial forum layout, thats just what I was hoping you would do, will post mostly there from now on
Glad you said that about abe explorer, it was only explorer that I knew, will look into Insight explorer, you saved me wasting time on abe, thanks.
I don't see why a VPS masternode is unsafe, because the coins are validated in a kind of hot/cold storage wallet, they are not in the same place?

The comment about African banks is important, I heard Cryptopia are getting flak for accepting the NZ dollar for their virtual tether NZ(account suspension imminent). If you get the banks on board thats a major step.

Regards with added excitement,

MammothK

P.S. Where have the women with the food on their heads gone?

Thanks. Yes, mobile application which is in the process of being upgraded for a more user-friendly look and feel

Great project, comes with a mobile application.

Decided to change the theme. As I said colours and layout can be completely customised for our needs. I like the functionality of this theme.

And here's an example of what can be done for a forum. It can be given the new website colour scheme very easily. Give it a visit. Post something if you want. It's flexible enough for me to carry out KYC on anybody who wants to buy/sell KOBO on the forum. BUY/SELL category can even be broken down into individual nations (or even cities) if required.

There's even an IM feature (bottom right hand side of the forum - see screenshot), so you can have real-time one-to-one chats (great for buy/sell opportunities). If people are really interested in buying and selling on the forum I may even offer an escrow service to mitigate scammers.

http://kobocoin.discussion.community
 

Had to move this here so it doesn't get lost

QUICK UPDATE

The new website template is almost done. I think it's an improvement. There's a lot to it but this is how the mockup looks so far. The very top blue bar in the shot below will have market details (price in USD/BTC/ETH and other African currencies) listed as well as the social icons. The image in the mockup is from the old website. The new website will have new, targeted and brighter images (so don't get hung up on the dark Shanghai image in the mockup below). I've already seen the newer images and they're a whole lot better.

ALL TEXT AND IMAGES WILL BE CHANGED - THIS IS JUST A MOCK UP TO GET THE THEME RIGHT



And below is what it looks like when it's scrolling. As you can see, the header is static and the blue top bar disappears (it's all the rage )



It also looks good on mobiles. It's a wordpress responsive site.



There's so much going on behind the scenes right now but I'll leave it at this for now. There will be a forum as well as not many people outside of the industry know of BitcoinTalk. I think it would be a great way for new users to get immediately immersed in kobo.

BTW - I am now being contacted by the largest African Banks offering Kobocoin a bank account AND access to their global networks to operate on. I'm not sure one is needed right now but it's a definite sign that people are very aware of kobocoin's potential in the market.

I'll post a dev URL when I've installed it on our main servers. It will be a beta site so we can decide what works and what doesn't (just as we did with the logo).

ALSO

The new website will be SSL and have a trusted green bar.

TT

QUICK UPDATE

The new website template is almost done. I think it's an improvement. There's a lot to it but this is how the mockup looks so far. The very top blue bar in the shot below will have market details (price in USD/BTC/ETH and other African currencies) listed as well as the social icons. The image in the mockup is from the old website. The new website will have new, targeted and brighter images (so don't get hung up on the dark Shanghai image in the mockup below). I've already seen the newer images and they're a whole lot better.



And below is what it looks like when it's scrolling. As you can see, the header is static and the blue top bar disappears (it's all the rage )



It also looks good on mobiles. It's a wordpress responsive site.



There's so much going on behind the scenes right now but I'll leave it at this for now. There will be a forum as well as not many people outside of the industry know of BitcoinTalk. I think it would be a great way for new users to get immediately immersed in kobo.

BTW - I am now being contacted by the largest African Banks offering Kobocoin a bank account AND access to their global networks to operate on. I'm not sure one is needed right now but it's a definite sign that people are very aware of kobocoin's potential in the market.

I'll post a dev URL when I've installed it on our main servers. It will be a beta site so we can decide what works and what doesn't (just as we did with the logo).

ALSO

The new website will be SSL and have a trusted green bar.

TT

No problem. There's just a lot going on and not enough hours in the day at this point.

1) At the moment I've opted to use a third party explorer so there's no versioning involved - https://chainz.cryptoid.info/kobo/ (unless you mean something else? I'll be creating a block explorer for the new site. I'm hoping to use the insight open source code for that.
2) I'm not 100% sure what you mean. There's no real explorer. It's some thing that you can build. There is abe (nightmare and a half) or you can alter an open source explorer (e.g. Insight) which I'm hoping to do soon.
3) The mobile wallet runs on Android only (or in an android virtual device in a development environment). It comes as an APK file that is installed directly onto the Android OS. The container side of things will not include Android as that's not how containers work at this point in time.

Masternodes is good, but I personally like the idea of kobo users having their wallet unlocked on their desktop and staking to receive rewards. In some ways (and this may be heresy to some), I consider PoS a form of CPU mining (don't all shout at once!). It's also safer than having a  VPS masternode out there for anybody to attempt to break.

That being said, I will be looking at how to alter the code (hopefully without hardforking) to allow some form of masternode concept for those who want to do some serious staking for extra reward.

Apologies for the delay, and hope that helps.

TT

Stunning update Felix and thanks for answering all my previous questions and clarifying, have nothing to add to that.

It is great to see your github get going again, tbh I have never heard of containers which shows my software weaknesses and thinking this may be over my head, but none the less, will attempt some newbie questions which I hope are not too obvious, please.

1) which block explorer and version does kobocoin currently use?
2) If I want to experiment with the explorer, do I bring in a snap shot of the blockchain or is it an active version, and if so does this mean running 2 containers at once?
3) is the mobile wallet in a container that simulates the android OS and emulates it, is that kind of how it works?

A possible idea for the stake holders supporting the network, is it possible to stake the coins without putting them at risk on a remote server like what a masternode would do? Otherwise the coins are always at risk and this would reduce incentive and number of nodes.

Regards and TIA.

El Mammoth

thanks for the update dev. we believe in this project and team. buckle up we are going to the moon 

https://www.finder.com.au/cryptocurrency-is-booming-in-africa


https://www.investopedia.com/news/africa-next-big-market-cryptocurrencies/

QUICK UPDATE

1. Logo done
2. New website underway
3. Kobocoin v2.1.0.3 is now stable and has a 'releases' page for reliable downloads - https://github.com/kobocoin/Kobocoin/releases/tag/v2.1.0.3-stable
4. Kobocoin v2.1.0.3 has a Dockerfile for easy installation for businesses/merchants - https://github.com/kobocoin/dockerfiles/tree/master/v2103-stable
5. We now have a github repo for all Dockerfiles created for kobo services - https://github.com/kobocoin/dockerfiles
6. We now have a Docker hub repo for easy pull requests - https://hub.docker.com/u/kobocoin/
7. Mobile wallet upgrade is in progress
8. Koboseeder (a DNS seeder that will help secure the network even further) is now on github - https://github.com/kobocoin/koboseeder

Dockerfiles is import (imo). All organisations I know are moving to containerised services and It allows us to create modular services. This will allow interested parties to quickly and reliably build any kobo services e.g:

• Minimal build with Kobocoind only
• Full node with DNS seeder
• Full node with Apache, Insight Explorer, and Node.js
• Full node with Electrum server

All these features will be highlighted on the new website.

It's tempting to get straight into the upgrading of the code but I want to lay a proper foundation for all work carried out from now on. That's why enabling all these repos is important

TT

NB - I've let YoBit know about the new stable source code release on github. Let's see if withdrawals is enabled before I get my hacked account back. Both are a joke, I know!

so nice that we take part in the approval of the logo. I'm proud of it!!

I like the lighter color too.. New design but with a DNA of the soon to be old logo.. Psychologically, the lighter color is also more "cheerful" .

both look good. 

It's definitely the winner, but I think more people like the lighter green (don't worry, Mammoth... The black dot will go!).
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I do prefer the second logo too, but is in your hands since you're the dev 
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What do you think of this logo? I know it's probably not as aesthetic as the preferred logo but it does scale. On CMC it will scale down and look like "IO". Probably a bit much, and probably nothing to do with our goals, but want to see what you guys think. Don't t look at colours. That can all be changed to suit our purposes. This is just to see what you guys think about it.

I'm really in two minds as to whether it works or not.



There might soon be a new more balanced striped logo for you to take a look at. If it's good enough I'll post it.

We seem to have a winner though. Kobocoin light green with 2 horizontal stripes: A proper currency logo!

 

I'll try and answer your questions:

Mammoth:
You sound like an expert. maybe you should be on the team!

• The black 'dot' - I hadn't given that particular detail much thought. It can easily be changed. I'll do that. Don't let it irritate you!
• My new dev laptop has arrived and it is awesome (Xeon E3 1505Mv6, 32MB RAM, 512GB SSD, OLED). It compiles quietly and efficiently (and looks good doing it too!).
• We are still involved with Bitsoko but KOBO will not be moving to the Ethereum blockchain. There were issues to do with speed (and also to do with ETH gas). On this front I'm doing my best to get all the libraries cleaned up and made readily available so that anyone can create services on the kobo blockchain. Of course, now I've got the new machine I'm hoping to skill and tool up and get a few things out myself.
• I am not aware of any work Bitsoko may be carrying out at this time. The javascript libraries have been passed to a few people. It could be any one of a number of organizations who've downloaded copies. It's easy with the js libs to produce offline addresses. A few merchants have asked for copies. I'm not sure what they're doing with them.
• With the issue of nodes, this is something down the road. There's only so much that we're able to do at a time. The main thing right now is to setup a proper development environment. Once that's done then we can start on other areas that need advancing.
  
  One example is that now I've got a reliable dev pc I'm now building Docker Containers for our apps. It's now possible to run kobocoind or kobocoin-qt as a container app. Once again, there's a lot more to do but at least we're moving in the right direction.
  
  https://hub.docker.com/r/kobocoin/v2.1.0.3/
  https://hub.docker.com/r/kobocoin/v2.1.0.3/tags/
  
  As the code is cleaned up, any runnable applications will be containerized (or bundled). I really want to make it easy to develop apps for our blockchain (but not too easy!).
  

• There are no miners for kobo, only PoS stakeholders. Not sure if this is what you meant.
• With messaging updates, this will also be down the road. The mobile wallets need to be stabilized and the exchange rate feature that used to convert kobo to over 150 different world currencies has stopped working since finance.yahoo.com pulled their free-to-use APIs. I believe it affected a number of android crypto wallets. Were you talking of the desktop wallet?
  
  ALSO - The Nigerian Naira currency symbol also uses double stripes, that's why they were used here as well. I'm surprised you didn't notice it. (...are you too busy spending $$? )
  https://www.google.co.uk/search?biw=1702&bih=953&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=XVKCWquONKrGgAbH-4DICw&q=naira+currency+symbol&oq=naira+currency+symbol
  
  
• Multi-sig and your other ideas are good, but again, we need time to implement these things. It's always good to come up with great ideas, but when you switch on the machine, start developing, and start getting assertions and exceptions, then you know that development is going to be long and torturous. But at least it's started

capri00:

• There will be a whitepaper and roadmap on the new website coming between Q1/Q2. This is also why the logos are being updated.