Topic: [KOBO] Kobocoin - An African peer to peer payment/micropayment system - page 9. (Read 127521 times)

do you have a roadmap for 2018?

This coin is available everywhere, making it convenient for the coin to circulate.
I think it will be popularized soon.
 

You have a potentially unlimited and fast network, think that more potential can be derived from a global connection of nodes than 'just' the block update information. Perhaps place 1 megabyte limit on the inter wallet email to reduce spam, and then charge additional kobocoin that goes to the miners on an ever increasing (exponential) scale to allow for larger attachments so if people really want to use up the bandwidth, they can but at a cost.
Is it possible to have the kobocoin value in different fiat currencies in the wallet somewhere(could default to none) ?

Perhaps makes the messaging multiparty, and allow for others to join in afterwards but only if they know the encryption key/get invited or like facebook and allow for groups to be created?
Have you considered multiple keys for signing kobocoin so that lets say, 2 of 3 people must sign it off before it is usable like in a company or if a transaction send it but withhold the key until the recipient delivers their end of the bargain. And could use post dated coins like a cheque, aiming at paying someone inadvance for each month but it is not usable until the correct time (block number in this case, random but predictable time)

Just some more ideas, easy to say all this, but I'm not the one who has to implement it! 

Mammoth.

Prefer the second one and agree with opticoin about the strike through being like money, not convinced by the black dot on 'coin', it could look like a print error or dirt on a screen. Like the light green more- more eco friendly and natural looking green colour. A question, is there a Nigerian currency style or note colour that is useable, can you subtley merge a little African culture into this somewhere?

It is great to see this extra brand development, has your new computer arrived yet, I suggest you use your old one for some (stake) mining, don't want it to go unused 

Can I ask if you don't mind, are you still involved with Bitsoko? I see interesting 0.1 and 0.01 kobocoin transactions creating new wallet addresses, am assuming this is them experimenting with your wallet and blockchain, have never seen that before with other coins, they look like good programmers.

Regards.

Lighter colours

Thoughts appreciated.

Thanks for the feedback. I can see why you went for logo 2.

For logo1, that's what the designer was aiming for. It's a K and a C, but it signifies that kobocoin is on the blockchain. It's more a corporate logo (imo).

For Logo 2, the stripes were added to make it look more like a currency.

They're both being modified. I'll see what they look like when they come back but I'm happy with both. I think the designer done good.

My thoughts:

 Logo 1 is tricky. As a corporate logo, designwise, it is more sophisticated. Initially it confuses you, what is that shadow for?.. and then it hits you,  It's K and C .. and then it turns into an optical illusion because it shifts between K-C  and I-C.  You have to dig deep down and once it settles in  -----> Kobocoin = International/Internet Coin/Currency). I am not sure if that is what the designer was aiming for, but that is how I interpreted the logo.

 Logo 2.. it's simple and direct to point.. Kobocoin is a currency.. and then the image of a flying bird/plane swoops in,  it's fast. It doesn't hurt that it looks like a green and K version of the Bitcoin logo. Another point, when I asked my 6-year old daughter which logo she prefers, she pointed to Logo 2, because it looks like a money. If a 6-year old can get it .....
    
  If we are targetting for broader consumer adoption, I am voting for Logo 2  

UPDATE

What do you guys think of the first drafts of the new logo? Which do you prefer?? Any alterations you'd like to see?

My thoughts:
Logo1 - The 'C' part could be made to look more like a cube/block, with the final 'surface' having some sort of colour.
Logo2 - The horizontal lines could be a bit stubbier. I think it looks more like a currency symbol than logo1 (but my teenage daughter likes the simplicity of logo1).

You could also make a case for the top image representing the blockchain itself, and the bottom image representing the currency that runs on the blockchain. It could be worth highlighting the actual blockchain.

It's certainly going to be a sharper image!


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I'll soon have a first draft of the new website template for you to critique as well.

TT

 i will be watching this. looks actually interesting. Good luck on this project!

Wow. Thanks for the kind words and offer of help.

Yes, it's a long long way away till we reach 350,000,000 kobos.

My new dev PC will finally be arriving soon, so I will setup the testnest and get some tkobocoins generated. We'll play with the test network. I will also get some Raspberry Pi's and see if we can start working on some form of masternode update, or something like that.

One thing I've definitely been thinking of with the private messaging is creating a blockchain email service. I've been testing this out with my current PC. It needs a bit of ironing out but once 2 individuals have connected with each other using kobo addresses, they can actually send a form of encrypted email to each other. It just needs a better GUI. I'd like to find a way that people can send blockchain email without the need for any form of currency exchange so that we then have a true blockchain application that anyone anywhere can use for free.

I'll also look into the SMS side of things. There were some guys a few years ago who I was speaking to about integrating this feature but they went bust and stopped the service. I'll get their names. I think it had a "7" in the name.

I have an idea for mobile wallets and staking that I'm going to play with but won't broadcast here until it either passes or fails testing. It might also allow the private messaging to become a feature of the mobile wallets.

One thing you'll find very hard to convince me to do is to offer any kind of exchange service. I'm not a security expert and I don't fancy spending the rest of my life fighting off hackers who like to smash exchanges into smithereens.

There's lots of good ideas there, so thanks again.I will definitely keep you updated and call on you when the time is right.

Felix,
For fun, I completed the calculation upto 350 million coins at the actual derived 1.134% inflation rate per annum.

[log (350,000,000/24,910,596)] / log (1.01134) = 234.33 years

So the final Kobocoin block is mined in the year 2252 AD, or thereabouts, lol, even your offspring may have left this world by then 

Anyway, more seriously, If I am near a real PC - I want to offer my help for setting up test masternodes inside testnet if this is the path that you choose to go down.
I suggest 4 or 5 mining computers, a few nodes and freshly insta-mined 'tkobocoin' for testing the backbone masternode network before it is released onto mainnet, would not want multiple forks occuring and network fragmentation.
Will read,scan and send you the error logs for further investigation.
Also can test new wallet versions on smart phones and can do some of the maths for you if you need anything checking or calculating.

Some more thoughts on this are;

1) Is it possible to set up a stake mining node and/or masternode on a mobile phone, think that smart phones are easily fast enough and have enough memory to store entire block chain size (~1.5 GB)
2) Your inter wallet encrypted messaging service, can this message to outside of the blockchain to real SMS messages and vice versa? This will provide a bridge between the 2 worlds. Other coins offer this, can you merge the github somehow?
3)  use the masternode hard drive memory for running a decentralised exchange system? (more complicated, longer term aim)

I would say a new thread is needed or even better a seperate website - can kobocoin.com be expanded with a developers forum somewhere, this will help keep the spam out, and focus the work better?

Good luck and regards,

MammothK

He's been broadcasting this message everywhere
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/the-last-guardian-1580535

I'm not able to delete it as my account has been hacked!

 

COİNEXCHANGE  THIEF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have to correct you here. There was never an ICO for Kobocoin.

Kobocoin at launch (Feb 7th, 2015) was PoW (Proof of Work) to ensure a fair distribution before going to full PoS (Proof of Stake). It was meant to be mineable for 1 month only but at the time it was more popular than expected and block 43,200 (which should have been 30 days @ 60s block time) was reached on Feb 25th, 2015.

The coin specs are shown below:

- Name of Coin : Kobocoin
- Ticker Symbol : KOBO
- Max number of kobocoins : 350,000,000
- Algo: X15/PoW/PoS
- Timings of block (in seconds) : 60
- Coins per Block  : 1,000
- Block number when PoW ended  : 43,200 (ended 25th February, 2015)
- https://chainz.cryptoid.info/kobo/block.dws?00000000129737545b031a87b9f531b9619876b270d0fa3aad01c7956ae4bbea.htm
- Approx number of coins in circulation after PoW end : 23,500,000
- PoS Reward (currency growth) per year : ~10%
- Max stake age : No max
- Min stake age : 24 hrs
- 50 confirmations required for mined blocks
- 6 confirmations required for transactions
- No IPO, No ICO, No Premine

What is Kobocoin?
The launch, the so-called “Initial Coin Offering” the cryptocurrency Kobocoin took place on February 15 2017th Since then, listed under the symbol KOBO currency can, in any market for crypto currencies are traded on the Internet.
Read More https://www.geekxplore.com/what-is-kobocoin.html

Is this coin POS or is it still mineable?  If mineable, any good pools out there?

I'm posting this for the new and recent community members.

I believe this was the first  media coverage of Kobocoin, a year after the Feb 2015 launch of Kobocoin.   

https://bitcoindood.com/bitcoin-blog/2016/03/28/interview-with-kobocoin-dev/

Kobocoin was launched on 7th February, 2015. Long before ICO's were even thought of!