Topic: Obyte: Totally new consensus algorithm + private untraceable payments - page 390. (Read 1234315 times)

The byteball bytes market cap is just under half of the all time high. I think what we are seeing here is a long consolidation period.

The distribution method has worked well, coins are 60% distributed, no ICO smell, and price is still low enough to attract new investors. Every distribution method has pros & cons - PoW is incredibly energy intensive, ICO's have legal risk and are scammy, and airdrops favour early adopters and some whales. Nothing is perfect, but velocity of circulation ensures that eventually the coins end up in the hands of people who value them, and support the project.

Stop whining guys, BB distribution is going well, and if tonych decides to tweek some aspects no worries, it's his project, and he didn't earn a cent from any ICO.

Disagree completely. If it wasn't for the airdrop, I would likely never have heard of the project.

You make a good point about distributing to competitors being a bad idea. For the first few airdrops it made sense to raise awareness, but everyone that has already known about Byteball more or less already linked. The only BTC holders really incentivized at this point to link are MASSIVE whales. These people have contributed nothing to the project, and most have done nothing but undermine confidence in the project. It is too late to change the model however, as the bad actors already have been handed out enough coins to continue to wreak havoc like you say. As a large holder and true believer in the project, I personally think the airdrops should be stopped. There really is no need to continue to inflate the money supply, the remaining coins could be burned, put into time lock community fund, dev fund, ect. I think once there is no more possibility of additional airdropped coins (inflation), the deflationary nature of the coin will cause an increase in price, which will increase interest and confidence. Your solutions are impossible to carry out by the way. There was never any promise of any number of airdrops and Tony always reserved the right to change the distribution model in the future. Suggesting that already distributed coins be retracted has horrible implications (a government has a problem with someone and requests that funds be taken away from a user, ect.)




I don't like the idea of airdrop to ETH (I doubt there is many ETH users that don't fall in the set of former or current BTC users). The other ideas are similar to mine that I stated above and I think they are much better alternatives to continue the current model of airdrops until the price reaches zero. MUCH less BTC was linked this round, which is probably an even scarier indication of diminishing interest in the project than the price dropping 1500%.

It would have been very dumb to null top 2% of balances, because then people who have their balances spread over multiple addresses would continue to receive GB (and ones who cared would simply distribute over multiple addresses). If you had done retroactive snapshot, you could have effectively distributed all at once and airdrops would be meaningless, defeating the purpose of getting more users to link. Also, those who held BTC on an exchange, would not be able to withdraw and participate.

Also, the idea of not distributing to bytes that have been moved is ludicrous. The whole point of byteball is using the currency and platform. Most bytes that have moved were not sold on exchanges.

I think a new solution is needed, e.g. continue cashback program, keep 50,000+ GB for development and bring on a bigger core team, including some marketing people, and "ICO" some for the foundation to have BTC and $/ruble or sell on market at a higher price. Or some new method which tonych is implying he came up with.

I think a good sketch of an overall plan would be:

• halt further distribution to btc holders OR cut it by ~90%, outline maximum GB/GBB to be distributed this way, and add a proportional distribution to ETH holders, and halt distribution when out of allocated GB/GBB
• outline exactly how many of the remaining GB/GBB will be sent to GB holders, and distribute it in a special distribution or a definite airdrop schedule
• hold back roughly 50,000-100,000 GB and use it for a foundation to support development and marketing (but mostly development)
• hold back roughly 10,000-50,000 GB for continuing cashback program
• use 0-100,000 GB for whatever other mechanisms you have in mind

This way the knowledge of future inflation will be precise and the price/project can have some confidence boost.

Well if that is the case my later suggestions will work great.

Reward the loyal but not the super rich loyal who have been rewarded quite enough already.

The rest of the short term traders and churners can eat cake.

The rest goes for development.

I realise his game his rules but you keep changing the rules people start to wonder if they are the game.

If it isnt working already then perhaps his own council is not his best.

I think tonych is great and I am quite a fan. However this great work of his is getting killed by his not so great idealistic distributional model.

I would love him to explain to me why he never just nulled the top 2% of btc claiming wallets or even top 5% and done a retrospective snapshot from there?
I mean answer me this so that i can follow it and understand and i will double my efforts to support byteball.

There must be a good reason but I can not find it without his help. I find it impossible to believe someone so smart would do something like that at face value. There must be a deeper reason i can not fathom with my limited mind.

Atomic swaps can be done on Byteball. It is one of the many features.

Thank you for this answer, I think it can be useful for many people as it explains how not to lose one own's blackbytes. (BTW I've just manage to lose quite a lot of them by forgetting to re-link my address today).
As for the multisignature wallets I think this is one of the coolest features of Byteball's app. Not only you can have all your bytes and blackbytes and any other supported asset on hand in all your devices, but if you make a 2of3 or better a 2of4 or even better a 2of5 multisignature wallet (this means every withdraw of coins must be approved at least by two devices) you also have an exceptional protection against having your coins stolen.
The problem, however, as I've said, is that android multisig wallets are not reliable enough yet, at least in my experience. I hope they will become in future.

his game. his rules. if it isn't working how he wants then he should change it.

i agree that the distribution method so far has been kinda silly, but if you look a little closer very few of the really big holders have made any kind of move. it's all still sitting there.

So now even people who have bought byteball on the promise of future airdrops of to their byteball address until complete disbursement are not going to get further byteballs as promised.

I understood the ceasing of btc linkage. This though is not at all good and I can see why even after the nifty ico taking place and going well there is another huge dump there is no real reason at all to hold byteball now unless you are a true believer.

I see. I wonder why faith is stalling in the project?

The tech is great but you can not simply encourage accumulation of byteballs promising one thing then chopping that incentive off once they have bought.

The entire distributional process was very very flawed. This is coming to light now but the vast damage by awarding the huge lions share to other ico managers from other projects and btc whales is now quite clear.

You would have been better simply running a fair ico and now having btc for development.

Better still if you had chopped the top 2% of wallets out as i suggested and done a retrospective random date snapshot to start it would have be WAY Better.

I would say do this

Reward only byteball holders that have bought or received at any stage and never sold or moved their byteballs. Not these churners and short term traders wanting only profit. Reward only those that believe and have never sold a single byteball even now.

You have created something great only to have almost destroyed it with such a foolish distributional model and subsequent changes to the rules as it goes along. Faith and trust is a hard thing to reinstall once broken. When you say something will take place in a certain way and people buy on the basis of how you say it will happen. It must indeed happen that way.

I still think the project can rise to be a top 10 contender or top 5. The dumping you are seeing is not because the project is not great it is because the people who YOU GAVE the lions share too have no real will to see it do well. The notion of willingly giving competing projects and exchanges the lions share of your project is complete and utter madness and I can only imagine behind the scenes such a smart person as yourself must must have had a very good reason to do this that we can not understand. I hope this reason will come to light and i hope it was not just related in the end to self enrichment through back handers and deals with those that took far more tokens than you seemingly will ever get or the businesses you now seek to attract.

The entire distributional model was complete an utter madness if taken at face value.

This dumping can go on for months or even years when the whales who hold it all want it up it will rise. Until then you can code out and create the best technical product on here and it will sink like a stone.

On the basis of what you have created this should be a top 10 project. It would have been if you had distributed it nulling the top 2% of wallets and rewarding only those that held byteball until full disbursement has taken place with no spends or max of 10% spends only.

I do not believe someone this smart would of distributed like this and is now forced to break agreements on distribution at this time. Seems ludicrous.

Reward only those that have held their byteball from the start or that have held it from the point at which they bought it with no spends. Support those that have supported the project.  Null the top 10% of those they dont need more for free.

the airdrop has happened last night? damn..i forgot about it..i was very lucky that some time ago i had some buying orders and have done my moving in the linked adress.

Interesting to see that the price has dipped as usual following the airdrop even though it didn't rise much this time.
Byteball needs better community more investors to go it big.

In the past before an airdrop there would be pages and pages of people making stupid commenst liken "wow only 3 days to the airdrop" etc. This time nothing until the day before. You'd say: good! Finally less spam on the thread. Well, yes, but... it depends. As a result of this lack of hype, since I have been one and a half day offline this time I didn't become aware of the fact that there was the airdrop today and I didn't relink my addresses (the wallet keeps moving my bytes to a new address whatever I do). No blackbytes for me this time

Question: Can the contract language in byteball handle crosschain atomic swaps?

Bitcoin's lightning network Atomic Swaps are working now on Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Decred, possibly Vertcoin, Particl, and there are different types of atomic swaps (not requiring Lightning) for other networks: Komodo, ETH, ETC, maybe Waves, Steem / Bitshares and others I would expect?

• How Lightning Network swaps work
• First tests have just been made in BCC
• A more generalized view
• Barterdex: Fast(er) decentralized exchange idea

I have just received my Blackbytes. 
Thanks to Tony, the team and everyone who is expanding the Byteball ecosystem and populating the DAG.
@Tony: have fun in Berlin!
Agreed, the efficiency of the airdrop decreases. It takes more people to fill the coin with value through their work.
...but they need a reward

The moralistic grandstanding continues.


Only 13% more - so far.  Of course it's tanking.  All alts are tanking.   Everyone jumping out of alts to buy bitcoin simply because of FOMO.  Not only is bitcoin jumping, but people want the forks.