Arcurus

For all you savages and earthly ladies out there, I offer you these traditional Viking goods from Land of Giants, the country of thousand lakes; Finland

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[item] Chillie sauce

Fatalii Jigsaw x Carolina Reaper

[Description] If ye dont know these strains and expect a nice little kick for ya' cookinn's, dont order these
 
[Comments] Wanna punish ya'sself? Or maybe torture your friend? This schitt be good for that. Either eat this schitt or apply to ya'h ballz.

[special Notes] Don't order this unless ye know what ye be doing...  
Or, if you wish, I can dilute the sauce for ya if ye wish.. request herbs / ingredients to do it with and I'll see what I can do!
(currently available local "organic" herbs: dandelion flower, dandelion root, basil, lemon balm, hemp (finola)... ugh... just check herbs grown in Finland and ask me if I have it ;))



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[item] Vihta / Vasta
[Description] Hand made Birch vihta. Consists of branches from Betula pendula and Betula pubescens species. Made during this past summer, under the instruction of an oldschool viking spirited geezer The leaves are firmly attached to branches, so should be good for couple of sauna sessions for one brute Collected from forests of Etelä-Savo, where nearest "big" city is 35 km away.
 
[Comments] What is a vihta you ask? Well, as already tipped in the description, its something used in sauna Vihta is a collection of dozens of birch branches, with leaves still attached, tied together.. kinda like a collection of flowers This stick bouquet though, is used during sauna sessions to whack yourself all over the body, while shouting PERKELE!!! ... The yelling part is optional though, but proper vikings put their soul into it, hehehe
If you dont know what sauna is... you're missing out on some good enjoyment! Educate yourself on wikipedia: Finnish Sauna
Using a vihta in sauna can boost your blood circulation and clean your skin. Birch leaves also have beneficial properties and are used in traditional healing and aroma therapy.
 
[special Notes] A little bit of a sales pitch here, but the viking spirited geezer who showed and instructed me how to make these vihtas properly, suffered some health issues and is currently in hospital care. I will dedicate the funds from the sale of these vihtas towards his care If you havent had a sauna session with a vihta, I would really appreciate if you'd try once with one of these ^^
 
[Quantity available] *ugh*... ?
[Min. order] 1 vihta
[Price] Half a bottle of spirits, maybe?
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Thank you Fabrizio for organizing the Hangouts. 
Yea a short summary would be nice to have.
 
I hope, that I will manage to join this time.
15:00 UTC is 16:00 in Sweden or?

yea Bick will show us how the future will look

If we play it right, we can have news from the future provided by bick

As I have now little more free time to spend on the computer, I'll try to schedule and arrange some of these meetings with audio+text, and if needed, video at some point.
 
I'm hoping we could get weekly meetups going and a place to Freicoin community to get to know each other better I'd think these would also help align some projects.. or allow people currently watching the developments from sidelines to participate more easily ^^

These first meetings will be just for test and get the ball running, but in the future, we could have the meetings recorded and compile/cut the most important or relevant parts of the discussion to be shared more easily in social media and with friends I'm willing to do the recording and editing when needed.
 
I will also try to note down the topics and main points of discussion from meetings, to be shared in this thread.
 
As I've taken a liking to Mumble (open source project with great security) for voice chats on the internets, lets start these meetings with testing it out for our needs It is also available for Android phones, under the name of "Plumble Free".
There is free public servers we can use to start with, but also a private server can be set up if required.
Mumble allows both, audio and text chat, so we could use that solely for the meeting, but I think we should still allow people to voice their questions and comments in IRC as well.
 
So, if you wish to participate in the audio part of the meeting (you dont have to talk if you dont wish, you can just listen in), have Mumble installed:
http://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Main_Page
 
 
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Hangout #1 - Held on October 29th | Post: http://freicoinalliance.com/topic/36-fa-hangouts-online-meetings/#entry240
Hangout #2 - Scheduled | Post: http://freicoinalliance.com/topic/36-fa-hangouts-online-meetings/page-2#entry259
 

Using the wallet at the moment and the only problem I have had was due to my phone being a pain. Not the programme it self. Joe talked help me out and installed nice and easy. So far so good easy to use and running fast on my older phone.

If you're in that much in doubt about the people behind the bounty, I would be fine with reputable escrow, Mollycat for example, to hold the bounty in this case if you require. However, this is a whole another discussion/process we need to have then.. not just to agree with selecting the escrow amongst the bounty contributors, but also with drafting careful terms with loads of unnecessary tinyprint etc. for releasing the bounty :F
 
I'd hope we could reach an easier solution here. I liked to believe that the bounty would've been there to promote the common good values behind Freicoin itself, and allow the community to work on projects and problems together
Like Molly posted above, I think we are all dedicated contributing towards Freicoin and see the obvious consequences on the reputations of each entity if the bounty wouldn't be paid for honest work
 
Multisignature accounts would be interesting to test though, so I think we should maybe indeed have some opinions and discussion going on that front for the BTC part of the bounty, maybe even FRC too hopefully?
 
So in the end what I'm trying to say about the bounty: It would be much more in line with Freicoins ideals, more transparent and way easier for everyone involved, if you would apply for the bounty when there is a fully working version released. With reports from multiple users reporting no major bugs, tested on multiple different mobile devices and all that jazz I think we all agree the time is more well spent on actual testing and developing, than talking the ~politics (the bounty escrow terms), hehe

Our students willing to test via androids at school and with their phones.

Situation:
 
We currently have only 3 full time exchanges to convert Freicoin. There are easily manipulated via bots and unscrupulous miners engaged in dump and dump schemes.
 
Vircurex
Cryptsy
BTER
 
Focus:
 
We need to work on some major exchanges and try to get FRC listed before 2015 as a target. 
 
1. Get Ask Coin to accept FRC.  
2. Get BTC-e to accept FRC.
3. Get Kraken to accept FRC.
4. Here is a Complete List of Bitcoin Exchanges so we can target other sites on our own and get FRC spread far and wide. As a group I suggest we work on Ask Coin first as it will be easy enough to get us on Ask Coin with minimal time and money to invest.
 
Reponse: 
 
1. Ask Coin has a vote on Tuesday. Fredrik and Darin have already pledged 0.15 BTC or 1500 votes to get our total votes up. We need more people to help support this so we challenge other members in the community to vote and to pay for 0.15 BTC or 1500 votes per block. If we get over 3000 or best we get to 4500 votes pledged before AskCoin publishes the winning coin on Tuesday morning at 04:00 UTC and moves them into the winners coin section of the site we should be on Ask Coin with no problem. We need your support. 
 
Here is the TX ID for our 1500 votes: https://blockchain.info/tx/fa16fbf72c44db7c4ec8a1e5081707ed89019ed80692f9edcdbcfc3eaed35c2c
 
Here is the FRC Vote Address for AskCoin.net: https://blockchain.info/address/1N3T2TNPhfhkdyekvTcmUfB137jFmRHLPu
 
Remember you can vote here on AskCoin and add 1 vote every 10 minutes. NO BOTS PLEASE!
 
2. BTC-e is a tougher exchange to crack but we need to start a campaign and get FRC listed here. It is a major exchange that would allow us significant exposure to a much larger trading base for FRC. I am not sure how to proceed other than to first send emails from Mark or Jorge the developers to get some traction and then some members of the community can then work with BTC-e to help promote FRC inclusion on BTC-e.
 
3. Kraken is also a tough exchange to crack but we need to start a campaign and get FRC listed here. It is a major exchange that would allow us significant exposure to a much larger trading base for FRC. I am not sure how to proceed other than to first send emails from Mark or Jorge, the FRC developers, to get some traction and then some members of the community can then work with Kraken to help promote FRC inclusion on Kraken.
 
4. Members can work on their own or in teams to find other sites that will vote up coins or have open door policies to new altcoins. I have worked originally to get BTER as an FRC exchange and currently I am working on Palth Exchange in Thailand. 
 
Evaluation:
 
In an effort to keep our work from crossing over please post below what exchange sites you have contacted and ANY successes you have achieved in getting the exchanges to accept FRC. We will update the Exchange list as this happens. There are probably 100's of exchanges so the more we push the wider we can spread the coins placement. A polite, concerted effort to get FRC listed will pay off dividends in 2015. 

This is a quick short and sweet announce. The pre-alpha version of FreiLectrum (electrum for freicoin) is completed. 
 
I am working to test the android version. I will be applying for the full mobile wallet bounty with 50% up front upon code release as I intend to test the android version after release but wish to reserve my place as the developer who created it.
 
FreiLectrum allows HD wallets, allows users to use a client without a blockchian download, allows for a webwallet, works on any platform that can use python (windows, mac, linux, android, i believe iOS can take it too)
 
proof photos attached. please watch https://github.com/joeswhite/electrum/tree/FreiLectrum(electrum-freicoin) for updates coming soon. 
 
This port of electrum will become the official freicoin electrum port after pre-alpha testing is done.
 
 
I am requesting 10k of the bounty in FRC be set aside for everyone to do test transactions on freilectrum between eachother with each tester getting 100 FRC to test so as to share the rest of the testing.
 
freilectrum-server will be added after i finish more development.
 
There are still some rebranding things left to do on FreiLectrum
 
*EDIT* I need people to set up blockexplorers so we can right click a tx and see it on the explorer

Good watch, and a great video to share to "common" folks
Andreas M. Antonopoulos answers Canadian Senate Committees questions regarding cryptocurrencies. Stream from the Parliament of Canada website can be found here: http://senparlvu.parl.gc.ca/Guide.aspx?viewmode=4&categoryid=-1&eventid=9692#
 
Demurrage briefly mentioned too:

*edit: Time tag doesnt seem to work when embedding videos here, demurrage part @ 1:15:30 onwards

Welcome to the Freicoin Alliance Forums!
 
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Welcome!

@fedde much thx for all that you have done for Freicoin!

Hi all
 
We released a Faucet today as all other coins has it, why don't we have one too.
 
http://freicoinfaucet.com/
 
Donation Address : 16fkaCJ7vzsmLywtndbuuMHdGW5Sy6yaiL
 
Cheers!
Fedde

New design including the new kria coin in the logo. 
 
Wiii!

I also!

yea I have got my first like!

again great work!

Hi Freicoiners,
here is an crosspost from the Freicoin Forum:
http://freicoin.freeforums.org/freicoin-alliance-t804-20.html#p8294
 
I think that this review is a great opportunity to learn how we are perceived from the outside and what we can do better, especially now when we are starting the Freicoin Alliance.
 
This review is now a little bit old, but I think the most points are still the same.
 
And yea, some parts are really funny, just to mention the Freicoin "mystical" marketing expert, so take it with fun and enjoy!
 
 
 
We should really read this and learn out of this how we are perceived!
 
In the following I commented it a little bit self ironically (some parts was too funny to resit  :roll: ), I think to lough about the own errors is the best way to learn! 
 
Don't forget we are all human! And humans make errors all the time! That's the reaon to be humans, otherwise the evolution would be boring!
 
Here are some real targets to work on... how about we focus on these areas?
 
This is a review from 2013 and nothing much has changed.
 
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Review
 
"Freicoin is a crypto-currency descendant from Bitcoin which has integrated a unique system to discourage saving or hording coins called demurrage. Demurrage is basically the cost associated with holding currency. With a commodity such as gold the demurrage would be the cost of storing and securing the gold. In Freicoin’s case, the developers have deliberately instituted a demurrage fee into the protocol which automatically deducts and destroys coins held in your wallet over time. Sometimes referred to as ‘rotting coins’, it was included in the protocol to encourage spending and to discourage hording or saving. 5% of the total FRC supply is destroyed each year while miners continually refresh the supply with new coins through the mining process."
 
Ok, on that we should work. Bringing at least 50% of the demurrage to common good projects would sound much more nice, then people perhaps understand that Freicoin "could" be more then only demurrage... 
 
 
"The Freicoin developers have some very specific economic and political leanings and appear to be reaching out to specific social interest groups. They appear to have some type of loose association with the Occupy Wall Street movement and actually mention this group several times on their web page. The Freicoin web page goes into great detail arguing that interest has been the cause of inequality, poverty and the regular boom and bust cycles throughout history. The Freicoin community is mostly concentrated at their own forum (link) but also has a number of posts on Bitcointalk.org. Most of the discussion appears to be oriented to practical aspects of the use and development of the alt-coin and seems to have minimal political and socioeconomic diatribes."
 
Lol, "Most of the discussion appears to be oriented to practical aspects of the use and development of the alt-coin", I think they are mainly talking about my posts here  
If they understood what this "development", for example of supporting non profits, or an decentralized coin rebublic would mean, then they would see, that this could have a big political and socioeconomic impact. Imagine only 5% of all the money supply yearly goes to non profits, in what a word we would live in, not to talk about the an possible impact of an World Citicens Divident or Economy where ethical businesses are supported... uiuiuiuiui  
 
"Community Support – The community support of Freicoin can be considered part of a real-life movement. The main priority for this coin’s developers and community is to convey their opinions about the current monetary system, they could almost be considered as an organization. The drawback of this isolation is the lack of appeal to gain further value. The developers remain very active, but again have a very small core audience. In this case, some of their rhetoric may not appear friendly to some. None the less, Freicoin has support from merchants and services; But, future acceptance may not be so kind to this coin."
 
Lol, thats to much "convey their opinions about the current monetary system" who of you was that? Yea But Gesell said
 
"some of their rhetoric may not appear friendly to some"
Hey come on who was that? Was that I? Please remind me if I am too "not friendly" or so  :twisted: 
 
 
 
 
"Exchange Presence - Freicoin is currently listed on 3 exchanges: Cryptsy, Bter and Vircurex. Cryptsy retails the largest volume for Frei, but still pales in comparison to most alternative coins. Due to the lack of volume, future exchange support remains unlikely."
 
Thats true, if we dont build up a community, an don't proof that Freicoin is just a money with demurrage, than no Exchange will help us, because nobody wants to exchange something. As always said, for we the most interesting part in Freicoin is what we could all do good with the demurrage. If we do good with it, and are a little bit more welcoming, then perhaps also more people will use Freicoin.
 
 
Technical Advancements - Demurrage remains the most appealing and the only technical feature for Freicoin. Due to this anti-interest, Freicoin has implemented a system where wealth becomes more equal (in a sense) through the destruction and replenishing of coins. An interesting concept, very few alternative coins seek to replicate this idea.
Doogy Doge has it, ok its more inflation then demurrage, but the result seems to be the same... Ok Jorge I give up I said nearly not exactly the same For the protocol: In a way demurrage is a little bit more fair collected then to simply inflate (as long as it is not given out in an fair way, for example as Citizens Dividend or something like that), and has also another psychological impact. I just remember that guy that post in Joes lost coin Topic, that someone is all the time stealing his coins...  :roll: 
 
 
Coins Source’s Outlook - Ultimately, this coin remains somewhat shrouded in a mystery. After roughly two years of being on the markets, it has seen success. The major curiousity is the developer, or the lead marketing expert behind the coin, who seems more interested in intellectual talk instead of supporting the coin. Efforts to make this coin are virtually non-existent, and the lack of marketing efforts reflect on Freicoin’s current decline.
 
Thats the best, I cannot hold anymore. I allways wondered who is this mystical "marketing expert" behind Freicoin. Is it Jorge or me  :roll: 
Or is it Joe? No no way or?   <-- UPDATE Yea it must be JOE!!! Jo the mystical market expert, now I know! I got you JOE!
 
 
Community Support: 2 Stars (2 / 5)
 
Hey come one, we have not been that unfriendly, i would give a 4, ok if we count that our Forum is very very hidden on Freicoin.org, I would give a 1, so perhaps 2 is ok...
 
Exchange Presence: 1 Stars (1 / 5)
 
Hmm 3 good exchanges, I would give at least a 2
 
 
Technical Advancements: 1 Stars (1 / 3)
 
@Maaku come show them some geek stuff and bring out Republicoin  (Republicoin in short: decentralized voting system to distribute the demurrage in an fair p2p way)
 
 
Coins Source’s Score: 2 Stars (2 / 5)
 
Whats that?
 
 
Frei’s Score | 1.7 /5
Not that bad, ok that was one year ago,perhaps we get now 1.2???
 
 
 
Hey we could do a lot better then that or? At least 1.20000042 we should manage or? 
Come on get out on the street, join the Freicoin Alliance and hey stop discussing economy* and start coding!
 
All the good,
Arcurus
 
* Discussing economy you can do on places which are devoted to that, like for example the main  economy lecture hall  called "easy credit lecture hall" in the University Nürnberg,near my home city near the big easy Credit food ball stadium former called Franken Stadium and no, that's no joke! I wish it would be!

I will try to sum up changes here as we do them to the website.
Any suggestions on missing things can be commented below
 
 
- We made the FA Price Index(FPI)™!
- Fixed view of stats
- Added Joe's pool to hashrate chart
- Added Twitter and Facebook signin

Thanks Arcurus!  For the welcome and your clear comments!

 

Ahh, I indeed phrased that misleadingly.. or actually outhright incorrectly.. I was aware of the sole purpose of foundations role for the distribution, but I guess I assumed the knowledge of the fact that the developers are mostly in "charge" of the foundation, that the point I was after was clear   
So thanks for pointing that out! Great entry to have in the FAQ 

 

I agree here  I will look into this more and see if I can contribute ^^

 

Yes! The Freipay would be the thing I see would have a great effect on Freicoin adoption  I will happily try to help with the project and can act as an "transaction handler" if needed 
I have also scribbled a process very similar to your idea to be part of the "Platform to confirm interaction" I described. Like you have the gold/silver/black projects, I was thinking of having the reputation system to score the organizations rating for the matched donations. For example, if organization has received a big % of negative feedbacks from employees/donators/associates, it would be categorized as black project .  
So as this is something that would drive the platform idea further, let me know what is needed!

 

I will read into this in detail when I get the chance : )

 

I'd see these simple social media tools to be a powerful driver for adoption of use, especially for Freicoin  : ) Think combining the Freipay with tipbots ; )
But you are right! Concentrating first on the donation matching and freipay is wise and needed to be done first ^^

Hi Fabrizio,
first of all thank you for joining! Nice to have you here!
 
Regarding to the Freicoin Foundation, I think there is a misunderstanding. Currently the Freicoinfoundation is not meant to support the core development of Freicoin in any way. Currently the task of the Freicoin Foundation is just to issue 80% of the coins, through alternative transparent, fair, issuing methods then mining.
 
See for in the Foundation FAQ:
http://freicoin.freeforums.org/freicoin-foundation-introduction-faq-t809.html
 
 
Since the beginning of  Freicoin Mark wanted to have the Foundation task and the Developer tasks separated from each other.
Sadly at this time there was no one who wanted to handle the foundation stuff.
So it is now as it is. 
 
But back to the topic:
 "What actual services would you guys see to be the most important ones to help promote the idea behind Freicoin?"
 
At this time I think the best would be to focus on the part of Freicoin, that makes Freicoin different then other coins.
Currently that's mainly the donation matching.
First we should focus to bring that to run.
To make a simple program, that matches the donations daily should not be that difficult, but still we needed somebody to program it.
 
So here are my suggestions for really unique Freicoin specific projects:
 
Second:
The donating matching and foundation funds must be much more transparent, so that also non technical people can see what is going on. For example the matching program could create some html code to display the matching.
Also an donation counter which organisation has become how many donations in which time period. 
 
More to that here:
http://freicoin.freeforums.org/posting.php?mode=edit&f=23&sid=5ddeb49b4cdb3f3d7b28feee71bbb8b0&t=682&p=8306
 
These things are the basics!
 
Third,
We should focus on developing Freicoin specific projects like the Freipay Gateway, that helps to boost Freicoin payments. Such projects could bring real use cases to Freicoin. 
http://freicoin.freeforums.org/freipay-gateway-supporting-an-economy-for-the-common-good-t854.html
   
Fourth,
Some kind of light wallet like electrum would be nice. Even better would be a deterministic web wallet, which has functionality like electrum, but could be saved like bitaddres to make sure, that the code did not change. 
This wallet should also include the ability to send and receive 40 byte messages over the blockchain.
With these messages we could test some kind of decentralized voting.
 
 
Fifth,
We should keep on developing republicoin, to show, that an other decentralized and fair method other then mining is possible.
This would be equal to have a virtual Freicoin state / Federation. 
 
More to that you can find here:
http://freicoin.freeforums.org/republicoin-design-discussion-t738.html
 
Of course all the other stuff, especially social media tipbots would be nice to have, but that is not what makes Freicoin different from other coins.
 
It would be really great to have these social media tipbots Fabrizio suggested, maybe in combination of giving some coins per day/ month to social media users this would be great.

I agree here, clear vision to show the difference of demurrage cryptos needs to show thorugh  What is the current needs in todays world that can be addressed or changed.. what is needed to change the world further? 
 
To provoke everyones thoughts a little further.. think about what you would say was the most basic, but most important idea or need that was achieved with Bitcoin the currency if asked by someone who dont know nothing about the bitcoin technology? What was the need or needs it addressed? 
And then.. what is still to be addressed the Bitcoin itself cannot address?

Goal for me short term push more information out on current state of the coin and information updated across as many sites as possible. As well trying to get more exchanges and payment gates for the Kria. 

yea I have got my first like!