Bicknellski

We will start using our own Exchange soon. We are doing testing right now. Ask Fedde to join the trial. Faster we get it up and running the better.

http://beta.freiexchange.com/

Hopefully we have FRC exchange up and running soon. You can sell there when it has been full kink /bug/issue free.

Still no 64bit version or solution to use NEW wallet. Sadly this has to be fixed sooner than later. 

I think we are already trying to do that within the Freicoin Alliance. We are already committed to doing a number of projects using FRC. That is where I think I would spend my time. I don't think we need to add more complexity to what we already have. We need to work on FRC and the things we already have in place.

I invite anyone who wants to add to FRC to join us in our effort. We in the FRC Alliance are keen on working towards Universal Income and we have as a key point in our plans. But to do that we need a viable coin. FRC needs an active pool, exchange, forum and needs to be listed for it to have any hope of success and getting more people using FRC. I hope you join us since FRC demurrage really is all we need to work towards a more equitable world. Demurrage currency has worked in the past. We can make it work now with help.

FRC Pool: http://www.freicoinpool.com/
FRC Coin Explorer: http://explorer.sicanet.net/
Wallet Download Page:  http://freico.in/download/
Exchange: Beta Test Exchange for FRC
Freicoin Alliance Forum: You Are Here
Freicoin Github: https://github.com/freicoin/

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More glamour shots of the chocolates. 

These photos will be used for a photographic business' 2017 calendar.

I will try and get some free copies of it to send to you guys.

These are not the final touched up photos just the raw ones if you can imagine these being any better.

Yes that is correct and the foundation with the tiny community need to address that very issue as has been mentioned many times in many other posts. Problem being with just a handful of miners and only 1 or 2 on the foundation things will not be done in the best interest of 1000's of potential future users. Then again the coin is dead at this point anyhow so I am not sure if any of this really matters if we can't get more users.

1. I was of the opinion that besides demurrage we were going to see new features that would make FRC more interesting to a wider range of users, but nothing has moved forward at all in that respect from Mark and Jorge.

2. We have as a small group in the Freicoin Alliance attempted to get more exchanges (failed because the coin has too few users), set up our own exchange again too few users to make the effort worthwhile, we have also tried to promote the coin in as many places as possible but we have no traction or growth in users no matter the time we have put in.

3. Is there any point working on getting more users if the trend of most Alt-coins is slow death? Only coins that have new features seem to be doing well. The rest of the clones are dead for the most part. Are we just too late to make this coin work?

Still can't sweep a paper wallet into the *Android FRC Wallet app and I have no way of setting a new FRC wallet on my 64 Bit WIn10 laptop because the new wallet software is 32 bit only.

HELP!

6 hours ago, Rik8119 said:

Hi there Bick,

thanks for the repayment! I hope the best for your project. If your ever interested in a basic income project my WLC is a good start maybe also for your students... ;-)

You are welcome. 

We are definitely interested in it but I still see no way to use the WLC or FRC as a currency to help people when it is nearly impossible to exchange easily into Rupiah for use here in Indonesia. 

Can we somehow work on that first?

Ok now time to make the coin useful.

We just had to use BTC instead of FRC to make a micro loan possible and we just paid off the micro loan in BTC. I would prefer using FRC but that is nearly impossible. There are zero exchanges and only a handful of miners. Sadly I don't know how much more we need to do to get real traction on FRC with users but this issuance seem to be a hollow benchmark when we have a small number of of people actually using FRC. The coins we hold right now are for all intents and purposes worthless.

Dear Lenders I have repaid the loans. Please verify.
 

Arcurus Address:   1CYAXos2UoDYpBB8qoExR3TSyBWoEJHMQq 

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Status: 0/unconfirmed, in memory pool, broadcast through 5 node(s)
Date: 11/17/2016 11:44
To: Arcurus 1CYAXos2UoDYpBB8qoExR3TSyBWoEJHMQq
Debit: -0.12724100 BTC
Transaction fee: -0.00010559 BTC
Net amount: -0.12734659 BTC
Transaction ID: 72608e5b836b911888934adef7c184b8a37f53157ba4992053c2f2d33377e724
Output index: 0

Fedde Address:  1CjPD6TU42wgu68nrT2uQeUduCL4UF1jH6

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Status: 0/unconfirmed, in memory pool, broadcast through 7 node(s)
Date: 11/17/2016 11:43
To: Fedde 1CjPD6TU42wgu68nrT2uQeUduCL4UF1jH6
Debit: -0.12724100 BTC
Transaction fee: -0.00010559 BTC
Net amount: -0.12734659 BTC
Transaction ID: ee16bbaa4d73692c3f384673353a906f06454c65f55ffa299b49c4840afa9154
Output index: 0

Fabrizio Address:  1LYonRy8qoU7H2yt9yY3oHM1BbSGNXTh9K

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Status: 1/unconfirmed, broadcast through 4 node(s)
Date: 11/17/2016 11:42
To: Fabrizio 1LYonRy8qoU7H2yt9yY3oHM1BbSGNXTh9K
Debit: -0.12724100 BTC
Transaction fee: -0.00010560 BTC
Net amount: -0.12734660 BTC
Transaction ID: 3a7aa680b4f608789cc94628e940ff58c5f707598bd63eb37d687960010ceab2
Output index: 0

Rik8119 Address:  1NBRiWWsQdEEAQU8KtWGg9xHQrrhYEWnG7

Quote

Status: 0/unconfirmed, in memory pool, broadcast through 4 node(s)
Date: 11/17/2016 11:45
To: Rik8119 1NBRiWWsQdEEAQU8KtWGg9xHQrrhYEWnG7
Debit: -0.12724100 BTC
Transaction fee: -0.00010559 BTC
Net amount: -0.12734659 BTC
Transaction ID: 54920e7d204726cab82260a5134b45b8d9854832a27c5e8f356d5e87d982f4ac
Output index: 0

I will use 95$ USD as agreed to make repayment.

I will use 

http://www.coindesk.com/price/   roughly:  747.53

for everyone and I paid the tx fees on top of this. Not liking that they have really made it very pronounced in the Bitcoin Core application in terms of making fees a central aspect. Oh here we go right expenses to rise on transfer of Bitcoin waiting until government or large corporations get control of this and watch the FEES increase. These small companies that now provide mining power are ripe for being bought out. I would hope there is a way to avoid that with FRC. 

Thank you so much lenders. Our students are going to continue making chocolates this year and into the future. Such programs are really a good test of using crypto to help others. I am very interested in help people in Indonesia that need basic things like food, electricity, housing, micro loans and clean water. I will keep thinking about how our school can work on that with the FRC Alliance and use FRC as the medium of exchange. We need to work on a FRCJam I think with a Kiva like loan aspect really. If we only had a stable FRC to do this.

Finished pralines and chocolate bars ready to ship.

More awesome news.

Two orders totalling 13 more boxes of 9 came in Monday (today as of post). And we have shipped the 50 boxes of the big order so we will continue working hard to clear that order this week and next.

So that should get us very close to our goal of breaking even on the Chocolate School training and we will once we clear these orders we will repay the loan in full to you guys on or about the first week of December.

Big order just came in.

600 Pralines to be delivered by this Sunday, November the 13th. Ugh... that means my wife and I will be doing some extra work to fulfill the order as we can't expect our students to work full time on pralines obviously. We will have the students do some in afternoon. From this order we should have enough to repay the whole loan early. In about 2 weeks. I will update next week.

Orders are all filled. We are now shipping them. 

Loan Repayment:
We will be ready to make a +50% (or more) loan repayment by December or January. We have made about 800.000Rp so far, although this not even close to half the total loan it is good start and we are confident we will see an increase in orders for December / January time frame. 

Also Note: 
We will be shifting production from our fall flavors to Holiday, Christmas and New Year flavors. These are slight variations on the originals and some completely new flavors.

4 Chocolate Bars:
Milk Chocolate
Dark Chocolate with Peanuts
Milk, Dark and White Chocolate 
White Chocolate and Chilli

4 Pralines:
Cinnamon Spice Ganache Pralines
Gingerbread Spice Ganache Pralines
White Chocolate Mint Ganache Pralines
Salted Caramel Ganache Pralines

2 Truffles:
Orange Cheesecake Truffles
Black Forest Cherry Truffles

9 hours ago, Fabrizio said:

Excellente!  Glad to see theres demand/orders for the choco's so the students get to practice their skills ^^

Since the winter is making its way (snowed here yesterday already :)), I'll ask around the town if 'em grannies and geezers wanna make a group order to store up on christmas sweets  I'll let ye know in a week or two ^^

Hmm.. Bick, do ye think setting up a webstore to order the choco's from would be good experiment for your students? For example, setting up a OpenCart shop with @fedde's crypto/frc payment plugins?  I'd gladly help out with the setup if needed (its really easy though) and I bet fedde could offer some advice as well?  

 

*edit: Ohh, and one comment/question about the brochure pics; have ye tried centering the choco pics that have the black background? The pics currently seem slightly.. "off" balanaced? 

1. Brochure. I will pass along the "balance" suggested edit to the kids and see what they think. We printed only a test number at the moment and looking for a better printer in the area. We took a number of photos and the pictures are off balanced just to include the shadow. The lighting was terrible that time of day. Maybe we need to do more pictures with more light.

2. Website / Payment Gateways. Yes it is a great idea if we have time and interest. Again in a Montessori environment the students will not be told or instructed to do something. I will suggest it and get their feedback to see who is interested in taking that project on.

3.  International Orders. I will get some idea of prices for shipping this week and let you know next week on that.

4. More orders. We just received another order of Pralines and I will add that to our list.

Note: Yesterday we made about 1 kg of caramel ganache for pralines we will making Thursday and Friday to clear one of the orders.

Orders as of Thursday October 27, 2016:

Order #1

• 5 boxes of 12 assorted pralines
• 6 chocolate bars

Order #2 

• 1 box of 9 orange pralines
• 3 chocolate bars

Order #3

• 1 box of 12 assorted pralines

Order #4

• 6 boxes of 9 caramel pralines
• 3 chocolate bars

Order #5 

• 10 boxes of 12 assorted pralines

Note: Shipping might be expensive from Indonesia but if people are willing to bare the expense we believe the chocolates will be okay in transit to Europe and North America but I will check shipping costs if anyone is interested for 1 to 2 week delivery.

Here is the brochure:

Students working on the brochure pictures.

On 10/3/2016 at 10:49 PM, Fabrizio said:

Dayuuumn Bick! I'm not much of a sweet tooth.. but those choc's look very temptingly tasty *nom* 
Can I buy some?  

Happy to hear and see that the experience was fun and fruitful in the chocolate school  Coins well spent! ^^ 

Samples are nearly done. We have done some taste testing and we have to say. We did a reasonable job.

We will need to get more control over our tempering temperature and need to get the moisture out of the fridge when we are chilling the pralines. 

Next we will send out samples to prospective schools who want our chocolates and we will provide free seminars on chocolate making for kindergardens and elementary students.

We will keep you posted.
 

As for buying? Sure I guess you can. I can't make certain the chocolates won't melt in transit that is the issue but we can try. I will be posting the brochure next week with price list.

Note we have made test Ganache. 

We will do sample pralines next week and send out samples to potential customers as well.

Withdrawal will take a day to clear.

Not willing to wait for price to go back up I have feeling BTC will drop so I sold today after waiting 3 days to sell at better price.

I hope on buying back in with Rupiah for BTC that the price is in our favor.

Thanks Fedde received.



We will converting the BTC today and moving the Rupiah off the exchange as well. We will post transactions as soon as possible.

The current exchange has dropped some since we started the loan to 7,803,500Rp per 1 BTC. So I will try and sell higher to get our 5,000,000 Rp target. If it doesn't look likely to go back up I will sell at lower rate this weekend just clear the money through and get it off exchange.

4 hours ago, fedde said:

Looking into removing the pages. Apparently this new ipboard disables so pages can not be coded as i want to display prices etc etc. Maby we should create a new frontend for the alliance with normal web pages and move this forum over to /forum?

What ya think?

If it makes your job easier then yes.

October / November Praline Ganache Recipes

Caramel Ganache
120g         sugar
50g           glucose
50g           cream (35%), warmed
2 tbsp       butter
80ml         caramel
100g         milk chocolate (35%)
12             milk or dark chocolate shells

Orange Caramel Ganache
120g         sugar
50g           glucose
50g           cream (35%), warmed
2 tbsp       butter
80ml         orange juice
100g         white chocolate 
1 tbsp       finely grated orange zest
1/2 tsp     ground clove
1/8 tsp     groun all spice
1/8 tsp     sea salt
12            white chocolate shells

Maple Smoked Ganache
120g         sugar
50g           glucose
50g           cream (35%), warmed
2  tbsp      butter
80ml         maple syrup
100g         milk chocolate (35%)
1/8 tsp      liquid smoke
12            dark chocolate shells

Fall Pumpkin Ganache
120g         sugar
50g           glucose
50g           cream (35%), warmed
2 tbsp       butter
80g          pumpkin / squash puree
100g         milk chocolate (35%)
1/4tsp       cinnamon
1/4tsp       nutmeg
12            dark chocolate shells

Cherry Ganache
120g         sugar
50g           glucose
50g           cream (35%), warmed
2 tbsp       butter
80ml         cherry syrup
100g         milk chocolate (35%)
12            dark chocolate shells

Mint Ganache
120g         sugar
50g           glucose
50g           cream (35%), warmed
2 tbsp       butter
1 tsp         mint  extract / crème de menthe
100g         milk chocolate (35%)
12            dark chocolate shells


Main Shopping List (Updated)

Main Ingredients

Dark Chocolate
Milk Chocolate
White Chocolate
Cream
Sea Salt
Glucose
Butter

Ganache Ingredients Flavors

Pumpkin Puree
Smoke flavor / Liquid Smoke
Spices Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Clove, All Spice
Maple Syrup
Peppermint Extract
Orange Extract
Cherry Flavor

Decoration & Coloring

Orange Coloring
Green Coloring
Gold Coloring
Light Brown Coloring
White Coloring
Red Coloring
Gold Dust
Silver Dust

Tools

Variety poly-carbonate molds
Variety of silicone molds
Candy or Probe Thermometers 
Scrapers
Piping bags

*Chocolate warmer (Not buying too expensive looking for alternative DIY)

Thanks Fedde,

Got your payment. 

Updating loan agreement and will be converting Bitcoin to Rupiah and moving the Rupiah out today.

We have a short list of items to buy:

Ingredients

• Dark Compound Chocolate
• Milk Compound Chocolate
• White Compound Chocolate
• Cream
• Assorted ganache flavorings
• Nuts
• Dried fruit
• Pumpkin filling
• Smoke flavor
• Spices
• Sea salt
• Glucose
• Maple syrup
• Food coloring for decoration
• Color dust for decoration

Tools

• Variety of Polycarbonate and Silicone Chocolate Molds for bonbons and pralines.
• Scraper
• 2x Baking Thermometers    
• Piping bags

We will be shopping on Friday for items.

We will be testing out two flavors for Ganache next week and our theme will be a fall / halloween for our first run of chocolates.

1. Smoked Maple Ganache
2. Pumpkin Cinnamon Nutmeg Ganache
3. Avocado Chocolate Ganache