Bicknellski

Perhaps, we could have a big flashing link at the Exchange to our 'Market' section here.
Apparently, there is some high quality art available in Freicoin only! 

And we did have the idea of something like: "sign up at the exchange and get 1000 FRC"

I have been trying to spread the word a little by posting comments in Facebook. I have also been writing websites to update their info on Freicoin. We should probably make publicity plan. 
To have a place where people can spend Freicoin, I have some of my own charcol nudes (reasonably ok drawings) i would give for auction and Arc has a line on chocolates. 
I was thinking it would be nice to try to write an article to get in a cryptocurrency magazine. Certainly, BlockStream's name should guarantee us some press. 
I think we should be keeping the publicity effects moderate until we have wallets ready. For new users and returning users we should probably have some info ready for them here. For example, if the Electrum wallet is working, perhaps a big flashing link here and a support thread.
 

Matched your donation:
9c2f6002ade48e1790280b3f4cf6a03a4ab8df3ea98948cffbfebb0c5b8e9e90-000
added also donation of 50K to Freicoin Foundation for website and core development:
2a2dc50e210f8b673db906c3559bf05ae53ea0f7043144bc5773e5a54a5c01b4-000

Hey all,
Fredrik and I have recently donated 50,000 FRC to the Freicoin Alliance. 

 
Here is mine.
7e2e1285fa... 181360 181359 2017-04-29 08:20:16 50000 51.44335373 167240.0201252 FRC Will you match our donation?

Hey all,
Fredrik and I have recently donated 50,000 FRC to the Freicoin Alliance. 

 
Here is mine.
7e2e1285fa... 181360 181359 2017-04-29 08:20:16 50000 51.44335373 167240.0201252 FRC Will you match our donation?

Hey all,
Fredrik and I have recently donated 50,000 FRC to the Freicoin Alliance. 

 
Here is mine.
7e2e1285fa... 181360 181359 2017-04-29 08:20:16 50000 51.44335373 167240.0201252 FRC Will you match our donation?

Spend (donate) wisely.
We need a user base to support the developers.

How do we get more users / fans / subscribers to Freicoin?
 

as said im open for suggestions.
If needed im ready to put in more than these 400.000

Lot's of people? Where?
Well, if you have your feet on the ground, if you can not exchange it, it will have no value. No value means you are giving away nothing more than monopoly money. You always argue against me on that in every discussion.
There is one thing a developer usually aims for and that is to get something back for work he is doing. As long as there is money to be made, developers will work to get things done.
Why don't you bounty those 400.000 have put into for this universal dividend project so maby it can be brought to life? 
And when it comes to dash, freicoin is not dash. We need to work with the code we have and the wallets that we have. Thats the real facts! And i am usually realistic on things.
 

Hi @fedde i understand absolutely what you are saying. We need to focus on what we can do before we think of what we could do.
This is why i implemented all those things for solidar. It has merge mining (can be used with any pool software), a sustainable distribution and a basic income part to redistribute the coins (fascebook messenger app for a monthly payout to active users).
My opinion on this is still: waiting for the devs to come by and fix everything is pointless, we are the ones left to call the decisions and take responsibility. The solidar features could also be implemented for freicoin but it is still time consuming. Masternodes and other mining algorithms/distribution systems are attractive but beyond our resources atm.
Rik

yes for sure we need updated qt wallets. Its just without the help of maaku its very difficult to get, so i tried my best to contact him and also to get rid of the compile errors of 0.9
It would be good to have also a budget for core development. I think the best would be to donate some coins directly to the freicoin foundation address listed at the foundation web to give something back to all the effort maaku did up to now.
to mining pools, rik is looking into the p2p pool
what would be the difference / benefit, between the p2p pool and the links above. is one of them enough to have?
 
To merge mining, i'm not sure if this is a good idea. Currently Bitcoin mining is controlled by an monopoly of one Chinese Asic manufacturer. 
Irony: Better then use a single server which says what is the current block, it cannot be worse than that and fore sure costs less energy.
Merge mining is one option, one even simpler one would be to just use an Freicoin unique mining alg. That will make us far less attackable.
As second step we could use dashs masternode concept to secure the blockchain and even have near instant payments, private payments and a budget system.
Or we could implement the POS + POW proposal i outlined.
 
What i'm talking mostly about is not so much about a giveaway, it's all about bringing freicoin out to the people and focusing what freicoin makes different.
The big promise is not to have just a demurrage that goes to miners. The big difference of freicoin is to create a money for people.
So the whole point is what we do with the demurrage.
There were many developers coming and asking to help, but when they saw, that we still did not distribute any significant amount of money to projects they soon disappeared, because we missed the core of Freicoin.
There were also lot of people asking if we make a simple forum giveaway, or basic income, but we still now we seem to refuse that, so naturally these people go on and we loose their resources and time to develop better Freicoin infrastructure.
Therefore i'm so focused on bringing this core functions to run. Once we show to people that these core vision of Freicoin is met, we naturally attract also lot more developers and development resources.
Just take @Rik8119 or me personally. I want to have nothing to do with a money that just burns 5% of the monetary supply each year. That is not inspiring at all. I want to have a money that is distributed to common good projects and people to bring things to move.
My focus is simply to bring at least one project to run, that makes Freicoin different from other currencies and brings real use cases to Freicoin.
Simply lets bring Freicoin to the people and the people will help us naturally.
 
For the qtwallet, I will try my best to get news from maaku.
For the mining pool rik is looking into that.
With feddes Electrum server running we have at least one easy to use wallet.
What is still missing is a simple giveaway, or even better universal dividend project.
For me this part is very much important. Once people have money, they will start using it. And people will naturally start supporting Freicoin.
 
To the Alliance funds:
The Alliance was not only meant to make development projects. That was one part of it.
We wanted to use the matching to bring different projects to run, until they are big enough to register them separately on the Freicoin Foundation web.
If matching would come in regularly from the Freicoin Foundation, yes, we could just register these other projects and get the matching.
I would also encourage all who have costs for running Freicoin infrastructure and who did free work related to Freicoin to make it transparent and get matching for that, even if we just donate them again to the alliance. These are real costs that are donated and therefore should get matching from the Freicoin Foundation. 
 
The 400K I donated was for bringing out a universal dividend project. If someone has better uses for that, ok let's talk about that.
I wish really we don't need all this hick hack and could just give out some part of the demurrage to people.
 
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/freicoin-global-community-currency-from-the-occupy-movement#/
OCCCU's provision of “basic income” and the assessing of demurrage fees

Done.
Status: 0/unconfirmed, broadcast through 2 nodes
Date: 27/04/2017 16:07
To: Bounty Arcurus 1Gdemcgkm8LtbJ4wdR2NTWHFWrsY6WNrsB
Debit: -10000.00 FRC
Transaction fee: -0.0000000202267926378590889813238614004725283430791135836130761758505208502097248539353113727656818809919059276580810546875 FRC
Net amount: -10000.0000000202267926378590889813238614004725283430791135836130761758505208502097248539353113727656818809919059276580810546875 FRC
Reference Height: 180880
Transaction ID: 2bf7d9942f39584f0e5095aff2675872c86e8676227819f42df16667bea78d97

UPDATE: Project is finished optional targets still available.
here you can find the new Freiexplorer with demurrage display: much thx@Skaro
http://freicoin.info/chain/Freicoin
Bounty not paid out yet.
thx 
@Bicknellski
@Fabrizio
@fedde
for pledging the coins.
 
Hi all,

for creating an open source Blockexplorer  we set up a Cooperative Bounty (Budget) of 24 Freihours (120.000 Freicoins).

If you want to work on this, please post here or message me or fedde for more details.

Features of the Blockexplorer

- Should display Freicoins Blockchain like for example https://coinplorer.com/FRC

- Should display demurrage correcly

- open source
Optional:
- good to have: real time blockexplorer like: blockexplorer.com

- display of donations done to registred Freicoinprojects: from http://foundation.freicoin.org/#/donations

- good would be a fork of an existing github project, so that changes are transparent and updates are easy to make and both projects can benefit

Bet regards,

Arcurus

Arcurus: 10 Freihours (50.000 Freicoins) given to Alliance 
Darin M. Bicknell: -  2 Freihours (10,000 FRC) given to Alliance
Fede: 10 Freihours (50.000 FRC) given to Alliance
Fab: 2 Freihours (10.000 FRC) pledged
 
120.000 FRC bounty paid to 1EHMesZiLPqZvU2mVZGeYBaQvSPRUKA8yW
Transaction ID:  fb8a98fc3db932f518034f305fb86043cbc62252af57a3d8755f678aa0815f62

So, the mobile electrum wallet is ready for testing.
Lightweight and fast. The only problem is the demurrage for sending coins (TransactionCreator.java) is doubled somehow, so maybe @Mollycat can take a look at the code? https://www.github.com/wincev/coinomi-android
But those who are willing to test it with their phones (maybe only use small amounts of FRC) are very welcome. Next will be the damn p2pool ;-).
Rik
frc-wallet-debug.apk

yeah, I guess I can update the web even if we don't have the script to do it automatically yet
and yes we can start doing 100% for new matchings without having the code to retro-actively give 90% extra to the old yet
4 Std.vor 4 Minuten   I think monthly is good enough, but if it's set to do it automatically, I guess it should be easy to move it to weekly or even daily
Diese Nachricht melden Diese Nachricht löschen and by automatically I mean maaku not having to run the current script every month

we could start with that...

Hallo Freicoiners,
thx to @fedde we have now a new running Freicoin exchange!
Have fun!
https://freiexchange.com/
This topic is devoted to Freicoin Alliance related news and announcements! Please respect that! All other stuff will be deleted! 

Agree here.

Darin M. Bicknell -  I pledge 10,000 FRC to this project.

There is 270,000 FRC for sale @ 330 to 350. That's $1200 USD. There are also strong buy orders @230. The latter part of last week has seen about $150 move per day. People from UK, Iran, India, Switzerland, Brazil and Ukraine and more (well maybe one or two people form each country) are coming to the exchange regularly. Besides a few smiley happy miners, this is a considerable change from a few months ago when Freicoin wasn't even listed on CoinMarketCap. Three cheers to Fedde! and a couple for the rest of us too!

that's a very nice feature! I just saw it! I wish the wallet itself would display that

the 24volume curve from freiexchange looks too good to be true... its steady increasing without any fall down in between. It looks more like the 24volume displays the total trading volume since beginning and just sums it up. 

With the increasing price of FRC and it's volatility, it's time to start applying the dollar cost averaging: spend the same amount of BTC weekly. So you buy more FRC when it cheaper. Regular investment is also good for the volume curve.

There is an update for ABE waiting  to be pushed through. It parses the transaction ref-height now. It requires reloading the whole chain into tables, so Fedde wants to do some back ups first. Also, you will be able to see how much demurrage you paid to date and per transaction.