Monday, December 29, 2014

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Thursday, December 25, 2014

NooCoin

The NooCoin project encompasses far more than just another digital currency, as it will also serve as the payment gateway for Nootropics. As most of our readers will be unfamiliar with the term Nootropics, we will explain that first, and then see how NooCoin is involved in all of this.


It’s not often cryptocurrency gets associated with a new phenomena, especially not when it is something pharmaceutical. Nootropics can be labelled as a new “smart drug”. Don’t go off your rockers just yet, as this has nothing to do with drug smuggling or anything like that.


Nootropics offer powerful cognitive effects, with few to zero side effects. Over the past few years, a lot of research has been done on the topic of Nootropics, and different kinds have been developed and made available on the market.


Some of the types of Nootropics will positively influence creativity, motivation or even anti-aging. With the wide range of Nootropics available today, each and every one of us can reach their full potential and more.


Nootropics offer many benefits, and the NooCoin team’s mission is expanding their business and spreading the word about this new pharmaceutical solution. The long term goal is for NooHack to become the worlds go-to nootropic store, accepting customers from Europe, and eventually, anywhere in the world.


Extensive research is being done in regards to optimum “stacks” of nootropics, and proprietary blends of the finest ingredients will be launched in the near future. he NooCoin team wants to give their customers the cutting edge when it comes to cognitive enhancement technology.


NooHack’s mission is to give customers options. As a result of that philosophy, a payment system which allows for the next generation of payments to be accepted in the form of NooCoin or Bitcoin has been created. Customers will be rewarded in NOO for every GBP spent at the store.


As a customer, you will have several advantages, such as receiving generous discounts when using either Bitcoin or NooCoin to make your purchases. These discounts are the fees saved in processing fiat payments, which are in turn used to directly reward customers.


NooHack has a pretty simple and straightforward payment system : customers who prefer to pay in fiat currency will pay the recommend retail price of Nootropic products. Bitcoin customers on the other hand pay the retail price in BTC, but with a 10% discount. NooCoin customers will receive a 25% discount on the retail price.


NooCoin was conceived as a way to empower the NooHack business strategy with the power of blockchain technology. One of the most interesting aspects about the blockchain is the ability to decentralize payment processing, As a result of this ability, both the merchant and the customer save a lot of money , which leads to big discounts while shopping.


But that is just the beginning, as blockchain technology also allows for layers of anonymity when purchasing goods with NooCoin. While Nootropics are a physical product which will be shipped to your address, no one has to know what wallet address you were using when making the payment, or how much you actually paid for that matter.


Furthermore, because digital currencies are decentralized, the market controls the price they want to pay for products. While there will always be a minimum price to be met, the value of your payment method, whether Bitcoin or NooCoin, is determined by the market. The less coins you have to spend to buy your product, the better for everyone, which is an incentive in its own right.


Noohack will not be putting any merchant selling pressure on the market. In saying that, this means that all cryptocurrency payments will be held by the NooHack owners, instead of selling them on exchanges in return for Bitcoin and/or fiat currencies. This will keep the prices stable , which will in turn benefit the market.


While it may seem like a risky move to hold onto all of the coins being spent on your platform from a merchant point of view, it is a good approach in my book. As long as you can keep your business afloat without selling off (too much) cryptocurrency, there is no real reason to sell them at all. Whether or not this will play out in such a positive manner, remains to be seen.


By adopting this business strategy, NooHack and NooCoin are catering towards potential investors who want to see the value of their investments grow, Most digital currency investments require you to make a profit in the short run, before people start dumping their coins. This will not be the case with NooCoin by the looks of things, which will be a very interesting project to keep an eye on.


A project of such magnitude requires proper funding in order to become a reality. The Nootropic market is a niche market, but the awareness is growing thanks to popular movies such as “Lucy” and “Limitless”. In fact, one could say Nootropics are taking a foothold as we speak.


Our society has evolved into a very demanding and time-efficient way of life. Productivity levels are subject to a high standard, and we are still trying to raise the bar higher and higher. Nootropics provide this boost in cognitive ability which most of us would never be able to achieve on our own.


By buying Nootropics, you are investing into the betterment of not just your own productivity levels, but also helping other people achieve their full potential. All of this will lead to a more efficient use of the available time, and as we all know, time is money, money, money.


In order to raise the required funds for this project, NooCoin will hold an Initial Coin Offering (ICO), during which the total coin supply of 25 million NOO will be up for sale. A fixed price has been set at 0.00001000 BTC per NooCoin, and the team is hoping to raise 250 Bitcoin (assuming all of the coins will be sold).


The next step on the NooCoin roadmap successfully finishing the Initial Coin Offering on December 22nd. After that period, customers will be able to pre-order Nootropics by paying in NooCoin and/or Bitcoin within 24 hours after the ICO closed. (See more information on pre-orders below).


A giveaway will be held for the first 100 NooHack customers, who will all receive 250 NooCoin each. These coins will be redeemable in the NooHack store, and can be used towards future Nootropics purchases. You can consider this a Loyalty Bonus, which will be credited to your account instantly.


All of the pre-orders will be fulfilled by January 15th, and I assume this means they will all be shipped by that date as well. We have not received any details yet in regards to shipping costs, and how the product will be packaged , but we will keep an eye out for further information in that regard.


The first marketing events will take place on January 24th, in London. I am curious to find out what these marketing efforts will entail exactly, but we will get in touch with the NooCoin team to find out more details very soon.


During the months of January and February, we will see a new feature being added to the NooHack platform. An integrated NooCoin/Bitcoin exchange will be added , giving customers the option to choose between a 10% discount or a 25% discount.


In order to use the full potential of that integrated exchange, we also need an in-store wallet supporting both digital currencies. That wallet will be coming to NooHack as well, which will be very close to the release of the integrated exchange.


As more and more people are buying goods via their smartphone, it is a good idea to have a mobile-ready store. NooHack will get its very own mobile store between January and February 2015, and I assume it will also have the integrated exchange and in-store wallet.


The shipment of NooTropics to European countries is the final point of action on the current NooCoin development roadmap. The official date for this option is set on August 15th, which has to due with some paperwork that needs to be filed I assume. I will get in touch with the team to inquire about the reason behind this schedule soon.


When you place your pre-order, you are buying products from batch one. Why is this done, you might ask? The NooCoin team feels the first batch will sell out relatively quickly due to competitive pricing and unique acceptance of NOO/Bitcoin as payment methods.


Pre-orders will ensure customers get served on a first come, first served basis. But there is another reason for opening up shop this way, as the amount of pre-orders will help gauge the market and analyse which products are more popular compares to others. After all, part of running a shop selling physical goods is forecasting which products to stock at what time.


Customers can deposit a minimum of 10% of the order amount in order to initiate the pre-order process. If your pre-order is fully paid by January 5th, and you have a batch one order, your order will be fulfilled on the 8th and shipped to your door.


Pre-orders can be refunded if a customer no longer has interest in fulfilling their order. A “cancel order” option will be available on the NooHack platform, and the original funds will be refunded to the wallet address provided. Any pre-orders which are not paid in full by January 5th will be cancelled automatically, and refunded to the supplied wallet address.


While we have mentioned how both Bitcoin and NooCoin can be used to pay for your orders, there is a third payment method available in the form of Paypal. Prices will be automatically adjusted to take discounts into account when paying in either BTC or NOO, and they will also adjust to fluctuations in the BTC/GBP & NOO/GBP values.


Last but not least, orders can only be paid in one currency at a time. For example, you cannot pay a deposit in Bitcoin, and the rest in NooCoin. or vice versa.



source: http://www.cryptoarticles.com/featured/noocoin-your-nootropic-payment-gateway



NooCoin

Discus Fish 20000 NameCoins donation

Discus Fish provided the developers with 20,000 Namecoins to fund a reimplementation based on mainline Bitcoin. According to the developer blog, Christmas officially came early for Namecoin.


Chances are the majority of cryptocurrency users have no need to know the largely technical details of Namecoin. However, Namecoins are a key component to an open and decentralized internet system.


Namecoin is a system that works on the back-end of the Internet, in a sense. Its code is nearly identical to Bitcoin, but Namecoin is the ground level for a decentralized domain name system (DNS), also known as web URLs.


When typing a URL into your browser, the URL takes you straight to the website you’re traveling to; typically in a .com form. The .com URLs are called top-level domains (TLD) controlled by ICANN in the United States, making them a centralized form of internet browsing. Because the domains are subject to centralization, they risk being subject to censorship by the central authority as well; something Namecoin disrupts with their system.


Namecoin allows users to register domains using .bit addresses, making the domains independent of ICANN. The URLs are inaccessible by traditional browsers because they are not part of the traditional domain name system, but there are .bit web proxy servers along with Chrome and Firefox extensions.



source: https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/namecoin-receives-early-christmas-present-discus-fish-donates-20000-namecoins-funding/



Discus Fish 20000 NameCoins donation

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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

HunterCoin

Huntercoin is a(n) truly innovative alt-coin which features a dual SHA-256 and scrypt traditional mining system along with a truly unique gaming graphical interface through which people can control in-game characters to collect coins.


According to the developers, Huntercoin is “an experiment in decentralized (server-less) peer to peer gaming.” It’s called ‘Huntercoin’ because of the way that gamers are actually hunting for coins within the games graphical interface that is connected to the wallet. The term ‘human minable’ is used frequently by the developers and is actually an accurate statement.


Huntercoin is a very ambitious project. On the one hand it seeks to create an entirely new category of online multiplayer gaming which would eliminate the need for central servers and make it practically impossible to cheat. On the other hand, operating a game within the construct of a peer-peer crypto-currency could have all kinds of unintended consequences and will likely lead to a lot of similar projects. Actually, this is one of the first of many blockchain applications that will develop in the future.


Overall, there is a lot of excitement surrounding Huntercoin. According the developers, over 3000 people are now playing the so called MMOCG (massively multiplayer online crypto-currency game). The reaction to Huntercoin has been very positive as well. People are clearly attracted to this very original and innovative project.


This is by far the most interesting and inventive altcoin I’ve seen in the past year, but it has remained largely unnoticed amongst the flood of litecoin clones and pump&dump coins. HunterCoin is a fork of Namecoin that uses namecoin’s protocol not to resolve domain names, but to host a decentralized game that is played on top of the blockchain. Instead of mining, people can earn coins by playing the game.


This is one of the rare coins that I don’t have a lot of negative things to say about. The concept is really cool and unique. A bit silly, perhaps, for a currency, but I have no doubts that this coin will be popular. Even the mining aspect of this coin is unique. It can be mined via SHA256 or scrypt, and has seperate difficulties for each. This means that both ASICS and traditional GPU mining rigs are on equal footing here. Very cool.


However, I do have a gripe with the particulars of how it was implemented. The difficulty adjustment is based off the previous 2000 blocks and because of this, adjusts painfully slow. This caused it to be instamined to a very large degree. With a block time of 60 seconds, there should be about 9000 blocks out there right now… But due to the slow difficulty adjustment, there’s currently 39000 blocks. I generally hate this sort of thing, but I’m willing to overlook it due to the overall uniqueness of this coin.


HunterCoin has an extremely low block reward of 10 coins per minute, and there’s under 500,000 of them out there right now. At the current price of .0017 BTC, this gives it a current market cap of about $550,000. Compared to garbage litecoin clones like KittehCoin and Mooncoin which have over $2,000,000 market caps, HunterCoin is very underpriced in comparison. This is largely because it’s not on coinmarketcap or cryptsy yet, so it has little exposure. When it gets listed, watch the price explode. I’ll be stocking up in the meantime. This coin is a no-brainer for me. Unique concept + low market cap is what I love in a potential investment.


Huntercoin Features:


Human Mining – Control Hunters to harvest coins in another dimension using strategy, time & teamwork.

1 Minute Block Times.

Dual Algorithm –SHA256 + Scrypt. Each algo has separate difficulty, both targeting 2 minute blocks. Both are Merge Mineable.. See http://wiki.chronokings.com/index.php?title=Mining

Total 10 coins Per Block – 1 to the miner, 8.75 onto the Map.

Crown of Fortune – 1 Unique Item on the map which will generate 0.25 HUCs per block

When a Hunter harvests coins and brings them back to a spawn area, the coins will materialize in their wallet, Miners will receive 10% of these ‘banked’ coins (TAX)

When a Hunter is killed, 4% of the coins they held will be taken by miners. The rest will be dropped to the ground.

Hardware Miners should receive in total (over time) ~20% of the Block Reward (2 Coins) + Player Death Taxes.

42 Million Total Coins

Retarget Every block based on last 2016 Blocks (for each algo separately) – PPC Style

Can be considered a basic decentralized P2P Massively Multiplayer Online Crypto Currency and Game, which takes place within the block chain.

Includes all relevant features of other crypto currencies.

Integrated Client Chat – Player can chat per block.

Serverless

Starting cost per Player is 10 HUC

Moves cost =>0.01 HUCs

Disasters Can happen at random intervals in which all living things on the map will be purged.

View the in game World Live (currently showing closed beta world and oldish client) Live Map



source: http://www.coinssource.com/crypto-coins/huntercoin/ & http://cryptolife.net/huntercoin-the-coin-thats-a-game/ & http://huntercoin.org/information/features/



HunterCoin

Monday, December 15, 2014

Microsoft adopting bitcoin

A blog post on December 11 from Microsoft quietly announced that its customers can now use bitcoin to purchase certain products through third party payment processor BitPay, which also supports tech sales site TigerDirect and Virgin’s space flight offshoot Virgin Galactic.


Microsoft made its announcement with little fanfare on its blog and slotted into the FAQ list of billing and payment queries. Despite the quiet rollout it did lead to the inevitable flurry of speculation and publicity. This is hardly surprising, when businesses announce they accept the decentralized cryptocurrency a headline is often a given.


However a company as large as Microsoft adopting bitcoin (for reference the currency itself is lower case but the blockchain coding is a proper noun) has been seen as further legitimation and may, some speculate, even lead to greater long term currency stability.


As yet only some content in the Windows Store, or in stores that house Xbox Games, Xbox Music or Xbox Video can be purchased with bitcoin. Users do not pay directly but rather add money to their Microsoft accounts, which then cannot be refunded. The service is US-only at this point and there is a $1,000 limit to how much money can be added to an account daily.


This isn’t a total surprise from the company. Bill Gates said back in October that he was in favor of bitcoin: “Bitcoin is better than currency in that you don’t have to be physically in the same place and of course for large transactions currency can get pretty inconvenient.”


Bitcoin news service CoinDesk opines that “Regardless of what the move means for Microsoft, this vote of confidence from a tech industry giant could have a wide range of effects on the bitcoin industry.”


Meanwhile BitPay has said that “Microsoft has a long-term vision for bitcoin, BitPay and the blockchain. Starting with digital goods in the US is the logical first step, however, they want to expand to Europe and globally and add support for other products as part of that rollout.”


Microsoft itself has been a little more circumspect, telling the Wall Street Journal that this constituted a toe-dip rather than the “aggressive” guns blazing suggested by excitable bitcoin users elsewhere. Either way this is a strong sign that bitcoin is maturing as a currency.



source: http://www.gizmag.com/microsoft-accepts-bitcoin/35209/



Microsoft adopting bitcoin

Monday, December 8, 2014

DarkCoin Foundation

The Foundation is an Arizona nonprofit corporation and future 501(c)(6) organization (hopefully–we are in the process of applying for recognition of exemption). Its purpose is to promote, protect and standardize Darkcoin. The Foundation doesn’t own the Darkcoin project–the community does. The Foundation is here to help. We believe that organizing fundraising efforts will be beneficial, but everyone is free to continue contributing in whatever manner is most convenient.


We have broken down the broad mission of promoting, protecting and standardizing Darkcoin into more specific objectives:


1. Support the development of the Darkcoin protocol. We must ensure that the development team has the resources it needs to maintain Darkcoin’s status as the most innovative cryptocurrency in the world.


2. Empower the community. Many members of the community already perform valuable tasks. Our goal is to assist them in as many ways as possible.


3. Educate the public. We will engage in educational and promotional activities in an effort to bring Darkcoin to a much wider audience.


4. Represent. The Foundation can speak for Darkcoin when and where such representation is appropriate.


Becoming a Member


There are two types of members: individual and industry. Individual members can choose to pay dues annually or become lifetime members. Both people and entities can become industry members. Neither class of members receives any perks, really, other than the right to vote for board directors (this may change when Darkcoin is on its way toward world domination). For now, it’s best to think of membership as an act of support.


We feel membership should be within the reach of as many people as possible, so one can join for as little as 10 DRK. This doesn’t mean that we can’t use additional funds–if you are able and willing, please consider donating more. If you aren’t interested in becoming a member but would like to donate, that is completely OK, too.


We want to be very open with the community, so please, feel free to contact us with any questions you may have. It’s your foundation. Propulsion has agreed to create a subforum on Darkcointalk.org for Foundation-specific discussions. This forum will be open to the public, but only members will be able to post.


The Internals


The Foundation is governed by its bylaws and a conflict of interest policy. These documents are available on our site for anyone that is interested. The board of directors holds meetings periodically, and is in regular contact when they are not meeting.


Foundation funds will be stored in multisignature wallets and all Foundation addresses will be public. Darkcoins will not be anonymized, so everyone will be able to see how they are being spent. Bitcoins will not be anonymized either … not that this is even possible!



source: https://www.darkcoin.io/news/the-darkcoin-foundation-is-open-for-business/



DarkCoin Foundation