Hello my dear forum member.
This is Secco, admin of Bitcoin Garden Forum, writing. Welcome to this new edition of the Bitcoin Garden Newsletter. In the past weeks the Bitcoin price has been relatively stable around the $1200 USD level. Much more activity instead on the altcoin panorama with some coins literally passing the moon orbit. I'm pretty sure you noticed that! This altcoin madness caused a record drop in the bitcoin dominance index, you can see it at:
https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/INSANE: FROM 100 TO 5000 SATOSHI! When you see or hear the word insane, a cryptocurrency may not be the first thing you think about, unless you're one of the many trading insane or filling their wallets with insane as it moves up the rankings. The insane team is made up of a group of social and approachable members who have the skills and passions to drive insane to be a leader in crypto. Infrastructure is important, with the implementation of the velocity system, and master nodes coming soon the foundations are being laid. These foundations will support the future of the insane network. Private, secure, robust and expandable without limit, that is the aim of the insane network. A network that can support many services, offer many advantages and enable choice. Master nodes are due to be launched on the May 5th 2017 anyone can run a master node and claim the rewards for doing so. More info:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1709461.0INSANE MASTERNODE CONTEST: This is the latest promo from the Insane Team, and it is amazing! They are giving away an Insane Coin Master Node with 50k coins to power it and free node hosting for a year!
https://gleam.io/smTn0/win-an-insane-coin-master-nodeVOISE CROWDSALE STARTS MAY 6: VOISE is a new Ethereum-based platform focused on representing independent musicians' interests while providing music lovers affordable access to unique content. It is not a big secret there are a lot of money in the music industry, specially for the music labels, and now in the digital age, for the few dominant download platforms as well. Although in the last decade a lot of things changed in the distributions model, not very much changed in the pockets of independent artists. With this scenario in mind, Isaac Rodriguez, Ivan Rossetti and Ying Hao Chen designed this platform that aims to distributes 100% of the revenue to the artists. The revenue stream for the platform will come from the premium services that ranges from profile themes and personalization to fees for those users who prefer to use fiat payments. To fund the project VOISE will be running a crowdsale campaign based on the Ethereum smart contract system. The campaign starts May 6, 2017 and ends June 6, 2017. There will be 92 million tokens (VSM) for sale at 160 tokens x 1 ETH. To be successful the crowdsale requires a minimum of 1.2M tokens sold (7500 ETH). If this amount is not reached, funds are returned to the investors. Unsold tokens, if any, will be burned and development fund will also be reduced at 5% of the total supply. More info on the official website:
https://voise.it/BITSEND AIRDROP: The project was initially called LimecoinX, and was later renamed to BitSend after a takeover. The aim of the coin is to provide a long-term coin roll out of the coin supply with a strong code base, whilst also using various important technologies, such as masternodes. The longterm goal is developing the FintechCloud together in strong partnership with Europecoin and DMDTeam. Recently they've had some new team members join their team eager to push for new heights. The developers are going to focus on updating the code base with the latest (0.14.0) Bitcoin Core code, while the marketing team will work on creating a new website and improving the ANN thread. There are a lot more things coming, but those aren't ready to be disclosed to the public. The Airdrop from Bitsend is all about giving back to the community, whilst improving the distribution of the coin. As far as I'm aware, this is one of the biggest airdrop in the crypto ecosystem so far. In order to join the airdrop, users have to register on the Bitsend forum and send a PM to the developer on Bitcointalk. The users are required to be at least "Full Members" on Bitcointalk. More info here:
https://bitcoingarden.org/forum/index.php?topic=7792.0BYTEBALL: Just a quick reminder! The next Byteball snapshot for distribution round #5 will happen on May 10th, 09:43 PM! Mark those calendars!
https://bitcoingarden.org/forum/index.php?topic=10693.0BLOCKCHAIN & BITCOIN CONFERENCE PRAGUE: On May 19, the capital of the Czech Republic will host Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Prague - the event dedicated to the development of cryptocurrencies and blockchain. Guests will meet supporters of a decentralized economy, successful blockchain developers and entrepreneurs and enjoy the exhibition of equipment for the industry. Topics include the development of cryptocurrencies, blockchain in Govtech, blockchain services in Fintech as well as legal issues. Participants will study existing projects - from the idea to the moment of entering the market and monetization. The organizer is Smile-Expo Company famous for its successful blockchain conferences in Tallinn, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kyiv. More info:
https://bitcoingarden.org/forum/index.php?topic=13360.0PIGGYCOIN TO TEACH KIDS ABOUT SAVING, FINANCE, AND CRYPTO: PiggyCoin is about bringing back the piggybank for the digital age. It's a fun coin for kids and beginners, to teach them about savings, finance, and cryptocurrencies. People saw it as an opportunity to be a proof-of-stake Dogecoin at first, but the original 'piggydev' encountered a staking bug which damaged the coin's rep for a long time. Eventually the new developer neurocis found and fixed it. Now the coin is working smoothly and development is proceeding, but slowly. For the next future PiggyCoin is planning small updates to main wallet, a CoPay port (multiplatform, multisig wallet) and Coinomi inclusion (mobile and later perhaps desktop) wallet. At present time most of the work is done by the mythical 'Mo Green' and neurocis alone. They have some funds in reserve (left over from coin swap from the old PoW PIG) to help pay for bounties or work on the coin, and they are looking for people who would like to make PiggyCoin-related educational materials. More info:
https://bitcoingarden.org/forum/index.php?topic=3672.0DREAMING OF A CAREER IN CRYPTO? Bitcoin and the other cryptocurrencies are opening a wide range of new opportunities for skilled developers who fully understand the technology and can manage complex projects. Beside bitcoin, one of the technologies that can open even better opportunities is Ethereum and its world of smart contracts. Diginomics recently launched a course to master the functionality of the Ethereum network. The information contained in this course is of particular use to individuals who are holding at least a basic understanding of HTML/CSS/Javascript and are building smart contracts to bring decentralized applications to market, or are interested in mastering Ethereum's native scripting language Solidity. More detailed info about the course can be found here:
https://bitcoingarden.org/data/clk/EthereumCourse.phpFORUM STATISTICS: Not sure if you aware that SMF, the great, free and open source software that powers this forum provides some very nice stats that can be accessed by all members. Stats include data about total members (6592 at the time of writing), total posts, total topics, most active users, most active boards, etc. The stats also include monthly and yearly summary of the forum activity: new topics, new posts, new members, and total online users. If you feel a bit voyeur or want to see how this forum grew over time, you can find all the numbers here:
https://bitcoingarden.org/forum/index.php?action=statsNOTIFICATION SERVICE FOR THE NEWS SITE: An email notification alert has been added to the news site. Simply click the "Subscribe To Blog News" link located in the upper-right corner of the page (
https://bitcoingarden.org/) and enter your email to get a message when there's a new article published. It won't be flooding your inbox with tons of emails. In case there is more then than an article published in a single day, the systems will just send one email.
NEW REGIONAL BOARD: A brand new regional child board has been added for Esperanto language. Bitcoin Garden Forum currently hosts 47 boards for discussions in foreign languages. If you live in a non-english speaking country, I encourage you have a look at your regional board. You can partecipate in the discussions, learn new things and make new friends in your local community.
THE HEROES OF THE GARDEN! This month 3 new users entered the club of "Garden Heroes", they are: Coin Trader, ECOCCOIN and TATO. Congrats guys!
That's all folks! Enjoy your garden! As usual, comments and feedback are welcome. Secco.
Topic: Bitcoin Garden Forum: 20 Apr 2017 Newsletter #06 (Read 1006 times)