[ANN] [888] [SCRYPT] OctoCoin ◦ The Power of Eight ◦ Don't Blink

[thenotfatguy]

Say Hello GPU-Coin!  

It sometimes looks like at any point some of the coins gave up voting.
But so don't we.  

GpuCoin's last breath

[joshycoin]

We have almost finished the (not previously mentioned) revamped Reddit Tip Bot, by the way. There was an issue trying to convert 888 to various fiat options that was locking things up so we decided to build a new tip bot yesterday from the ground up specifically for OctoCoin. We will be using the same database, so statistics and pending tips (as long as they are still valid) should remain as they were. We will build some new features into the system down the line as well (open to community suggestions, of course).

Once things begin to heat up, we are expecting more activity on Reddit in general. We will be appointing a handful of you as moderators at /r/octocoin to help keep things on topic and running smoothly. As I have mentioned before, everybody on the OctoCoin team has minimal availability during business hours (all of us are now located in the US) due to our day jobs/etc and we have our hands pretty full as-is with OctoCoin development projects.

We're getting closer every day.

Glad to help in anyway! Thanks for the update!

[djslick]

nice update octoteam, and congrats to all on the ritualistic slaying of GPUcoin! on an unrelated note, would anyone like to purchase my 50k GPUcoins?  I bought 0.1btc of their IPO, forgot about it, and just found out that they totally dropped the ball. too bad cause they had a neat concept, but looks like for several reasons they didn't succeed, one of which i'm sure is that they launched an online store selling products without having the market movement/stability to reinforce their coin as a currency. would have been interesting to see what would have happened to them if they did their mintpal voting campaign before the store launch, and not after.

speaking of voting campaigns! i'm all fired up about our progress on mintpal, but if we're being honest we need twice as many votes as we have right now just to be a contender for #1, and everyday that limit keeps raising. I'd love to contribute to a campaign for "getting out the mintpal vote", but i think that in order to put the time in to creating a webpage, i'd need to know if it's technically feasible. can any of our more technically-inclined members please inform me if there's a way to "tally" registered mintpal votes from individual users? and to do so in a way that would be impossible to cheat? i'm really not sure about this, and at the back of my head i don't think it's possible, not without giving out your mintpal login, and who would want to do that? potential security risk for minimal potential profit. if anyone has some insight, please let me know!

[joshycoin]

It makes me angry that mintpal adds every fuc*in' shitcoin. It makes me hate that exchange more and more.
Everytime you have to watch this Pump & Dump shit, plus a bunch full of dead cryptos (like WC) while coins like Octo aren't being noticed.
I really hope Octo will be different. After hundreds of alts, it could still be the first one to be respected and making sense.

I would like to be able to respond to your post with +1 or +888 but since my status is newbie... they delete my post if its only a couple of characters lol. So now that I said that  +1 888 

[bholzer]

It makes me angry that mintpal adds every fuc*in' shitcoin. It makes me hate that exchange more and more.
Everytime you have to watch this Pump & Dump shit, plus a bunch full of dead cryptos (like WC) while coins like Octo aren't being noticed.
I really hope Octo will be different. After hundreds of alts, it could still be the first one to be respected and making sense.

I feel your pain - they need to have more discretion, in my opinion, when it comes to adding coins to their voting list. Octo will be different than all of the other "voted on" coins - this coin is the real deal. 3 months after the launch it's still maintaining an average hash rate of 300+ Mh/s with an active dev team and dedicated community despite minimal liquidity and poor exchange support. I met a couple of these guys at SXSW this year and they are already successful in their other ventures so I have no doubt there is some good stuff to come. They aren't approaching this as a "get rich quick" scheme like 99% of new alts - they're approaching it like a business. I have a project in the works myself that will involve OctoCoin in a significant way. The worst part about 888 is that it's nearly impossible to get my hands on a decent quantity of them! Hopefully a listing on MintPal will change that (I had no idea it was that high up the list). I will start voting for 888 from now on until it gets listed since Murraycoin is a long distance from the top and already being traded on Cryptsy.

[djslick]

nice bholzer, i didn't know any of the community got to meet these guys at the now infamous SXSW festival. I hate to sound like a gossip queen, but i think we'd all love to know more about who's driving this coin forward. that being said, it's not business-savvy, so i think we're all good with that. i'll settle for some blurry shots of the parabolic flight

and as for mintpal, they earn their bread through volume, so to them it doesn't matter if a coin is PnD or not. But the voting is special, in a way it's the only exchange to be truly democratic like that, where any coin can get listed, and if it has the popular vote, then it wins. very presidential. also speaking of national politics, money talks and you can just buy your way to the top if getting the public on your side doesn't work lol.

fact is mintpal gets paid in the coin they're trading, so if the coin tanks, then what they hold of value tanks too, unless they're up to the minute on every single pump happening and constantly selling off their own shares etc. which i highly doubt. They would stand to profit a lot more from a stable constant high volume coin, and i'm sure that's what they hope they'll get with the next voted coin, but that's rarely the case, however they still honour their system and add the #1 coin on the list every week, that to me is cool. And it's old news that Octo will blow these other clowncoins out of the water, i'm just trying to down-play it so people start selling some damn coins again! Mintpal has it's faults, but the voting system is not one of them IMO, can't hate on an actual open democratic system. it's kinda refreshing actually, one might say... minty? =p

[frameLAlife]

It makes me angry that mintpal adds every fuc*in' shitcoin. It makes me hate that exchange more and more.
Everytime you have to watch this Pump & Dump shit, plus a bunch full of dead cryptos (like WC) while coins like Octo aren't being noticed.
I really hope Octo will be different. After hundreds of alts, it could still be the first one to be respected and making sense.

Correct. I think for many here Octo has been scary because you are used to buying pump and dump coins to make $ on the dump. With Octo even if you wanted to do that you couldn't really. At one point you did ok when it was listed on cryptorush but other than that it's stayed fairly the same price range and around the same volume.

The good thing is that while it's been a slow process, you know that good things are coming once the apps are released. I think it's kinda exciting to be involved in a coin that's going to stand out. There are only handful that stand out and have had staying power. Some of those are still some of the OG alt coins too, like Litecoin, Peercoin and Namecoin. They have consistently stayed near the top of coinmarketcap and most have a fair amount of places that accept them as payment.

Some like Doge have proven to be a mainstay and some like Darkcoin bring something new to the table and have had a quick, profitable rise. We will soon be able to guage where Octo will stand once we hit the larger exchanges and finally see some of the apps released!

Don't Blink!

[frameLAlife]

It makes me angry that mintpal adds every fuc*in' shitcoin. It makes me hate that exchange more and more.
Everytime you have to watch this Pump & Dump shit, plus a bunch full of dead cryptos (like WC) while coins like Octo aren't being noticed.
I really hope Octo will be different. After hundreds of alts, it could still be the first one to be respected and making sense.

I feel your pain - they need to have more discretion, in my opinion, when it comes to adding coins to their voting list. Octo will be different than all of the other "voted on" coins - this coin is the real deal. 3 months after the launch it's still maintaining an average hash rate of 300+ Mh/s with an active dev team and dedicated community despite minimal liquidity and poor exchange support. I met a couple of these guys at SXSW this year and they are already successful in their other ventures so I have no doubt there is some good stuff to come. They aren't approaching this as a "get rich quick" scheme like 99% of new alts - they're approaching it like a business. I have a project in the works myself that will involve OctoCoin in a significant way. The worst part about 888 is that it's nearly impossible to get my hands on a decent quantity of them! Hopefully a listing on MintPal will change that (I had no idea it was that high up the list). I will start voting for 888 from now on until it gets listed since Murraycoin is a long distance from the top and already being traded on Cryptsy.

Sweet! I can't wait to see what you have planned for Octo... does it involve Mega or Murray with it??

[GWCalvert]

Added a new "Get Out the Vote" video to YouTube: http://youtu.be/5RpXy7ZWbug

Check it out and spread it around.

[shellbunner]

Added a new "Get Out the Vote" video to YouTube: http://youtu.be/5RpXy7ZWbug

Check it out and spread it around.

Nice video!

[GWCalvert]

Added a new "Get Out the Vote" video to YouTube: http://youtu.be/5RpXy7ZWbug

Check it out and spread it around.

Nice video!

Thanks! Something I've been intending to do for the past couple days but had too many other irons in the fire to get to it, until this morning.

Now Everyone Vote! 

[edric]

I see the pool is doing a little better than as of recent weeks. That's good.

I've been behind the scenes, as always, working on stuff, but taken the last couple of days off to hang out with my kids, having a GTA: Ballad of Gay Tony marathon. Probably not the best thing to play with your kids, but they grew up on GTA, there's actually not much else they'd rather play, and gives us some common ground. That and the way their faces light up when I destroy cop cars with RPG's.

But anyway, back to business today. Apparently, one of my credit cards is missing. The one I get money for donating plasma, which I've been saving up on for the server payments. I don't know if I dropped it or if someone got in my wallet and took it (I suspect the former), but someone got it and had a good time with my savings! Either way, I managed the server bills regardless, just throws off my plans. Always something. Gotta go at some point today and find a new flash drive that won't get corrupted every other reboot for my mining rig, too. The Micro-SD card reader just isn't working too well for a live linux stick.

I have some updates planned for the pool in the next day or so, nothing major or will interrupt mining, but getting rid of that annoying ding sound every 5 blocks is a must. Don't know about you guys, but it is driving me mad.

[neleonele]

Added a new "Get Out the Vote" video to YouTube: http://youtu.be/5RpXy7ZWbug

Check it out and spread it around.

Great one!

I just want to build up a small acc on twitter to spread the word of Octocoin after having enough followers.
I just followed two of you guys (XetaMax and CoinJesus i think).

https://twitter.com/CryptoGermanBro/status/474950117477580801

so let's promote the sh*t out of it. 

Ok my octobro i will follow u now

[thenotfatguy]

Added a new "Get Out the Vote" video to YouTube: http://youtu.be/5RpXy7ZWbug

Check it out and spread it around.

Great one!

I just want to build up a small acc on twitter to spread the word of Octocoin after having enough followers.
I just followed two of you guys (XetaMax and CoinJesus i think).

https://twitter.com/CryptoGermanBro/status/474950117477580801

so let's promote the sh*t out of it.  

Ok my octobro i will follow u now

thx thx!!  

Well, I guess its time for me to hop onto the Twitter Bandwagon too.

Consider yourself followed

EDIT: Wuuuuut.... @TheNotFatGuy is taken on twitter. ^{Not Cool Danny, whoever you are..}

[thenotfatguy]

Well, I guess its time for me to hop onto the Twitter Bandwagon too.

Consider yourself followed

EDIT: Wuuuuut.... @TheNotFatGuy is taken on twitter. ^{Not Cool Danny, whoever you are..}

Followed you!

Umm.... no you didnt? I am not @TheNotFatGuy

Its taken by some random.
Shellbunner did follow me though, That was quick

[neleonele]

Well, I guess its time for me to hop onto the Twitter Bandwagon too.

Consider yourself followed

EDIT: Wuuuuut.... @TheNotFatGuy is taken on twitter. ^{Not Cool Danny, whoever you are..}

Followed you!

Umm.... no you didnt? I am not @TheNotFatGuy

u are fatguy?

nice work with ur profile avatar ,can u make me similar?with xetamax please???

Its taken by some random.
Shellbunner did follow me though, That was quick

Added a new "Get Out the Vote" video to YouTube: http://youtu.be/5RpXy7ZWbug

Check it out and spread it around.

Great one!

I just want to build up a small acc on twitter to spread the word of Octocoin after having enough followers.
I just followed two of you guys (XetaMax and CoinJesus i think).

https://twitter.com/CryptoGermanBro/status/474950117477580801

so let's promote the sh*t out of it.  

Ok my octobro i will follow u now

thx thx!!  

Well, I guess its time for me to hop onto the Twitter Bandwagon too.

Consider yourself followed

EDIT: Wuuuuut.... @TheNotFatGuy is taken on twitter. ^{Not Cool Danny, whoever you are..}

[neleonele]

People i like it
maybe we all can have the same with ours names???

https://twitter.com/FatGuyDoesOcto


what u think?

[thenotfatguy]

@neleonele Find me at https://twitter.com/FatGuyDoesOcto hehe

So you are Xetamax? I have to ask what language you speak, I feel like I'm onto something here...

[neleonele]

@neleonele Find me at https://twitter.com/FatGuyDoesOcto hehe

So you are Xetamax? I have to ask what language you speak, I feel like I'm onto something here...

oh i am so sorry on my english,but i am giving my best....
English is my secondary language,i am Serbian

[thenotfatguy]

@neleonele Find me at https://twitter.com/FatGuyDoesOcto hehe

So you are Xetamax? I have to ask what language you speak, I feel like I'm onto something here...

oh i am so sorry on my english,but i am giving my best....
English is my secondary language,i am Serbian

Oh, no worries on English being your second language, It is also mine too.  
https://i.imgur.com/UfKCqoD.png
Time for a new avatar?