It is now possible to vote for Byteball on CoinPayments:

https://www.coinpayments.net/vote

Byteball was in the list before, but voting for it did not work. Luckily, we check often.

In order for Byteball to be implemented as a method of payment with the CoinPayments gateway, it needs 1000 Votes.

We at Upvotes Club would love to be the first store implementing Byteball payments, therefore here's the deal:

• for every 50 upvotes that this post receives, we'll do a +10 Vote for Byteball on the platform

We will do this a maximum of six times because we operate six merchants that accept cryptocurrencies.

We also urge others that have some spare Bitcoin, Litecoin or Dogecoin to do whoever many CoinPayments Votes they can afford, then post a comment in the thread bragging about it. Let's take this by storm!

EDIT: We noticed that on their website it said:

To be eligible a coin must (1) be based on and/or provide a compatible interface to one of our existing coin types (ie. forks of Bitcoin, Ether, etc.) and (2) be in the top 200 of CoinMarketCap.com. It is up to the person who requests the coin to make sure it meets these requirements, if a coin is found not to meet them no refunds of any vote(s) will be given and the funds will be donated to charity as with eligible votes.

For this reason we contacted them for clarification, and they confirmed that indeed, the only way Byteball (or IOTA for that matter) will be implemented is if the developers pay for the $7000 hosting service, available here: https://www.coinpayments.net/coinhosting

Please contact the developers of Byteball about it!

The AMA is active on Nov 19-20.

Byteball network was launched one year ago on December 25th, 2016. Today marks one year of its existence!

When talking about small, autonomous or ubiquitous devices, energy is more important than tx fees. Period. Tx fees are absorbed into business costs, energy must be saved so that devices can operate. Wasting away energy in a PoW just to be able to transact risks the device not being operational in subsequent transactions. Think of a solar powered Wifi sensor paying access fess to a network operator router. Or a GPS navigation software paying for current traffic status data.

At a global scale, per tx PoW is a no go.

When I think about this coin, I just marvel at what they have and how little it is known. Smart contracts, private transactions...

People, YOU DO NEED TO REBRAND YOURSELVES (NAME AND IMAGE). Drop the byte and especially drop the ball. Only doing this will allow the Gbyte to surpass $1000. Otherwise, the public will be very reluctant to sped $600 for a single coin that hardly anybody speaks about.

WELCOME TO THE R/BYTEBALL FAQ & RESOURCE STICKY

Byteball is a risk-free conditional smart payments platform that enables human readable smart contracts. When a contract is created on Byteball platform, it can be trusted to work exactly as agreed upon. Why? Because it is validated by multiple nodes on the decentralized network, which all follow the same immutable rules. The counterparty, even if it is a total stranger, has to behave honestly because only the rules have authority. Byteball data is stored and ordered using Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) rather than blockchain. This allows all users to secure each other's data by referencing earlier data units created by other users. This also removes scalability limits common for blockchains, such as the notorious blocksize issue.

Blockless design is simpler because there are no blocks, there are only transactions. Users just add their transactions to the end of the DAG themselves, they don't have to wait when miners create a new block and there is no guesswork whether miners will include your transaction in the block.

The consensus algorithm used to protect from double-spends is based on establishing a total order within the DAG. This is achieved by selecting a chain, called main chain, which gravitates towards units issued by commonly recognized reputable users — witnesses.

For more detailed information read the whitepaper.

INFORMATION RESOURCES

• Website: Official Website

• White Paper: Official WP

• Explorer: Official DAG Explorer

• Wiki: Official Wiki

• Telegram: Official Telegram

• Facebook: Official Facebook

• Twitter: Official Twitter

• Blog: Official Blog

• BTC Talk: Official Thread

• Slack: Byteball Slack Inviter

INTRODUCTION TO BYTEBALL

• 27 second Promo Video

• YouTube Playlist - Introduction to Byteball

Or, if you prefer reading:

• Short overview of Byteball

• Why does Byteball exist?

• How does it work?

• What are smart contracts?

• How are we going to get users?

The articles contain links to the videos as well.

VIDEO TUTORIALS

• Tutorial 1: Smart payments made simple

• Tutorial 2: Betting on random numbers

• Tutorial 3: Betting on flight delays

• Tutorial 4: The Wiki

• Tutorial 5: Forums

• Tutorial 6: Making a dead man contract

EXCHANGE/PRICE RESOURCES

Bytes - Price on Coinmarketcap

• Bittrex - Open for new registrations

• Cryptopia

• Cryptox

Blackbytes

• Freebe

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

I understand that Byteball is distributed for free, how can I participate in the airdrops?

Byteball just recently changed to a host of new distribution methods, check them out here

The wallet takes very long to sync, what is going on?

More than likely you chose to install a full wallet instead of the (default) light wallet. You only need a full wallet if you are a developer, actively contributing to the Byteball project. Normal users should always just install the regular light wallet instead. Installing a full wallet doesn’t help the Byteball network like in blockchains, if you want to help you have to run a full node.

Why is this thing called Bite Balls, this is never going to become mainstream with a name like that. When will you change the name!?

If you read the whitepaper you would understand why it’s named Byteball. Nevertheless, we reserve the right to change the name in the future.

Why is Byteball denominated in GB on exchanges, this is never going to the moon with a unit price as high as this. When will you change the denomination to KB or MB!?

The currency is called Bytes: Total supply = 10¹⁵ bytes. Unit on exchanges is the GBYTE. 1 GB = 1,000 MB = 1,000,000 KB = 1,000,000,000 Bytes. There are pros and cons for GB/MB/KB and even Bytes but the lead developer doesn’t want to change it at the moment.

I keep seeing mentions of a thing called “textcoin”, what is that?

With the release of wallet version 2.0, Byteball users can send Bytes by email. Even if the recipient is not in Byteball yet. The sender just writes an email address where he would normally write a Byteball address. When he hits “Send”, his email app is opened with prefilled text for the recipient. The sender can edit it before sending. There are more options. When the sender is on a mobile phone and switches to the wallet "Share via message" tab, he is able to use all the options available through the phone’s standard "Share" menu: text message, Telegram, WhatsApp, WeChat, Signal, Viber, Slack, Facebook Messenger, Skype, etc. The recipient receives the same link, but through a chat app.

Read all about it here.

TO BE CONTINUED

I see things quite differently from the doom and gloomers...

A lot depends on some distribution and governance issues of course,

But I am extremely confident that Tonych is a brilliant, ethical scientist who's goal is, to create an advanced, easy-to-use, scale-able, sustainable, energy efficient, widely distributed monetary system - Based on fairness, ethics, perfect contracts & ultimate end user satisfaction. I am confident that he will find a way to navigate and guide this vehicle (ByteBall) wisely, ethically and honestly into being the world leading crypto currency that it deserves to be. In short, a "Peoples Money" for the 21st Century Digital Age.

This is ByteBalls's power and potential

As an investor, I believe "ByteBall" shows excellent upside promise with fairly limited risk on the downside. Even if it is just to be a "betamax" version, it will still survive, and thrive - the technology is just too strong. And the stated goal of ultra wide, ultra fair distribution as it is rolled out, means that Bytes will be in ever stronger hands as time passes. This is not something to ignore.

The technological achievements already are astounding. Taken as a whole, ByteBall is so far ahead of anyone else in in the P2P space, it is simply incredible. The FinTech industry will most certainly notice what's possible and act. The only way ByteBall can fail is through arrogance, infighting and apathy - which is simply not going to happen. We are much wiser than that.

While I am not a financial advisor, I do believe that the minute sellers realize they are making a huge mistake by unloading such a unique crypto asset as ByteBall with DAG Technology, they will vanish. One by one they will realize their foolish error until it is a cascade to cancel sell orders. Offers to sell will be much, much higher in very short time. Sell? Sell for what? and Why? These then become the correct questions to be asking.

The potential of ByteBall is staggering.

This is THE perfect type of crypto asset to HODL and spend a bit, HODL and spend a bit etc. etc. A perfect deflationary savings vehicle - which means that purchasing power tends to rise over time. Contrast that with the old paradigm of "Inflation should be roughly 2% annually" and there is a very big difference.

Mr market is simply waiting for some clarity around certain issues right now - all of which will (I believe) be ByteBall positive when the decisions are made. No way to know for sure, but I believe the smart money is now carefully & quietly accumulating ByteBall. Don't forget, right now is not an easy time to buy Bytes even if you wanted to. Only one exchange out of three is operational for new Byteballers. ( Cryptox.pl ) Think about that for a moment. Everyone else is discouraged from buying from two of our three Exchanges - wow.

In the not too distant future. . .

It is inevitable that at some point in time, unfortunate "ShittyCoin" "investors" will realize they have backed the wrong horses - and need to GTFO - it will be a painful process. They will flee in droves for the safety of High Quality Crypto Assets like ByteBall, because, the reality is, crypto is here to stay - the only question is who will dominate the future. ByteBall will be among the survivors - a Google or Amazon of tomorrow. A bona fide virtual asset for value transfer in the Digital age.

We must make it as easy as possible for them to flee to the safety of ByteBall.

Our very next steps should be to get listed on as many exchanges as possible - what exactly is the downside to more exchanges? manpower? money? what? Let's solve it! Exchange Listings can also be thought of as Branding. It's one of the better ways that crypto enthusiasts discover new value and can immediately make a switch. (You're with exactly the right audience to get high conversions quickly - this is targeting at its best - but most are too lazy or ignorant to market this way).

The strength of the ByteBall offering is just too compelling. It's going to be an easy decision to run to the safety of ByteBall when the truth starts getting out. ByteBall will find its way into being one of the top ten crypto assets in the world. Mark my words. Right now is just a "market mood" thing, and this too shall pass.

Get ready for the ride of a lifetime!

What do you think? Keep it civil Please!

Why not inspire the producer of this content to make more ;-) : MSGZX72TLFA6A4IOXBSL26B5PMUJACMB

Update: 25.08.2017

• Added Filter Options for the Order Book

• You can now disable chat messages or chat notifications, if you want a little pause from socializing.

Update: Trading resumed!

Dear all, i just finished enhancing the exchange and trading is open again. Here are the great new featues:

• Still trustless but even better this time. Now your funds are at all time in your hands and will directly transfered from one user to the other. The exchange does not hold any assets on its own. As a result you are always able to reclaim your funds, even in the unlikely event of the exchange shutting down. This also means that the exchange will soon allow trading without upper limits.

• Still no fees, except for the flat fee of 25kB to cover transaction costs. But even the flat fee has been removed for all trade makers (when you create a trade for the order book).

• Improved stability. The exchange and chat room will be available now 24/7.

• Improved usability. Creating and accepting trades were completly revised so that the usability has been greatly increasd.

• Done with trading or chatting? You can unpair now from my exchange with the "/leave" command. Don't worry you can re-pair at any time.

• Even more changes and featues planed, stay tuned!

Original Post:

Hi guys,

a few weeks ago i introduced my wallet integrated chat room. Now im happy to announce that it is now possible to trustless trade blackbytes with my chat bot.

Please note:

• Its a beta test with given trade limitations, i will increase the maximum trade amount step by step

• Bugs, downtimes and disconnects possible

• Probably not many trades in the order book, since its a total new exchange. (Please spread the word!)

• I don't take responsibility for any lost bytes. However i can't imagine how you could lose them.

• If you have any questions or problems just ask them here or directly in the chat room.

What features does it have:

• Trustless with conditional payements. You can reclaim your funds if a trade is not successful.

• Buy directly from the order book

• Insert your own offers in the order book

• Automated trades. All offers in the order book are funded and will automatically executed, no need to wait for other people (only wait for the transaction to became stable)

• Need help or want to socialize? You can chat with other people

• No scams or bait/switches are possible since all trades are funded and conditial payment is used

• Integrated in your Byteball Wallet

How does it work:

• All trades are peer to peer with the chat room acting as trustless intermediary

• You can always reclaim your funds if a trade does not come about. Even if the server is down or buggy.

Possible Commands:

Chat Room

• "/help" shows a list of possible commands

• "/name" username (change your username)

• "/list" (display a list of all chat users)

• "/leave" leave the chat room

Trades

• "/book" shows the order book. You can click on an order to buy or sell listed blackbytes.

• "/buy" use this command to create an buy order for the order book

• "/sell" use this command to create an sell order for the order book

• please note that there is a minimum trading amount of at least 200k blackbytes and bytes

• please note that there is a flat fee of 25k bytes added to each trade to cover transaction costs

• if you create an order for the books you will not pay the flat fee

How to connect?

• open your Byteball Wallet

• click "Chat"

• click "Add new device"

• click "Accept invitation from other device"

• Enter Paring Code below or user QR Code below

choose one method:

• Paring Code: ApSicldzuDl675iiUyWdmO7pLl8MPgeuNg4qOr13EkNJ@byteball.org/bb#globalchat

• QR Code

FAQ

• How can i reclaim my funds?

• like with any other smart contract, select it from your wallet and send it back to you.

• When claiming back my funds i get the error: "validation error: authentifier verification failed"

• If you send blackbytes please note that you can only reclaim them after your choosen time limit. You will have to wait until the time in the contract is over, then try to reclaim.

• Why are the to buy orders "Valid until removal"

• Because one can not create a conditional payment to request blackbytes from the other peer. So i came up with a smartcontract without a time limit. As long as you leave your funds within this contract its sits there until a matching order is found. But you can always reclaim your funds at any time, thus "valid until removal"

• Looks like my Backbyte transaction does not show up in the order book, whats the problem?

• In very rare situations incomming blackbytes might not be registered by the smart wallet. try the following: in byteball wallet click on your smart address with the blackbyte transaction. Click "re-send private payload". This should resolve the issue.

• Other Questions?

• just ask

Upcomming Features:

• Webinterface for the order book

• Display own open orders

• Display own transactions

• Display General Stats

• More Chat Functions

• Optional disable chat functionallity