Posts made by arnoutvdk

I was wondering, is there an opencart extention for FTC?

Thanks,

Congratulations!

This is really looking great !

So much nice, clean info. Quick to find, nice wrapping aroud it all.
Very, very nice!

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what happen for those who haven’t have FTC?
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They can buy it on exchange :P
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Indeed, they would need to be purchased. In my opinion this can’t be done with bitcoin or litecoin due to speed issues.
That is why FTC is actually a better coin.

If people are liking the idea, I wouldn’t mind creating a website for this.
what about: cryptoparty.com, or featherparty.com ?

PS: maybe we can have some birds at the party :)

EDIT: For those who don’t own feathercoin we could set up a trade-shop outside, perhaps with a “what you need to know 101” education stand.

Hi all,

I was thinking abou this idea yesteday while writing for Remonius’ his thread.

We need people to use FTC, right? And we need to show people the advantages above bitcoin aka speed.

FTC could easily be used in daily trading. So we could use it at a cafe (Oxford Blue) or a party.

Now this is the idea:

1. Throw one hell of a party!
2. At this party you can only pay with FTC: entrance, drinks, …

What needs to be done:

1. set up a website like FTCparty.com to give information, show location, theme, tickets …
2. Assemble a team of people willing to invest time in this
3. Work out an easy way to manage orders: take orders and payments: on a smartphone through website? Use NFC ? Use real featercoins? What with people without smartphone?

Remember: at this stage it is only an idea.
It still needs a lot of thought. But if there is some enthousiasm please submit your thoughts here!

I agree with you, raising awareness is one thing we need to do.

Another part is being able to do something with your feathers.

I had this idea about organising [b]“feather-parties”[/b]. A party where everything is paid with cryptocoins. [b]No cash allowed[/b]!
Of course feathers are the best for this, since they are bitcoin 3.0, imagine waiting 10 mins for your beer? Ow yheah, your payment is confirmed… yheah right.
But this would require making payments very easy with a smartphone. Maybe with a bill with an NFC tag (which can be reused)? How cool would that be.

In conclusion: awareness + usefulness!

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Progress report:

The code for CoinAccount is written. Does it work? Probablly not, since I’ve not actually tried running it. I’m sure it’s full of subtle bugs that need ironing out.

But, at least in theory, it supports:
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[*]Multiple currencies
[*]Pending and regular balances
[*]Incoming transactions
[*]Outgoing transactions
[*]Auditing
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So, I didn’t get to Streaming API and Doge coin support, but the night is still young and progress is being made. The CoinAccount is going to make everything else soooo much easier, and I’m glad it’s finished. Hopefully you all can see the value in such a piece of technology, and will consider adopting it for your own crypto-currency projects which require accounting features.
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Great job Kevlar
Thnaks for all your invested time!

I read one in the christmas special how NFC would be incorporated in the coin. How is that project comming, since i’m pretty interested in it.

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is the marketing team doing all they can to promote link? I know it is still very early days but there doesn’t seem to be any big hype about it. I have e-mailed coindesk providing them a link to this thread, and I have been shouting about link going live on btc-e but no one seems to know what I am talking about.

I think it is important to try and create as much media interest as possible, especially in these early stages as feathercoin is the first coin to adopt it.
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True, it should get more attention since it is a great concept…
Maybe we should start: [url=http://www.thefeatherbay.com]www.thefeatherbay.com[/url] ?

congratulations!

As mentioned in the other thread, NFC could really be the next best thing for this. Even easier than USB

1. People with smartphones can use NFC easily. Also makes it possible to use multiple wallets
2. still, lots of people don’t have smartphones. Then a simple card system with an NFC wallet (can also be multiple wallet types) could prove an easy solution.

Just one question: When working with a card system, can it be developped so that only one of the clients actually needs an internet connection?

Greetings

Greetings,

Some minor FTC questions.
Think about the following scenario: You want to go to a pub that allow FTC payment.

What would be the best way to achieve this?

One option would be to use QRcodes and giving in the selected amount. Still its a bit cumbersome, with many steps you need to take.

1. scan QR code of merchant
   2)give in the amount needed and send it.
2. Verify the payment.

Ok, its not that long, but still longer than using a payment terminal.

Is there a way to make the payment really fast?
I’m thinking about two options:

1. Some kind of usb stick (your wallet). You put it in a terminal. MErchant indicates ammount and then you press a button on the usb stick to verify the ammount.
   (is this even possible?)

2. Merchant creates a QR code that cointains his adress + the ammount. Uppon scanning the QR code all you need to do is send the money.
   (maybe option two alread exists).

Sorry if this has been asked before… and sorry if some things are already possible. But when I’m doing my daily things I try to think: how would this be if I used FTC now… For larger things, like internet shopping its very easy. But what with easy things like buying a bread, or going to the grocery.

Have a nice weekend all

Greetings,

I read your responses yesterday and took some time to think about them.
I came to the conclusion that you are correct. Looking at the way it is right now it does look like a scam (which it isn’t).

So here are the facts:
The cryptconnect project is at this moment an idea. Communication and trust are big issues in sensitive data transmission.
We where thinking outside of the box and thought: “this is a good idea”
One problem however: to get this widespread, it needs to be free to use.
Then the next problem: “ok, you can develop it, but it needs to be audited (make sure it is 100%safe) and then you need to send representatives to hospitals etc…” aka you need money
We thought the solution might be in crowdfunding. But seeing the responses, it seems there is no trust from people towards us.

And for that, they are totally right! Why would they?

So, we decided to takes thing slowly, get credibility. We went in this project head first.
I canceled the campaign and are looking for a way to get things rolling in our spare time.

Also, there seems to be misunderstanding: we are not planning to put peoples EHR (e-health-records) in the cloud. We are trying to create a tool to send messages (with medical data in them).
Any input, be it possitive or negative is welcome.

How do you plan on interfacing between countries as everyone has their own standards? Whats your plan for dealing with HIPAA? Other than trying to get donations I don’t see much for a plan here… $25,000 for a start up like this seems quite low especially with all of the regulation involved in medical data transmission.

I work for a company that does this already and has a few electronic health record software packages that are used across the US. It is a pain in the ass to get things standardized even between different states in the US.

Greetings,

I completely understand your concerns, and they are valid. The most important one is standardisation.
I work in Belgium as a general practisioner myself. Our system is different than that in the countries arround us.
Every country has different standards. I am most familiar with the ones in Belgium and they are already complicated.

That is the reason why we want to create an open project, that is easily accessible.

What is the essence? We need SAFE communication with a TRUSTED partner. Trust is mostly the issue that complicates things: doctors and patiënts need to trust the system.
The intention is that cryptconnect provides a means of communication. The format of the message can be country dependent and need to be adapted for that specific country.

For example: most of the message formats we use today (in Belgium) is in a locally created format (not XML or PDF, or doc or whatever). When it is received my the mail client it is converted to a message that the EHR can “understand”. aka a difficult proces.
For the encryption of the message we rely on the E-health platform ran by the state, which uses an SSL like encryption.
The reason it is not widely used by doctors is because there is no trust in the E-health platform.
This makes data sharing very difficult, which is a bad thing for the patiënt.

Another problem: people who go to France or the US, and need medical attention there: There is no way to safely communicate what happened (except by good old fashioned letter)

A 3th problem: Most of the softwares are not available to patiënts. Lots of sensitive information gets send by mail, or an unencrypted connection.
It is the intention that Cryptconnect can be used by patiënts to fill in: web forms, general electronic questionnaires, lab results communication etc…

Conlusion:
We need a safe means of communication that is trusted by doctors and patients. Which is open and which is easy to implement. And hopefully: which can be used worldwide.

That P2P can be safe is already proven by projects like: Bitmessage, Cryptosphere etc…

About the budget:
25K is indeed not much for a project of this size, but its a start, it will get us going… I hope it will be the beginning of a fruitfull, yet loong journey.
Development will be one thing, promotion is another.
But you are right, more funding will propably be needed.
Since we are hoping on donations, we will be as transparent as possible about how the money is spent.

And remember: Cryptocurrencies where also something new, something different but today they are (be it minor) a means to pay for things.

PS: sorry about grammatical errors, but English is not my native language
PPS: since you work for a firm involved in these kind of things, feel free to send more information or cantact me!

Long winter… or untill another currency crashes…

Remember Cyprus: all of the sudden Bitcoin raised above 200…

But actually, this isn’t bad for FTC. I personally don’t think China was that involved in FTC anyway…

I don’t know if this is good or bad news.

I was expecting this sooner or later. The government doesn’t really like these cryptocoins.
They would like to keep things centralized.
Sure, they watched it from afar and thought: what a nice experiment.

Suddenly, it wasn’t an experiment anymore, but became more and more a valid currency.
aka: problems!
What good is it that you can print more money, when that money isn’t worth **t anymore?

Hmm this is even worse than loosing 10£

This is more like putting it in a glass box noone can touch…
You can look at it and think: I’ll never see you guys again… not ever…

Look at the bright side, its not 1000 FTC…

How much deflation would ther ebe this way? Is there a way to calculate it?
Maybe we should start a cemetary website for these poor coins…

[size=14pt][b]What is cryptconnect?[/b][/size] [img]http://cryptconnect.com/cryptocontent/uploads/2013/12/Cryptconnect-logo.png[/img]

Cryptonnect is an open source project to create the best possible communication tool to share medical information.

Today most of the available tools are centralised. It is protected, but always by a third party. And can this third party really be trusted?

Daily millions of letters are transfered electronically from doctor to doctor, or from patiënt to doctor.A lot of confident information is transferred this way.

To achieve the best possible security we will use the power of the p2p network and that of current cryptocurrencies. These techniques have proven that they are very safe! Who would have thought this was possible years ago? Back then p2p was deemed very insecure and now it might be the best way to keep confident information from others!

We try to create a mondial open source solution to share sensitive data.

[size=14pt][b]How does this work?[/b][/size]

Some key elements are:

Every user will have his own adress. (just like your bitcoin/feathercoin wallet)
Every message sent will be encrypted. Only the sender and receiver will be able to decrypt it
Untill the message is received by the end user the message will stay in the peer-to-peer network
With every message sent, users will need to donate a certain amount of cryptocurrency (feathercoin) too the pool
Users who “donate” space to the cloud will receive feathercoin for their effort
Users who donate as much space as they use themselves will send messages close to free (there is always a transaction fee for the feathercoin network)

[size=14pt][b]Why donate for this project[/b][/size]

Creating CryptConnect will have many consequences for the safety of your personal data. However, to create and continue to develop CryptConnect we need a budget.

Mostly something gets created and then sold to the users. To get the initial funds they need investors, shareholders etc… which in turn expect a profit.

In this case the users will not only be hospitals, medics, etc… but als regular users who can use it to communicate with their health professionals.

This is why we want CryptConnect to be available for everyone.

What will we do with the donations?

Recruit more developers
Create a solid testing environment
Perform security audits
Represent CryptConnect and convince people to use i

Our website: [url=http://www.cryptconnect.com]www.cryptconnect.com[/url]
Donation links in signature (EDIT: donations are still possible - the crypto’s ill remain there - if the project goes nowhere, crypto’s are send right back to the owner)

EDIT: The campaign was canceled to get started on a later time.
[s]Also: [url=http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/safe-medical-data-transmission-worldwide/x/5758175]http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/safe-medical-data-transmission-worldwide/x/5758175[/url][/s]

Want to contribute, do you have some great ideas? Feel free to share!

Nice project.

Keeping the number of active developers low is actually a good approach. To manny people working on the same project usually leads to chaos.

Keeping the front page welcomming, yet modern and informatice are indeed good intentions.

Good luck!

Will it be possible to purchase FTC outside of the UK (Belgium, Netherlands?)

It already is a very usefull currency however it isn’t used on a large scale.

The greatest thing about cryptocurrency is that it is some much: cleaner, transparant and above all: faster and international.

We are planning to use FTC to pay out people who provide storage and bandwith for example… how would you do that with dollars?