Interestingly, we saw today an announcement from YourBrainOnBlockchain that Developer Edition of Bluephone is now available for pre-order.
YourBrainOnBlockchain itself is something TELOSNEWS.COM might dig out further and introduce to you one day, but for now, know that YourBrainOnBlockChain is supposed to be a centralised place to buy all things Telos, and lately it seems there been a lot of building happening like TELOSNEWS.COM news items have been released on YourBrainOnBlockChain-blog as well.
Since this is the first time an announcement was made by them, and of all things it was about bluephone, it might mean something.
Bluephone, as the name suggests, is a Mobile phone. Now why on earth do we need another one of those? That is because neither Google play store nor Apple store lets you release any master node running software. Since mobiles are usually 24 hours a day turned on and connected to the internet, they would be a quite working solution for running a master node.
Now how to solve this problem?
By releasing your own mobile with Aeros as its operating system. No google play store nor apple store restrictions and people can finally get to run their nodes on the go and earn money to buy the next model when it comes out. So in the best case you buy one phone and keep buying all your phones in future with profits, get your phone bills paid and even earn some extra on top of that. Now talk of a good deal in here!
Current pre order pricing has two different prices.
With current Telos price that is around 800-900 Euros, so YourBrainOnBlockChains offer is pretty good, especially when taking into consideration that they have even price guarantee – If final price be lower, the overpayment will be returned, if higher, then you can choose to cancel your order or send the missing amount.
As of now, hardware specifications, and I suppose final price, is not known, since it havent been decided yet, there however should be couple of different options to choose from available in the end.
If the price sounds high, keep in mind that this price should include 100 000 Telos node in it, which alone is worth 400 Euros in the current market price.
All in phone, including nodes, however, might still change before the final release.
“Give a man a fish, and he be hungry tomorrow – Teach him to fish, and he is never hungry again”
This is basically the principle upon which Kiva operates.
Some peoples fathers and forefathers choices didn’t bring the same amount of fruit out as some others, especially western fathers, choices did.
Is it fair? that depends upon your view. The only way to be equal is to leave all the babies to the hospital’s floor right after they are born and let them survive themselves as they can (and that still doesn’t rule out the possibility that the hospital floor of some babies happen to disappear due to earthquake, making it still unfair to those ones). If this is not the choice we decide to make, then some will have better and more capable parents than others, and that is the reality.
However, that doesn’t mean that we who happened to be born to a more successful line of fathers shouldn’t give a damn about those who didn’t.
There has been a lot of good criticism in giving direct help to people since that is like giving the before mentioned fish, making them both hungry tomorrow, and perhaps even helpless to find anything else than expecting to get another fish from us.
Kiva, however, operates with a different principle.
In Kiva, you don’t even donate money to people, but you are actually giving them a loan.
And the principle of this loan is that this loan is a life-changing loan to them, making it possible to make their dream of earning their own living come true.
While westerns dreams might be pretty expensive and vain, like dreaming a world round trip, many peoples dream is simply to have a relatively cheap tool for us to make up a living. A tool of 25 USD might be out of reach for many people, especially for the bankless people who might make even less than 1 USD a day, and this price of couple of hamburgers left uneaten by us can make these peoples dream of making their own living a true.
Not only does it make them be able to make a living, but also feed their families, and sometimes even resulting in businesses that will bring living to even more people than just themselves.
On top of that, since we are talking of a loan here, this one 25 USD will not just change a life of one man, but when he is able to pay it back you can use that same 25 USD to loan for the next unbanked poor man.
When taking into account the cumulative effect of some of these growing into businesses supporting more than just one man, by loaning this same sum again and again after getting it back, you might well be making even 1000 people be able to make it possible to earn their living during your lifetime, with just 25 USD.
To support this idea, there is now a new TELOS bounty.
Kiva has a TELOS team. Join this Telos Team, and you will get 50 TELOS.
Even better, Lend to one of the Kiva credit projects and choose to do this as a TELOS team member, and you will get 1000 TELOS.
So now you don’t need to loan 25 USD anymore, but less, since you are getting 1050 TELOS back right after you loan.
This bounty has a total amount of one million Telos to be claimed and can be claimed only once per person.
As an additional incentive, part of Devs idea is that if TELOS team can have enough people there, even KIVA will notice this and then when Dev contacts KIVA to introduce them to the benefits that Telos can offer to bankless world (as example fight against hyperinflation), they will be much more willing to hear as they see TELOS has already done something to them.
Quite a lot of talk have been happening on background that has not been news item worthy, mainly because they have not been official, yet something TELOSNEWS.COM readers will probably be interested anyway, hence this Rumors article. Nothing you read here is official unless otherwise stated, and these might, or might not happen. As of now, they are just rumors.
It is official that Bluephone is coming, however, as they have not been available to buy yet and exact details have been missing, TELOSNEWS.COM have therefore refrained from making a news item about it.
Bluephone, in short, is going to be a mobile phone. Okay, so do we need yet another mobile phone? Well, both Android and Applestore prohibit releasing master node running things. As Dev happens to have his own operating system Aeros, he is now in a position to make a phone which will be running a master node on the background. Mobile phones nowadays are anyway on and connected to the internet, usually 24 hours a day, so why not use it to run a masternode and let the mobile pay its price back and make even profit to have money to buy the next one.
Bluephone was originally supposed to be higher priced since the first run was going to be sort of a test run to those interested until the real consumer-run would come at some point in future which would be cheaper.
However, since HuobiGlobal Exchange has now talked of a plan to make a similar idea phone as Bluephone, Dev has revised his plan and is now planning to at least match Huobiglobals price.
Will this new pricing affect the original plan of including a 100k Telos node with each phone, that remains to be seen.
And how tight a fight are we going to get here, remains to be seen too. However, so far Dev has been commenting that what Huobiglobal have released details about their phone don’t yet match that of Bluephones, so at least currently we seem to be ahead of the game.
Yesterday Dev went on to meet with Transcendence Associates, to be more specific, board member of the coming exchange and YourBrainOnBlockChain partner.
Lots of things were discussed, among these even of a third coin for Transcendence Network.
The idea behind this third coin is very practical. HINT has released an AML4.0 standard, and as it happens to be, Dev already has talked about his VAN-player in 2015 (item 5), which has a codec that in his opinion is the best match for AML4.0 standard currently existing.
VAN can play Vector ANimation, which means that it can save for example Videos in Vector format making it take less space than current video streaming systems and it is completely lossless format in addition meaning that you can have an unlimited amount of resolution and zoom without it becoming a pixel mess.
This third coins main point seems to be in having blockchain for these videos. Basically Dev said coin would be similar to Civic, but more sophisticated, especially on video storage part.
Coins fundamentals would be different from the previous two (that be Telos and Subsidium). This time “mining” wouldnt be open, but you could buy nodes (perhaps through peertoro?) and earn revenue shares. There would also not be any fixed rewards amount.
Dev is planning to ask for EU fund for developing this third coin as it is the closest thing to AML4.0 standard currently, so I guess depending upon how goes with the EU funding, will also depend upon how fast we will hear more about this third coin possibility.
In addition to meeting with Transcendence Associates, they also made a call to Dach coin, and there was talk about a merge. I guess we might hear about this in the near future more, supposing it does happen. Part of the talk was about what will happen to DachExchange in case of a merge, whether it stays or not, and for how long.
While mainly the discussion was of a less concrete in nature about Bitdorado Exchange and other things, there was however one concrete decision too, which was to release a Greenbox. What this is, and what does it do, your guess is as good as mine. However, a hint is that Dev mentioned about CO2 certificate. So that plus the name, it probably has something to do with the environment.
There was also talk about using Bounties to encourage people to join Telos kiva.org team.
Kiva is an organization where you can loan people as little money as just 25 USD, and it will make a big difference to their life in making them be able to put up a business to earn their living, and in best case even get a growing business that will give living to more than just the one you originally loaned the money to. Not only is this very small money for most us, but you are even likely getting it back, in which case you can use it to change another one’s life again.
Short mention was that there was talk about marketing/fairs, nothing concrete mentioned about them but I guess we can expect more Gamescom kind of things to happen, which resulted in nice amount of things that you can read about in my previous rumors article regarding Gamescom.
And last was also a talk about new whitepapers. Not that I am personally that interested in them, but if you been waiting for updated ones, then perhaps they are coming too. Anyway, quite many seem to have it as a criterion that if no whitepaper, they don’t even dig any further, so perhaps it is good to have updated ones.
Quake Andy – Pictures better than Warhol, and a prophet of a modern day.
Once a month masternode.buzz makes an article about progress in Transcendence project. This is because Transcendence is Premium Buzz Backer, and they make a monthly update on each backer. Quality of these articles vary, but it is always nice to read about Telos anyway.
This time, in September, they release the August update which mainly tells about stuff that happened in July. Which shows why you should keep reading TELOSNEWS.COM to keep you up to date on things sooner than month-two after.
In this months article, it mentions about Piggybank2.0, Telos update to 2.0, partnership with Crypto Masters Club, and also gives a brief mention about Indiego Appstore and Cryptomages.
There is now a cross-promotion offer available through Masternodestats.
If you buy a listing to Masternodestats with 1 Million Telos, then by paying an additional amount of 10 new coins nodes worth of new coins, you will, in addition, get a listing to both Peertoro and Bluebox .
When considering that a normal price to get yourself listed to Peertoro and Bluebox is 3 000 Euros (or 1 500 Euros worth of Telos), then this is not a bad deal at all and is pretty nice discount especially for new coins which still have a cheap node cost usually.
However, if you don’t wish to pay to get your coin listed to masternodestats, you can still submit your coin for voting as usual, but then you will miss the cross-promotion offer.
Looks like today is promising to become a good day for those looking to read articles about Telos, for we already have one article to read today and as it is Monday, we expect Lucky Seven to release his usual Monday article at a later point too.
Now you can go and read the whole article, which is pretty long actually, and after you are done reading, perhaps come back to check if Lucky Seven has already released his Monday article, for TELOSNEWS.COM will, of course, tell you about that too when it happens.
Crypto Friday or Krypto Friday (they seem to be using both names) is made by melchionda network, or at least that is their Youtube user name.
While they seem to have regular kind of Crypto-related videos, they also have these one hour long Krypto Friday live streams on Fridays obviously.
Today they will have two episodes: first one, in the German language, starting at 7 Pm UTC (or 9 pm German time), and a second one, in the English language, starting at 9 pm UTC.
Both these episodes will have Pascal Papara as a special quest.
Although the first part is in German, You can, however, follow it anyway in English by turning Youtubes auto-translate option on. Auto-translate from German to English is somewhat decent although not even close to perfect.
click subtitles on and then choose from settings to auto-generated and to which language
So there you have it. Want to see Pascal Papara in a live stream? Then get on to Krypto Friday Episode 15 (German) at 7 pm (UTC) or Crypto Friday Episode 1 (English) at 9 pm (UTC) on Youtube, or if you seeing this too late, don’t worry, they do store old live streams there so you can watch it at any time, just not live anymore.
Dev have just announced he have got DUNS number to Apple Appstore.
What does this mean? It means Dev can release stuff to Apple Appstore, and this includes the possibility to release Telos iOS wallet, and this is actually what he plans to do, except, there’s a little catch. Telos community needs to step up a little.
Dev now says that not only will Android wallet become free when 400 000 Telos is collected on this bounty, but also iOS wallet will become free, and also released, when this Bounty is reached.
We are halfway there already, so open up your wallets and put your Telos flying towards that Bounty
To help with this effort, Dev have even made an appealing offer for all the Bluebox owners. If you own a bluebox, and you donate at least 40k Telos in this bounty, then your usual 64k Telos in blueboxes will be upgraded to 100k. This means that by donating 40k Telos, you are actually getting back 36k, by other words, you donate only 4k Telos in practice, now how little is that?
I would hurry up if I be you, theres space for only 5 more upgrades anymore, then the bounty is fulfilled and rest will miss this chance.
There it is waiting for you to shoot some Bitcoin Related videos.
TELOSNEWS.COM naturally wonders why would anyone care of making anything Bitcoin related anymore when they can just make Telos related stuff.
In giving some additional motivation for people to make a bang by aiming their videos to be uploaded to GunsRus, there are now prizes available for uploaders.
One with most views in a week will win a 100k Telos node from peertoro. And this prize is not given just once, but once a week, the first prize given already a week later at the first of September.
In Addition to this, every uploader will have a chance at winning bluebox gold. Once a month a winner will be picked by random among all uploaders.
With these prizes in place, I guess it is about time to make that video idea of yours a reality, for it could earn you a bluebox gold even if no one wants to watch it.
You asking why we need a Gun-related video service? This is why!
Lucky Seven has consistently been producing Telos related articles once a week for several weeks now, and as far as I have noticed, releasing them always on Monday, and today’s Monday is no exception, but a new article has come out again.
This time Lucky Sevens article tells a bit about IndieGO Console, the philosophy behind it, and why it fits today’s market well, as well as about Indiego and Telos in Gamescom.
No point for me to tell more when you can yourself go and read the article in question from one of the following locations: CryptoAcid, Medium, Steemit, or Minds.
After having read that one, you could also head to Mediums Transcendence Blockchain Magazine for more reading about Telos, including Lucky Sevens previous weekly released articles.
It was just yesterday when I in my Roundup about Gamescom rumors article was commenting that one of the things Dev had been thinking was making own paper magazine and I commented we probably hear about it in coming weeks if something happens.
Well, here we are a day later only and it seems Dev is not thinking about it anymore but is actually planning to make it.
While everything is very much in the planning stage at this moment, as far as TELOSNEWS.COM have seen, Devs latest plan regarding the Magazine would be to make it a general crypto magazine for total beginners including some Telos related articles.
The plan is also to release this magazine in both English and German language editions, and also to get it to shops magazine shelves.
There was even a mention of a tv commercial for this magazine, but that was probably more of a thought than an actual plan at this point still.
The current name for the magazine is “Bitcoin Insider”, but it might still change.
Since Magazines don’t tend to write themselves, there is now a call for people who can write, make graphics, or do anything else Magazine related.
You can write whole new articles, or you can scourge the internet and rewrite existing articles in your own words.
If you feel like you could do something for this magazine, then feel free to join the official Telos discord channel and post about yourself to a #Job-postings channel.
Discord username Quake_Andy is someone who figures out a lot of free marketing technics to promote Telos everywhere.
His latest invention is to having put Teloscoin.org channel to Dlive.tv.
If you don’t know what that is, it is a bit like Youtube, except it is live streaming and is powered by crypto.
Channel currently doesn’t have much content, just repeating stuff basically, but of course if someone is interested, I am sure Quaky_Andy is more than happy for someone to jump in and start making more content there.
So how does this help Telos then?
Thing is, more the channel has viewers, higher it gets listed on the front page of Dlive.tv and naturally generates more watchers from those who didn’t watch it before.
Since many Dlive watchers are actually interested in Cryptocurrencies due to dlives cryptobasis, a channel giving info about Telos Coin might generate some interest in them after they see it.
Will this be effective marketing method? Probably not, but it also doesn’t take much effort since all you need to do is to open the channel to your browser and keep it on background for you to be counted as one viewer, therefore making its effort/result maybe okay.
As previously reported by TELOSNEWS.COM Gamescom was held from 20 – 24th of August 2019 and Telos was present there too.
In Addition to Dev hitting High Score at IK+ and our previous report about Retrodragonbox shop stocking IndieGO Console, lots of other things happened .
Lucky for you, you don’t need to find out about them yourself but TELOSNEWS.COM is here to give you a roundup of what Dev has so far revealed.
It appears Bluebox is going to be getting some sort of add-on regarding mining. This add-on will be designed by people experienced in FPGA based devices, and among their belly is, for example, the fastest Classic Amiga computer card currently existing.
Return Magazine is one of bigger Retro Gaming magazines, although in Germany only. Regardless, they are about to make an article about IndieGO Console and Telos.
Another magazine going to be making an article is Amiga Future Magazine, the biggest Amiga Magazine in the world and the one with whom Dev shared the booth with.
Speaking of Amiga, it seems Telos is about to get a strong foothold among Amiga Community.
First of all, there were talks of co-operation with Hyperion Entertainment, which is the company behind current official Amiga Operating System called AmigaOS4, and they have also made some amazing game and other ports to Amiga, including some drivers like graphics drivers for example.
Hyperion is also important for many Amiga Users in that to some of them it symbolizes the real Amiga way.
One of the things Hyperion was interested was selling IndieGo Consoles games for Amiga Computers. What makes this especially interesting is that new IndieGO games require the IndieGO AppStore to be present on the Amiga, making much more people get IndieGO Appstore to their Amigas.
This will then open up the next possibility which was talked, which was talks about funding future Amiga projects through governance.rocks. This would naturally make sense if lots of Amiga users are already having IndieGO Appstore in their machines and therefore are already used to using Telos coins for their purchases.
Amiga community is not only one to adopt IndieGO Appstore soon, but as was mentioned in the previous article shortly was mention about dragonbox shops Pyra handheld Device starting to sell also IndieGOs games in there. But what was left out was that dragonbox shop is actually planning to add IndieGO Appstore to these devices. With 7 500 sold Pyra Handheld devices, this gives quite a nice new potential for Indiego AppStore customer base growth.
There were naturally more talks with people, but worth a mention still is a man named Trevor Dickinson. Trevor is a Business Angel from New Zealand, and as it happens to be, one of his angel companies has something to do with Cryptos and he decided to put our Dev in touch with them. Will this result in anything? Who knows, but maybe even something big. Trevor and Dev are even planning to meet again at October in another event.
Another interesting thing that Dev got from the gamescom was that he found out a bit about how to publish a paper magazine and now he is giving a thought to publishing he’s own cryptocurrency magazine. Will this happen? We might find out in coming weeks as Dev finds out more about it.
See, this exactly why you need to read TELOSNEWS.COM. Just imagine how long finding all that would have taken you.
Dragonbox shop is Germanys number #1 shop in retro products, but so far without the number #1 retro product.
That is however now being corrected by them by adding IndieGO Console and games among their products to sell in addition to games being added to their Pyra handheld device.
IndieGO, your Telos making retro gaming device
This brings up some interesting prospects for IndieGO Console as dragonbox shop can make some unique packages to sell IndieGo Console as for example bundled together with some Arcade stick for more authentic experience in some games, or even with their dragonbox shop licensed Retrode device, making IndieGO Console even more all-in-one retro gaming device, since by default IndieGO Console does not have an option to read old module games like for example Segas or Nintendos cartridges, but with Retrode bundle this would become possible too making IndieGO Console even more complete a package than before.
Actual Timeline when IndieGO Consoles and games will be available from dragonbox shop is still not known, but the 4th quarter of 2019 has been mentioned in Devs Tweet.
So remember to follow Telosnews.com to see when they become available.
And a word of advice my friend. When you buy the Console from Dragonbox, remember to check the Telos Wallet since shopkeeper might try to sneak his wallet inside the machine so you would make Telos to him instead of for yourself when you are playing. them greedy bastards! always after other peoples Telos earnings!
Gamescom is here, or there, or where ever it is inside Germany.
Now Gamescom is one of them events with lots of exhibitors from different gaming-related companies, including this 100-year old Japanese toy manufacturing company, nin-something, and its puny rival from the same country.
Well, who cares about them. What is important is that our favorite coin is there present as well.
This means you now have a chance to go meet face to face with Pascal Papara and make your questions regarding Telos directly to him, and perhaps even hear a couple of secret plans not revealed to others yet.
