Category Archive : masternodes

Melchionda Networks Top 2 Master nodes list showing Telos

Melchionda Network made a video showing his Top 2 favorite Master Node coins.

TELOSNEWS.COM thinks that showing just the Top 1- Telos, had been enough, but then again, some people prefer putting their money into more than just one project, so why not show them the second option too, which in this case is Polis.

Video shortly describes a bit about Telos, and then shows how to set up a Telos node using their cryptoselfmade.com

The video itself is actually pretty good in being a very useful instructional video to show how to set up your own master nodes (with their service), but unfortunately, it is in the German language again. I hope he makes an English version of this too one day.

However, Youtube does have the auto-translate option, which makes you be able to pretty much follow his instructions, especially since video is any way at the same time showing what he is doing. Of course, translation is not perfect however like translation insists on talking about Telescopes all the time.

Lucky Seven Monday article: “Do hackers attack your masternode server? How to check and prevent”

Lucky Sevens Monday article this time is talking of something very noteworthy for any of you who are running your master nodes in either your own servers or on any VPS platform.

This article is all about your Server security, and it applies even to miners to some extent. For I can from my own experience tell that one time my S9-machines got hacked by brute force exactly as Lucky Seven here is describing.

Yes indeed, one morning I woke up and thought network had gone down as all machines in a certain location had stopped mining. However, when I called to other guy who had some of his machines at the same place, he’s machines were all working fine.

So I went to check to the spot, and what did I find… Someone had changed my wallets in these machines into their own wallets, and funnily, they had even changed Litecoin miner’s wallet into a Bitcoin Wallet, meaning they didn’t actually get anything from that one.

How did this happen? The explanation was simple. I had not changed the default username/password combinations, while the other guy had. As I had remote access to these machines, so did anyone else on the internet.

Therefore someone went on through internet checking bitcoin miners default username/password combination, and if succeeded, changed their own wallet address through settings. Luckily in my case, my machines mined only for three hours for that hacker, but had I not been keeping my eye on my machines constantly, he could have got considerably much more.

To avoid amateur mistakes and losses like this, you better read Lucky Sevens’ newest article about some simple security measures you can take on your Servers, be they VPS or residing at your own house, they are equally vulnerable.

Get your Servers better protected by reading the article from any of the below places:

CryptoAcid

Publish0x

Steemit

Medium

Minds

Pool of Stake has set up their first Telos node

First Cryptos were minable with normal home computers, then you started needing ASICs, and after that Solo mining didn’t seem sensible anymore but it was best to get to one of the mining pools.

Then there came Proof of Stake coins which seemed like the future of “mining”, and this is where they got an idea. Why not make a Pool of Stake, which would be a pool consisting of many different Proof of Stake coins.

It also appears this Pool of Stake is showing some good taste for, after all, it was only yesterday when they tweeted that they had just set up their first Telos node at stake.noku.io and that they even want to beta test upcoming Cryptomages.

Pool of Stake showing Pool of Wisdom

Unfortunately, stake.noku.io shows only sign up page, and as I didn’t want to bother signing up, I don’t really know much what this is, except this is through which Pool of Stake currently works and it is in Estonia and holds some license(s) making Pool of Stake ideas possible.

The Pool of Stake idea is that they have several different Pools there, one for each coin, which is currently 14 Different coins with 56 Total nodes.

The idea is basically that if I want to participate in the Telos pool for example, then there will be a wallet address where I can send my Telos coins. After that, my share of profits comes as Telos too.

They are also on the process of updating their website, hence it is a bit unclear right now.

If you wish to join Pool of Stake, do it through stake.noku.io.

HostingCoin Investments adds Telos with Tiers to their followed Coins.

We have yet another Masternode Statistics giving service that has listed Telos, and with almost all 5-Tiers of it, for strangely, the 1000 tier is missing.

This service is called HostingCoin Investments and it doesn’t actually limit itself to just giving Statistics, but as the name suggests, it is also offering hosting services, although not for Telos at least yet, and it also appears they are even planning on putting up their own exchange.

While it might be a bit small at this point still, it surely has a good taste, better than most of the big ones, since this place has even placed Telos-Tiers on top of their list.

And the ads they display, such aesthetics!

-sniff-.. so beautiful.. ..so beautiful.. -sob-

Melchionda Networks “Top Profitable Masternodes” – video naturally including Telos

It is always nice to see some quality journalism and Melchionda Network is doing it again with their Top Profitable Masternodes-video, which naturally includes the top profitable node – Telos in their list as well.

Unfortunately, video is once again in German-language only, so most have to rely on auto-translate to find out what he is talking about in that video.

All you need to know is that Telos belongs to top profitable master nodes, now you can still continue being ignorant about german language.

Malta Rumors

As reported earlier, Pascal was in the Malta Blockchain summit.

From this meeting, Pascal have already talked about some things, and here’s the summary:

Pascal have now made some new friends all the way between US and Dubai.

Then there is some IEO token based on ETH-XBTX about to become that will be released on Bitdorado. Since things are still kept a secret regarding this token, TELOSNEWS.COM doesn’t have anything else to tell you about that topic.

If I understood right, Pascal is actively looking at the possibility to whitelabel nodes in the network so that without permission you couldn’t be running nodes. Will this be the future of Telos/XBTX, I suppose the future will show and will also be up to voting. Regardless, It seems Pascal is already starting with Birake DEX White labeling although fork of Bitshare is already in the works, and with some extra unspecified surprise to it.

Pascal also mentioned some coins that he is planning to integrate into Telos, as long as these coins are willing to. Idea is that these coins have only one use case which is same that Telos already have as a use case too. Therefore it would make sense for them to instead of running their own use-case to join forces with Telos and have a chance to expand to much further than their single-use case allows them. He mentioned three coins specifically: Aliencoin, abay, atube.

Pascal also mentioned having talked with several agents, most of whom worked with multiple exchanges, and he’s eye got especially caught on www.biki.com, which seems to have a good amount of trading going on there. Will this soon be a new exchange for Telos, I guess we will soon find that out, or if not, then after a long time of wait we realize it.

Pascal had also met with Wirex, and while listing seemed possible, it did seem too expensive to do at this moment but worry not, Pascal already had a plan on how to target towards listing in unspecified future time.

It also seems he is convinced that in the next convention he will be ripping BSV into pieces by showing Telos use cases and the next thing to check next is Dubai as he has some friends there.

Ios Wallet is about to be free and is right now waiting for Apples approval due to their new updates again.

And as the last thing. The final Model of Bluephone should already be waiting to be cleared from customs. Might not be that long anymore that we have a chance to get one.

New Peertoro Offers – Rent a Bluebox Special and Rent Xminer for a month

Peertroro.eu now has two new rental offers.

Rent-a-xMiner for a month and rent-a-bluebox special.

To start with the simpler one, you can now rent Xminer for a month (30 days) for 297 500 Telos Coins.

Sounds pretty harsh, but then again, Pascals test was showing 32 000 Euros (he originally erroneously talked of a 3 200 Euros) of a profit in a month if Xminer be running alone. Now I am pretty sure that won’t be the case but let’s say there be 10 Xminers running and you would still be making a pretty nice profit there with this deal.

The more complex deal, however, is Bluebox Rental Special which was announced in a discord announcement by Pascal that left lots of questions to be asked, and which are not really answered in Bluebox Rental Specials own page in Peertoro either:

So it is only for mining, yet after 64th node you will get another one?

But fear not, for TELOSNEWS.COM is here to explain what this deal is.

You start by paying 124 950 Telos Coins, and you get a Bluebox Rental Special + option for one 100k Telos Node (notice the word “option”, I will get back to that later)

From this point on, you don’t necessarily have to pay anything anymore, but you can just keep it as it is.

However, you can pay once a month another 124 950 Telos, and there are two reasons why you might want to do that.

First is that each time you pay (but it is optional if you want to or not), you will get an option for another 100k Telos node.

Second is that If you don’t pay, you do get to keep the machine just like it is, except there is one condition for you to keep it: It must make enough profit that 20 percent of that income will cover 5 Euros a month of hosting cost. In other words – it must make at least 25 Euros of profit a month.

In case that machine doesn’t make enough profit in a month, that it makes for example only 20 Euros of profit, in that case, Peertoro will take that machine back to themselves and keep all the profits.

What does this second option have to do with you perhaps wanting to pay the monthly optional fee is because more Telos nodes you have, more unlikely it is that your bluebox would make less than that 25 Euros of profit. As Pascal put it, get 2-3 nodes and it will probably work forever.

So you don’t have to pay those monthly fees, but then you won’t get more 100k Telos Nodes either, and then the risk of making less than 25 Euros in a month and therefore losing a box is higher.

To get back to that word that you are getting “options” for 100k Telos Nodes.

This word is used since right now when you rent Bluebox Special, you are actually not getting any nodes, but you are getting 100k worth of Telos Coins stored for you in case you wish to set up a node in the future.

This is because right now Bluebox Rental Special is only able to mine XBTX, and it will only later be upgraded into being able to both mine and host nodes, at which point those “optional” nodes will be added to your Bluebox Rental Special.

Also, if you decide to pay enough many times that you reach the Bluebox maximum of 64 Nodes, then you will next time get another Bluebox Rental Special for yourself.

Notice something important. This Bluebox Rental Special deal is different from previous Blueboxing.net Rental deal in that in previous deal you would get to keep the boxes after 15 months of payments, but with Peertoros Bluebox Rental Special, you will never own the boxes, but they will always be on rental with you, with the condition that they have to make that 25 Euros of profit a month, or you will lose them back to Peertoro.

Is this a good deal then? That depends.

On one hand, yes, on the old deal you do get to keep the boxes eventually, but then again, with this one, you can simply pay just that 125k and take a risk of losing it some point and if you don’t lose it ever, then this was much cheaper than the other box.

For if you compare the other boxes price and this one, then basically due to getting 100k Telos node with each 125k payment, you are actually paying only 25k each month you decide to pay. So lets say you decide to pay 3 times in total, then you basically paid only 75k in total from your Bluebox Rental Special, and if that is enough to keep it going on forever, then that was a pretty good deal indeed if mining and running Telos Nodes is all you plan to do with it.

On the other hand you can question if it makes sense to buy much of those nodes, when you could instead of paying 125k, pay just 90k to get 90% of a 100k Master Node through Peertoros 90 percent node offer, which I still think is a no-brainer and I still don’t understand why anyone is anymore putting up 100k nodes up themselves, when they could just buy that one for cheaper price and get a lifetime hosting on top of that.

All in all, I would say it boils down to three differences:

  1. Blueboxing.net rental deal gives you more flexibility in using it and makes you own the box at some point, but you need to pay every month or lose it until full payment is complete.
  2. Peertoros Bluebox Rental Special, as long you don’t plan to set up more than a couple of those 100k nodes, this will be much cheaper option to enter into Blueboxing and XBTX mining, but there is the risk of you losing it if profits drop, and more nodes you add, pricier it becomes compared to blueboxing.net rental offer, but then again, you can choose when you want to pay and when not, which is great flexibility in paying when you can pay or not pay, whenever you feel like it.
  3. Peertoros 90 percent node offer is a no-brainer, there is no need to think if it is worth it. If you are planning on getting yourself just a Telos Node, then this is the way to do it.
    However, when comparing to Blueboxes, this is not so clear a situation, since while Peertoro is cheapest and a no-brainer, it doesn’t have the option to mine XBTX, nor does it have the option to host other nodes. Peertoros 90 percent offer is great, but it is very limited compared to what blueboxes can offer.

I would boil it down to:

Cheap Telos Node – Peertoro 90 percent deal

Cheap Mining with a risk – Peertoro Bluebox Rental Special

Most flexibility in usage and planning on hosting to the maximum – Blueboxing.net Rental deal.

Regardless of which one you pick, they are all good offers.

Polispay adds Telos

About a week ago Polispay added Telos to their supported coins.

Polispay is pretty useful service providing not that many use cases, but those few are very good and well connected together, and after studying a bit about Polispay, it is no wonder Pascal wanted to co-operate with them since, indeed, they do seem to be having some very similar goals as Pascal has in payment area.

First of all, Polispay has a wallet that can hold multiple currencies in it. Nothing new there, there have been them before too.

However, this wallet then makes it possible to have its “Shift” system, which is actually an instant conversion/trade to other coins. Basically a feature that normally Exchanges have, but one that is now applied to a wallet.

Normally when you want to buy some BTC with Litecoins for example, it would take 10 minutes for Bitcoins to arrive at you if things work right, and if not, it could take even a day as have happened with Bitcoin couple of times. However, using Polispays Shift system you will instantly get your BTC to your wallet ready to use.

Having basically an instant payment system in place, this would naturally make a basis for an e-commerce payment system, which Polispay indeed is making right now, making it possible for you to add polispay merchant system as a payment option, and therefore enabling you to sell your stuff on your website against Telos coins for example.

This merchant system is not completely ready yet, but there is already a demo store showing it, so I suppose we might be talking of only of weeks before this Merchant system is ready to use. Of course, at first it won’t have all the features they plan it to have, but I am sure they will be working hard to get the rest of the features set up in relatively short after.

Also, this merchant solution is not limited to just e-commerce, but you could also use this in Brick and Mortar stores to accept for example Telos coins for payment.

Another interesting possibility this Shift system makes possible is the Credit Card system.

And yes, Polispay already has a Polispay Credit Card, a Mastercard to be more precise.

We are not yet there where Crypto enthusiasts have been dreaming of where you can just hold your Telos in your Wallet/Card, go to the grocery store, and use your Cryptos to pay your purchases, but Polispay makes us get pretty close to that already.

You are still not able to use your Cryptos directly to buy your groceries but with polispay, all you have to do is to open your polispay wallet cellphone app and choose to “charge” your credit card. This Charging in practice means that you choose to charge for example 10 000 Telos coins to your credit card, which in practice means that your 10 000 Telos would be sold against FIAT of your choice instantly, and then this FIAT amount could be used with that card anywhere where Mastercards are accepted.

In other words, due to the instant nature of sales happening immediately in polispay with Shift. with one extra step, you are practically able to buy groceries with your Cryptos in any place where Mastercard is accepted.

If the card or merchant options are not interesting to you, then Polispays Vouchers that have been provided in co-operation with Bitcou Gmbh might interest you instead. You can buy Gift Cards to Nintendo eShop, Playstation, or XBOX even, and to make most of the stuff available to you, there are also Amazon gift cards available among others.

Paying these Gift Cards has been made easy. You can buy them against any supported Cryptocurrency, that includes Telos too, and you could as example simply use your cellphone to open menu option from polispay wallet where you can buy these gift cards.

As is usual in the crypto world, Polispay has its own Polis coin as well. Nothing unusual there. POS system, so you can add Polis nodes, which I think Pascal already mentioned will come in future as options to both Peertoro and Blueboxes.

Polis coins will be used for example to pay fees that come from using Polispay Credit Card, Fees that will all be payable only with Polis coins.

Not at all a bad addition to Telos options this one!

Masternodes.online added all Telos Tiers

Last time, about month ago, when I checked, Telos master node ROI was up to 1 400% and today it have dropped to 59,41% only, this according to Masternodes.online.

So what happened?

It was those sons of an MNOs that went on and updated their Telos nodes to finally include all 5-Tiers and that crashed my ROI instantly.

And it even took them just about 2-months to get it done while at same time places like Masternodestats.info went on to become existing from scratch and including all 5 tiers of master nodes already at beginning part of that time.

Makes you wonder how much point there is to keep yourself up-to-date on master node stats with a place like that that took so long to simply get Tiers done when other places got them done much faster including doing much more than they did.

Anyway, we at least got it, upon which governance bounty was done and also fulfilled, upon which Pascal wants to thank everyone who participated on it.

In addition, Pascal also decided to pay listing to masternode.pro.

Will it take 2 months from them to implement Telos Tiers as well remains to be seen, but while waiting for that, we anyway have masternodestats.info where we can check all those stats and one that have been there for a long while already.

Bluebox: Upcoming changes – Bluepool, More Nodes, -30% discount when buying with Telos, Rewards page updated

Some changes are about to come to Blueboxes, mainly affecting the future Blueboxes, not so much the current ones.

First of all, the price of the co-location service is about to go up from 10 Eur pricing to 30 Euros.

That is still not much, since, after all, you are getting free electricity, maintenance and all, not to mention that might well be that just sending that Bluebox to your house could cost more than that, so still dirt cheap, no change in there.

Another change coming is that if you pay your order with Telos, you will get 30 percent discount on the price of a Bluebox, this, however, does not apply to the rental deals, only if you buy the box straight away. This actually makes the difference between rental and direct buy go quite much bigger now, as before you were basically paying roughly 20+ percent extra, while now you would be paying about 50 percent extra using rental compared to direct buy with Telos.

There is slight unclarity in the announcement, but as far as I recall this has been talked before too, and therefore not just future Blueboxes, but all Blueboxes, even the already existing ones, will get access to so-called Bluepool.

So far Bitcoins Subsidium has been mined individually by each Bluebox, but in future this mining will be done through a pool called Bluepool. Then every box will get an equal share of mining rewards.

This is however not all. As you should be aware by now if you been reading previous articles in TELOSNEWS.COM, xminers are about to come and make blueboxes efforts quite ridiculous compared to them as one xminer mines Bitcoin Subsidium with the same speed as 320 Blueboxes was Pascals estimation.

Does this mean there is no point in mining with Blueboxes anymore? No. Because Bluepool will have so-called bubble miners, which will be having roughly 20 percent of the total Bluepools mining power, and this 20 percent is divided equally between all devices. So no matter if you are using more or less powerful miner, you will be getting an equal share from that 20 percent.

Yes, this does mean drop to 1/5th of what you are getting during current pre-mine since right now 100 percent is shared between blueboxes, although independently, but it is still quite nice that they are taking care of the small ones too and even in future giving a decent share to small ones, which in this case are blueboxes, as well.

Since people have naturally been asking about how much rewards a bluebox gets, the rewards page has been updated as well.

And regarding rewards, you will be able to affect the amount a bit as starting from next batch you can order more nodes to your Blueboxes, up to 64 with full-on nodes or 32 if using 50/50 split between nodes and mining. Notice however that this option is available only if you pay your Bluebox with Telos, meaning it isn’t available through the rental deal.

Masternode World relisting Telos

It seems for last week most of the news are about Master node hosting services, and this one is no exception.

Masternode World, a shared Master Node hosting service, have some hours ago announced in Telos Bitcointalk thread that it will be relisting Telos again to their service.

I have to admit, I never noticed they had listed Telos in the first place, but nice to see anyway that they came back to their senses and relisted Telos. after all, they say they have only the best coins, so it would be like shooting at their own leg if they wouldnt have the best one.

Midas Investment adds Telos

I usually prefer to talk about what is there already and not about what is coming unless I am talking of Rumors since often these future things either might not come at all, or come in a different shape. However, in this case I think it is more useful to you readers to talk also about what is about to come, especially since it is about to come very soon, the current plan being inside a month.

So what is Midas investment, or what is it about to be?

Midas investment is a quite interesting concept. In its core it is a combination of Master Node hosting and Exchange, but it is tied up pretty nicely.

It basically starts from giving advice on what coins to buy. Unfortunately this advice system is actually automatic based instead of human-based analysis, but even then, it is better than nothing, besides, that a coin even ends up to Midas Investments list of coins already means something, so you could think it as any coin in list is to some extent recommended by Midas Investment and the auto analysis is just a plus.

Next step is that when you decide to buy a share to some coins pool, you can actually buy that coin by just using BTC. No need to go to exchange, just buy it from Midas. They actually have some amount of each coin bought already which they then use to sell to their customers using their Instant Buy system, and they will use most of the BTC that they receive from their customers to buy more of those coins. But they will not simply buy those coins, but they will be making buy walls for those coins to help these coins price go up, which is another clever idea from Midas Investment and one which makes any coin be happy to be on their list.

These bought coins will go towards setting up master nodes to that coins pool, and similar to Evonodes system, which you can read from this news item, if the amount of coins is not enough to set the node up yet, coins will be staking.

When Midas gets their Exchange ready and integrated, which should be in a couple of weeks only, things will get even more interesting. For after that if you go and buy coins using Midas exchange, you will not just get coins that stay in your account, but these coins will be attached to these master node pools and instead of staying the same as in other exchanges, in Midas Exchange these coins will make income since as long as you keep them in Midas Exchange, they will automatically be attached to master node pools.

Final step still in this current Master Node system is, that as you can buy coins simply using BTC with Instant Buy, you will also be able to sell them to BTC basically the same way. From a users point of view, get BTC into Midas Investment, and you can buy any coins in there, and when you want to get your coins out, you will get BTC out. So BTC in, and BTC out, both ways.

In this fine system, you can now buy to Telos pool as well. Or perhaps you know someone with some BTC to spare but not having the knowledge to get into master node coins? Well, hint about this one.

Masternodestats.info added two more coins to their list

Masternodestats.info, the place which was first to have statistics of all 5-tiers of Telos and where you can buy with TELOS more coins to be listed to their list of followed coins have just added first two other than TELOS coins.

Of course, no one really cares about anything but TELOS, but in case you want to sometimes see how some other, less interesting coins do, you can now also keep an eye on statistics of PivX and DASH. The main interest is of course in following how fast they will be worth less than TELOS and how much less they will be worth.

Also, don’t forget there is a cross-promotion offer between masternodestats.info, peertoro, and bluebox.

New Use Case: Masternodes.biz now accepts Telos for payment.

First they list Telos, and then they start accepting Telos as a payment. And this is exactly what happened with Masternodes.biz.

From now on, when you wish to use Masternodes.biz to host one of your Master Nodes of any coin they are supporting hosting for, you can pay it using Telos.

As hosting price is only 0.5 USD a month, this is a pretty good choice for hosting your nodes, especially since you can follow the master node stats in the same place.

You can check more details about masternodes.biz from TELOSNEWS.COM previous article about them.

Evonodes added Telos to their shared pool options

As the headline says, you can now join to Shared Telos Pool on Evonodes.

Evonodes concentrates on a shared pool system. Idea is, if you would like to have 100k Telos node, but you don’t have that much Telos, you can join the Evonodes shared Telos pool to get at least a share of one.

If you put 10 percent of the coins for the master node, then you will get 10 percent of all the income of that node, or to be more precise, of the pool, since you are not putting coins just for one node, but you are investing into whole Telos pool which can mean several nodes instead of just one.

And at Evonodes it doesn’t end just there, but they are also connecting Proof of Stake in the mix too.

You put for example 20 percent of master nodes price in that pool. Now while you are waiting for the pool to fill, that money doesn’t just sit there, but it is actually staking. When enough Telos is accumulated to set up a node (I suppose 100k node), then the pool will set up a node and start collecting Telos for the next node.

In addition, profits are also automatically reinvested to this pool, making you get an accumulative effect on getting new nodes.

Because Pool will likely have more than just one node, good thing is, even if one of the nodes would for some reason fail, rest will likely still be making income, and since you own some percentage of the whole pool, and get that percentage from whole pools income, it is therefore unlikely that you would ever lose all income, but even when node fails, you will just temporarily be making a couple of percent less of income until node is back up and working.

Greenbox – Your CO2 certificate generator -available for ordering

And another announcement first done by YourBrainOnBlockchain, this time it is an announcement of Greenboxes being available to order through YourBrainOnBlockchain.

Greenbox is very much like a Bluebox, except it is directed for companies, and instead of meant to just make a profit like Blueboxes are, Greenboxes idea is to work as an cheap alternative for Companies to get their CO2 certificates.

It is a quite brilliant approach actually. Normally companies would simply pay 100 Euros to buy some certain amount of CO2 certificates, but now instead they could use the same 100 Euros, and instead of getting just 100 Euros worth of CO2 certificates, they will get much more worth of certificates since those 100 Euros will be used to buy for example Telos node and these nodes profits are then used to automatically buy CO2 certificates.

You could say that with Greenbox you are buying a CO2 certificate generator that keeps producing you more and more CO2 certificates in time.

No need to worry each year to buy those Certificates when you can just buy Greenbox once and it takes care of it automatically each year.

Although I mentioned 100 Euros, price is not that cheap actually, but you can either buy one for around 599 Euros to your company to operate yourself, or you can buy a full service version that also includes 100k Telos nodes for 1 500 Euros a piece.

Concept is pretty simple. Lets say you want to get your footprint compensated. If you live in Germany your carbon footprint in a year is about 11 000 Kg. One Greenbox in YourBrainOnBlockchains example produces roughly 4 000 Kg worth of certificates a year. So pay once to get yourself 3 Greenboxes, and you can continue living as you like forever as your Carbon Footprint is more than compensated with these three boxes with this one time bought.

All projects for greenboxes are chosen by MyClimate and are approved by the United Nations.

If you are looking for an easy way to get CO2 certificates for your company, well, Greenbox automates it all. All you have to do is to order a Greenbox, and everything else, including buying those CO2 certificates, will be done for you. No need to waste manpower, just buy greenbox.

iOS wallet is available!

Today it finally happened, Apple approved iOS wallet and now you can download it to your iPhones and Apple Watches.

However, since Free the wallet bounty is still not filled up, this means that iOS wallet will cost 10.99 until that Bounty is up.

However, if you own pretty much anything Telos, like Peertoro or Bluebox, you can ask for a free voucher to download the wallet.

In addition, there is also a little campaign going on right now which makes you think twice if using that voucher is actually smart or not. For if you are one of the first 100 to buy that wallet for 10.99, you will in addition get Peertoro 10k node for yourself as a bonus. With current Telos price, that is worth around 40 Euros, so might be wiser to pay than to get for free right now.

This is also a good opportunity to tell to your friends who have been interested in Telos but havent jumped in yet. What an easy way to get into Telos, just buy iOS wallet, and you get a node.

New Voting – Update telos to become Phantom resistant?

It appears theres been an error in DASH coin base ever since 2017, however, it wasn’t such a problem until now, since now someone has released a tool to utilize this error and create so-called Phantom nodes to the network.

Now don’t get worried yet, as Dev pointed out this is more of an ethical question in nature rather than a big problem.

These Phantom nodes appear to the network as nodes when they actually are not. The idea with running a node is that node has a copy of the blockchain and helps the network. These Phantom nodes, however, do not have a copy of the blockchain, but instead, they take all the necessary info directly from explorer to spoof as a node.

However, these Phantom nodes do require having the collateral still, making the problem much more minor since they can’t really affect the whole economy much. The only thing they basically do is that they don’t contribute to the network at all and from the economics point of view, only benefit they have is that they don’t need to pay a monthly cost for running the node.

However, there is now voting at governance.rocks if people wish Telos be updated to fix this phantom issue or not, since fixing would require forking, which is not a small thing as we saw last time in July.

One option is to fix it immediately, another is to fix it 10 months later on Telos birthday when there is planned to be another update and fork anyway and let them be until that, or the third option is to do nothing at all about them.

As an additional benefit, when making the fork as soon as possible some other things could be fixed, like blocksize increased from 100k to 200k, since 100k has already reached its limit in Devs hand a bit and, I suppose, split blockchain problem would go to history as well, unless another split would be born from this.

Also, as last benefit would be that so far Telos would be the first coin in world to become phantom resistant. Who knows, perhaps someone would even report about that.

Go voice your opinion at governance.rocks and while at it, why not take a look at other votes/bounties too.

Master node ROI adds Telos Tiered nodes

It seems Telos is gaining some popularity among Master Node statistics services, for in a very short time we are getting yet another Master Node statistics service update, this time Master Node ROI, or in short, Mn ROI, have updated their Telos statistics to include all Tiers of nodes.

While it might not be otherwise adding much that isn’t already available from other master node services except for another set of coins with Telos, it does, however, have a mobile application for Android devices.

So now you have a chance to walk around with your (android) phone and keep showing off to random people at street Telos master node statistics.

It is not perfect, some tiers showing too high a ROI, while others too low, but it will probably get fixed in time when it gets more synced with the network first.

Buy listing to Masternodestats, Peertoro, and Bluebox cross-promotion offer

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.