It appears Pascal has set up an auction at Opensea.io which by quick look seems to be some sort of auction place for NFT stuff.
Item in the auction is Cryptomages Fun Set 1 – Bundestagswahl, which based upon the little German language that I know, is based upon some sort of election in Germany, probably a nationwide one. You know, that stuff where they used to elect their new reich führer back in the day.
So if you like to get some CryptoMages trading cards with Merkel and other probably political figures, you could place a bid in the auction. The current highest bid, as at the time of writing this, is 0, which is probably close to the value most people think these figures contribute to the society.
Will this fun/unfun set 1 increase or decrease the value of your collection is hard to say, but you anyway have only until August 29, 2021 at 9:15pm EEST to place your bids if you want them, and you need Ethereum wallet to be able to place the bid, which prevented me from placing 1 dollar bid I mean to do.
Pascal told in Discord an interesting offer. If you pay 5000 XBTX, or 41535 TELOS, which I think he mentioned somewhere that in practice the idea is that the price is 120 USD, you can get a character to the CryptoMages game that is made from you. Or actually, if you like, you can also design a character yourself since this offer is not limited to making a character of yourself, but you could even make your pet cat become a character, or just create some character from your imagination.
To make a character of yourself, You do need to send a photo of yourself and also give a name to the character, which can be your real name if you like, and also what fantasy class you want to be, examples given as without being restricted to: Minotaur, Magician, Orc, Fairy, Dwarf, Troll, Ogre, Witch, Druid, Knight, Werewolf, Reptiloid.
You can also add a Description and Story about your character, and you can also suggest some special moves. In addition to sending your picture, you can also describe if you wish your picture to be of some certain kind, for example maybe you wish to have a pitchfork in your hand and wish to be sitting on a king’s chair in a thinkers position.
This offer will make 50 copies of this card into existence, from which one will be given to you, and the rest are sold as collectibles in-game. So unfortunately you won’t be able to sell these 50 cards yourself, but, the one that you get will be the Unique card, making it anyway most valuable from the batch.
In addition, if you like to make this card into a physical copy, that should be doable for about 20 Euros, in the future I suppose.
However, do realize that when you make this card into a physical copy, Card holds the PrivateKey to own the NFT, so by giving this card away, you in practice also give rights to its virtual copy along with it.
Where exactly to grab this offer, was not told. Currently it seems to work by contacting Pascal in discord, but who knows, perhaps it will be an automated feature in CryptoMages itself when it comes out, about a week-two later if the latest announcements about it are to be believed.
Roughly two weeks ago Pascal said in the Telos Telegram group that he would pay 100k Telos for someone who makes a manual with pictures for Dashboard.
With Telos signs in my eyes, I rushed to work on it being happy that most Telos people only use Discord and not Telegram, hence it being unlikely for me to have any competition for that 100k Telos.
Last Friday I finally got it finished and Pascal uploaded it to Github adding it to the 3.08 version of Dashboard.
There are probably some errors still, so if you find any, you could go to Discord and tell about them in the dashboard-transcendence channel so those can be corrected for the manual.
This is a very handy tool for everyone thinking of mining XBTX.
Just put all the details there and you can instantly see if you are on the winning or losing side, and how much, or you can also use this to speculate in a way that if the price of XBTX or BTC is this, then how much would I gain if I will mine for a year.
Nice touches are that Network Hashrate, XBTX Price, and BTC price are updated automatically. Only thing missing from this is that it doesn’t give an option to see the profit result in Telos, as in what if you sell XBTX against Telos instead of some inferior coin like Bitcoin.
Even if you are not concretely interested in Mining yourself, you could still use this to check for example the profits of Peertoros XBTX Mining Lifetime packages. However, before you get overly excited, notice that the calculator and Peertoro use different measurement units. Mining calculator uses H/s (Hash per second) while Peertoro uses H/m (Hash per minute), this means that to convert H/m into H/s, you need to divide the H/m number by 60. Therefore for example the lowest powered lifetime package of 6200 H/m, becomes roughly 103 H/s.
And it was successful. 1200 votes were needed, 1201 was given, and option 1, which was “Yes”, was the only option getting votes.
In his comment on Saturday, Pascal mentioned he will contact Graviex about listing XBTX on Monday – that be today.
However, there has been some discussion in the discord channel by community members if it would be possible to instead list XBTX to TradeOgre Exchange. So far this discussion hasn’t gone to a serious level, but it does seem at least some people are thinking TradeOgre as a good alternative, so if you wish to push this idea forward that instead of listing to Graviex, list to TradeOgre, hurry up to Discord and voice your opinion, and perhaps there comes a new vote either to dashboard or in discord.
When I noticed I had missed one of lucky 7s articles when I was updating his article links, I noticed another oversight of mine, I had missed telling you about Onat 42s last two Vpiggy tutorials.
Onat 42 did some good tutorials about using Vpiggy to save you all the trouble of figuring those things out yourself, that if you are simply just wanting to get one of the specific things done with your Vpiggy, Onat 42 saves you all the hassle by simply telling how to get them done.
These articles could be extra helpful now that with the price of Telos being so much down right now, I am quite confident that vPiggys are world cheapest option for Virtual Computers, for normally you might need to pay 30 euros a month from a cheap version only already, and here you have a one-time payment option of just 35 000 Telos (if you are Bluebox owner), which is roughly 2-3 months virtual computer rent, and you already covered the cost for life.
As I was updating links to Lucky 7s articles since his old Cryptoacid.com had changed to wordpress.cryptoacid addresses I noticed I have actually missed one article from him from more than a year ago.
On may 5th 2020 Lucky seven published two articles, which might be why I missed the other one, perhaps thinking I already released a news item about it when it was actually about the other one.
Basically these two articles are two parts of the same topic, both teaching you about how to use Bitdorado (now Bitdorado Turkey). Articles content has got a bit out of date now that Bitdorado Turkey has concentrated more heavily towards Coin & Growth pools, but it might well be worth a read still since who knows what direction Bitdorado Turkey will take in the future.
For a couple of days now there has been in the dashboard voting about adding Bitcoin Subsidium (XBTX) to Graviex:
To put it simply, one vote costs 1000 Telos, and you can either vote “yes” or “no”.
Usually those voting “no” don’t actually vote, but in case you like to do that, you can, in which case if “no” wins, the amount collected will be passed to the next similar kind of listing a coin to some exchange vote.
Actually, this will also happen in case “yes” wins but there are not enough votes to pay for the Graviex listing price, which is 1.2 Million Telos, or 1 200 votes in votes.
On the 10th of Aug there were 163 votes there, so could use some more love, especially since Pascal is matching with one vote for each “yes” vote, making the community need to vote only 600 votes in total from which 1/4th might already be there.
While I did like it when XBTX was all in Bitdorado only, since it was nice seeing all trades in one place, I however voted “yes” myself too since the idea with this Graviex listing is that it would be the third exchange that Coingecko and similar accept and demand. That the idea isn’t actually so much in getting XBTX to Graviex, but in getting XBTX listed to Coingecko and similars, and they demand 3 exchanges that they approve, and Graviex would be the 3rd one. And this then again opens more opportunities for the conquering of the world for our dear Bitcoin Subsidum (XBTX).
Do notice that basically voting is open until the 14th day only, but in the description it explains that if the vote hasn’t reached its target, then voting will be extended.
Now is a good time to try Dashboard’s new voting system which is much simpler than before. No more manual transactions, but you just confirm you want to vote “yes” or “no”, and the rest is automatic.
Quake Andy might not have been promoting Telos and XBTX lately anymore, but when he did, he was likely the most effort-taking community member at doing that. And once again we have another proof that his work wasn’t in vain for even after almost 2 years, things he did are still bearing fruit as shown by this news item.
Yesterday I received an email I had no recalling what it was that said “A post you voted on, Bitcoin Subsidium (XBTX), has been marked as Complete”. Clicking the link took me to an old thread from almost 2 years ago which was requesting to list XBTX to some place I had no recalling of where nor recalling having voted on this in the first place, except there read this “Delta” there. I am pretty sure Quake Andy posted to Discord forum a link about this and asked people to vote, and I just went to vote and didn’t really pay much attention to it even.
After a bit of searching I finally found out that this was a request to list XBTX to Delta Investment Tracker App, and it had now finally been completed, which I suppose means that they have just now added XBTX to the App.
Trying out the App a bit I found out that this is a pretty good app. You can keep following the prices of not only loads of Cryptos, including Telos and XBTX, but also stocks, currencies, futures, and a couple of other things, and also get notifications about them.
You can also pick some of them as your favorites and see the prices of them all on the same screen, and you can also mix these with several of the different kinds of investments. Like you could favorite all the cryptos and stocks you own, and then simply see all those prices on one screen:
There is also the possibility to add a portfolio, and this can be as easy as adding your wallet there, however, it boldly says “we support over 10 cryptocurrency wallets” so I doubt there be Telos or XBTX wallets there. Similarly on exchanges they tell they support over 20 exchanges. But, you can also manually add transactions and there it seems to accept Telos as well as XBTX, so although I didn’t try concretely adding any, there don’t seem to be any reason to think it wouldn’t.
There is also a tab to check news feed, which I suppose are tailored a bit based upon which coins and other stuff you favor, so basically, if you favor Telos and there comes some Telos-related news feed to them, they will add it to your news feed tab. What a terrible oversight it is therefore from them then that I didn’t see a single TELOSNEWS.COM news item there!
To put it short, this is an all-in-one App to keep eye on your Crypto/Stock/Other investments, and by the quick look that I took about it, it does look like it is a pretty good one at it, good enough that I might keep using it.
If you are wanting to have App where you can follow all your investments effortlessly, this does seem like it is well worth the look. And especially if you take the extra effort of adding your portfolio, it looks a lot like you might not really need much else besides this one.
Thank you again Quake Andy from another valuable addition to XBTX, we wouldn’t have this excellent App without you!
Username AI in discord tipped that MiningPoolStats have updated their list of Bitcoin Subsidium Pools and now there is much better idea of where all the hash power to Bitcoin Subsidium mining is coming from.
Here is how the stats looked there on the 5th of August this year:
About a week ago Pascal wrote a message to the Bitdorado Turkey channel that is very interesting to Bitdorado users wishing to get VIP status for themselves, for he revealed some actual numbers about it and with it also revealed some more info too.
In this message he mentioned that currently there are 75 active Bitdorado users, and he also mentions that just 5 more people and one more member gets a VIP status.
This means that the amount of VIP members is based upon full 10 percentage numbers, not a rounded one. That while 7.5, or especially for example 7.9 would normally round up, In this case, there need to be full 80 active bitdorado members before number 8 in the list becomes a VIP-member.
Another interesting was that Pascal gave a list of the amounts of Telos owned by the top 10, which actually included only the top 9, and which is as follows:
10.000.000 10.000.000 3.401.101 3.333.333 3.300.000 3.277.120 3.086.000 ————–> Below this line not yet VIPs 3.008.800 3.007.278
It is not clear if Bitdorado Premiums 10 percent extra gets calculated to the calculations or not, for while the exact 3.3M in the list would make it seem like someone put 3M and got 300K premium bonus, on the other hand, both 10 Million in the list are exactly 10 Million, instead of 10 M + 1 M, and I would expect those with 10 Million to also want Premium membership for them.
And just like I mentioned in previous Bitdorado Turkey VIP status related News Item, Pascal too mentions that it might be wiser to simply gift some small amount of coins for someone to join Bitdorado and hence increase the number of VIP members, than to start fighting from currently only Top 7 spots, especially now that AML-Now KYC, that is required to join Bitdorado Turkey, is free for first 1000 people.
And regarding marketing Bitdorado, Pascal also mentioned that there is a referral system coming to Bitdorado Turkey, making marketing/gifting coins to friends perhaps even a profitable venue, and that he is also planning on starting to market Bitdorado to outsiders himself, of which this news item is probably first fruits of.
I am no expert on Pads, hence I am not even going to try to give you detailed info on whether this is better/worse than Kindle, Ipad, or any of the less than 50 Euro pads from markets.
I can just suppose that this is made to last better than those cheap Pads, and probably also has more power, for since part of the idea is to run Master Node in this, and it should be even suitable for mining – I suppose at the same time, then it can’t be ultimately unpowerful to be able to do so like the cheap market Pads to my knowledge are.
Gaia CryptoPAD has been a long way coming, already mentioned in the Telos discord channel in 2019, and now is finally here in that you can start buying them and deliveries start already roughly a month later, estimation being at the end of this month.
What Gaia CryptoPAD offers compared to other Pads is that it is aimed at Crypto stuff. Hence it will be suitable for running master nodes, as well as all Transcendence stuff, like keeping Dashboard open for 24/7 and even kept beside your bedside turned on to show what is happening in dashboard continuously, which is actually the reason why Dashboard was designed with its Orange color theme since it has been noticed that orange color display doesn’t bother the sleep the same as for example blue colors would.
For the first 100 CryptoPAD orders, there is some special included:
First is the 100k Telos coins that you can use to set up your master node to run with your CryptoPAD.
Another bonus is that first 100 CryptoPADs will also include a random standard card deck for Cryptomages.
How much worth is this standard Cryptomages deck is difficult to say since this is the first time I hear it being announced that this standard deck can be bought at all.
Naturally, the idea would be that when you buy CryptoPAD you would eventually make a profit – two different ways this time. If the price of Telos jumps back to 1 cent for example, you would already be on the winning side with the included Telos coins. Although you could argue that for the price of CryptoPAD you could already at current price buy more than 200k Telos Coins, wait for the 1 cent price, sell 100k away, and you would have more than the cost of CryptoPAD in Euros in your hand, and in addition, have the 100K still left for the CryptoPAD, making you be in an even better position than by directly buying CryptoPAD you had been.
But mystery is still if the value of those Cryptomages card deck is worth how much now and in the future, and will they even be available through any other method than through this.
To see more about technical details about the device, check these pictures about it and also the selling pages, notice also the docking deck in the article’s main picture which is optional to buy.
As it is meant to be your Cryptodevice on the go, making all things Crypto possible with it, it even includes a Fingerprint scanner so you could carry it around as your wallet that includes both your coins and all the NFT stuff, like Cryptomages NFT cards, and even if you would lose it or someone steals it, they couldn’t access your valuables that simple yet.
Or, you could also use it as your Point-of-Sale device which would accept both Crypto and FIAT payments, so when compared that at least here you need to pay several tens of euros a month from a card reader machine, and this is just a one-time payment, it could well be worth as an alternative or additional device to your card readers for your business, especially to prepare for the Crypto payments future.
The price of Gaia CryptoPAD depends upon where you buy it from. Roughly price is somewhat shy of 1 000 Euros when taxes are included in the price. If ordering to outside of the EU, you could get it even as low as only 750 Euros the cheapest version when taxes are not included. The optional Docking station will cost roughly 100 Euros more with taxes included.
Currently there should be three places where you can order them from, although one of the places I couldn’t confirm to be actually selling them.
Halal Solutions sells Gaia CryptoPAD for 899 and 999 Euros (with dock), probably excluding Taxes and from Halal Solutions you can only buy with FIAT money.
To buy with Crypto Currencies, you can turn towards Blueboxing.net, which is selling Gaia CryptoPAD for 755,46 and 839,50 Euros (with dock), excluding taxes.
The third place to buy, probably for Germans only would be Peerschweinchen.de, but at least when I checked its shop, I couldn’t find Gaia CryptoPAD from there, so what is the price, or is it even available, I cant confirm, I can just say that Halal Solutions sale page mentions Peerschweinchen as one of the places to buy Gaia CryptoPAD with Cryptocurrencies.
Basically it is meant as your way into getting into the Telos world, but before you can get into the Dashboard, you need some Telos to pass the AML-Now KYC, meaning you already need to be in the Telos World to get into Dashboard which is the good entry to the world of Telos.
However, about two weeks ago Pascal Tweeted that 1 000 users can get their AML-Now KYC done for free, which would solve this problem temporarily at least and finally make Dashboard work as the entry to Telos world as now you don’t need the Telos first to use the Dashboard, at least until those 1 000 free entries are used up.
To use this free option, when AML-Now KYC is asking for your Telos Transaction ID, you need to write “1000” to it.
Do notice that there is a sort of catch to this free entry. For while it is free indeed, it also means you are not getting the AML-Now tokens that those who do pay the fee get, and AML-Now tokens are expected to be worth much more than the fee.
Zpool.ca is a mining pool where you can mine over 150 different coins currently, and that is not the only catch, but they have this auto mining feature where idea is that they keep automatically on your behalf switching between these over 150 coins based upon which one is most profitable to mine at any time, which is one way to try to guarantee your mining profits are maximum.
Of course we know that is not true anymore since now they have added Bitcoin Subsidium (XBTX) to the list of minable coins and whenever they switch away from mining Bitcoin Subsidium, you lose. After all, 1 Bitcoin Subsidium today, is 10 000 Bitcoins tomorrow.
But, luckily they do have an option where you can ask your mining profits to be paid in Bitcoin Subsidium, even if you are mining some other coin, so perhaps it will yield you the max profits after all since maybe some insignificant coin like Bitcoin will temporarily gain more than Bitcoin Subsidium, but it will then be used to buy Bitcoin Subsidium with its current price, yielding you more than with mining. After all, everyone’s wanting their piece of new XBTX and hence are mining Bitcoin Subsidium, so while the price might be best, competition might however be so fierce you get only a tiny bit of XBTX, and hence mining something else to get XBTX might result in best result.
The article tells about some technical stuff in Transcendence/Telos land, like Dashboard and AML-Now, but the main focus is on telling about Telos R and related things.
While the news item doesn’t really tell much more about Telos R than you can already see from the article I wrote about it earlier, There is however one specific mention there. For it mentions that Telos R swap rate is 2 000 000 : 1, while earlier it has been said that swap rate between Telos R and Telos would be 1:1, this is a change in plan that Pascal confirmed in Discord after this was asked.
While this news item can be a good reminder of what the main focuses in Telos land are right now, what really caught my eye, and which might be the most interesting part of the whole article, is the contact details.
For in these contact details there is under this “Media Contact”-part mention of “PR”, and this PR contact detail is “Cryptoshib.com“.
I asked on the latest Freaky Friday live session from Pascal about this, and he did confirm that this PR firm is in sort of try out for Telos PR right now and I hope to write another article to introduce you to Cryptoshib and tell more about it as long as Cryptoshib answers my questions. But just to mention that one interesting thing about this Cryptoshib is that Pascal thinks it is possible this Cryptoshib owner might own some Telos coins already from 2018, which is pretty much from the beginning times of Telos.
