As mentioned in previous weeks news item, there was voting about whether to list XBTX to Graviex Exchange or not, and this voting has now come to an end:

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.

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.

There are currently 3 different Bounty/Votings on Dashboard that you can participate in.

First one to close, less than a week later, is TELOS LED-SCREEN ADVERTISINGS voting.

Which, as the name already suggests, is about collecting some Telos to Fund some modern-day billboard advertising, which nowadays is being handled by LED-Screens instead of actual physical posters.

I first thought what a silly idea to use Billboards to advertise Cryptos until Discord user Bitcoin_Bond_007 told me how these things work nowadays. Apparently, due to the LED-Screen nature, you could have them show only for one specific hour, and only in some specific locations, making it both cheap and effective.

As an example, suppose there is a Crypto coin conference in Berlin. Now imagine then that this conference opens on Friday at 7 PM. Well, how about having LED-screens showing Telos from 5 pm to 7 pm on all the roads that lead to the conference place?
You only need a couple of those Led-Screens and only for a very short time, meaning the price is not that high, and yet, the audience is very targeted!

I admit, I had completely missed where modern day billboards are nowadays, but likely not everyone was as out of date like me and this have so far received 150 votes, which in Telos means 150k Telos since one vote costs 1k Telos. So looking good, but could use some more still.

Second one to close, bit less than a month later (21st April), is “New Listing at Probit Exchange”-voting

This is about getting Telos listed at Probit Exchange, which CoinMarketCap seems to be ranking as number 26 exchange at the time of writing this.

Similar to the previous voting, in this one too each vote costs 1k Telos and so far it has got only 9 votes. So if you like to see Telos listed on more Exchanges, here is your chance to make it happen by giving it some more votes.

Last one to close (22nd April) is “Creating Complete WhitePaper”-vote

This is for all you who have been complaining about Telos not having proper White Paper.

As you might know, Pascal doesn’t really like making a White Paper, hence there is now a vote/bounty for this specific purpose to hire someone proper to make a proper White Paper.

Like in the previous two, each vote costs 1k Telos and the vote target is 50 votes, but the real target is actually 100k Telos. It is just that BitCoin_Bond_007 has promised to give the other 50k, as long as voting gets the first 50k.

Currently Whitepaper vote has 0 votes, meaning that either you people who complain about missing proper white paper stop complaining about it, or you go and do some voting.

After some time, we are again able to enjoy another Lucky 7 Article.

This one is about the just started DAO team voting.
What does the DAO stand for has escaped me, but idea is to have some more or less official team members for Transcendence/Telos.

Read the article for more.

Time is a bit tight, so you have to react very fast, but there are two blueboxes going to be given by random to people who are willing to do something little.

The first one will be given at today’s Kryptofriday that have already started streaming when this update is published.

In Todays kryptofriday, one Bluebox is given, on what condition is a bit unclear. Basically original announcement by Pascal mentions watching, sharing and liking – as in probably the kryptofriday stream?
However, Kryptofriday’s own announcement doesn’t mention anything about the condition upon which winner is picked. All Kryptofriday says is that it is going to be done live, one hour later from start of kryptofriday, which in practice means, one hour from now since Kryptofriday stream already started.

So my best guess is, if you go and follow the livestream, they either give more instructions, or then it is given to one of those simply watching it, so want to have a chance to earn 1000 Euros by watching a one-hour live stream? Today’s your chance for that.

However, if you are reading this too late already, then don’t worry, since there is also another box given tomorrow on a different condition.

This has to do with Bitdorado promotion.

About two weeks ago Bitdorado promised to give two blueboxes away randomly for people who Follow / Retweet / Like this tweet from bitdorado about that competition, and last Saturday first bluebox was given to a lucky random pick winner, and tomorrow the second box will be given.

So go now to that tweet couple lines above and Follow the account, Retweet the tweet, and like it, to get included on tomorrow’s random pick. So far looks like only around 50 people had done so, so chances to win a thousand are amazingly good compared to the usual probability in these kinds of things.

Hop hop to Kryptofriday stream to win the bluebox dream!

It was announced that Coins can now apply to get listed to the upcoming Bitdorado exchange.

Listing to Bitdorado will also result in being listed to pools, instatrade, OTC and bots. And also being added to Piggybanks and Blueboxes when applicable.

Listing can either be done against a fee, which varies from coin to coin, or coin can try to get listed through being voted, which actually costs too as voting costs and could in worse case cost even more than simply paying the negotiated listing fee.

If someone is interested in working as an agent to some coin in getting listed, this agent will get some percentage of this listing fee to himself, which is nice.

This also reminds me that those with Bitdorado memberships, either with having paid for one, or having got it otherwise, like from one of the bitdorado edition blueboxes, will also get a share of the listing fee if I have understood right.

Couple of days ago TELOSNEWS.COM told you about indiego.shop accepting TELOS and XBTX as a payment option, and now they have an affiliate program in place too.

If you like to get a 10 percent commission from a sale while giving 5 percent off to the customer, then you should make an affiliate link for yourself in Kickbooster.me.

Now you have double a reason to market Telos.

Biki Exchange, that was told about in one of the previous articles in TELOSNEWS.COM, and which rushed TELOS price up a bit to make it a top gainer in coinmarketcap for a while, have now announced a 2.5 Million TELOS give away!

This give away is separated into two different events.

The first one that started the 10th day, and that ends already tomorrow, is the Invite your friends part whereby inviting at least 10 people to Biki Exchange, you will get 1 000 TELOS as a reward. This is open for the first 1 000 people only, and 1 Million TELOS is reserved for that.

The second part will start tomorrow, and lasts one week until the 22nd of Jan.

In this second part, it is all about trading. There are 1.5 Million TELOS given to people who trade TELOS at Biki Exchange during that time, and this means both buys and sells, and this 1.5 Million is divided based upon how much each trade. So if you traded 1 Million Telos during that time, you will likely be getting quite a big chunk of that 1.5 Million to yourself.

In last 5 days time, there have been roughly 1 Million Telos per day traded, which would mean that if same continues, in a week there would be 7 Million TELOS traded, and that would mean that if you bought (or sold) TELOS during that time, then for each 5 TELOS you would buy (or sell), you would get 1 extra TELOS on top of that. So 20 percent extra TELOS for your buys. Now that’s some cheap TELOS!

Expect the price to rise again I guess.

For a long time I have been longing for a video to introduce people I know to Telos since it is a bit difficult to explain shortly.

As I saw this Bitcoin For Beginners Youtuber, I liked how he was able to explain other coins very well, and as he’s price was reasonable compared to others I asked from, I paid him to make one.

And here is the result, and not bad at all!

Keep spreading this video and show it to your friends to introduce them a bit about Telos. It is quite impossible to tell everything about Telos and lots of use cases are missing due to that, but this will work as a nice way to introduce Telos to people. At least I will be linking this to a couple of friends right away – You do the same.

In case you need an easy to copy-paste link to this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ivrhtG-0c&t

Cointelegraph have released another Telos related article, this time article about Greenbox.

Go and spread it around people!

Governance.rocks is currently having 1 new vote and 1 new bounty.

Voting has to do with Stakegrinding, which in simple terms means that someone is able to get much more staking rewards than he should and which was reported by TELOSNEWS.COM in an earlier article.

This problem can be fixed immediately, and it can be done in two different ways.

The hard way is that a new fork is needed which means that all the nodes and all would need to be set up again for the new fork.

The easier way is to simply turn the staking off completely. No staking, no rewards, not even for the stake grinders, but this means no staking then.

However, since Telos anyway has 70 percent of its coins locked to master nodes, and damage isn’t that bad, instead of doing an immediate fix, the problem can be fixed next summer when next fork is anyway going to happen.

Personally I think this problem is such a minor one, and we can expect more similar-sized problems to happen in future, that I don’t really see sense in fixing every small problem with such heavy features but let the problem exist until next natural fork and while that happens, fix the small problem along.

You anyway now have a chance to voice your opinion by picking one of 4 options:

1. Fix immediately by removing staking.
2. Fix Immediately by making a new fork (requires reinstalling all nodes)
3. Wait until next fork, but fix it by removing staking completely.
4. Wait until next fork, and just fix it.

The second new one in governance.rocks is a Donation bounty for marketing.

Telos is going to be listed at biki.com exchange, and instead of usual just get listed, this time plan is to list Telos by specific timing (decided mainly by biki.com), and by a marketing campaign.

Marketing campaign, however, costs, especially when idea is to place banners at places like MNO and coinmarketcap.

Therefore if you like the marketing campaign to be bigger, you now have a chance to donate to it.

As an additional incentive, I myself promise to donate 1 telos for every 2 Telos put to that bounty up to 100 000 Telos by the last day of this year.

Right now there are 100 000 Telos, so on the last day of this year I will be putting 50 000 Telos there more, but if you readers put there another 100 000 Telos still, then instead of putting just 50 000 Telos, I will be putting 100 000 Telos there.

Hurry up and fill up that donation Bounty!

Cointelegraph have released a sponsored article about the upcoming CryptoMages trading card game.

Now this is our chance to spread the Telos knowledge around by spreading this article everywhere as it seems Telos is not only one planning on getting blockchain based trading card game out, but we are ahead of such small named companies as microsoft, as in we are already at beta testing stage when they have only yet started.

As Pascal said – share until the fingers are bleeding.

Now there is no more excuse for you to not having Telos Wallet in your Android devices since Android Wallet has now become free for everyone to download.

However, Bounty intended to make Android Wallet free never got filled and the collected bounty amount is now moved to serve another purpose, to make the iOS Wallet free.

Right now iOS Wallet costs you 9,99, but that can all be changed by filling up the governance.rocks bounty that is now concentrating on getting iOS Wallet free of charge like its companion Android Wallet now is.

So hurry up people and donate your share of Telos to the bounty before the price of Telos goes up even more making donations that much more expensive to make. Had you done it back in time already, you would have got it done for half the price than it is now.

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.

Yesterday (yep, TELOSNEWS.COM is bit late this time) there came a new bounty to governance.rocks.

Appears that Dev is planning on updating the User Interface of Telos to Pivx3 style of User Interface, which I suppose means wallet, to look better and which will also make things work easier, like setting up Master Nodes would be easier with this.

This is a funny bounty in a sense that the Bounty sum is quite big actually, a total of 1 Million Telos. However, this bounty is happening regardless whether bounty is reached or not, that actually this bountys purpose is to be a thank you tip bounty for making us a better-looking User Interface.

Current estimated ETA for new User Interface is about 2 weeks.

At least until that you can show some goodwill and encourage also future development of Telos by showing your appreciation by giving something to the bounty.

I don’t think the amount matters as much as the number of donators. Several people putting just 1 000 or even just 100, is probably better than one putting the whole Million.

That in mind, head on to donate some Telos there.

“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.

Now go and make your life make a difference!

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.

You might have noticed this pinned post about Android wallet for free.

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.

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.

If you like to help in this effort, just go to TelosCoin.org dlive.tv channel and don’t close it.