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Covered this Hangout #1 w/ $132.28 – @PeerPlays Jonathon Bahai of PeerPlays says “It’s alive!” regarding the new testnet. He also reminds everyone they can now check the number of tokens they will receive via the BitShares sharedrop. Check out your peerplay sharedrop amount at peerplays.tech. Michael Maloney gives details on the snapshot and explains why results on the estimates of sharedrops on BitShares holders may be very slightly higher than the quotes received. So if you receive 1% or so less than your quoted amount it is ok and attributed to the fact that some accounts have not quite been added to the pool receiving payouts. He also lets everyone know that early days of the testnet will have very few features, but will continue adding on. Informs us that there will be a weekly written update on the PeerPlays news site where these updates will be given. Keep up with these written news articles and these hangouts to find out which features are going to be added! One final note: ebay type features will now be available for PeerPlays and, in the future, potentially all of graphene! Check out the PeerPlays Homepage for more info on #PeerPlays including how to join the testnet! Upvote and support their efforts by supporting quality updates and news articles on the PeerPlays Sub-Steemit. #2 w/ $8.47 @chris4210 of Blockpay Blockpay’s Bits & Pretzels afterparty was a success–attendees paid BTC and Dash for gummybears! Chris goes over some of the attendees they met and other blockchain startups and services in the space. He also talks about the new locations where blockpay will be accepted around the world. After BitShares Munich empowered the Oktoberfest Beer Garden, they spoke with individuals who work in blockchain technology. Chris expressed that users became interested in the speed and ability to accept cryptocurrencies for free. Those with whom they spoke had an appreciation for bitshares technology and how it makes it possible to purchase with any of your favorite cryptos–all because of BitShares! As always, Chris4210 takes questions from the community. Including one about what it was like hanging with Kevin Spacey... Don’t forget you can find the blockpay app at the google play store or on the blockpay website. Check out the blockpay homepage for Updates! Upvote and support @blockpay efforts by supporting quality updates on the @bitshares-munich Steemit Blog. and more! All BeyondBitcoin content is powered by Steemit.com so please join the new social media movement that enables Creative Commons content creators and Open Source developers to earn funding for participating in the community’s growth and sustainence. Post to Steemit.com to earn and pay others with a simple upvote! Please Support the wonderful artist @angsteem who brought us the artwork used to create today’s beyondbitcoin cover image!

I recently was given the opportunity to meet up with Alena Vranova, CEO of SatoshiLabs - the company behind Trezor Hardware wallets - before the Trezor 2.0 Hackathon. We start with her introduction to bitcoin and blockchain technology and follow a little bit of the history of SatoshiLabs and Trezor from her perspective. The conversation also turns to the value of offline transaction verifications that Trezor offers individuals and the cryptocurrency communities to which they belong. She guides us to explore some interesting use cases for trezor as blockchain technology's horizons continue to expand beyond bitcoin. We even discuss the power of blockchains' potential to disintermediate corrupt actors in the current old world system and how blockchain tech can be the upgrade that both privacy and transparency of citizens and the systems upon which they all must depend. Much more inside everyone! Get all the way through to hear a couple blockchains she personally hopes to see join Trezor! Sincerely hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did. Interested in purchasing a Trezor wallet? You can do so at www.buytrezor.com. Enter the beyondbitcoin coupon code at checkout to receive a 5% discount! All BeyondBitcoin content is powered by Steemit.com so please join the new social media movement that enables Creative Commons content creators and Open Source developers to earn funding for participating in the community's growth and sustainence. Post to Steemit.com to earn and pay others with a simple upvote!

https://i.imgsafe.org/dff51e241b.jpg Covered this Hangout #1 w/ $15.03 – @PeerPlays https://c6.staticflickr.com/9/8011/28814413213_4120559d38_m.jpg Jonathon Bahai of PeerPlays gives a new update on peerplays testnet, which launches this Monday, September 26th! A reminder that after the testnet is launched will come the scheduled crowdsale auction for 500,000 PeerPlays tokens. So more for sale! Michael Maloney explains Rawbots and the nature of PeerPlay’s relationship moving forward with its creator. He also lets everyone know that they will soon be able to check their PeerPlays balances using their BTS wallet keys. Note, you will only be able to check the balance you will receive at Peerplay’s Official Genesis–this is not for redemption of the live network tokens themselves. Check out the PeerPlays Homepage for more info on #PeerPlays including how to join the coming testnet! Upvote and support their efforts by supporting quality updates and news articles on the PeerPlays Sub-Steemit. #2 w/ $10.21 @thecryptodrive of Steemsports @thecryptodrive joined us today, on his birthday to talk about the @steemsports blog and tag. He calls steemsports.com “A unique sports Vote Betting Phenomenon” that is “being launched to aid the community through Mass Distribution of Steem Power to the community!” Unfortunately due to an error with certain posts not loading on the moderator’s loaded RSVP page, thecryptodrive was unable to speak early and was forced by time restrictions to cancel. Thank you for participating thecryptodrive and we have learned a valuable lesson from this experience! Check out the @steemsports Steemit Blog for Updates! Upvote and support @thecryptodrive’s efforts by supporting quality updates on the @thecryptodrive’s Steemit Blog. #3 w/ $8.22 @chris4210 of Blockpay Today he announces Blockpay is to be installed in the BitShares Munich Oktoberfest Beer Garden. Buy your beer with your favorite crypto! A reminder to find the blockpay app at the google play store or on the blockpay website. They will also be connecting with Germany’s Largest Startup Festival–Bits & Pretzels. On Monday night of Bitz & Pretzels they will be having a Blockchain Afterparty in the Beer Garden with speakers from Cointelegraph, Vaultoro, Shapeshift and more expected. Thirty guests have already signed up as of the date of this recording and more are expected as we move closer to the date. @kencode and @chris4210 ask everyone to support their language translation initiative for their work so please contact them if you would like to join and earn SBD for your help! Check out the blockpay homepage for Updates! Upvote and support @blockpay efforts by supporting quality updates on the @blockpay Steemit Blog.

Covered this Hangout #1 w/ $91.28 – @PeerPlays Jonathon Bahai of PeerPlays gives an update on the PeerPlays testnet, which is still set to launch on Monday, September 26th. This testnet is planned to launch with the first ever PeerPlays on-chain game. After the testnet is launched will come the scheduled crowdsale auction for 500,000 PeerPlays tokens. Michael Maloney takes the time to teach about sharedropping theory and explain how PeerPlays went about the process of doing the sharedrop. Asks people to follow @peerplays and upvote their updates and content in the future. He also gives an explanation of why they are doing their sports betting on Graphene-based chains as opposed to a competitor on the Ethereum network. #2 w/ $8.81 @cm-steem @cm-steem makes a continued appeal to active BitShares witnesses to publish price feeds for the ‘GRIDCOIN’ Market Pegged Asset (MPA). He also requests open ideas regarding recommendations to improve this MPA. Gridcoin is expected to go live on OpenLedger.info before next week’s end. The intent is to bring liquidity to their own assets that is traded on Decentralized Exchange (DEX) with no counterparty risk via Gridcoin MPA as well. If you have opinions on how to improve their MPA meet up with them at their weekly hangout or contact @cm-steem directly. Cm-steem thanks the community who join the Gridcoin hangouts every Saturday @9pm GMT on the Beyond Bitcoin Mumble server, where Gridcoin has its own dedicated room and links to important GRC content. Next he updates that now only four (down from eight just two weeks ago) whitelisted projects in Gridcoin are currently failing to meet the established standard of using Secure Socket Layer (SSL). This means the vast majority of community-whitelisted BOINC projects are using encryption between browser and webserver and is important for BOINC users so important information (Private Keys being a chief concern) are not intercepted when connecting to earn Gridcoin with your general computing capacity. Project Rain is also mentioned, which is a means of sharedropping tokens easily on the over 500,000 active Gridcoin IDs in use today. It now supports 36 different cryptos. Listen for more deatails! #3 w/ $4.09 – @pro4never @Pro4never (aka Chris Cook) w/ the #Jewels project announces that the dashboard for jewels project has now launched. You can visit here. Want to Play Conquer Heroes and stress test it? Do so at the Downloads Page next Friday, September 23rd. Roy Khan talks about how accounts will earn and store value in the jewels ecosystem. Explains about how the blockchain can be used to let people protect an account in a decentralized manner. Details the benefits of blockchains in gaming marketplaces with special focus on the Jewels projects games, where items can be bought and sold for jewels. He also covers potential platforms Jewels might integrate with, but has not made a final decision on this. As the discussion ran over, we will direct you to a post that covers this and more in their steemit post Jewels and the Future of Blockchain Gaming. Remember you can buy Jewels off exchanges Yobit and Alcurex Exchanges. Have your own Project? RSVP Here for Next Week’s Hangout! All BeyondBitcoin content is powered by Steemit.com so please join the new social media movement that enables Creative Commons content creators and Open Source developers to earn funding for participating in the community’s growth and sustainence. Post to Steemit.com to earn and pay others with a simple upvote! Please Support the wonderful artist @angsteem who brought us the artwork used in today’s beyondbitcoin cover image!

Covered this Hangout #1 w/ $42.28 – @Peerplays https://c6.staticflickr.com/9/8011/28814413213_4120559d38_m.jpg Jonathon Bahai of Peerplays gives an update on what they have been up to in the past 2 weeks with one word: Legal. Take away from legal? Don’t be afraid but do your due diligence before moving forward with any project. Testnet still planned to be released September 26th–thanks to a wonderful team of devs with their heads down in the code. The Peerplays Sharedop seems to correlate with a large amount of BTS being withdrawn from Centralized exchanges and onto the BitShares DEX. Jonathon reminds everyone it still isn’t too late to withdraw your BTS perrsonal wallet. There is still a chance the snapshot has not yet been taken–get your stake in Peerplays tokens! Check out the Peerplays Homepage for more info on #Peerplays Upvote and support their efforts by supporting quality updates and news articles on the Peerplays Sub-Steemit. https://i.imgsafe.org/45239c9600.jpg #2 w/ $9.22 – @pro4never Pro4never (aka Chris Cook) w/ the #Jewels project announces good news regarding the success of the Jewels ICO. The Goal for ICO funding was 200 BTC, and in the days following their last hangout they received a surge of funding to the amount of a 336 total BTC! Congratulations to the Jewels team! Gives us an update on 2 exchanges that will trade Jewels–Yobit and Alcurex Exchanges. The game “Heroes” will be launched in the coming weeks. More to be announced later. Roy wants to inform everyone that Jewels is almost finished with a portal & dashboard for ICO participants to redeem their tokens. They also plan to have bi-weekly hangouts he will be doing with the community interested in Jewels. Dates to be announced, will be held on Discord and will be like focus groups to help Jewels team assess areas needing improvement. And much more. Check out the @pro4never Steemit Blog for Updates! Upvote and support their efforts by supporting quality updates on the Jewels Sub-Steemit. https://c6.staticflickr.com/9/8450/29356253701_ef7483ac02_m.jpg #3 w/ $8.81 @cm-steem @cm-steem makes a continued appeal to active BitShares witnesses to publish price feeds for the ‘GRIDCOIN’ Market Pegged Asset (MPA). He thanks wackou and ihashfury for being the two witnesses currently supporting this initiative. They will soon after be using openledger as a bridge for GRC. The intent is to bring liquidity to their own assets that is traded on a truly decentralized DEX with no counterparty risk. The GRC community is interested in this method of tracking value with cryptographic tokens and is putting effort into making it happen. Please offer advice and input if interested in helping GRC with their MPA in any way! Cm thanks the community who join the Gridcoin hangouts every Saturday on the Beyond Bitcoin Mumble server, where Gridcoin has its own dedicated room and links to important GRC content. Next he updates that now only 8 whitelisted projects in Gridcoin are currently failing to meet the requisite requirements of using Secure Socket Layer (SSL). This means the vast majority of BOINC projects are using encryption between browser and webserver and is important for BOINC users so important information (Private Keys being a chief concern). Project Rain is also covered. This is a means of sharedropping tokens easily on Gridcoin IDs. Check out the @cm-steem’s Steemit Blog for Updates! Upvote and support their efforts by supporting quality updates on the Gridcoin Sub-Steemit.

Covered this Hangout #1 w/ $42.28 – @Peerplays Peerplays testnet is to be unleashed on September 26th. There are likely to be bounties for finding bugs and helping out! Explains the new website along with a countdown clock for the new crowdsale. Don’t forget it is still not too late to withdraw your BTS from exchanges to your personal wallet so you can redeem a sharedrop of Peerplays tokens! Check out the Peerplays Homepage for more info on #Peerplays Upvote and support their efforts by supporting quality updates and news articles on the Peerplays Sub-Steemit. #2 w/ $9.94 – @chris4210 & Rodrigo of Blockpay BlockPay’s CEO @chris4210 makes the announcement that the blockpay ambassadors program has already been maxed out at 60 ambassadors to represent over 42 countries! Plans to use Steem as a means of getting people into cryptocurrencies. Stealth, Echo and other future projects to be released will be sharing income with BlockPay tokens. So don’t forget the crowdsale ends Sunday, September 4th. Finally, Chris mentions bitshares munich’s intention to create a competition with the bitshares api for a hackathon planned for the end of the year. So if you have what it takes, let him know! Check out the BlockPay Homepage for more info on #blockpay Upvote and support their efforts by supporting quality updates on the BlockPay Sub-Steemit. https://c6.staticflickr.com/9/8450/29356253701_ef7483ac02_m.jpg #3 w/ $7.56 – @Jademont of btsabc.org Joins us to discuss the new btsabc Website and btsabc wallet. Jademont is also known as ripplexiaoshan on bitsharestalk.org and is working heavily on bridging the gap between the Eastern and Western communities. Bitshares is a worldwide cryptocurrency ecosystem and Decentralized Exchange. Btsabc has created multiple assets on the bitshares DEX – from insurance against parking ticket charges, UIA’s for CNY, BTC and ETH. Btsabc.org is a way to get news from both Eastern and Western communities and the wallet is where you can buy and trade the tokens above (and many more). Fill out BTS Survey here! https://www.bitshares.typeform.com/to/JvqCsc All BeyondBitcoin content is powered by Steemit.com so please join the new social media movement that enables Creative Commons content creators and Open Source developers to earn funding for participating in the community's growth and sustainence. Post to Steemit.com to earn and pay others with a simple upvote!

Covered This Hangout: #1 w/ $12.73 -- @chris4210 of Blockpay BlockPay's CEO @chris4210 makes announcements on their successful funding push--they have already earned over $300,000 (650BTC) to build further! Also reminds everyone of the buyback for OPENPOS token holders who wish to trade in OPENPOS at a ratio to 1:1.2 for BlockPay tokens. "We are completely building 100% on bitshares for all of our projects". Updates on Stealth, Echo and other future projects to be released! Check out the BlockPay Homepage(https://blockpay.ch/) for more info on #blockpay Upvote and support their efforts by supporting quality updates on the BlockPay Sub-Steemit(https://steemit.com/created/blockpay#). #2 w/ $14.15 -- @Brindleswan Asked Chris to go before him, thus giving up the #1 spot. We dig into various bitshares issues with special emphasis on a discussion between sidechains, User Issued Assets (UIAs) and Market Pegged Assets (MPAs). Discussion moves into steem and a brings Chris in to ask if steem can be integrated with bitshares based projects as well. Talk about most forum activity moving to the [bitshares tag] and the possiblity of moving bitshares forums to one with steemit as a backend (https://www.steemit.com/created/bitshares) Check out @brindleswan at his steemit blog(https://www.steemit.com/@brindleswan) #3 w/ $11.12 -- @Pro4never Joins us to discuss Jewels Coin ICO(https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1545327) and plans for the Use of Jewels as the primary currency for multiple games to use via a auctionhouse functionality. Jewels will make it possible for gamers to trade items for jewels bought directly through the game or sell them for funding. And the first game APEXConquer!(http://www.ApexConquer.com/ico.php) Check out his steemit blog(https://www.steemit.com/@pro4never) #4 w/ $6.36 -- @forrestwillie Talks about the history of the[Steempress Podcast](https://soundcloud.com/user-857868521) and upcoming plans turn a shut down church into a Steempress podcast location. Talks about the joy of working on steemit and how it caught their eye. Check out [his steemit blog](https://www.steemit.com/@forrestwillie) Upvote and support their efforts at [the steemit tag](https://www.steemit.com/created/@steempress) All BeyondBitcoin content is powered by Steemit.com so please join the new social media movement that enables Creative Commons content creators and Open Source developers to earn funding for participating in the community's growth and sustainence. Post to Steemit.com to earn and pay others with a simple upvote!

The following is a message from PPCMan from the peercoin community. We'd like to sincerely thank the BeyondBitcoin community for sharing on our 4th Year Anniversary celebration. Special thanks and notable mentions are: Fuzzy, for putting on the show, editing and producing the radio archive. Sunny King, for inventing Proof-of-Stake, Peercoin, Primecoin, and sharing his visions for what the future may hold. Hans Robeers (hrobeers) which is one of our newest developers that helps Peercoin core as well as other Peercoin related projects. SentinelRV, one of our most longest standing members in the Peercoin community. Intelliguy, one of our newest Peercoin friends and steemit enthusiast. Chronos, a well known youtuber and cryptocurrency advocate. ..and everyone else who participating in this audio hangout. Our community is happy to interact with other communities, and for the benefit of cryptocurrency in general, this is something that is incredibly important. At the end of the day, we all are building some exciting things. Sharing knowledge can help bring a new and brighter future for everyone. Thank you ppcman

More info you can find here: https://steemit.com/beyondbitcoin/@officialfuzzy/e169-beyond-bitcoin-dollarvigilante-talks-steem-blockpay-ico-grc-hangouts-billboard-campaign

#1 @ $106.61 Jonathan Ba'hai and Michael Maloney give Peerplays updates announces that next week they will be dropping by to give a BitShares Sharedrop announcement! Learn more about Peerplays at the [Peerplays Website](http:// www.PeerPlays.com/news) Upvote their content to show support at the [PeerPlays Steemit Tag](https://steemit.com/created/peerplays) #2 @ $29.20 KenCode (CTO) and Rodrigo (CMO) of BlockPay BlockPay Targets Venezualan citizens to help them remain resilient while safely storing and transferring their value during their difficult economic times. Robrigo digs into BlockPay's Affiliate program! Learn more at the [BlockPay Website](https://BlockPay.ch) Upvote their content to show support at [Blockpay's Steemit tag](https://steemit.com/created/blockpay) #3 @ 20.58 CM-Steem on Steemit gives an update regarding the Gridcoin hangouts, the status of the 'GRIDCOIN' MPA (appealing to #bitshares witnesses), Gridcoin's integration status with Openledger and informing users of the recent Gridcoin/BOINC Steem posts he has created. Also speaks about tipping to BOINC users using a new tipping tool they are working on! #4 Surprise appearance from Solomon Sollars & Sense. He compares and contrasts Steem and the New Money Project while explaining the reasons for using BitShares for his UIA as he moves forward to funding New Money's Own Graphene based chain into the future. To find out more about his project check out the [New Money Homepage](http://www.newmoney.sollars.com/) All BeyondBitcoin content is powered by Steemit.com so please join the new social media movement that enables Creative Commons content creators and Open Source developers to earn funding for participating in the community's growth and sustainence. Post to Steemit.com to earn and pay others with a simple upvote!

#1 @ $106.61 Jonathan Ba'hai and Michael Maloney give Peerplays updates announces that next week they will be dropping by to give the BitShares Sharedrop announcement! Learn more about Peerplays at www.PeerPlays.com/news Upvote their content to show support at https://steemit.com/created/peerplays #2 @ $29.20 Chris Hering of BlockPay and Co-Founder of BitShares Munich gives updates about BlockPay and introduces discussion around Privacy of Purchases using Cryptocurrency and the fine line between what seem to be two very contentious viewpoints that the emergence of the blockchain forces us to look at: one a world of total transparency, another with privacy built in. In the end, will the free market give rise to the reality that it is somewhere in between? Learn more about BlockPay at www.blockpay.ch Upvote their content to show support at https://steemit.com/created/blockpay #3 @ $21.28 Faddat of Kloudery.com joins to bring up multiple topics, but one floats to the top and refuses to resubmerge for any period of time thereafter. The discussion topic launches when faddat talks about his interest in injectible devices for use in buying and selling... Follow him on twitter @ https://twitter.com/jacobgadikian or support his efforts on https://steemit.com/@faddatt All BeyondBitcoin content is powered by Steemit.com so please join the new social media movement that enables Creative Commons content creators and Open Source developers to earn funding for participating in the community's growth and sustainence. Post to Steemit.com to earn and pay others with a simple upvote!

Ways to Contribute This section outlines the ideas behind Steem and its rewards for people who provide meaningful and measurable contributions to the Steem community. Capital Contributions There are two items a community can offer to attract capital: debt and ownership. Those who buy ownership profit when the community grows but lose if the community shrinks. Those who buy debt are guaranteed a certain amount of interest but do not get to participate in any profits realized by the growth of the community. Both types of capital contributions are valuable to the growth of the community and value of its currency. Additionally there are two ways ownership can be held: liquid and vesting. Vesting ownership makes a long-term commitment and cannot be sold for a minimum period of time. The Steem network calls these different asset classes Steem (STEEM), Steem Power (SP), and Steem Dollars (SMD). Steem (STEEM) Steem is the fundamental unit of account on the Steem blockchain. All other tokens derive their value from the value of STEEM. Generally speaking STEEM should be held for short periods of time when liquidity is needed. Someone looking to enter or exit the Steem platform will have to buy or sell STEEM. Once STEEM has been purchased it should beconverted into SP or SMD to mitigate the impact of dilution over the long-term. STEEM is constantly increasing in supply by 100% per year due to non-SMD incentives. Someone who holds STEEM without converting it to SP is diluted by approximately 0.19% per day. While the rate may appear high, for transactions that take less than 10 days, it is still cheaper than credit card processing fees. Furthermore, the daily token creation is insignificant next to the daily volatility. Read the full whitepaper at: https://steem.io/SteemWhitePaper.pdf

Covered this hangout: #1 $55.05 PeerPlays new RocketChat replaces Slack. Escrow on the Blockchain! #2 $39.71 steemdrive to talk about steem billboard initiative and asks people to join the movement! #3 $36.75 faddat joins to speak with the community about what they would like to see in the new project he deem's "the beyondbitcoinbox"? #4 $9.65 BitShares Munich CEO talks about BlockPay and how it is the first fully blockchain-backed wallet to enable payments in any cryptocurrency using blockchain technology in under 8 seconds! #5 $9.07 CMSTEEM from Gridcoin Announces Weekly Gridcoin (GRC) hangouts every Saturday @ 5:00pm EST. Rock on with your Bad Blockchain-Loving Selves ;) All Coverage Values come from www.Steemit.com. If you are a content creator who loves creative commons or an activist who just thinks the economy doesn't reflect the value of people...join a movement where you can upvote with networks of like minded people to pay them in real money.

#1 In Upvotes w/ $36.33: PeerPlays - They update us on the new PeerPlays Bonus Referal Competition. They remind us to join them on Steemit @peerplays and to check for more news updates on http://www.peerplays.com/news! #2 In Upvotes w/ $7.52: @pairmike from Steem talks about the power of the Steem Marketplace and his own Steem first to sell collectible Nike's for 50 SBD. #3 In Upvotes w/ $6.85: @r4fken asks us to plug his new SteemitMeta.com realtime price tracking site for Steem and Steemdollars (SBD).

Fyrstikken from Stakepool joins us to talk about their teamspeak server and 24/7 cryptotalk. BitShares Munich's Chris Hering joins us to talk about BlockPay's empowering of businesses large and small to accept all cryptocurrencies including altcoins. Jonathon Ba'hai joins us to talk about PeerPlay's Logo Competition winner. Then announces payouts for all participants - making them all winners!