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Sr. MemberActivity: 476Merit: 250Counterparty Chief Scientist and Co-Founder [ANN][XCP] Counterparty - Pioneering Peer-to-Peer Finance - Official Thread January 02, 2014, 02:40:50 PM

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Description







The platform is built on top of Bitcoin, and extends the functionality of the Bitcoin network in new and unprecedented ways. With Counterparty, anyone with an Internet connection gains access to financial instruments that were previously cost prohibitive or not available at all.



The primary goal of Counterparty is to enable entrepreneurs, developers, artists and more to build a new, productive economy: doing things that have never been done before, made possible by the amazing technology behind Bitcoin. We want to unlock the potential of Bitcoin 2.0″ for thousands of people, who will then create profitable businesses, as well use the technology to further the social good.



Counterpartys native currency, XCP, is un-mined and slightly deflationary, with 2.6 million XCP created by burning bitcoins in January 2014.

Counterparty is an innovative peer-to-peer financial platform. Unlike Wall Street and other centralized financial institutions, Counterparty provides open, secure financial tools and markets that do not require a trusted third party or middleman to use. The first of its kind, Counterparty aims to democratize finance in the same way the Internet itself democratized creation and sharing of information.The platform is built on top of Bitcoin, and extends the functionality of the Bitcoin network in new and unprecedented ways. With Counterparty, anyone with an Internet connection gains access to financial instruments that were previously cost prohibitive or not available at all.The primary goal of Counterparty is to enable entrepreneurs, developers, artists and more to build a new, productive economy: doing things that have never been done before, made possible by the amazing technology behind Bitcoin. We want to unlock the potential of Bitcoin 2.0″ for thousands of people, who will then create profitable businesses, as well use the technology to further the social good.Counterpartys native currency, XCP, is un-mined and slightly deflationary, with 2.6 million XCP created by burning bitcoins in January 2014. Read more about how this burn process lead to an unpresidented fair launch.



Features



User-Friendly: With With Counterwallet you can start using the Counterparty platform immediately.

Open: As a community-driven, open-source project, were building a grassroots movement to free up the worlds markets from centralized control. With Counterparty, you can take part in a global financial marketplace, where bonds and commodities are traded with no exchange fees, risk is hedged without paying a broker, and crowdfunding is done without kickbacks to third-parties.

Safe: Counterparty has a built-in escrow service that holds your funds until your transactions are complete, entirely eliminating the need for a trusted third-party. There is no bank account that can be seized and no company server that can be hacked. Counterparty keeps an indisputable record of ownership embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain, which is stored safely on thousands of computers all over the world.

Secure: The Counterparty source code is publicly available and has been audited by several top-tier security experts. The development team operates a generous bug bounty program to incentivise others to review and help harden the code.



Functionality



Send: XCP or user-created assets

User-Created Assets: Issue user‐defined currencies/assets and pay dividends on them.

Distributed Exchange: Trade XCP, BTC or any asset with any other.

Feeds: Broadcast information, which may be used as the subject of a bet.

Betting, Financial Derivatives: Make bets, or construct contracts for difference, on the numerical value of a feed.

A Full, Turing-Complete Smart Contracts Platform:With all of the features of Ethereum's, and entirely compatible.



Wallets



Counterwallet --- web wallet

--- web wallet counterparty-cli --- CLI



Exchanges



Counterwallet

Bittrex

Bter (XCP/BTC)

Bter (XCP/CNY)

Bter (XCP/USD)

Shapeshift

Poloniex



Block Explorers



Blockscan

CounterpartyChain

CoinDaddy



Resources



Homepage

Documentation

Forums

API documentation

Subreddit

Twitter

Facebook

Whitepaper

Chinese Language Thread



Bounties and Donations (BTC or XCP)



General Donations :

Donation address: 19U6MmLLumsqxXSBMB5FgYXbezgXYC6Gpe

Bug Bounty Program :

Donation address: 14Tf35AovvRVURzd623q5i9kry2EW8WzyL

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Primary Developers: Adam Krellenstein (PhantomPhreak), Robby Dermody (xnova), Ouziel Slama (JahPowerBit)

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Sr. MemberActivity: 476Merit: 250Counterparty Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Re: [ANN] Counterparty Protocol and Client (built on Bitcoin) - Official Thread January 02, 2014, 02:52:56 PM

Last edit: February 02, 2014, 09:24:05 PM by PhantomPhreak #2 To invest in XCP and Counterparty, switch Bitcoind/Bitcoin-Qt and counterpartyd over to mainnet simultaneously. Use the command-line switch -testnet=0 with Bitcoind or remove any 'testnet=1' from the Bitcoind configuration file temporarily; then do the same for counterpartyd by both not using the --testnet flag and (again, temporarily) removing 'testnet=1' from counterpartd.conf.



Make sure that Bitcoind and the counterparty server are running, and then run ./counterparty --rpc-password=PASSWORD burn --from=ADDRESS --quantity=QUANTITY , where 'PASSWORD' is the password used to access Bitcoind's RPC interface, 'ADDRESS' is an address in your Bitcoind wallet with sufficient bitcoins, and 'QUANTITY' is the quantity of BTC that you would like to burn.



No more than 1 BTC may ever be burned by any address, and the number of XCP received per BTC is between 1000 and 1500, with more XCP being rewarded the earlier in the burn period the burn takes place. The burn period is 5000 blocks, starting today, and the reward bonus decreases linearly with block index.



To see how many BTC you have burned, and how many XCP you have earned, run ./counterparty --rpc-password=PASSWORD address ADDRESS .



Of course, you can burn Test BTC on testnet to have XCP to play with there.



To get a rough idea of how many BTC have been burned so far, see https://blockchain.info/address/1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr. Note that this page may show some false positives. You cannot just send bitcoins to that address with any client and expect to have them be properly burned. For more instructions on how to burn, e.g. with a Blockchain.info wallet, see Read The Docs.



The burn period is over. Try out the distributed exchange! The burn period is over. Try out the distributed exchange!

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Full MemberActivity: 216Merit: 100 Re: [ANN] Counterparty Protocol and Client (built on Bitcoin) - Official Thread January 02, 2014, 04:53:30 PM #7 Quote from: xibeijan on January 02, 2014, 04:38:57 PM What's the point of doing this?



If you are asking why we are using proof-of-burn to initialize balances, it is because Counterparty is a layer on top of Bitcoin, and so XCP are not mined; proof-of-burn initializes balances in a fair, distributed and transparent way.



If you are asking why Counterparty was created, it is because a peer-to-peer financial market within the Bitcoin protocol is a great addition to Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general, and one that people have been waiting for for a while.

If you are asking why we are using proof-of-burn to initialize balances, it is because Counterparty is a layer on top of Bitcoin, and so XCP are not mined; proof-of-burn initializes balances in a fair, distributed and transparent way.If you are asking why Counterparty was created, it is because a peer-to-peer financial market within the Bitcoin protocol is a great addition to Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general, and one that people have been waiting for for a while.