No problem. Looking forward to creating some great partnerships. We will be offering custom packages viable for different types of businesses.

was about to post this one for you all, https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/e20c3b5a1d4b97f79ac2 , it seems that MarkPfennig is already onto it. 

What about SSH access? What CC I can use for payments?

Network: 3.46 GH/s


diff is still 46!!!!

should be 100???isnt it???

It changes soon at block 22320

Great article Este, Thank You

I really like those buttons.  However I didn't get it at first sight. But now I do!
I immediately thought:
If Wikipedia had such a button, I would certainly donate few BTM.  Wiring them money is too much work, but a 1 click donation is awesome!


However I am wondering if this is safe to us. If clickjacking or similar stuff would be possible, that would be really bad.
How could you protect your funds ? In crypto there is no such thing as payback if coins are once sent?!

One more question to see if I get it:
If I want to use the button and pay with it, L'll have to create an account at getmarked.com.
Now I will fund my account with BTM.
If i visit a site that uses the marking system, I can use it. No further authentification needed. Just 1 click ?

A totally different thing:
What is the purpose of Pfennig ? Why would I need a BTM clone ? Those clone currencies can't be used to mark can they ?

Such excellent questions, Thank you.

I will presume you are familiar with services like Steam, where you deposit money to your account, and then trust them to handle transactions between users on their service? Consider Marking to take the same approach, everything is documented in detail on the wiki. Typically each service which fully integrates Marking will handle it's own users transactions, all via a provided API and application of course. The Bitmark Blockchain is the glue between integrations, where you can move your currency between services, or to your own personal storage, and back.

Outside of these services and communities which support marking, we have getmarked.org, it is also a service but more like reddit fused with an online wallet. It also features various marking buttons for usage anywhere on the web, they will work in functionality like facebook's 'like' button, where you have to be logged in to click it, or sign up if you do not have an account.

All of this is to dress our currency in ways which are familiar and easy to use. We do not aim to replace what exists, but rather work with what already exists, to add further usefulness and value.

There are many technical concerns and things to address as we develop, we hope that all those using it will join and bring others, to give feedback and ensure we get things right. Natural growth, the first integration will be our own community, we can scale from there.

Remember also it is a cryptographic currency compatible with things which support Bitcoin, that is a string to our bow also, anything that can accept or use Bitcoin, can also use Bitmark too, perhaps with a gentle tweak.

The purpose of Pfennig is to give something to the community, so many coins use old code bases with problems, this is a fresh code base for clones and alternatives to use, one which is tested and maintained.

Pfennig also helps us in the future, innovations can be integrated and proven on forks of pfennig, when ready pulled in to Bitmark. It's the glue between multiple development channels. Upstream it has Bitcoin and Bitmark, side ways Bitmark, and downwards any Alternatives which use it. The idea has also been suggested to have it default to merge mine Bitmark, that could be nice.

I hope that helps answer your initial questions, and welcome you to ask many more

Not at all, every marking event is handled off chain by the integrations, instant, only transfers between services and for usual transactions are on chain, so it scales further.

In the future that gives scope for larger services to move to sidechain or similar technologies as they are developed. More on that here

Initially we may consider getmarked.org to provide one of the higher volume integrations, any optimisations made to it will be made to the opensource marking system all others use. When it migrates to side chain that too will be proven and available for other services to use too. Each thing naturally follows on from the other.


It could also replace adverts, as each mark given is a small amount of money remuneration. The network effect is that everybody becomes a paid curator, and every markable resource has a revenue stream.

People simply create or offer things, if they are liked they are marked, each user who marks has their 'share' (marking) marked, and each mark on the the thing created pays for it's creation also.

Perhaps it's fair to say that it's monetized word of mouth.


Each marking can be public or private, and you can have multiple accounts. Privacy is a thing managed by each user and under your control


Perfect. Each card would be global though, you could redeem the Marks on the card at any service which integrated Marking. An auto-sweep of the card is also a good idea, perhaps there are also ways to provide a pin number or 2FA so that they are reusable and reloadable.

I imagine at some point payment networks may be created, where they put physical card readers in physical stores and payments are handled by there (sidechain powered) service. That would be quite nice and foster competition, as you could swap your balances between any card provider, to any service, and out to your own blockchain addresses as you wish.

This is a problem we have to address.

One proposed solution is to have community moderation. A 'spam' button which users can click, it costs a mark to click it, if enough reputable members hit a percentage target then the content is removed and the marks distributed to those doing the moderation. This could be applied to all moderation duties. We plan to try it all out with the community discourse at bitmark.co once it is ready.

The fun part will be creating and testing each thing. Quite democratic, with each action earning or staking reputation+money.

I agree with you, it should become an addictive feeling. Gamification