Token Sale Exceeds $1.7M, but Augur's 'Reputation' Isn't All About the Money
It's been a wild couple of days for the team at Augur. Just 48 hours into their crowdsale, which launched at noon EST on August 17, they have raised in excess of 4200 BTC and 549000 ETH. "Unfortunately, the ether and BTC price keep falling, so the buys can't keep up with the (USD) price," said Augur's marketing director, Tony Sakich. Bitcoin has dropped....
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Augur has launched the world's first decentralized prediction market that would be open to the general public. Prediction markets work on the idea that large groups of people are able to make much more accurate predictions than, small teams of experts. Augur enables participants in its prediction markets to now put their money where their mouth is. Participants back their beliefs by placing wagers on the outcomes of diverse events, that range on everything from politics, the economy and even the environment itself. The funds are stored securely on Augur's platform, and are accessible only....
Augur, the decentralized prediction market and one of the hottest Ethereum apps, has begun their token crowd sale on August 17, raising over US$600 thousand equivalent in BTC and ETH in the first day, at the time of writing. (Update: Now at $1.3 million USD). The crowdsale will run from August the 17 until September the 5, 2015 with discounts diminishing along the way: “InTrade [. . .] the best-known prediction market until federal regulators forced it to stop serving U.S. customers in 2012, beat the pollsters and pundits by foreseeing the outcome of the 2008 presidential elections in 48....
Decentralized blockchain prediction market Augur has officially entered beta. First announced in early 2015 and spurred by a successful crowdfunding through the sale of its software tokens, Augur aims to allow users to trade on the outcome of events, and for the market to then leverage that crowdsourced information. With the news, Augur is now open to initial users, boasting what it called improved front-end design while enabling the creation of new markets that go beyond binary 'yes or no' answers. Further, Augur said it will soon release a revision of its original working paper as it....
The crypto markets didn't responded well to the launch of Augur's digital asset. The ethereum-based prediction market came out of the gates strong last week, with its reputation (REP) tokens quickly getting listed on markets like Poloniex, Bittrex and Kraken. However, the market value of those tokens fell sharply in post-launch trading. Since then, some market observers have moved to voice their concerns about the blockchain token's long-term viability, and the viability of 'appcoins' in general. Intended to act as an incentive for prediction market users who provide reliable reports on....
Decentralized prediction market Augur has just launched its beta testing platform. The trial will be open to anyone, and its team of developers is asking for feedback from users. On its blog, the company explains it has “overhauled” its User Interface (UI) and “fine-tuned” the smart contracts “so that Augur will scale painlessly to billions in volume.”....