Hey guys,

Our delegate posts are up.
Kindly vote us in

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I read your OP again. It really sounds good! Thanks!
The few obstacles I see:
No one has 3 delegates (except btsnow but that is core dev dan notenstein who has a handful of full time devs he pays in poland).
It might be a good idea to scale things up. Starting with the promotion / campaigning of 1 delegate which is dedicated to what you would perceive gives the most bang for the buck (most promotional effect per effort for you) and then adding more delegates if that is successful I think is more realistic.
Then the delegate campaign could also be made more specific so that shareholders can know exactly what will happen when they vote you in in terms of action from your side and have a rough estimate what the effect will be. In contrast: 3 Delegates and a lot of possible promotional possibilities are hard to evaluate.

Related: With the video adds and the sponsored serves you would be a bitshares employee (promotional delegate) and at the same time the employee / owner of where the ad space is bought. This would be a conflict of interest since you are the buyer and the seller of the ads. The lack of a free market gives no indication of a fair price. This though could be easily circumvented if there were standard rates (price and ad volume / size) or if you would make quotes before being elected as a delegate.

Just a few random thoughts

I also like the level headed approach (to communication) you take here!

Appreciate the kind words and encouragement.
We're actively looking for stronger integrations and partnerships with crypto-communities.
We'll soon have the accounts registered and then push for the votes.

For any queries - add me on skype at freebie.servers

Quote from: Freebieservers on March 14, 2015, 03:57:43 pm

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Could use some help in getting these accounts registered.
The faucets aren't working

You may need to buy some bts first. Registration fee for a 100% delegate is around 60k BTS.

Mind linking me to a resource where i can read up on this?

Quote from: Freebieservers on March 13, 2015, 11:25:50 am

Quote from: delulo on March 13, 2015, 11:00:58 am

When would you start the promotion? I am thinking about the right time in so far a light wallet and probably a fiat gateway has be fully functional to attract this audience.

We will really need a light wallet to help us do this in the right manner.
A fiat gateway that can take paypal / debit card will be helpful, yes.
We'll lay the ground works for the promotions over the period of a month since being voted in and can go full in 15-20 days since being voted in.

Thanks for the quick answer!
So this means that atm you estimate that BitUSD / Bitasset integrations would not be valuable enough for your business to compensate for the integration?
Or would your delegates more pay for the promotion than the integration of BitAssets as a payment option?

One needs to understand that our proposal primarily focused around promoting BItshares and largely limits our role to that of an advertiser and not of a developer. I see increased interest in turning our project open source and a series of other requests. Understandably, this emerges from the fact that a number of delegates ARE actually devs and the rest are exchanges. However, a private enterprise like FS that has a year of work gone into its growth and sustenance won't be able to function the same way. We are primarily a gaming company, secondly an advertising network. Our product comes first, sales and marketing second.  Having that said,  - I will need to thoroughly discuss a potential integration, its implications on our user base and how our user base can benefit from some thing like that with my team before I can commit to it.  Any integration will largely emphasis on the user experience and advantages the coin provides over the pay (as in, we will not be doing an integration solely on basis of monetary gains, although it does have it role since there will be dev expenses incurred in doing the same)

I understand there's been a lot of air around what FS CAN do for a community and what we WILL be doing.
From a pure capitalistic pov, I'll have to admit- what we do will be directly proportional to the support (both financial and interest) from the community.   

I am working on figuring a proper way for the community to be working closer with FS.
we also have a series of bigger projects in our pipeline and we do intend to work closely with crypto on them.
Those don't require delegate spots and I would love to talk to any biz-devs on behalf of the community regarding it.

FS has one of the largest user reach when it comes gaming and crypto - and our team has worked behind the scenes in a number of hot projects over the last year. We look forward to collaborating with teams and communities in delivering better experiences to our users.

P.s - Admittedly 3 delegate spots are less when we're addressing a  number of concerns and due to the same am focusing on the absolute basics (promotions), building trust and going up (or down) from there.

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The other account has been registered - could someone help us out with these?

Regards

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Thanks in advance

the idea is good!

if 5 delegates are needed, we should discuss.

maybe it is not possible to get that many in time, so other directions should be considered as well. We have just to think about other solutions.

some questions:

1. when does your new frontend goes live?
2. i am not familar with the term IP. what does this mean and what do you looking into to sell it?
3. in April you are paying your first dividends on the Nxt asset. could you tell something about your expected revenue?
4. i saw you sell stuff on your site for Nxt via PayPal. Great! How much Nxt do you transfer every month and is this increasing?

Thanks

Since there is growing concern for 5, we'll be pushing for a vote for 3 delegates, proving ourselves and scaling up from there.
I'd like to point out that we've had a very succesful relationship with other communities and have the kind of inventory required to push something like Bitshares to the masses.

IP would refer to intellectual property. By that, I mean the code-base to our new back-end server panel. It has been fully developed in-house from scratch. We have the choice of either pushing it retail on a license model or selling it to an external entity  in a complete acquisition of the IP. We are open to offers for the same.

We see a few 100 usd's worth nxt being brought in. Not much, but its still something. Due to the fraudulent risks associated with paypal , we don't go heavily into that aspect. But we're always open to working with exchanges with the right kind of api's

welcome to our community. 
but total 5 100% pay rate delegates maybe is a lot, there are only about 30 100% pay rate delegate ,5 delegates is about 17%, and also it take 5% of 101 delegates . yes you are right 5 delegates is`t a big value with now market cap. but compare with other crypto currency , BITUSD have many advantage, it is stable value, fast confirm.  active community. I think support bitusd payment would bring you real low payment cost.  we can partner.
So you I suggest that you run one or two delegate first step. we would vote you more delegates up after we got a achievement.

I acknowledge the growing concern .