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General Discussion / Re: How badly do you want professional recruiters working for BitShares?
« on: February 02, 2015, 04:20:49 am »
Quote from: NewMine on February 02, 2015, 03:38:28 am
Quote from: sschechter on January 30, 2015, 01:52:37 am
Quote from: onceuponatime on January 30, 2015, 12:46:24 am
There are persistent rumours circulating that IBM is about to lay off about 100,000 people. It could be that at least some of those will be  quality dev personnel who will be looking for opportunities.

They will find us.

We just need to ramp up our "Hired by the Blockchain" campaign a little.

And who do you think is going to call those people with job opportunities?

You and your buddies should run a 100%  delegate. Waste some more funds with your idiotic ideas.

Do you actually have any ideas? I don't think you've ever shared real idea, beyond your desires of some arbitrary refund you think you're entitled to.  Everything that comes out of your mouth is about something you hate. How would you grow the value of BitShares?

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General Discussion / Re: Bitcoin - Ethereum-Ripple
« on: February 02, 2015, 01:56:45 am »
Quote from: NewMine on January 30, 2015, 07:45:36 am
Quote from: nomoreheroes7 on January 29, 2015, 09:05:24 pm
Quote from: NewMine on January 29, 2015, 08:06:19 pm
Don't worry, at this very moment we have Brian Page bringing in some large "whales" from St. Marten. It's super hush hush though. Don't tell anyone.

Ugh, I hear ya. Can't believe I'd ever find myself agreeing with NewMine. It feels like things were so different a few months back. Every day was a new exciting announcement, a new window opened, a new reason to be hyped for BitShares...

Dinner in St. Martin with Kevin Harrington!
Talk of whales/strategic partnerships ready to buy in soon!
1.0 on the way!
Marketing blitz about to commence! Secret sauce was kept under wraps, but it's gonna be huge!
Possible partnership with Vitalik and Ethereum?! No way!
Infomercials!
John Underwood remittance partnership!
Vote has a super exciting secret sauce! Could we get it in the 2016 elections?!?
Referral program! Pre-paid card partnership ready to go!
Talk of a credit union! Could BTS buy one??

...then the merger happened. And all the excitement came to a grinding halt as the forum became a battle ground between PTS and BTS and every other post was about inflation, or allocation squabbles, or nubits being a Ponzi, or some company stealing our brand, etc. PR disaster after PR disaster.

I still think BTS has the best tech and the best shot at success. But damn, things have been grim lately. Apologies for the rant...

The funny thing is; only one of those things that were promised or eluded to by I3 will ever come to light at the hands and sweat of I3. 1.0, that is all. Everything else was a pie in the sky bullshit promises sold to loyal followers in order to keep toeing the line that justifies all the AGS donations.

I think the Devs should give every person who publicly thought Brian Page should be fired some of their I3 funds. 1000 each for every excuse and back they gave Brian Page in that glorious May thread. 

Link: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=4779.0  Much foot in the mouth going in that thread. Lesson: not all negativity is unwarranted or unjustified. Take the negativity and think for one second that maybe it's justified and you may end up 1 step ahead rather than exactly where you were or two steps back. Sometimes the person holding the flashlight needs it shined upon themselves in order for the others to see clearly too. It sucks having to be the voice of reason here even when I am right.

Are you going to return all your NOTES when they become liquid?? This request of yours is completely selfish and irrational. How many times do you need to be told that your donations came with no strings attached. No one owes you shit. Get over it.

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Stakeholder Proposals / Re: Make BitShares go viral from within the app
« on: February 02, 2015, 01:35:24 am »
Quote from: jsidhu on February 01, 2015, 10:28:38 pm
I think we are decentralizing the email system anyeay so we can send money via an email once email system is hooked up correct me if im wrong

But the affiliate thing would be cool

Will this send emails to traditional email addresses, or will this only be used to send encrypted messages to other BitShares users? How would a traditional email client know how to decrypt a BitShares message, unless its unsecured?

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General Discussion / Re: Consensus on the list of delegates
« on: February 02, 2015, 01:16:06 am »
All these attacks of course are entirely theoretical and extremely unlikely.  BitShares is a company like any other centralized company....  No delegate will offer 1 million dollars unless being in that spot can guarantee the money gets returned - a bet that is extraordinarily risky.  If a delegate gets voted out, they are better off spending the money to lobby voters to get voted back in.  There is no penalty to get voted out then voted back in, minus a temporary loss of income. If delegates are making a million dollars, then you're a goddamn idiot for not investing now when they are making $2000-3000 a month. Theoretically, every Google employee could shoot each other in the face, and its shareholders would get burned.  It doesn't stop people from taking that risk and investing in Google.  Your game theory scenario requires that the main participant makes bad choices that go against his own self interest.  There is no mechanism in place that prevents delegates from taking the money and not fulfilling their promise to the bad actor.

Its great that you are thinking these scenarios through and asking these questions, but the thing about BitShares is that its made up of entrepreneurs willing to go out and do, and to take risks that these extraordinary edge cases will exist and will never happen.  Its why we will make the money while those chasing perfection will end up teaching university courses. BitShares always has a back up plan in case of the unpredictable black swan, but it doesn't waste time squabbling about optimizing the effectiveness of plans that are unlikely to ever be needed.

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General Discussion / Re: Advertising "The Blockchain Is Hiring"
« on: February 01, 2015, 10:12:22 pm »
Quote from: delulo on February 01, 2015, 08:51:33 pm
I think that if there was a paid recruiter then that recruiter should recruit mainly among "normal" developers and I also think that it would be most effective to recruit in countries where living costs are low but people speak good English or have one person instead who manages a group of say Chinese developers and who does all the communication between the Chinese and the core dev team...
With regard to altcoin devs: "Bitshares blockchain is hiring" should be a common theme and associated with Bitshares like DPOS (which is a branding / general marketing exercise).

Can you provide examples of software the world uses that follows your strategy? If there was a developer that was really that good, whats preventing them from making the move to California, where they can be paid a top salary in their field?  Why do Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Qualcomm, Yelp, Reddit, etc. all have their headquarters in California when it would be cheaper to do so somewhere else? Why would you want a team writing code in English when there is only one good English speaker chosen to be the leader?

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Stakeholder Proposals / Make BitShares go viral from within the app
« on: February 01, 2015, 09:56:14 pm »
In the book Growth Hacker Marketing, by Ryan Holiday (http://www.amazon.com/Growth-Hacker-Marketing-Primer-Advertising/dp/1591847389) the author discusses the number 1 technique for growth hacking is making your product go viral from inside of your app.  An example would be Apples 'sent from my iphone' messages it made as its default email signature.  The book has other examples similar companies have used to hack their growth, absent large traditional marketing departments, although I can't remember off the top of my head - but you get the point.

I am writing this thread in order to get ideas flowing, but here is one of my own which I think can be very powerful:

Allow users to send money to an email address. Something similar may have been discussed in the past, but here is how I think it could work:

1. User clicks on the 'email money to a friend' button somewhere in the application, and user is brought to a referral form
2. User enters the destination email address
3. User enters the amount of money to send, and the type of asset.  It could be BitShares, BitAssets, or UIAs
4. User selects the timeframe in which the money can be redeemed.
5. User clicks send.  The blockchain holds onto the money they want to send as if it were market collateral
6. An email is sent to the friend.  Would we need to host an external mail server somewhere?
7. Friend receives email that says 'BitShares user sschechter has sent you 10 bitUSD'
8. Friend follows link in the email (which has some referer id like 'r=sschechter')
9. Friend signs up for BitShares account. When they download the blockchain, the collateral is released from step 5.
10. If the friend never signs up, the collateral is refunded to the user after the gift expires (step 4)

Is this technically feasible?  What would be needed to get this done? What are the security risks?

-Scott

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Technical Support / Re: Adobe plugin incompatible with Macwallet?
« on: February 01, 2015, 08:41:51 pm »
Quote from: CLains on February 01, 2015, 07:48:55 pm
I guess we can't expect this of people.

Correct.  Expect nothing from people because that's likely what they'll give you

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General Discussion / Re: Consensus on the list of delegates
« on: February 01, 2015, 07:46:06 pm »
Delegates sign blocks, just like bitcoin miners.  However, the majority of bitcoin miners don't actually sign blocks, their pool operators do.   To fully grasp the reasons why DPOS and the delegate system were designed the way it was, the best way to understand is to hear about it from the man who designed it (hint: you can't hide from economics) :

http://bytemaster.bitshares.org/article/2015/01/12/Decentralization-Scalability-and-Fault-Tolerance-of-Bitcoin/
http://bytemaster.bitshares.org/bitshares/2015/01/04/Delegated-Proof-of-Stake-vs-Proof-of-Work/

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General Discussion / Re: 1M Bounty BM Proposed on Jan 14 - Bitcoin Wallet Instead
« on: February 01, 2015, 07:22:19 pm »
Quote from: btswildpig on February 01, 2015, 04:27:45 pm
use part of the 1 million to purchase a Windows OS Desktop computer for each dev , in order to experience the pain that Windows users have been experiencing .

Its been months since I've tried, but spent many frustrating hours trying to build all the dependencies from source and couldn't do it.  Partly my fault for insisting on using Visual Studio, but certainly frustrating indeed.

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General Discussion / Re: Received this in email
« on: February 01, 2015, 06:57:57 pm »
I didn't click on the link but it sounds like a scam.  They may be phishing for your Stellar credentials.  Unless you really think that they want to give you $40 worth of something for free....

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General Discussion / Re: Advertising "The Blockchain Is Hiring"
« on: February 01, 2015, 06:53:23 pm »
Here is what I proposed, but am disappointed with the overall lukewarm response:

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=13842.msg180029#msg180029

I don't think my friends are ready today - there is a lot more they would need to learn about BitShares first, but its a step towards getting a proper pitch.  Whether its them or someone else, we need a marketing delegate that will market to developers....ie recruiters.   Here is what I would do, if I was that delegate (can't commit due to time constraints).  If someone wants to take this and run with it, go ahead:

1. Develop a pitch.  Boil down BitShares in a nutshell and explain how it needs developers.  Come up with rebuttals to answers to questions that prospects may ask. Eliminate resistance that comes with uncertainty.  Highlight the risk up front.  People don't like bad surprises, and it hurts trust.  I like how the new website has a link in the middle of the page called 'what are the risks'

2. Find people who are already developing features for crypto projects.  Reach out to them.  Let them know you respect their work, and offer them the opportunity to contribute to BitShares for a salary.  Many of these folks are speculators working for free, in hope that their contributions will elevate the market cap of their particular coin.  Let them know they could do the same with BitShares, while getting paid a salary.  Let them know that they have already demonstrated a proven commitment to crypto, and its shareholders like supporting these types of people.

3. Reach out to the larger community.  Go to Bitcoin meetup groups. Be a regular.  Get to know the people who regularly attend.  Go to other tech related or entrepreneurial meetup groups.  Go to where smart developers congregate.  Many will talk about their own pet projects.  Now is your opportunity to talk about what you are doing with BitShares, and how others can get paid to help.

4.  Put up job postings.  Find job boards that will let you make your pitch.  Target bitcoin & crypto job boards first, then fan out to the wider tech boards

5. Follow up with prospects.  Help them find their niche and develop their proposals.  Introduce them to the forum, send them over to bytemasters blog.  Get interested prospects into mumble chats with the core dev team.  Be responsive to their needs and concerns.

6. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Is there anyone on here that wouldn't be willing to pay a 100% delegate that is doing this? Anyone with good organizational and communication skills can do this.  Its not a bad gig for an extra $2000-3000 a month.


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Random Discussion / Re: Why aren't there many women in crypto?
« on: February 01, 2015, 05:43:30 pm »
There are so few women interested in crypto for the same reason most guys don't want to paint their bedroom walls pink.  You can talk all day about how great pink is, and the benefits of pink over any other color, but at the end of the day, most guys still wont care.  It doesn't interest them.  Most women wont be interested until they are presented with an appropriate use case that only crypto can solve. If you want to get women interested, find the use cases they care about FIRST before rambling on with the technobabble.

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General Discussion / Re: 1M Bounty BM Proposed on Jan 14 - Bitcoin Wallet Instead
« on: February 01, 2015, 03:31:13 pm »
Quote from: sudo on February 01, 2015, 02:34:05 pm
100 w BTS is worth a lot of money Why not use as “”GUI user experience  improvement “”special bonus?

WHY not put the "user experienceimprovement" as the highest priority Development task
does  BTS ever  Attaches great importance to the user experience????

 +5% +5%

You could have the greatest, most feature rich software on the planet, but no one would use if it only had a CLI.  User experience is everything.

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General Discussion / Re: How badly do you want professional recruiters working for BitShares?
« on: January 30, 2015, 01:52:37 am »
Quote from: onceuponatime on January 30, 2015, 12:46:24 am
There are persistent rumours circulating that IBM is about to lay off about 100,000 people. It could be that at least some of those will be  quality dev personnel who will be looking for opportunities.

They will find us.

We just need to ramp up our "Hired by the Blockchain" campaign a little.

And who do you think is going to call those people with job opportunities?

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General Discussion / Re: How badly do you want professional recruiters working for BitShares?
« on: January 30, 2015, 01:43:42 am »
Quote from: toast on January 30, 2015, 12:35:02 am
Recruiters for this type of work is a waste of time

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You're looking at this the wrong way.  How many marketing delegates are there? These guys are marketers, with a specialized focus on our core user base: developers.  Look at this forum...how many people on here do some kind of programming?  Whether they code for the project directly, or are just above average income earning investors who have money to speculate on crypto-currencies, that is a big part of our user base, and that is a core need.  If they decide to run, they have to follow the rules and maintain accountability just like everyone else.

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