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I'll help you push for votes if you show us your stuff profitofthegods - I'm with you every step of the way.

Thanks, I've sent a pm and I have no problem taking care of the tasks you mentioned.

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Cass and Bytemaster (as per lil_jay890 recommendation) will need to hand over the reigns to the bitshares.org website. It is posted on github as far as I know, but be careful, egos can be bruised there but if you show them/us what you can do, then you will most definitely have MY vote and possible many others as well.
 
Please start by sending a PM to cass and bytemaster both. If they don't reply, or give us a favorable reply, then we'll deal with them appropriately.
 
You are a shareholder now I assume, so they need to answer to you. Please let us know what they say.
 
I will try to help you with a lot more search string research too.

If you mean me, I certainly wouldn't want to try to take over Bitshares.org, Apart from anything else, I have the design skills of a 5 year old child playing with blunt crayons.

I would be happy to assist by providing optimized content for specific pages if its wanted. For example, there is currently a box which mentions low fees - that could have a learn more link to a page which might target search terms related to low fees trading. The content would probably be 90% fluff, but it is something that could potentially get search hits.

Also I would personally feel most comfortable concentrating on publishing landing pages about Bitshares on other sites - blogs, web 2.0 sites and so on, hoping for search positioning on long tail keywords for those, and then sending people to Bitshares once they are half sold on the whole thing. The one big benefit of that is if you do something the big G doesn't like when trying to rank those pages the negative effect stays on that page and doesn't impact the main BTS site. Of course the links from those pages would also still have a net positive effect on the serps for the main site.

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@profitofthegods - I would like to recruit your help, please. I'm still pretty good at seo/sep myself, but I just don't have the time right now with the other stuff I'm working on, the wiki's, ddns, disqus and social media threads, etc. Is dmoz still worth it? Other dir's? I can't afford to pay out much more right now, but with an army of people in this community, I think we could ALL post a link to https://bitshares.org on 2 or 3 different sites and bump our alexa quite a bit.
 
At least get us onto page 1 for the 18 search strings I listed above jesus christ.
 
The owner of bitshares.org needs to completely revamp that site though, it's boring as hell and the bounce rate is insane- see my comments above. We can bring'm, but if we're not closin'm, then we're burning hours for no reason. I want someone to build us a REAL website, something exciting, something that tells me WHY I need to register and fund a BitShares account, and why I need to do it RIGHT NOW.
 
QUESTION: Would the community here like to see the Accountability Roster integrated with the bitsharesblocks website? Coingecko.com is a great example of what our Delegates table could look like. Let the world see who they can contact for marketing, sales questions, HR, technical support and puppies.

I don't usually bother with directories myself; they probably do have some value but not enough for it to be worth the time imo, unless perhaps its a new site with no links and you just want to get the ball rolling. I also suspect that DMOZ doesn't really have any special status now, the way it did.

I think you are right about the website. On-page SEO is way more important than off-page SEO these days, which means targeted content. Yes it would be good to present a clear case for why somebody needs to register and fund an account, but I would go even further and say it would be good to think about the kind of people who would benefit and the kind of things they might be searching for that Bitshares can provide a solution for, and present a compelling case multiple times in different ways and perhaps on multiple web properties too.

In terms of links, quality is better than quantity. Do what Google says you should do - if you can post a link somewhere it's likely to get seen by real people who may genuinely be interested then that's really great and everyone should try to do that if the opportunity is there. But be careful about getting a small army of people to just start posting links everywhere they can, because it can be counterproductive if it makes your link profile look unnatural.

If you need help identifying search terms to target or optimizing content for Bitshares.org then let me know. My starting point is to have a list of search terms and a list of pages which answer those queries, which is half the job really.

I think I am going to do a little test and if I think I can do anything good I may stand as a delegate.

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Shorts can issue bitUSD above the feed now.  In fact the first short sell order is nearly 20% above the feed, meaning no one is willing to short unless they get a 20% discount.  There are buyers willing to pay a 10% premium right now but no one is willing to sell or short to them.  Most likely this imbalance is caused by the 30 day short covering rule.

Actually I do agree with this as the 30 day thing makes people buy to cover their shorts when they actually may just want to stay short.So if you are constantly shorting, you have to also be constantly buying, whereas buyers aren't forced to sell or short so they can just keep buying.

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General Discussion / Re: BitAsset 2.0 Requirements & Implied Design
« on: May 13, 2015, 03:35:48 pm »
Just to put in my two cents worth - focusing on getting more traders would be as good a solution as making changes to the way the system works.

Current traders, which is a fairly small group I would think, have become risk averse due to getting burned on a falling price and are therefore acting irrationality. Getting more traders and therefore a greater diversity of past history and perspectives may be a better solution than trying to tailor the system to cater for the current type of irrationality, because if there is one thing we can be confident of its that people will find a new way to act irrationally in the future.

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Since my last post I've become somewhat taken with the idea that I might be able to stand as a delegate by offering SEO services.

I've just been doing a small amount of preliminary research and I think I could really help improve the presence of Bitshares and related site in the search results.

Is there seriously demand for this, and does anyone think I would stand a chance of getting elected?

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I do a little bit of SEOd writing, and I have a blog which ranks reasonably well called Cryptorials.

Coincidentally, I rank higher than Bitshares' sites for 'decentralized crypto exchange' (page 2) and 'decentralized exchange' (page 3), although that's only a glossary page (and yes it does link to Bitshares)

It is also on page 1 of Google for competitive terms like 'how to mine cryptocurrency', 'make money trading bitcoin', 'bitcoin games' and others.

And I would be open to suggestions for topics to write about or search terms worth targeting.

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I don't really know if they are scammers or not but calling them out like that is pretty classless unless there is a consensus with hard proof that it is true, and in whcih case they probably would have withered away into non-existance by now.

Imho they are scammers in the same way the bankers who sold sub-prime mortgages are scammers - James' many assets are so complex and over-lapping, with multiple assets created for very similar things, that it just looks like a deliberate attempt to befuddle people. He's a master at creating an asset for something, then changing its remit and creating another asset for basically the same thing and raising more money. Meanwhile, he is gets to the 10th asset sold without having delivered on the 1st.

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I noticed the ball didn't get rolling on many Bitcoin businesses until the price started going high enough to make an older generation of Bitcoin loyal wealthier.

If Bitshares takes off in a significant way, my guess is that many early adopters/hodlers will want to diversify and become venture capitalists in some way.

This will open the money valve for 3rd party developers who seeks funding for their startup powered by Bitshares. It's a virtuous circle. The higher the market cap, the more there will be visibility and funding in the ecosystem to promote growth and usefulness, and greater the adoption will be, increasing the market cap...

The end game is not the market cap, it's the product. But without the first, it will be difficult to fund businesses that will enhance the user experience for the whole ecosystem. Being able to pay for an army of workers with very limited dilution will make the difference.

Yes, I think workers will make a difference, but until it its as much of a catch 22 as a virtuous circle.

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Syscoin didn't pay any fee actually they accumulated 10% of current supply at the market and caused a rise in the exchange rate... opposite of imposing a fee. They must have the tokens to be able to use them across the chains.

10% of Bitshares is a cool 1 million. Can they afford that?

10% of Bitshares is every single BTS being traded on the btc38.  There is no way to get that much.

Therefore there's no point even talking about Bitshares being part of Supernet - it would cost far too much money. Whether its them or us that pay is irrelevant if neither side can afford it.

Blocknet does not require any coins, you just add the XBridge code and you are good to go with inter-operability across blockchains. I think that's probably why Ethereum chose it - like Bitshares, 10% of the Ethereum supply is just far to much to even consider buying or giving away.

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Syscoin didn't pay any fee actually they accumulated 10% of current supply at the market and caused a rise in the exchange rate... opposite of imposing a fee. They must have the tokens to be able to use them across the chains.

10% of Bitshares is a cool 1 million. Can they afford that?

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We should reach out to James of supernet.. im sure he/she would be interested and would bridge gap between nxt and bitshares.

at the end we will get all a big family without hate for each other...  :)

Hopefully ;)

Btw I think Supernet has a large joining fee but Blocknet doesn't.

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Meh I prefer supernet

If I remember correctly Supernet requires a coin to pay a large percentage of its total supply in order to join, whereas Blocknet costs nothing.

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Just saw that Ethereum is going to enable Blocknet for inter-blockchain functionality http://cointelegraph.com/news/114228/blocknet-adding-ethereum-to-suite-of-supported-currencies and it made me wonder whether Bitshares has considered this at all?

It would be great to have pegged assets on the decentralized Blocknet exchange, and to allow people to pay for Ethereum services in BitUSD and so on.

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General Discussion / Re: Why no one is shorting bitassets?
« on: May 09, 2015, 09:09:57 am »
There is no 10% penalty for expired shorts  since last hard fork on tuesday AFAIK

Oh ok cool, thanks. I can never keep up with changes.

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