Announcing Brownie Points (BROWNIE.PTS)

[betax]

@Bytemaster what will be the fees for transferring brownie points. If they don' have nominal value, will it be free? I am interested on this for promotion of app usage together with bitshares.

Question bump

Edit: I know it won't be "free", but a very small fee?

[boombastic]

1.  In earlier days, develop and maintain agsexplorer.com
2.  Contributed codes to various BitShares code repos, mainly web_wallet

Code: [Select]

git log --author="Alex Chien" --pretty=oneline 3.  Heavily involved in development of dacx.com, a crowdfunding platform that leverages BitShares network based in China.
4.  Brought group of investors with sizable money to invest in PTS/BTS along the way that I felt a bit embarrassed and hope(believe) 2.0 will make me look good.

ID: boombastic

Can I redeem actual brownie cake somewhere with BP?

[konelectric]

Brownie.pts / BTS market has not yet been initialized.



(I want to buy)

I don't think Brownie.pts is for sale. Of course the assets that get sharedropped you can.

Anyone may buy and sell Brownie Points.

If I sell someone my Brownie Points, can you take away the Points I sold them?

[bytemaster]

I think I have sent some BPs to everyone who has posted in this thread with a BTS account name.   

I am really amazed at how much people have been doing, so much more than I could ever track or value.   

[bytemaster]

I would like to give 1000 points per "block" for every forum member with more than 1 block.  (Heros, etc...) and I will give major points to someone who offers to hand them out.

I'd be willing to help with that. What do you have in mind? A separate thread where everyone can post their ID?

As hadrian already said an automated solution would probably save a lot of headache but I fear I'm lacking the skills to do it myself.

I am looking for automated solutions:

1. Tip Bots
2. Tip for Commit
3. Other Ideas? 

[Tuck Fheman]

More foresight from Tuck Buck Erlich!

For the record, we (TuckFheman.com) have no affiliation with the person using the "Erlich Bachman" or "Giant Middle Finger" account.

TuckFheman.com participants on this forum are : "Tuck Fheman" - we all post under this account, "Buck Fankers", "Russ Hanneman", "Jon Snow" - he's dead btw, "NXTNames" and "bitshares messenger" - for 1 post.

If BJ2.O ever claims to be part of TuckFheman.com we would neither confirm nor deny it.

[clayop]

1. I translated Bitshares 101 book and other materials (e.g Infographic) into Korean
2. I am managing Bitshares.kr for summarizing news and updates
3. I am translating bts 2.0 wallet

Bts id: clayop

[mf-tzo]

1. I have been and will continue to be a big supporter of BTS and the Dev team. I have been trying to be supportive even at the darkest times

2. My wife and my self have translated in Greek the Bitshares 101 book

3. I made some posts in Greek bitcointalk subsection in the past evangelizing about Bitshares and the Greeks understand what we are doing here..

4. I am your main point of sale in Greece behind the scenes even if you don't know it. I am involved on a daily basis with some serious investors who have no idea what BTS is yet (because I don't want them to drive them away with the current client) but once we are ready I will make sure they know everything about it and invest some serious money in our ecosystem. I hope though they pay more than I did to acquire these BTS..

5. I am planning to arrange a lot of meetups in Greece, let people know that there is no need to hide their money under their mattress anymore etc..

6. Finally my self and  a team of 4 advanced IT programmers are in the process of building high frequency bots and other exciting things for trading BTS and bring some liquidity in the system. This is going very slow unfortunately due to the recent developments in our country and our daily jobs that don't allow us to breathe..

If you want to send me some nice BROWNIE.PTS it would be nice 

ID: mf-tzo

[Permie]

I was hooked after reading BM's blogs and judging his free market principles to be genuine and have since spent the majority of my free time (all day, hooray) pouring over the forums and getting public answers to as many obvious and non-obvious questions as possible.

Recently I have produced professional and top-quality MS-paint renditions of BitShares analogies.


I have previously posted examples of my work discussing where I think BitShares is headed and the market niche it fills in this thread: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,17212.0.html

Can BitShares offer Vaultoro decentralized banking services?

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,16724.msg214074.html

http://www.vaultoro.com/
Allow trading of gold bullion stored in insured, audited Swiss vaults against bitcoin.
They do not have any fiat banking services due to the added regulatory burden and the increased fees that would result.
I'm sure they could attract even more customers they could integrate bitFiat and bitGold as they could allow a 3rd asset for their users to hedge against eachother. Vaultoro would be insulated from regulatory burden and could collect fees on any UIA's they issue.
I think BitShares should establish a relationship with them as among other things such a partnership provides bts with a physical gold:bitGold and bitFiat:Physical Gold market to tighten the peg and increases liquidity.
Yet more opportunities to tighten the peg of bitAssets.

Which met with positive response, @Joshua Scigala from vaultoro:

Hi Guys,

Joshua Scigala here from Vaultoro

Thanks for reaching out. Jeff replied to the support tickets but I wanted to come here to discuss the legalities because technologically it's fine.

The advice that we have received is that tokenizing gold would throw us down a regulatory nightmare because we would then fall under regulations that cover financial instruments.

Has the bitshares community dealt with regulations around UIA's? 

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Later, after explainations in the post:
Thanks for the warm welcome guys and girls!

@xeroc Thanks for your detailed response.

I will have to run all this past our legal and regulatory specialists but it does look very cool.

@Permie Thanks for the info.

Why I think BitShares will succeed. Do competitors have all our features?

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,16467.0.html

TL;DR - I like BitShares because of the message of freedom, Optional regulatory compliance, Bitcoin exchanges issuing UIA to attract bts users, Development is funded by the blockchain and voted for by the shareholders, At least 101 distributed block producing witnessing nodes, Core development is funded by the blockchain and voted for by the shareholders, Workers are paid by contracts voted for by the shareholders, Delegates are elected officials that act as the human element of the DAC, Blockchain Human Resources, Marketers profit from referrals, All aspects of the DAC are subject to change by a shareholder vote. Hard forks by shareholder vote only, 1 second transaction confirmations, Fast scanning of and reconnection to the network.

This is a great post and hits on so many points.

I would say that success depends on more than just having the best technology, it depends upon having the best community and being easiest to use.

I think we are growing as a community and working on our weak spots.

Step by step BitShares Sales Pitch. (Pre 2.0)

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=17105.0

TL;DR: There is a market niche for a global unbounded organization that efficiently adapts and morphs to the needs of the market and the desires of it's members.
I believe BitShares is that organization.
The upper limit of this organization is bound only by the size of the global economy. The current main use for trading tokens of value are financial derivatives purchased by large institutions and well educated individuals who reside in geographical locations favoured by financially powerful nations who have capital to risk.
A system that can drop the barriers to entry and allow everyone in the world access to the global economy will rapidly expand the total value of the economy.
BitShares will not only rapidly grow to meet the existing market, it will rapidly grow the size of the market itself.
Currently this potential is valued at around $20M.

Effective way to delegate useful work while generating network transaction fees.

We all know that if BitShares becomes the industry standard, then Dan will ensure that these Larimers, DanCoins, or BPTS will definitely have value.  This is Dan's "Artist Coin" for Dan's fans.  This is Dan's personal sharedrop target when he is rewarded with monster crypto industry swag.

Look at Dan, he's building and monetizing his reputation using a smartchain tool.  Satoshi-math guarantees that the high market cap for BPTS means that many people trust him.  Anyone can monetize their reputation thanks to smartchain tech.

BitShares - monetizing your integrity since 2015

Will BPTS will be reimbursable for backstage VIP passes during his next Vegas keynote afterparty?  Just be the first person to send 1,000,000 BPTS to the following address, and we'll see you in the green room...

More foresight from Tuck Buck Erlich!

[Erlich Bachman]

Effective way to delegate useful work while generating network transaction fees.

We all know that if BitShares becomes the industry standard, then Dan will ensure that these Larimers, DanCoins, or BPTS will definitely have value.  This is Dan's "Artist Coin" for Dan's fans.  This is Dan's personal sharedrop target when he is rewarded with monster crypto industry swag.

Look at Dan, he's building and monetizing his reputation using a smartchain tool.  Satoshi-math guarantees that the high market cap for BPTS means that many people trust him.  Anyone can monetize their reputation thanks to smartchain tech.

BitShares - monetizing your integrity since 2015

Will BPTS will be reimbursable for backstage VIP passes during his next Vegas keynote afterparty?  Just be the first person to send 1,000,000 BPTS to the following address, and we'll see you in the green room...

[Buck Fankers]

I can haz brownie.pts?

I've been spreading the word about BitShares IRL (since it was ProtoShares) and did the below transcripts from hangouts, formatting them for the forum (took 4 hours each) and posted them on our blog, then made the links private and deleted all of my work from the forum so our blog/the forum did not take away from Beyond Bitcoins SEO, per CLains request. I loved doing it btw and was a bit torn about removing all of my hard work as it really helped me remember what was said during each mumble session and helped me answer questions here on the forum by linking to the appropriate part of the mumble sessions for others on the forum (I post under the TuckFheman account here most times. I also may or may not be a member of the "3 Comma Club"). 

http://tuckfheman.com/private/121205497184/tumblr_npqrw35xlQ1rtef2w
http://tuckfheman.com/private/121205808089/tumblr_npqs49TWuU1rtef2w
http://tuckfheman.com/private/121206111774/tumblr_npqscmGRxu1rtef2w
http://tuckfheman.com/private/121323824124/tumblr_nptatxT4kM1rtef2w
http://tuckfheman.com/private/121473940409/tumblr_npvib2WK7p1rtef2w

http://i.imgur.com/kUG3Gat.jpg

If you do send some BP's, feel free to take some away for my bitLife comic.

id: buckfankers

Thanks for the consideration!

[betax]

Cool idea .. want some brownies points to .. I compiled a list of things I consider my self active in:
                                                                                                                                                                                                             
 - manage IRC channel #bitshares@freenode (bribble bot/operator)
 - manage subreddit /r/bitshares (content/design/moderation)
 - forum support requests
 - python-bitshares libraries (rpc, tools)
 - pyhton tools for end users (coldstorage, offline voting, sharedrop, ...)
 - python tools for delegates (feed scripts, switchover, ...)
 - translations into German (web_wallet/bitshares.org/bitsharesblocks/...)
 - technical assistance when setting up delegates (fuzzy, datasecuritynode, favdesu, ...)
 - bts.wiki (maintainer/administrator/content creator)
 - active BTS member from the beginning (forum id 120)
 - Recap/proof reading of public documentation and articles
 - 3rd party contacts/discussion/testing (e.g. ccedk, ...)

Those should be most of them .. but future looks bright for the list to grow quickly .. soonish (tm)

If you have contributed to BitShares over the past two years, please post in this thread with a detailed description of the work you have done and an estimate of how much time and money you spent doing that work.  Include your BTS account name and you may find some BROWNIE.PTS in your wallet.   

How much time I have spent .. difficult to estimate .. I'd say I have spend almost 2 full years with at least 90 minutes a day to read the forum and answer questions/give support
Additionally, I did alot of python coding .. in particular the price feeds the bitshares rpc library and the cold storage stuff (including SVG paperwallet creation) .. can't estimate the time I invested here .. plenty ..
I also spent plenty of time to write articles for the wiki (you recall the TechTalk threads?) and for reddit ..

In the end, I really can't estimate the time I have invested ..

The only costs I can recall that I have actively spend for BitShares was a conference in Frankfurt I attended to get in contact (with Antonopoulus and others ..)
https://ecurex.com/p2pfisy/
Ticket was 150€ and some little for the travel ..

xeroc you deserve 1 billion brownie points.

[betax]

I love this..

What I have done in the past..  (not much recently a part from internal promotion) build tools to check sharedrops, create builds, instructions, help, testing, try to get a lottery delegate to distribute fees / prizes to forum members, spend a hell of a lot time here

@Bytemaster what will be the fees for transferring brownie points. If they don' have nominal value, will it be free? I am interested on this for promotion of app usage together with bitshares.

#edit: more things I forget.

[konelectric]

Announcing Brownie Points (BROWNIE.PTS)
I may also seize brownie points from any account if you fall out of favor and anyone who complains in any way about how Brownie Points are issued or how I use Brownie Points is certainly not in my favor and may lose any Brownie Points they have earned.

How about when you take Brownie Points away from someone, you give them to the person they were rude too.

ID: yourship

[Frodo]

I would like to give 1000 points per "block" for every forum member with more than 1 block.  (Heros, etc...) and I will give major points to someone who offers to hand them out.

I'd be willing to help with that. What do you have in mind? A separate thread where everyone can post their ID?

As hadrian already said an automated solution would probably save a lot of headache but I fear I'm lacking the skills to do it myself.