Announcing Brownie Points (BROWNIE.PTS)

[bytemaster]

@bytemaster I don't get how you are going to be able to seize BROWNIE.PTS if they aren't sent and kept to the recipient accounts' public balances (how would you know who you are seizing the balance from?). Does the code (0.x and later for 2.0) allow the UIA issuer to require that the UIA be always stored as a public balance? I know you could do whitelists, but for 2.0 a UIA issuer needs to also make sure the UIA isn't blinded either or else how could they know (and let the blockchain know) the amount of the UIA they are seizing.

You are right, if kept in a blinded balance it couldn't be seized but it also wouldn't be useful for me to track who has earned my good will.    You will be able to disable blinded balances on an asset-by-asset basis so I will probably just disable blinded balances for BROWNIE.PTS.

[arhag]

@bytemaster I don't get how you are going to be able to seize BROWNIE.PTS if they aren't sent and kept to the recipient accounts' public balances (how would you know who you are seizing the balance from?). Does the code (0.x and later for 2.0) allow the UIA issuer to require that the UIA be always stored as a public balance? I know you could do whitelists, but for 2.0 a UIA issuer needs to also make sure the UIA isn't blinded either or else how could they know (and let the blockchain know) the amount of the UIA they are seizing.

[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.   

I think you forget us BM ... 

Here is our post :

BitShares French ConneXion is kind of new in this community but we've acheived to :

Build a web site to give information in french about BitShares
Translate BitShares 101 in french and give it for free in our web
Translate some articles we found interesting
Translate the infographic, triflod, flyers, ...
Produce our own articles for newbies
We are actually creating a YouTube channel with tutorials for anything related to BitShares. We'll try to have it in the 12 more widely spoken languages.

So far it was all made on our free time and passion for BitShares.

Much more is coming

If our contribution merit some brownies, we'd love to have some

Our id : bitsharesfcx

Sorry!   BPs sent your way, thanks! 

[EstefanTT]

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.   

I think you forget us BM ... 

Here is our post :

BitShares French ConneXion is kind of new in this community but we've acheived to :

Build a web site to give information in french about BitShares
Translate BitShares 101 in french and give it for free in our web
Translate some articles we found interesting
Translate the infographic, triflod, flyers, ...
Produce our own articles for newbies
We are actually creating a YouTube channel with tutorials for anything related to BitShares. We'll try to have it in the 12 more widely spoken languages.

So far it was all made on our free time and passion for BitShares.

Much more is coming

If our contribution merit some brownies, we'd love to have some

Our id : bitsharesfcx

[laow]

- find some way to solve the problem that client doesn't run on xp in the early release.
- help people who have difficult in using the bts client on my qq group.

my bts id: laow

[ripplexiaoshan]

Great incentive mechanism!

CLains reminded me that I might deserve some BROWNIE

AS Chinese sub forum moderator  since about December 2013
&
Consult of market.cn.group101 since its beginning.
&
Administrator of www.btsabc.org 

id : xiaoshan

Thanks.

[donkeypong]

This is very cool. However, I am not worthy. In the event that you had any earmarked for me, please donate them to a worthwhile charity. 

[bytemaster]

So far I have distributed 2,800,000 BROWNIE.PTS among 50 people!   There are many contributors that haven't received theirs yet.

Reading this thread it has been great to see what everyone has been doing.   It takes an army to support a crypto currency and there are a lot of people here doing things.   Lets keep it up and starting spreading BROWNIE.PTS far and wide in recognition of every thing people are doing, big and small. 

To put things in perspective I am allocating about 200,000 per full-time-year of effort as a rough unit,  or 100 BROWNIE.PTS per hour contributed.  If you feel I have misjudged your hours contributed please feel free to PM me.  My goal is to give everyone the credit they deserve.

[werneo]

-attended quite a few mumble sessions since they started last year (I live in Hawaii so getting up at 4am is dedication, brah).

-proof/edit copy for various documents written by bytemaster, eg: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,17088.0.html

-published BitShares-related press releases through my websites which are crawled by google news.

-published this article January 14, 2014 on my website newswax.com: http://goo.gl/NAXxSU the article covers DACs and links to Invictus Innovations website. I paid the author in BTC for use of the content.

-linked to BitShares-related articles on my twitter account over the past 1.5 years: https://twitter.com/werneo, eg: https://goo.gl/E88pRi and https://goo.gl/aUkakt and https://goo.gl/xyzB7Y and https://goo.gl/qFmzsY and https://goo.gl/gbW8Tv and https://goo.gl/O7LHJi and https://goo.gl/doBsb2 and https://goo.gl/7eg5oE and https://goo.gl/ABjULa and https://goo.gl/hHB17i and https://goo.gl/01PfAP and https://goo.gl/6DUyD6 and https://goo.gl/RCsK71 plenty more. (oh and here's the first pizza purchased with bitUSD: https://goo.gl/TMahnI )

-read the forum everyday and contribute forum posts when warranted.

-PTS/AGS investor/fanboy since the early days (PTS wallet: PiunA5mHJkWYKRcyjT2jVwAefRQqD4NwGf)

-BTS account: werneo

[julian1]

Following the ideas presented by Bytemaster in Beyond-bitcoin last year, I created a bitcoin/ bitshares cross-chain exchange node, allowing users to bounce Bitcoin into the Bitshares network and back again via a UIA - GATEBTC.

This required reading the Bitshares codebase and reimplementing key bts functions in the development language, and a moderately sophisticated bitcoin coin-management system. A basic website was developed, showing a projection of the transactions between the two chains in the style of blockchain.info.

In addition,
  - I paid for two medium vps-servers,
  - took extended annual leave from my real job to develop, and did support on these forums on christmas and new years day
  - reported bugs in technical forums, contributed c++ pull-requests to the Bitshares source base, and provided advice to Paul and Metaexchange in private mail.
 
I also created/reserved /r/bitusd and similar subs on reddit, participated in nullstreet reddit and hacker-news discussions and maintained a non-diluting delegate for a while.

[huzhuzhu]

I bought around 400kBTS in the past 2 weeks............  doese it count?.

MY bts id is  "manman"

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.   

[rgcrypto]

I delete all my expletives before posting any response to newmine (to keep the atmosphere as congenial as possible).

id: onceuponatime

Onceuponatime for a massive amount of Brownies.PTS . This guy has moved mountains.

[rgcrypto]

I nominate DataSecurityNode for some BROWNIE.PTS just for the meta of it all.

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,14109.0.html

Hey hey hey!

Look not all Delegates are great.. but SOME ARE!

Some are just soooo cool, it just doesn't seem right to just click 'vote' for them.

You wish you could sit there for a whole hour and just click VOTE for them because they simply rock!

There must be a better way!

There is! It's the latest and greatest User Issued Asset Called DelegateTip!

Now when you heart your favorite delegate, you can send them a TIP!

I second that. He's a rock.

[wackou]

My first contribution was to Keyhotee and then BitShares when I submitted a couple of minor fixes that allowed to compile using clang instead of g++ on OSX.

I submit bug reports on github when I encounter bugs, and have been running a delegate in the test runs and since the launch of BitShares.

Since then, I have also been developing the bts-tools python monitoring tools, that allow to monitor a running delegate, publish feeds and send notifications in case something goes wrong. I wrote documentation for them, part of which is a tutorial on how to setup a delegate, along with monitoring tools, from scratch in a blank VM.

I also provide a seed node and chain server for both BTS and DVS.

I am not so active on the forums (I use the little time I have for coding ) but I try to post when I feel I can contribute something.

BTS ID: wackou

[spartako]

I am from the beginning of this amazing journey,
My contribution to this wonderful  community is

- I participated at all bts test net.
- I have three active delegates (spartako,spartako1,spartako2) and one of them (spartako2) is the second one as number of blocks emitted
- I joined almost every friday mumble sessions
- I am very active to explain bitshares to the italian community. We have a telegram group of bitshares of twenty people
- I am the metaexchange liquidity provider for the market bitCNY/BTC

BTS ID: spartako