[BeyondBit Bounties] It's Time for Steem to have a Crypto-Friendly Bounty System! (Doubling the Orig Bounty Rewards with 8000SBD of Beyondbits for Each Winner!)
This Post has been Inspired by a past experience with Ned! But I'm doubling rewards to make sure it gets finished this time!
Most here already know I have been here since before Steem existed as a founding member of the BitShares community and so it is safe to say I was quite bullish when Steem was launched. But when I saw Ned in the earliest days of Steem leveraging his SBD to build I was more than bullish. No I was pure pumped. I thought to myself how amazing it was going to be to see all the development of tools and activities that would be funded to help engage and empower our community. And Ned had the vast majority of available steem funding to build...so I was (rightfully) really pumped.
When @ned started wanting to do bounties in his post labeled "It's Time for a Steem Bounty System I was so giddy I even donated 400SBD to ned for the cause! But sadly I was not a Kraken and had many plans to build ideas of my own so I was just happy to donate and let our leader see it through...but couldn't donate more unfortunately if I wanted to build my ideas. This however turned out to be a blessing in disguise because the project seemed to sputter and become abandoned before its potential could ever be realized...(well more of a silver lining).
To be honest I was somewhat saddened and frustrated that this idea had been given up on so easily when so many resources were available to leverage in ways that could easily build a bigger, better and more thriving community. Especially when the incentives are aligned to build value propositions that can create exponential returns on resources spent! But it couldnt be allowed to die! We only fail when we give up after all!
Beyondbitcoin has never been a community that likes to see beautiful things given up on when they can empower so many.
It is why I designed Whaleshares and beyondbits in addition to a service for all whales to make the value locked away in their SP Account Liquid with their own similarly designed tokens! And now that I have them...I have alot more value available to leverage for the Steem Community that was Launched on BeyondBitcoin's very own Hangouts!
After all, as Ned said in his original post:
"We have a big ecosystem to build and it's not going to get built unless we build it together" ~@ned
So, Obviously it was thrilling to be able to tell Ned about how the WhaleShares Platform could enable all the whales in steem to create vote tokens to fund amazing projects that come onto a Sharktank Style Event called "Whaletank".
And of course knowing what I always try to do with communities, it was was probably even more exciting to read the following than when I read the other messages posted above:
But then he dropped the motherload on me saying it was better than Worker Proposals, better than Dash and Dao!
To which I obviously Agreed...
So it became obvious that I would be able to make the Whaletank community driven over time so even if something happened to any of its whale council members, the show would continue going on. I even have them edited in a community-driven fashion and use the earnings from my posts to continue building and improving the platform that supports it--Whaleshares!
Ironically, this is also where Bounties Reemerged and are paying out strongly with bonus payments based on the post payouts I receive in these individual posts!
So without further ado...I am proud to announce an expansion of the tools and ideas Ned told me he loved, I am now able to also help build an idea he loved but for some reason never got the chance to complete! A Bounty Forum for all the diverse members of steem must be born! And now I have the funds to support its development for as long as I can continue to build without fear or reprisal for my work!
Anyone is welcome to post bounties - be they for marketing, software development or any other domain impacting Steem and Steemians (especially whaleshares and whaletank!)
Please follow the form I have posted in the replies below:
Comment1: Task; Size of the Bounty; Milestones
As Ned says: "Let's Do This!"
During the Week you can find us in Our 24/7 WhaleShares Server! (preferably the Adult Swim VOIP)
And of Course you can join Our EOStalk Discord
How to Join the Beyond Bitcoin Mumble where BitShares and Steem were born!
Step 1: Download Mumble Here
Step 2: Watch Setup Instructions
Anyone is welcome to post bounties - be they for marketing, software development or any other domain impacting Steem and Steemians (especially whaleshares and whaletank!)
Please follow the form I have posted in the replies below:
Comment1: Task; Size of the Bounty; Milestones
As Ned says: "Let's Do This!"
During the Week you can find us in Our 24/7 WhaleShares Server! (preferably the Adult Swim VOIP)
And of Course you can join Our EOStalk Discord
How to Join the Beyond Bitcoin Mumble where BitShares and Steem were born!
Step 1: Download Mumble Here
Step 2: Watch Setup Instructions
Step 3:
Enter the following information:
Label: BeyondBitcoin om
Address: 149.210.187.155
Port: 64738
Username: Enter your username
Password: w0rldCh@NG3rsUN!t3
All BeyondBitcoin content is powered by the Steem blockchain so please join the new social media movement that enables Creative Commons content creators and Open Source developers to earn funding for participating in the community's growth and sustenance. Participate in Beyond Bitcoin initiatives to earn WhaleShares and BeyondBit tokens that pay you and make you trend all at once!
The first bounty is for .. you guessed it... a specially designed Bounty Management Forum (please use Jesta's ChainBB as the Base!) :)
Task: Design, Build, Operate an open-source, open-data, independent website (or system that can be integrated into Steemit.com) for managing bounties using ChainBB source code!
Milestone 1: Design the bounty system with UI/UX and full specs for the engineering required. Design must clearly demonstrate how bounty milestones will be rewarded; demonstrate how Steem and SBD will be integrated; show functional user experience; demonstrate the escrow process; demonstrate how tasks and updates will be recorded/monitored/and tracked.
Milestone 2: Engineer the website and system for bounty management.
Milestone 3: Launch, host, operate the website; get it linked from Steemit.com and other Steem-based website menus
Bounties:
Milestone 1 - NOW 2000 SBD of Beyondbit Whaletokens!
Milestone 2 - NOW 4000 SBD of Beyondbit Whaletokens!
Milestone 3 - NOW 2000 SBD of Beyondbit Whaletokens!
IMPORTANT: 3 Submissions will Win for EACH MILESTONE!
Note: This is Blatantly borrowed from Ned's Blockchain-Certified Post to ensure all goals remain the same!
Please ONLY respond to this reply if you have questions regarding how to win your cut of $28k
The first bounty is for .. you guessed it... a specially designed Bounty Management Forum (please use Jesta's ChainBB as the Base!) :)
Task: Design, Build, Operate an open-source, open-data, independent website (or system that can be integrated into Steemit.com) for managing bounties using ChainBB source code!
Milestone 1: Design the bounty system with UI/UX and full specs for the engineering required. Design must clearly demonstrate how bounty milestones will be rewarded; demonstrate how Steem and SBD will be integrated; show functional user experience; demonstrate the escrow process; demonstrate how tasks and updates will be recorded/monitored/and tracked.
Milestone 2: Engineer the website and system for bounty management.
Milestone 3: Launch, host, operate the website; get it linked from Steemit.com and other Steem-based website menus
Bounties:
Milestone 1 - NOW 2000 SBD of Beyondbit Whaletokens!
Milestone 2 - NOW 4000 SBD of Beyondbit Whaletokens!
Milestone 3 - NOW 2000 SBD of Beyondbit Whaletokens!
IMPORTANT: 3 Submissions will Win for EACH MILESTONE!
Note: This is Blatantly borrowed from Ned's Blockchain-Certified Post to ensure all goals remain the same!
I'm not sure I'd recommend using the frontend for chainBB as the base haha. It's about to undergo some radical changes. If a developer wants to use it as something to learn off of, they are more than welcome, but if they want to stay in sync with the changes that are coming, now is not a good time to fork that repo.
Also being beta code.... it may be a bit sloppy :)
Best of luck to anyone attempting this challenge!
woah so people like chainbb so much they wanna fork off it and make their own? Yeah if chainBB just had a couple more features like the wallet and maybe an option to make your own subforums like subredits...man it could be something I use instead of steemit
(And thanks for the recent upvots youve given me , i realy apeciate it as ive been vry hungry fior crypto and racing top save up myself 1 bitcoin before it gets any higher
Like i hope chainB can have a steemit trending post visualizer, some way to organize ALL the top posts from all the top steemit catgeopries all on one page
also you could sell your own ads on beta.chainbb.com couodnt u? That would be cool! Just crypto related stuff, or maybe we could have some sort of feature to share comment rewards teh way you have opost rewards sharabkle???
Ohg yeah that featue you built in to share rwards with somneone before you even post to lick itin, its REALLY useful and allows me to share rwards for new users whose introduction pots I help make for them! The fact that chainBB has tis rwward sharing feature and reguklar steemit does not is a testiment to your devlopment skills! Its a very nice feaure and its always impressive everytime i use it! I feel like if u can make that, theers going to be a lot of col stuff in store for chainBB that you must have planned and i understand that just because I thought it upo just now doesnt mean you havent already and that its not that easy to just make happen, and I hope you have enough money to hire some assistancts to get everthing one faster!
Anyway you should wrk on an android app for steemit, like chainBB for stemit but one that letys you make your own subreddit type place in steemut, allowing someone to customize the header and the background image etc, i dunno, i just really want cutomizable subreddits on steemit liek substeemits but its hjard to imagine how we would go about doing something like that
So you would recommend I do not let them use it?
There's a difference between "let" and "recommend".
I don't recommend using the beta, in development, version of a forum as the basis for a frontend for a bounty system. However, just because I don't recommend it, doesn't mean they can't :)
I know i can grab the code and use it as i wish. But even in open source i choose of my own volition to try to uplift and help the devs involved instead of use their work without giving back. So i only use "let" because id like to know it is something that wont hurt u too.
I respecy you bro. No other way to say it. Its why eostalk.io is still paying you for the first months of its use and we will give u a % indefinitely.
Giving back for one anothers hard work is the only way humanity truly moves forward.
Now with that said. I thank you jesta. We need to get u delegated sp and a whalecoin to help pay people to help u. If interested tell me and its yours. If not...let me know how i can help otherwise.
No skin off my back if people do end up using it, it's just going to make their life more difficult in the end (in my opinion). I just meant to leave a warning for developers that might latch onto this project, and hopefully offer some advice. I do hope someone takes on the mantle, there's a lot of projects that need completing :)
Hi, @jesta you are great man. I like you, I'm your big fans....
Edited, Please disregard.
Have you ever spoken with ned? Is this just your opinion projected on to him as some sort of explanation?
I don't know who you are, so please set me straight if you have insider knowledge on ned's actions.
he doesn't, but he does seem to make a very well written article that connects whaleshares intrinsically to this concept of "vote buying schemes" while at the same time buying votes through sp leasing...
SO I am not exactly sure his motive. But for certain it has not helped this post and I will be accounting for it. :)
I truly hope I am incorrect of course...
Hi. Please continue your good work.
I have edited my other responses. Agree i went on an unrelated tangent, sorry about that. I will not do that again.
It isnt my place to speculate on ned and dan or whaleshares/beyond bit. I was ignorant to all involved and the story. That is my fault. Sorry.
No.
I do not have any insider knowledge.
Edited. Thanks for response OfficialFuzzy
First and foremost. Randowhale and "Votebuying" post is off topic for what I posted this post takes away from the GOAL of this post but I will not downvote you. Instead I will Unupvote my comment and repost it to upvote it again so people who are BUILDING it are not scared off. I hope this is not your intend by posting in this location as it seems terrible form.
Second I will respectfully communicate this to you and then move on to address your thoughts.
Voting power IS already centralized (Check out how much SP Ned made sure Steemit.inc, which he legally controls, owns. :/
Yes Randowhale is a great way to sell upvotes and take from the pool. It could be used correctly as a tool though to help people. It simply doesn't seem to go that way...yet
I notice on your account you downvote people and also delegate steempower using services. Congratulations you are vote buying.
## 4) Have you looked at any of my posts? Even read this one? What is BeyondBit doing here? IT IS PAYING 28K in rewards to finish something I donated to ned for (and was never paid me back, btw) TO BE DONE
Then please look at my account. Browse all the amazing work people are doing and the community i'm building (instead of cashing out my risky sp). Look at all the quality and amazingness I am producing.
We as a community do not need whales downvoting. We need them to give their power away which is precisely what I do every dang day in the most beautiful way on steem.
Unfortunately your extremely long post, your current use of sp leasing and your association between myself and the "reward pool rape" that you describe in the case of randowhale has NOTHING to do with me or what this post is about.
It also makes an account called truth force, who says in their profile that they are looking for truth, look like they are making assumptions rather than asking questions and "seeking truth". Hope this helps you find the truth and I hope you understand why I will be taking away my downvote from this reply and will repost and upvote it so this thread is not further disrupted.
Whaleshares is not a vote buying scheme. I dont sell ANY whaleshares. A small number of my Beyondbits may be purchased though.
BUT if people have problems with Vote Buying (aka advertising), then they should NOT ever support steem. What exactly do you think people are doing when they BUY SP?
They are BUYING VOTING POWER. Right? :)
Why will people ever buy SP if they cannot use it to upvote content and also make money at the same time?
I don't mean to sound mean when I say this but people realllllly need to understand this for the platform to work.
I buy SP and when I spent money to buy it, I dont think it is morally right for anyone to dictate to me how I should use it.
It is part of the system.
Errrm, Fuzzy; pardon me but Bitcoin seems the only popular crypto in Nigeria, most especially Lagos.
Now part of the reasons this account was set up is to let Steem, Bitshares, whaleshares tokens be know as well here in this country.
So some plans are in place to host some seminars and workshop telling people about these not so expensive tokens unlike Bitcoin which is almost a Million Bucks in my currency.
We will seek your opinion and Go-ahead as times goes on. Thanks
@oluwoleolaide for @steem-lagos
Nice!
Hello Mister, I read this amazing article already. But, I don't understand at all what kind of issues you are talking about. I am a new comer here and just kanded yesterday. Indeed, it will take a time for me to understand the issue you wrote.
Hopefully, I will be able to understand this article soon. I would like to review other resources as well.
Is it possible for me to have your vote on my introducing article? I really need to be your friend. I follow you. All the best for you.
Regard from Aceh, Indonesia.
I'm trying to understand, too. But I know it takes time for me to learn all the terms and jargon on this platform...
Thank you @officialfuzzy sir for everything you're doing for us and steemit community. Beyond bits and whaleshares are the most versatile thing on steemit. What could be more versatile than giving opportunities, to those who wants to grow here by doing a lot of hard work and dedication, in form of beyond bits and whaleshares. In fact, they get these token by again doing some hard work and providing value to this platform.
I am very sorry about the current understanding between you and @ned sir. I am sure this would sought out asap. But during this time, I am with you and actually the whole steemit community is with you. We'll help you to grow this Beyond bit program and would participate in each of your activity.
Thank you sir for everything :)
I will build with or without his help. I figured helping him after his attack was better for community than what i wanted to do...
Not gonna lie though. It took alot of venting and deep breaths...
Yeah I can only imagine. I was wondering how you were going to handle it. Like they say: "life's not about what happens, its about how you react to what happens.
Namaste and keep it up one day maybe you'll be CEO of Steemit one day :)
It takes a big-hearted person to rise above conflict and see the positive in any situation. Steemians, especially new ones, need to take a cue from you @officialfuzzy.
Thanks for inspiring a better community whether in beyondbitcoin hangout, whaletank or in whaleshares discord.
Awesome idea@officialfuzzy,a fantastic collaboration with @ned.Looking forward to the role I can play to help as a newbie.post Resteem ... @detycoon
Id love to see ned double down with his own whale token :)
It would be so awesome if my wallet had a smooth token, a fuzzy token, a Viking token, an asshole token, a Pal token so I could decide on each post I make which whale I want to pay for a vote! Yes, it would be kind of odd I have to log into another blockchain (that I have no interest in) to earn or buy these tokens, but who cares.. right?
So exciting!
That was the intention. Even told ned he could join and have his own token. Guess ned doesn't like value though.
Wow !
Great initiation @officialfuzzy !
Looking forward .
All the best !
@officialfuzzy Hey man, you know what I think about all this and you know that you have a whole crowd behind you pushing you forward.
I would like to know and officially apply for tomorrow speak about the ArtCoin and the ideas that I've been developing based on that. About how far I think it can reach and other services that the coin itself could bring if it stands properly in the market.
I believe ArtCoin can be a great opportunity to fellow artists and enrich the creative community in ways that are yet veiled. Although I am very ignorant about the crypto market and many things may sound retard. I apologize for that.
But I believe that I can bring very tasty ideas to WhaleTank and the CryptoWorld.
I love you guys. Somehow an entire community has my back. And im not talking a community with an upvote bot for anyone who joins for free votes only. Im talking a iut a legitimate community that empowers its users instead of simply empowering a small group and being the perfect house for sockpuppets.
Im just blessed to have good people behind me.
Have never used beyondbit or whaleshare tokens before,not really sure what they are. But after reading about them they sound very interesting,will definitely have to check them out some more. Thanks for sharing.
I'm new here, jusst wanted to say Hello :)