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Rise As One
A new kind of artist, a new kind of future.

​"THROUGH BLOCKCHAIN MANY BECOME ONE."

HOW DOES THIS WORK?
1. Start by Registering at http://thescarabexperiment.org.
2. Then Submit artwork to get a Scarab Token OR, if not submitting art, activate a membership.
3. Enable voting rights by linking your Token address with your email.
4. Submit more art or support SCARAB by telling others about this great opportunity.

WHAT IS SCARAB?
The world's first cryptocurrency artist collective that's working to create the enigma known as SCARAB and simultaneously the first cryptocurrency as art in and of itself (read about that here). The art doesn't need the community to exist and the community doesn't need the art to exist but together a beautiful symbiosis of identity and art blossom.
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More about the identity:​
SCARAB is a mass multi-user persona linked to a decentralized artist collective through a cryptocurrency token. What this means is that SCARAB is an artist like Picasso, Warhol, or Davinci but whose works are created by the efforts of a group of artists together and whose gallery showings are curated by the community members through voting. In order for the process to work members must hold a Scarab Token in a linked account so that they can vote. While SCARAB may be an imagined and digital entity its works are quite real and authentic.

WHAT IS THE GOAL?
Our unified goal is to create an artwork and artist identity called SCARAB and promote this throughout the world.
By collaborating efforts into a single cause, all of our members, which are anyone that holds a single Scarab Token, can benefit from SCARAB's fame and success. Ultimately this is an identity experiment of art and the individual. 

WHAT IS A BLOCKCHAIN?
A Blockchain is a distributed public ledger that's decentralized and contains all transactions that have ever been executed. It is constantly growing as 'completed' blocks are added to it with a new set of recordings. The blocks are added to the blockchain in a linear, chronological order. All of The Scarab Experiment's transactions are recorded in the Bitcoin blockchain and available for public review at anytime, creating a transparent and secure system that doesn't need to depend on trust of any individual or organization.

HOW DOES SCARAB CREATE A WORK OF ART?
SCARAB creates a work of art through an algorithmic imaging method process for every 1,000 artworks submitted.
Using this process each artwork is integrated with the artwork submitted before it and every thousandth submission ends the cycle by sending the image out for fabrication producing a single artwork of SCARAB.  Through this process the artworks become unrecognizable, slowly morphing into a distinctly SCARAB work of art. To maintain SCARAB's anonymity no single artist will be given credit for their work but a reward of one Scarab Token is given to each artist' submission.

This process will happen only 50 times thereby limiting SCARAB's art produced to a quantity of 50 works of art. Each official SCARAB artwork will be issued a separate ScarabART Token which are used for authentication by locking that work's attribution within a blockchain to assure its uniqueness. ​

WHAT VALUE IS THERE IN BEING ANONYMOUS?
SCARAB artwork offers an intrinsic value because no one knows who really created the artwork, each work could have been made by "Joe" down the street or an artist that's already famous. By not knowing who created the work all of SCARAB's work can be seen as both extremely valuable and worthless at the same time. This creates an intriguing play on what we value as art and why. Does the identity of the artwork's creator effect the way in which the art is received? 

WHAT DOES THE ORIGINAL ARTISTS GET FOR THEIR WORK?
 Every artwork submitted receives 1 Scarab Token from the 50,000 tokens reserved for artists, that's .001% of the total supply per artwork. The artwork then goes through the imaging method process and becomes unrecognizable by the end.
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DOES THE ORIGINAL ARTIST LOSE THE RIGHTS TO THEIR WORK?
No! The artist retains all rights but also grants The Scarab Experiment community the right to use the image in its imaging process to create a new work of art. No rights are given for the new work of art other than the tokens stated above. The original image submitted, as well as the generated art, may be used for promotions, shows, prints etc. The final processed artwork becomes the sole property of The Scarab Experiment.

WHAT ARE SCARAB TOKENS?
Scarab Tokens are assets created through CounterParty that act as a means for a transparent membership into the community of The Scarab Experiment. Being in the community you become a part of SCARAB.
​SCARAB is split into only 100,000 whole tokens (They can't be divided) making each token .001% of all Scarab Tokens and limiting the total membership allowed to 100,000 individuals. In reality there will be less than 100,000 members because individuals can hold as many Tokens as they like. By holding a Scarab Token the system is able to verify your membership and allow you to vote for inclusion in the experiment. All value collected through the sale of memberships or SCARAB art is used to support the project and boost community participation in various ways.

WHO CAN BECOME SCARAB?
Anyone, artists submit artwork and non-artist representatives help with support.

WHY BECOME SCARAB?
For Artists, becoming a part of SCARAB can offer an opportunity to have your work be part of something historical, a first of its kind Artist. SCARAB is an artist as persona formed through community which removes the individual identity and creates a type of artist that can no longer be seen as a singular being.

For Individuals, Collectors and Supporters becoming part of SCARAB can offer a chance to be a part of something new and groundbreaking. You will support artists and the arts in a wholly knew process that could eventually revolutionize how we see artists and art.

HOW DO YOU BECOME SCARAB?
You become SCARAB by participating in the community through making artwork for submission and/or by voting. To be able to participate and become a part of the community you'll need to hold at least one Scarab Token. Voting is used to determine major aspects of The Scarab Experiment.

HOW DO YOU GET SCARAB TOKENS?
 Submit art here, become a member here or acquire Scarab Tokens by going to CounterWallet.io and opening an order on the exchange within the wallet. Make sure to spell SCARAB correctly when submitting a buy or sell order.

HOW DO YOU OPEN A COUNTERWALLET ACCOUNT?
Steps to open your own counterwallet and import your Scarab Tokens that you can hold, trade, or sell:

1. Open a secure wallet by going to https://wallet.counterwallet.io/
2. Click create new wallet, then follow instructions.

CAN YOU SELL YOUR SCARAB TOKENS OR BUY MORE?
Yes! If at any time, you'd like to sell or buy Scarab Tokens, you can do so on the Exchange, Counterparty DEX, which is conveniently accessible within your CounterWallet.

WHERE CAN YOU FIND ALL OF SCARAB'S BLOCKCHAIN INFORMATION?
SCARAB is completely transparent, including all of its transactions, issuances and asset holders which you can find on the blockchain here.

STILL HAVE A QUESTION?
Send an email to: anyone@thescarabexperiment.org



Rise As One
www.TheScarabExperiment.org

An Experimental, Encrypted, Artist, Created by Anyone
all rights reserved © Copyright 2014-2018 The Scarab Experiment

 Is it a ICO, pre-mine, or etc?
I am an early  investor, what does this mean to me?
Bounty?

you can explain detail scarab coin dev
spefication scarab coin, total suply coin, type coin, about ico selling scarab coin and about bounty
if you open bounty translation and you need indonesian translation i want reseve indonesian languange

Could I creat a  piece of art and submit to be put under the Scarab Personae Brand now?
BTW,  I am a  unknown artist :)

Yeah,I could make both of Chinese thread with simple Chinese and Traditional Chinese for Taipei!

You can submit art now here: http://www.thescarabexperiment.org/submission.html (http://www.thescarabexperiment.org/submission.html) but you will have to verify that you hold Scarab Tokens for the artwork to go through the system. The Scarab Token vending machine has not opened just yet.

how to get Scarab Token: XCP Asset ?

Official Announcements for thread bounties to come soon.

The first post says no ico but the blog says 40, 000 for ICO which is it?
if this becomes legit, it can be a good token for profit. I just don't know the technical details of it but looking at its supply, its very possible to earn with it being an investor. IF...

Sorry that was a cut and paste typo which has been fixed, it's an ICO through Coindaddy.io vending services.

any bounty  for translation sir,,?
if yes,I will reserved indonesian translation,,thanks sir

if I buy 1 token what price?

Bounties will be announced soon. Translations will be needed and your reservation is noted, thank you for the interest.
For the fastest updates please go to http://www.thescarabexperiment.org/ (http://www.thescarabexperiment.org/) and sign up and enter your email to be notified.

Just want to ask if there's someone already that submitted an artwork to your team?
I can't see anyone yet from your website.

This token might be valuable in the future as the supply is very minimal.

Great question! and we have an interesting answer for this. We have no idea what the value of each Scarab Token will be so we decided to price them the fairest way we could think of.

The price will be set through an auction style sale of the very first token, whatever the first token receives as a sale price will be the set value for each Token.

ok thanks sir,,Done, ok thanks sir

Yes we have submissions already but since the Tokens are not released there's no way of knowing if the submitter will become a legitimate holder of Scarab Tokens yet. If they do then after we launch their submission will be released to The Scarab Community for a decision.  

^ya sounds interesting Trumpcoin is doing promotional artist artwork outreach this year too..i'll be keeping an eye here as the Overstock CEO dude is into counterparty stuff right? :-D

I see. Counterparty based piece of gunge with no premise and distinctly outlined vision. If I was to drag myself to ur level I would make new coins every night. I cant even imagine how many futile alts I could have developed up until now. Although I think I would never pick such a retarded name Scarab

^let's give them a chance to show us something! I'm just confused why i need to buy if im an artist ~ i have works i'll be happy to contribute to get this going for the sake of the art and the idea!! :-D

according to what you said ,the net works is not working ,right?

The system will begin working when the Tokens are available starting on March 15th. You can still submit art now but it won't check your counterwallet address for Scarab Tokens until after the Tokens are available. You'll need to have at least 1 Scarab Token in your wallet for the system to start the process.

The idea is good but poorly presented in my opinion

Yes, bounty campaign is important for your succesfull ICO
goodluck dev

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*IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT*

Ahead of the Token launch on March 15th we've officially started the Bounty Campaign!

Visit http://thescarabexperiment.org/bounty (http://thescarabexperiment.org/bounty)


Submit all bounties through the form on this page.
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​​Here are the details:

Bounty pool total is 3,000 Tokens.
Bounties will continue until the pool is empty.
New bounties may be added as time goes on.



TRANSLATION: 25 Tokens for each approved translation on bitcointalk.org

BLOGS: 50 Tokens for each approved blog. Any blog with The Scarab Experiment as the main focus, make it good.

VIDEOS: 100 Tokens for each ex-plainer video. Any Video with The Scarab Experiment as the main focus, make it awesome..


​Bounties will be reviewed individually for quality and accuracy. Any bounty submission not meeting our standards will not receive bounty.
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Bounty has started

Thanks for appreciating the idea we're working toward a more effective way to communicate it.

where could I get the coin?

no bounty social media?
or signature campaign sir?

reserved french translation

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The WHITEPAPER is now available: http://www.thescarabexperiment.org/whitepaper.html (http://www.thescarabexperiment.org/whitepaper.html)

It will be available starting tomorrow @ http://coinvend.io/scarab (http://coinvend.io/scarab)

any bounty social media dev?

No official bounty for social media or signatures. However, if you have a large following of real people (We'll check for bot accounts) send us a direct message and we will send you some bounty for a mention, tweet or post. 

Seems very unique, good luck with this! :)

Only 3000 coins for bounty, lol, how much per scarab coin? If this is under 0.01 btc, the bounty is worthless.

1 scarab = 1 btc   :o

This one should prove its worth. Such an expensive token.

OP, something is not OK with the bounties. You have a form and you expect people to make a translation and then submit it, thus facing the risk others already made/submitted the translation in the very same language. Unless done automatically a translation takes some time and the fair method for it is to discuss and reserve a translation.

This being said, if you need Romanian translation of the ANN, please let me know.

 Is this beside Waves or Eth assist? What is ICO details and start date!

We have reserved Romanian translation for you. To see whats been reserved see list @ http://thescarabexperiment.org/bounty.html (http://thescarabexperiment.org/bounty.html)

where is the whitepaper translation bounty ?

Same submission process and bounty as Announcement Translations. Go to http://thescarabexperiment.org/bounty (http://thescarabexperiment.org/bounty)

Why dont have Ru translation in bounty? or it done allreadY?

dev,we need more details on the coin itself.

The translations listed are only the ones already reserved. Submit an email to anyone@thescarabexperiment.org to reserve or post on this thread. Once you do you'll be added to the list.

What details would you like? Be specific for better answer.

What will be the difference between Scarab and other artist based coins?

This con is Jacek approved! We speak the same language...  ;)

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when scarab open ico selling
and how much price ico selling
how much total suply scarab coin ? , i think if good total suply not over 50 million coin, because xcp counter party asset fee sending is high, if total suply big, scarab coin low price muhc people not interst use scarab coin

It will be an interesting experiment at least. Are there any artists lined up who plan to submit work?

Yes, there are many artists waiting to begin submitting work.

Oh good. Can you give any teasers about who they are or even what kind of art they will submit?

The value of the token will be largely dependent on both the quality and quantity of art submitted.


Unusual approach to an ICO, but forcing everyone to pay the price set by the most bullish buyer may limit sales. What happens if you don't sell all the tokens?

I'd like to reserve the German translation.
As an artist myself I like the basic idea, hope to see something great for real content/art creators in blockchain space soon. Do you have experience with implementing this in a good way?

Thank you. I will try to finish it and post it before Monday.

We have reserved the German Announcement page and whitepaper translation for you, good luck! Our Core team is from the Art World, tech development, coding and business management sectors. They all have various projects behind them and the system for Scarab is ready to launch, our focus now is acquiring participants. 

So the artist gets 10% of any sale. Is the rest split between token holders and Scarab team and if so what proportions?

Thanks for the answer.

Since there is no escrow for the money raised and you have not shared your real world identity, how can you reassure us that this isn't just a scam for you to take the money and run?

We have not hidden our identities and in some venues they have been shared, but for the most part the Core members would like to remain away from the spotlight to put the focus on the artist, Scarab. We have been working on this since 2014 and we have no intention of leaving this project or running away with any funds.

Each Scarab Token represents membership into the community for participation in voting and creating art. The cost of one token is still yet to be determined but it currently will be less than .009 BTC approx 11 EUR or 10 USD. We decided against an escrow because our best outcome is if each Token is owned individually, which limits the amount of risk one would assume by purchasing. If you wish to purchase many Scarab Tokens for potential profit gain that's an assumed risk that you have to take with virtually every cryptocurrency regardless of who they have as escrow or identify as their team members.

I don't understand this, or perhaps its that you don't seem to understand what escrow is. An escrow agent holds the bitcoin raised, not the tokens, so they would still each be owned individually. Not having an escrow does not in any way limit the amount of risk one assumes by purchasing, its whole purpose is to reduce that risk.

But if that is the route you are going then its up to you. As you say there is still risk even with these things in place, its just that there are a lot of ICO scams so people have to try to be safe.

Its an interesting idea and I would like to publish an article on my site if its legit, but I'm not sure if I will yet because I don't want to promote something that may end up being a scam.

^let's see some of this artists' work "Scarab" is a masonic symbol ~ :-D

*why one token = 1btc im not seeing people buying this...zzz

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It's not 1 btc = 1 Scarab, the auction for the first Scarab Token started at 1BTC and goes down until purchased. It's currently at .0081 BTC for the Token. You can see the current price here http://coinvend.io/scarab (http://coinvend.io/scarab)

Why the name Scarab?
In Egyptian the name for the Scarab is translated as hprr, meaning "rising from, come into being itself," close to the word hpr, wich means "to become, to change."*

*cited source: "ANCIENT EGYPT." McClung Museum - Egyptian Scarabs. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Mar. 2014.

^have you even looked===>


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The Scarab Token Vending machine.

A shared artist persona for anyone to become, learn more @ http://thescarabexperiment.org


The 1st Scarab Token is now available! The price starts with 1 Scarab Token for 1 Bitcoin, if it doesn't sell the price will automatically go lower until it does. Once it sells that will set the price for the rest of the Tokens and the rest of the 40,000 Tokens will then become available here.


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where are you seeing .0081?


 ::)

I didn't realize the price would go down so fast. How often does it reduce?

You can see the CURRENT Cost @ http://coinvend.io/scarab (http://coinvend.io/scarab) The price has been dropping since it first became available on March 15th

The reduction of price started quickly but then slows down as it gets lower. There are various streams of information which adjust the rate as time goes on, but looking at the chart it's now around to a .0001 btc every few hours. There will be an email sent out to all our email subscribers once the first Token is sold and sets the price.

I wrote an article about this: http://cryptorials.io/scarab-experiment-creating-decentralized-artistic-personae/

The price is already very high, it will continue to grow? From what it should grow, what is the point of buying and where can I sell it?

Wow, what a great article, thanks for putting in the time to understand our project. Be sure to submit this on our bounty page to receive some Scarab Tokens. http://thescarabexperiment.org/bounty.html (http://thescarabexperiment.org/bounty.html)

The price is not growing it's shrinking until the first Token is sold. See the sale of the first Token happening here: http://coinvend.io/scarab (http://coinvend.io/scarab) You will be able to sell The Scarab Tokens initially on the exchange, Counterparty DEX https://xcpdex.com/ (https://xcpdex.com/)

The point of buying The Scarab Token is that you'll be able to participate in The Scarab Experiment by either creating art or by helping to promote the artist SCARAB. Everyone that has a Scarab Token is essentially a part of SCARAB. You can also buy The Scarab Tokens if you wish to simply speculate on the value.

Thanks. The bounty form isn't working. I sent you a pm.

fixed

please  reserve me the Chinese whitepaper translation


thanks

It is reserved for you now.

project with counter wallet platform many not successfull
i hope Scarab can be success

The Romanian translation is done.
You can find it here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1830842
Since I've never used CounterParty yet I will explore it in the near future and use your form to receive the bounty.

Edit: request also sent by the form.

We hope so too!

Excellent, thank you!

We appreciate your work, bounty coming your way soon.

German ANN thread coming in an hour or so.
Whitepaper should be ready today, too.

Will be writing a Steemit post by tomorrow.

Very interesting project so far.

Counterparty old technology which in time will be replaced by new technologies of the Ethereum and the Waves. As for me, not the best choice of platform.

Great work, thank you! Fill out bounty form to receive your bounty.

Counterparty was chosen because the Tokens were created in 2014 when Ethereum was not released for another year. We also decided to stick with Counterparty because we are loyal and they're layered on the Bitcoin blockchain which we feel is much more stable and reliable than Ethereum at the moment.

It also comes with a built-in decentralized exchange, which is good. I like Counterparty.

Thank you very much, the Whitepaper is done in German, too.
PM me an email address I can send it to. Will link to it once you uploaded it in the German ANN.

Nevermind, no email needed. I just submitted via the form.
Here is the direct link: http://docdro.id/uVRcTZG (http://docdro.id/uVRcTZG)

We received all your info, you'll have bounty coming your way very soon.

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*ANNOUNCEMENT*

Completed Bounties will be released within 24 hours after the first Scarab Token is sold. All subsequent bounties will be released on an ongoing basis once each bounty is confirmed through the submission form. 

Thank you all for your continued support and hard work.

Nice project! Good luck devs!

Very nice project....

GOOD LUCK  ;)

Well yesterday i wanted to buy 1 token, have send amount to address but still not confirmed.

We see your transaction attempts and are looking into it.

It appears that you made a payment with a different address than what you entered as the source address. Please respond to our PM to sort this out for you.

In order for the vending machine to pay out, the payment SOURCE, DESTINATION, and AMOUNT must match what the vending machine is expecting.... If you send payment from a different address than what you indicated, or if you under-pay, then the transaction is not valid and the vending machine does not vend a token.

The issue was that when sending from a service like Coinbase the address used for the transaction is different than the address holding your BTC, for smoothest transaction please send your BTC to your CounterWallet address and then send to Vending Machine using the CounterWallet address.

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*ATTENTION*

The First Scarab Token Has sold and the Crowdsale has officially begun!

How did the first Token sell?

We held a countdown sale for a single Token, where the price started at 1 BTC and slowly went down until it sold. This Token sold and has set the price for the rest of the SCARAB at .006 BTC (~$6.50) per Token. The details of the transaction can be seen in our important transactions list here:http://www.thescarabexperiment.org/transactions.html (http://www.thescarabexperiment.org/transactions.html)

So the first token is sold at 0.006! Not a bad price. I was thinking I might buy that first one myself if it dropped to 0.005.

Good luck selling the rest!

Initial Bounties sent out! Still more to be earned http://thescarabexperiment.org/bounty.html (http://thescarabexperiment.org/bounty.html)

#EXPECT_SCARAB  8) *e1337x

Congratulations!
First bounties already send out? GREAT! Will only be able to check my counterwallet this evening, though.
Definitly going to write an article about this on Steemit very soon.
Keep up the great work! Now I am really looking forward to the first art pieces of Scarab.

I just checked and I can confirm I received 25 SCARAB tokens for the ANN translation I've done.
Thank you

great , First bounties already send out?

Yes, the first batch of reward bounty was sent out for already completed bounties. Now, the rest of the reward bounties are sent out as they're completed after our moderator approves the submission.

Will it be possible for somebody to submit a piece of art before all the tokens are sold?

Yes, the submission process is already live but the community voting process has not yet begun. So Token holders can submit artwork but it will be queued in the system until voting goes live. We will stagger the submissions so the community is not overwhelmed by too many submissions when it first begins.  Artwork Submission is done here: http://www.thescarabexperiment.org/submission.html (http://www.thescarabexperiment.org/submission.html)

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*ANNOUNCEMENT*

1. We now accept XCP (Counterparty) at our vending machine! http://coinvend.io/scarab (http://coinvend.io/scarab)

2. Scarab is now available on the Counterparty DEX (Exchange)
 

This is actually a very interesting coin, so I thought I would give it a submission since I am a designer. I bought the scarab tokens and they are sitting in my counterparty wallet. However, when I submit the artist submission form I get an error that says "please correct the highlighted fields" and it has the counterwallet address highlighted. I have my counterwallet address within the box, but I still get the error. Any thoughts on this?

This issue has been fixed, reload the website and try again. Thank you.

Perfect. Successful submission. Thank you for helping me out.

The price you offer is awfully low. What stops the bounty hunters offer their tokens for 1.5 or even 2 XCP on DEX, giving the investors or speculators the chance to buy cheaper than from your vending machine?
What I am trying to tell is: you should have delayed sending out the bounties. Now it's a little late so you could offer a bit fairer price, making the bounty hunters don't count much in the equation.
However, it's your business, your call :) DEX is not much of user-friendly, which may give you an edge ;)

Bounty Hunters are welcome to sell their SCARAB at whatever price they deem fit for them, even if it's lower than our vending, that's okay. No one has to sell back to us at our price, our offer is for the Bounty Hunters that don't want to hold onto the Tokens but are seeking an immediate return on their time invested. We wanted to give everyone involved a fair option, if the Bounty Hunters want to count more in the equation they should hold onto their Tokens.

No, problem. We look forward to your submission and will post an announcement before we start the first submissions through the system. Thanks for participating!

Site revisions made, announcement for start of system artwork submission processing to come soon.

"Through blockchain, many become one."

Received translation bounty, great team, thanks.

Here is my first blog post about Scarab on Steemit:

The Decentralized Artist: SCARAB - a blockchain experiment (https://steemit.com/blockchain/@xwerk/the-decentralized-artist-scarab-a-blockchain-experiment)

Great work! Thank you for your blog, Steemit is a perfect venue for our project.

How many projects have been submitted so far?

This thread which is translated in Hindi doesn't make any sense: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1841065.0

The user has not paid attention to the grammar and just used an online translation tool.

Although the Scarab system isn't running submissions through just yet (This will happen when the initial crowdsale ends in June), we have around a dozen entries so far. We will also be displaying notable artists and galleries that are participating on our website. 

Thank you for paying attention, check your PM for a reward.

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*ATTENTION*

Artwork Submissions Officially Begin Processing on June 16th, 2017!

On this date, all artwork queued in the Scarab System will be sent out to participants for review and voting. 

Say hello to our new Sponsor:

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Visit their gallery exhibit featuring some amazing crypto/bitcoin artists on April 9th 2017! Website: http://cryptoartgallery.org/  (http://cryptoartgallery.org/)

Hello Cryptoartgallery

I didn't realize the price would go down so fast. How often does it reduce?

price go down？

why？

I like the concept of the coin

Price doesn't go down. One SCARAB token is now fixed to 0.006 BTC!

btw: I am really looking forward to see the first artworks submitted. Interesting times!

Any news? Very quiet here...

^scarab is sponsoring them, or they are sponsoring scarab? :-D ~tia!

It's a mutual sponsorship, we support them and they support us. If you happen to be near Manchester, UK and you visit CryptoArt Gallery's exhibit on April 9th, there will be an opportunity to receive a one free Scarab Token for the first 100 visitors. In return for our Tokens CryptoArt Gallery has been expanding our audience and adding backlinks to our website. 

Ah great, good to see some actual progress.
I like the cryptoart gallery. UK is a bit far away for me, though.

Are there any guidelines about what kind of art is accepted? Can it be a (high-quality) photo of a painting or drawing? A rendered image? Any limitations?

I really hate walls of text just to explain another cryptocoin... as soon as I see that kind of stuff I call bullshit !

No limitations and all mediums accepted. If you consider it art then it can be submitted.

One FAQ page is hardly walls of text and our whitepaper is one of the quicker reads in the industry. We have to communicate the idea in some form, written text seems to be the way to go for now.

Video with voice ? Spotsy does that.... can you ?

We have a video in the works so yes, we will have that out soon.

The market is empty. Even the buy back wall is missing and I don't think it was eaten up.
Is everything allright?

So it's about 0.006 BTC per scarab, or $6.50 worth of XCP which is about 1.7053 XCP.

there's 40K Scarab available for this purchase.

What will you be doing with the 50k token reserve?

also what will you do with the BTC & XCP collected? will you be willing to work out a payment release structure with an escrow for the BTC funds collected, so as to incentivize you to work over long period of time, instead of just getting the BTC/XCP upfront and leaving the project?

The buy back wall has just been replaced, it had expired. We're working on some new developments that will become a part of the projects shared assets. The launch is still being prepped for and is now imminent in exactly 56 days...stay tuned. 

Thanks for the action and for the news.
Waiting impatiently for good things to happen :)

Total 100k Tokens. The reserve is a total of 60k. 50k is reserved for artists whose artwork becomes a part of Scarab's official works, 1k per artist, 50 artists total. 10k is for administrative, bounties, advertising etc. 40k available for the crowdsale which is now ongoing at http://coinvend.io/scarab (http://coinvend.io/scarab)

Hope that helps, glad to answer any other questions.

I can make that happen. Fly to my town and I will shoot u on camera. U will get ur video with voice and quality made soundtrack consisting of my stomach rumble. I can assist u with whatever u need to be done. I read the whitepaper and laughed a lot at ur immaturity, multiple logical fallacies and absence of sense. Its dumbass reading. Whitepaper should be technical.

This is really cool, I have high hopes for most good counterparty projects

The Whitepaper is used to layout our vision, the problem, our solution and the overview of how it will be achieved.  If you have a specific question about anything technical we'd be glad to give you our best answer. 

Thanks so do we! Counterparty has a great deal of potential and that's why we're sticking with them for our Tokens.

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*OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT*

After a successful event with CryptoArtGallery we're pleased to announce the introduction of our Community Projects and Tasks. Community members are now able to post their Scarab related projects on our site as long as they have a benefit for the community in some way.

Our first project has been running for a few days now and is listed under projects. It's called ARK PYRMD and it's a cross blockchain project that will give Scarab 10% of all the ARK revenue acquired.

Tasks are a way to find help working on your Scarab projects and will help the community reach out to each other to find solutions.

These types of projects and tasks are just a few of the ways in which our community will be working together for the benefit of Scarab.
You can find all projects and tasks listed on our website @ http://www.thescarabexperiment.org/community.html (http://www.thescarabexperiment.org/community.html)

A Blockchain Startup Every Artist Needs To See

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Think of the traditional artist websites we see, most of them have tens of thousands of artists all fighting for a small glimpse of recognition or sales. With the Scarab model all of those artists work toward a common goal and the success of the artist is everyone’s success.

Only a very few artists can ever expect to earn millions on their art and even fewer still within their lifetimes. With Scarab the chances of being an actual part of a million dollar artist are much higher. How many artists could an artist support that earns say $100,000,000 annually? With Scarab there can only be 100,000 supporters or what we call members. At the speculated rate of $100,000,000 a year that is around $1,000 per Token (per artist membership) annually to create amazing art. Scarab’s actual earnings will depend on how involved and supportive the members are.

One of the big issues with token crowdsales is that they get all of these supporters willing to help the project succeed but they can’t always help. Scarab utilizes these supporters to create a vast network to really take advantage of its users. With this set in motion we can really push the boundaries of what an artist is and create a new future where the artist is no longer seen as singular.

Website:http://thescarabexperiment.org (http://thescarabexperiment.org)

Scarab Tokens: http://coinvend.io/scarab (http://coinvend.io/scarab)

Is this coin listed on any exchange yet?

The Crowdsale is still ongoing but Yes, it's listed on the Counterparty DEX @ https://xcpdex.com/SCARAB?market=XCP (https://xcpdex.com/SCARAB?market=XCP)

Really silent the last few weeks here. Is there still developement going on?

FLO/FLORINS Alexandria project welcomes projects like Scarab club :-D #FLO

Yes, we're still hard at work, 28 days to go. Also, one of the most important factors for community adoption is our marketing strategy so we're currently plotting out the direction we will take before implementing.  

Interesting project with a very broad focus, nice name  ;). 

The countdown on the site shows more than 29 days if I got it right.
I'd advise you to use something more "normal", since not many will divide by 86400 to get the number of days..
Even widgetic can have timers that show better than just seconds...

You're right, it's been fixed, 28 Days to go

Hi.  Why has this thread gone silent please?  May I know?

Also,
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheScarabExperiment/comments/6du63f/i_am_a_bit_disappointed/

There hasn't been much to announce lately, if you don't hear from us it's because we're busy working behind the scenes. This project will do things that no other in the cryptospace has done yet but it's all in the works right now. We're currently making internal decisions and fine tuning the format but our marketing campaign will begin very soon. Keep an eye out, it's coming, system goes live in 18 days!

http://www.thescarabexperiment.org/transmission.html (http://www.thescarabexperiment.org/transmission.html)

Nice little teaser. It definitly needs audio imo.
I am a sound designer and musician, if you are interested, send me a PM with a link to the raw video and I can create an audio track for it.
If you don't like it you don't have to use it obviously.

Any update from the dev?

We sent out an email update to our subscribers, the Scarab Experiment goes Live in 2 days! Last chance for people to get any Tokens from the crowdsale before they're at the mercy of the DEX Counterparty Exchange. Artwork submissions will begin processing as soon as the counter hits 0.

From what I see you've sold until now 1761 tokens.
This means that the SCARAB wallet should contain 10.566BTC
The wallet contains, from what I see, 8.00009386BTC
Where is the difference coming from, did I miss something?

No, you're correct. Some funds were used for advertising on Coinmarketcap.com and for a new website/logo redesign which is in progress now. The remaining were turned into ETH to diversify Scarab's holdings. All addresses with this information will be publicly available and accessible through the new website.   

Only 1 hour until the Scarab Experiment begins! Who will this artist become?

The Scarab Experiment Launches Successfully: Artists Wanted

The Scarab Experiment has successfully launched and the system is now up and running. The first valid submissions are being processed on a continual basis and queued for community voting. 

All artists that work in ANY medium are welcome to submit their work for inclusion in the project. The reward for each artist’ work that’s selected is 1,000 SCARAB tokens which as of this writing (According to XChain at https://xchain.io/asset/SCARAB) have a value of $36.03 each on the DEX Counterparty exchange. To submit artwork the artist must have an account with http://counterwallet.io that holds at least one SCARAB token. 

Our token crowdsale has officially ended but you can still get SCARAB tokens by purchasing them through the DEX Counterparty exchange which is accessible through your counterwallet account.

We’d also like to make an announcement that Scarab now has a new logo which is the image above. This logo is the start of a website redesign that’s currently underway and will be unveiled within a few weeks time.
Remember in order to successfully vote you must link your account with your email address by filling out the link account for voting form located here: http://www.thescarabexperiment.org/scarab-tokens.html

We would once again like to thank the community for the continual support and as to assure you that we’re working hard to promote our Scarab identity within the art world. As proof of this, we’d like to let our artists know that as part of the benefit for participation with our experiment, Scarab will soon be advertised in a very exciting Contemporary Art Magazine, more on this to come soon, stay tuned!

Very awesome stuff. I got a few of my friends involved as well. Very cool project, great launch, email system worked perfect. I'm excited to start seeing the art getting populated.

Congrats.

Any updates? I have quite a few Scarabs just sitting around..

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*OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT*

JUXTAPOZ MAGAZINE AND GALLERY APPLICATIONS!

Scarab can now be seen in the 200th Issue (September) of Juxtapoz Magazine. We hope this will bring more artists to the platform and help spread the word about what we're trying to achieve with Scarab. Juxtapoz will be mentioning Scarab in their upcoming social media posts and articles.

Also, an updated website is live with applications. now open for gallery owner/curators to apply to host Scarab's upcoming exhibits! 

While The Scarab Experiment is still accepting artwork for voting and inclusion as official works, there has been a slight change to the process. In order to ensure that each of SCARAB’s artwork fits within a style, fitting of the project, there will be a step using a new imaging method technology.

This process will take each winning artwork and process it with SCARAB’s logo using a variable algorithm in order to create a wholly new image. That image will then be painted with oil on canvas and therefore produce a wholly new work of art. Not only will this keep SCARAB’s art completely original and unique but it will also alleviate any storage issues we had before. Earlier artwork that was accepted was to be held by the artist themselves as they acted as custodian for it, now there’s no need to require the artists to be held liable for the art. This should be a welcomed development that benefits all of our members in the community. This will not effect the rewards given to the artists, who still will receive a generous 1,000 Scarab Tokens for each artwork accepted as well as a 10% for the sale of the art and 5% for the sale of editions/prints.

By using this process each SCARAB artwork will be the product of many of The Scarab Experiment participants instead of just a single artist. This aligns itself with the vision of SCARAB as a new kind of artist that we’re all creating. Not only do we have a new kind of artist but now we also have a complimentary and new kind of artwork.

Below is an infographic that explains simply how the process for SCARAB has evolved:

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https://www.juxtapoz.com/   8) FLORINS/ALEXANDRIA PROJECT ramping uppppp+!! We are reaching out to Shepard Fairey too ;) weeeee

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