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R_Block’s vision is to create an ecosystem in which workers can easily own, manage and monetize their proven skills and experience data. R_Block will be a decentralised CV/Reference network, bringing references and proven skills into a CV. For the first time ever, workers are able to own their reference data and monetise it through C.v tokens. Our unique solution to the problem in referencing will be the framework for a tokenized careers ecosystem. Then become a self-sovereign identity management technology. The employment history data itself will become a core part of identity verification. Every Worker has an employment ‘digital fingerprint’ which can be used to uniquely identify them. Years of credibility and performance proof is a powerful identity claim, like no other. Synthesized by reference data in the R_Block network.



MISSION

To transform R_Block into the world’s first skills ledger & careers ecosystem. Establishing Workers as the rightful owner & controller of their Reference data. To become the industry standard for proof of employment history & performance across careers and beyond. Utilising Web 3.0 to create a proof of credibility & long term performance identity claim compatible with ERC725.

PROBLEM

References supplied by an ex-colleague, are the most reliable way to authenticate a worker's’ competency. They are the most reliable long-term performance indicator. Ten years ago References were the primary measure for gauging Workers’ competency, today References have lost their rightful and inherent importance. What’s changed?

TRUST.

In 2017 we’re less willing to share data without incentive. We’ve been bombarded with spam and experienced our personal data being misused for too long. Hiring is £400 billion market. The popular centralised recruitment platforms naturally look after the parties that pay their bills - recruiters.

The balance is off, frustration is at an all time high and the knock on effect is a decline in use for recruiters too. Referencing is a primary example how data is being abused. It’s more often used by Recruiters for sales-leads rather than for verifying competency. Frequently, a Recruiter says that they need to collect upfront References from a Worker. In reality this isn’t true, the Recruiter uses the contact information for pitching business.

This kind of misuse has led to scepticism about sharing personal data [12]. The abuse of Worker information has diluted the trust in the Referencing & hiring in general. Furthermore, red-tape has muddied the water on what can be shared. Which unduly deters Workers from utilising the powerful tool. Lack of knowledge & tangible incentive has contributed to Referees becoming tight-lipped over supplying useful information.

In 2010, 75% of employers would Reference Workers for technical jobs, but today only 25% of employers take References [5]. What has broken this tool?

DATA ABUSE.

Referencing used to be the best tool for companies to establish Workers’ competency. Now Referencing is just a validation check to back up decisions that have already been made, simply to check there are no ‘skeletons in the closet’.

TOOL BECAME CHECK.

Like the centralised platforms, referencing doesn’t help Workers - checks at the latter stages of the recruitment process can only impact them negatively. After years of duplicitous requests, Workers are now less willing to share their Referees. Referees are less willing to provide detailed References due to lack of incentive. We’ve reached a stalemate.

Referencing is now usually only conducted after a Worker has been offered a role, which has relegated Referencing from being a competency evaluation tool into a last-minute sanity check. Hence, we now have the phrase “reference check”.

R_BLOCK SOLUTION

Headline: We have built a unique SaaS tool which seamlessly integrates into the hiring process to rejuvenate referencing. This tool is the unfair advantage R_Block has to attract users to build out our tokenized careers network.
1. Tokenisation allows R_Block to put the right incentives in place for Referees to share quality reference data.
2. R_Block empowers workers by giving them the opportunity to own this data and monetise it. By becoming searchable & contactable.
Only once this network has been proven can we realise our vision of becoming a identity proof relied upon for high level identity claims.


this announcement thread will updated with more information.

dear all
here is my Arabic translation for the ANN
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2375634.msg24235044#msg24235044

Hi guys, just want to report that

Now is possible to make part of the R_Block discussion on the Portuguese Language.
Official R_Block Thread and Bounty Campaign translated and posted. Ready for discussion and to answer all your questions and curiosity related to the R_Block project.

You guys are more than welcome to participate in this new discussion thread.

São todos bem vindos ao nosso Tópico Português de R_Block

Click at this link (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2396295.0) to access and participate on our discussion.

That's nice to see blockchain can affect on all the corners of real life by tokenized even References

R-Block ANN thread now published:
Vietnamese: https://bitcoingarden.org/forum/index.php?topic=22270.0

R_Block whitepaper is not public!

http://bit.ly/2xOQ8xW

Also, the website had a rework due to community demands.

how will the system deal with the purchased references? And if a person specifically leave a negative reference because of his personal non-involvement?

Great point! Social hacking is an extremely important concern that needs to be dealt with. Concerning your first question, in the same way people could lie about their qualifications on Linkedin but don't. Why? Because other people on the site could find out and if they do it would have a detrimental effect on your career. This is the beauty of using the Blockchain. Given that your reference will be left on the blockchain forever it would be against your interest to lie.

On your second question, I'm not sure if I have understood you correctly but I take it that you're raising the concern of people giving negatived biased references due to personal reasons. Ultimate completely eliminating personal biases is impossible but this problem can be mitigated in three ways. First, through people selecting their referees, second people having multiple reference sources and lastly the fact that you have access to your references.

Here is a link to our video explaining the concept:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF_97SYI45U

Let us know if you have any more questions :)

Why you need tokens? What about functions of tokens? Why price of tokens must increase?

Why you need blockchain here? Maybe simple make your system without blockchain?

I'm interested in the stage of voting. Can an worker collude and buy votes in his favor to confirm certain skills? If yes - how to deal with it?

Do you have a big employers in mind? This could attract a large number of workers to the platform.

How many collected on Pre-Sale? Pre-sale ends 20 November or later? How many minimal investment on PRE-SALE?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2403377.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2403377.0)  -Russian discussion about R_Block. Welcome ...

Can worker sell his account on R_BLOCK?  This is big problem for LinkenID

Good point. The token has 2 key utilities in the ecosystem.

1. One of the reasons for the 50% decline in referencing is the lack of incentive to provide detailed information. The R_Block ecosystem is powered by the referencing tool we have built, this collects data from real job applications. When a company pays CV tokens to conduct a reference, up to 50% of this fee is rewarded back to the referee. The network validators score the reference on how factual and detailed the data is. Then award the percentage of the fee earnt. The remaining 50% of the transaction fee is used for our buyback scheme.

2. Within the tech sector, we face another key issue. Workers get bombarded with approaches from recruiters whilst not looking for jobs so there's no incentive for workers to interact. There's frustration that there's no reward for time spent interacting and often Cv's and contact data is shared to no end. In the R_Block ecosystem, workers choose for their skills to become searchable. Companies search the network for profiles with matching skills then pay the worker in CV tokens to interact and reveal their full profile.

We've seen sites like Hired.com rise in popularity which empower the worker. R_Block goes one step further to empowering the worker by making sure they are paid for their time interacting.

Thank you for your question. For the product to work we need to make sure the references, certification, etc are credible. We are taking advantage of Blockchain's ability immutable so that if there are abuses it can be clearly identified.

Blockchain is a great way to store and prove your digital assets. We see skills and experience as no different. There have been many good whitepapers about Blockchain for prove of digital assets, one of my favourites is BitFury's - http://[Suspicious link removed]/1SzMmyo.

The second and arguably more important factor is the built-in anonymity it brings. We are trying to remove data abuse in hiring. Blockchain provides a network in which companies and workers can interact anonymously, purely based on proven skills. This has another very worthy benefit in destroying prejudice. In the R_Block network, it won't matter what university you went to, or where you come from. Companies will evaluate you purely based on your skills.

We have over 350 ETH committed so far. We will be extending the pre-sale until we reach our pre-sale allocation. If you are a company or manager that hires technical staff and you're interested in the contributing - get in touch: luke@rblock.co or via the site: https://rblock.co/

Thanks but this is not something we are considering at this time.

Very good point. The referencing tool integrates seamlessly into the hiring process. So the reference and skills data is collected in real job applications by previous managers. The reference scores highly by providing real examples of their work and the amount of detail.

The upvoting functionality exists within the hiring network. Companies in that pay CV tokens to interact with the worker and see their full profile will be given the option to upvote after interviewing or interacting with them. Hiring companies will be identity checked (Civic or Uport) just as referees will and the network validators will be looking out for this behaviour. There is an infographic on the site to explain how it fits together: https://rblock.co/

Does that make sense?

Interesting idea
Buut, I didn't quite understand. How does a recruiter, employee and employer interact on a platform? Explain please this process in more detail.

Good point. This would be an issue if profiles were purely skills based. But this is exactly the kind of problem we guard against. Since profiles are built up of proven references with confirmations of companies worked at and dates. This creates a unique digital identity in itself, profiles will be unique to each individual.

There are many different scenarios we have had to consider, I'll explain a couple of the popular ones. But let me know if you have something specific in mind.

Collecting The Reference
A company may be working with a recruitment firm to supply staff to hire. Usually, in this scenario, a recruitment firm will at least claim to be conducting references as part of their service with the client. We encourage both parties (the company & recruiter) to be involved in collecting the reference. The reference is collected via our email - private message exchange. The reference provided by the referee and will be passed by to the company or recruiter that initiated the smart contract in a form in an email. If the company is not part of this process, the worker can share the reference that has been stamped on the blockchain and their profile to cross check.

Job Board Network
Within this network companies and recruiters will have an interchangeable persona. They will be operating in the same way - just like companies and recruiters do on traditional job boards (Monster, Indeed). A company or recruiter will search via workers proven skills, then pay CV tokens to reveal their full profile and a chance to contact them.

Good question, thanks very much.

I think you can tie the account to the IP and phone number. In this case, the phone number will can change only after the video call to the administration of platform - that the identity has been confirmed. Everything is very simple.
2FA for account - necessary ..

Absolutely! It is a great solution we are looking in to.

a very quiet project. But ICOs acting like this are very profitable.  ;)

Are negotiations with large employers or recruiting agents going on? I believe that attracting serious market players can well affect the popularity of R_Block.

Thank you for your question. Yes we are they are ongoing we are speaking to quite a few companies, but only working with select few so that the network grows in the right way with the right data and people. We have confirmed one partner and will be announcing them throughout the campaign.

Very interesting projects, as I was used to be a recruiter. I know it is very hard to collects all the reference information from candidate.
I really got interested in the referees incentive to put their reference on the R_BLOCK.
I am very looking forward to seeing this project will solve our recruiters, candidates, and referees problems!!

What is soft and hard caps on ICO?

The idea sounds good. When references come from other companies data is more reliable and that benefits both the employee and the recluiter.

Havent seen anything
But looks great

Seems it's something like LinkedIn. You pay to contact employee, ye? But, i don't see difference between 'skill-proof' system.

Hi the hard cap for the ICO is £6 million. Please check out our recently published black paper here:

http://rblock.co/Blackpaper.html

The Whitepaper Revolution: the good, the bad and the sickening.

We published an article on whitepapers in the crypto-space feel free to check it out:

https://hackernoon.com/the-whitepaper-revolution-the-good-the-bad-and-the-sickening-438b51333fa

it was a nice sharing.

It is nice to hear from the situation of your work.
I am a newsletter member but it is better here.  ;D

PRE-ICO already ended? When will be ICO? How much you collected on PRE-ICO? What about price on PRE-ICO? R_BLOCK - very interesting project.

We are proud to announce Toni Lane will be joining as an advisor. She is the founder of CoinTelegraph & BitNation. Entitled “Joan of Arc of Blockchain”. Advisor to the UN. Top 20 most influential ladies in Blockchain. http://bit.ly/2BA3jsS  @tonilanec

We are excited to announce that Ahmed will be joining us as a developer. He is a former employee of Google, BBC, Sky and many more. Bringing his experience and talent will help us to make sure our product is world class. https://github.com/ahmednuaman

Interesting idea
good point
good luck dev...

I watched twitter news, hopefully it contributes to the project.

We are proud to announce that we will be part of the decentralised identity foundation. Along side Blockstack, Microsoft, Iota and many more.

http://identity.foundation

Dear manager! What again is wrong with my constructive posts? You again did not count my stacks)))

In order to clean up tokensales we have introduced a new governance framework:

https://medium.com/r-block-blog/the-coinception-crowd-sale-framework-ecd67a8e4283

To the R_Block Community,

We're pushing our token sale back to Jan 30th. We always planned on proving the product viability first before holding our token sale. We’re just releasing the Beta App to partners this week. To allow them time to use it around Christmas, we'll share their feedback in early January. We're have a new date of 30th of January for the sale lasting 21 days. Please let us know if you have any further questions.

Many thanks,
R_Block Team

We just published. Why Referencing is the most important asset in the context of the gig economy.

https://medium.com/@luke_92690

The team is very strong and the additions of Tori Lane and Ahmed Nuaman is also very encouraging. Gotta say their profiles (and those of the other team members) are very impressive.

Thank you for your kind comment. We really believe the visions to create a hiring ecosystem without prejudice. Please look at the article from the New York Times explaining Google, Facebook & Linkedin all promote age discrimination in their job ads. With no intentions to change, this is their business model, to leverage their data monopolies over us. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/business/facebook-job-ads.html

Best,
R_Block Team

P.S. Please don't forgot to signup to our white list if you'd like to contribute to our Coinception event: https://rblock.typeform.com/to/sn7rJ0

R_Block are creating a network of the top tech professionals, focusing on Blockchain first. This is potentially one of the biggest challenges for Crypto to attract the best talent to the right projects.

We're lucky that R_Block that we've been able to attract Ex-Google & an Ex-MIT research leader to the team. Very few can boast this. They obviously agree this is an important problem.

An exclusive interview with Fabian Vogelsteller (creator of the ERC20).


https://hackernoon.com/ethereums-biggest-need-in-2018-interview-with-fabian-vogelsteller-9de52c5fbbd9

We have a reference from GOCardless: "I've been speaking with Luke for the past few weeks to trial R_Block and have now had the opportunity to be one of the first users. R_Block is a simple easy to use intuitive piece of software that I foresee completely rejuvenating employee & employer referencing using intuitive Blockchain technology. I look forward to working with Luke and the R_Block team for the indefinite future whilst they continue to evolve their product.

Anthony McCabe
Talent Manager - GoCardless

N.B - Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer."

R_Block's launched a new Whitepaper: https://github.com/R-Block/_Whitepaper_/blob/master/_Whitepaper_.pdf

Have you ever saved a customer or manager by going above and beyond on a job? Then struggled to convey how much you were valued in future interviews? You need to start asking for references and owning them. Now. Your reputation is everything #Rep

Link not working

Thanks for the comment dwminer! Ah that is strange try this: https://github.com/R-Block/_Whitepaper_/blob/master/%7BWhitepaper%7D.pdf

Now it works perfectly, thank you, I'm starting to read.

You're very welcome! Please let me know if you have any questions.

If you are in London please come to our meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Applying-Blockchain-Outside-Of-Finance/events/246615804/

 :)

Hey Starb our crowdsale will take place on the 30th of Jan and end on the 20th of Feb! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2372239.0
https://rblock.co

Dear all we have a massive announcement! Fabian Vogelsteller is joining our board of advisors. Fabian is a long-term open source developer and author of open source. Such as Ethereum's Mist browser, Ethereum Wallet and web3.js. Together with Vitalik Buterin, he proposed the ERC20 token standard, which started the ICO movement.

“I am very happy to see Blockchain Identity Standard’s and it’s use cases emerge. r_block is an interesting platform for verifiable claims around work relationships, and we will see in the future how important verifiable CVs will be. Great use case for ERC 725.”

https://medium.com/blockchannel/the-anatomy-of-erc20-c9e5c5ff1d02


P.S. We have huge announcement coming in the next few days; stay tuned
.

Hey, any more announcements? when is the token sale?

Actually yes! Our token sale is starts next Tuesday: https://rblock.co/Crowdsale.html

We are honoured to have Keith Teare the founder of 3 unicorn sized tech companies on our advisory board.

Keith is the Executive Chair of UK venture company Accelerated Digital Ventures, and recently advised on the successful ICOs of ICOBox and Crypterium. He was a founder of TechCrunch, RealNames, and EasyNet, the first consumer Internet Service Provider in Europe and the first Cybercafe in the world — CYBERIA. EasyNet and RealNames both achieved Unicorn status during the late 1990s. Keith said:

“The R/Block team has developed a classic blockchain protocol that sits firmly in the trust space. Proof of Reference enables a person to have validated references that can be re-used over and over. A very valuable piece of data that is extremely time-consuming to gather has been made simple and scalable. I’m proud to help with their ICO.”

Keith Teare "Technology kaiser"

thanks very much! do you have any questions about R_Block?

Hey Guli, is this matter resolved?

Hey adotrulez, do you have any questions for the R_Block team?

It is a pleasure to announce that we will be the first european partner of POA network.  POA Network is the first Ethereum-based public network with Proof of Authority consensus, reached by independent validators. They are building a public network for smart contracts that combines speed, security, and cost efficiency. They will be actively contributing to the development of the R_Block ecosystem.


https://poa.network/

Big Announcement, we are delighted to announce our first partnership with GOCardless a Unicorn startup who have provided a glowing review of our dApp and see a lot of potential in the network.

"I've been speaking with Luke for the past few weeks to trial R_Block and have now had the opportunity to be one of the first users. R_Block is a simple easy to use intuitive piece of software that I foresee completely rejuvenating employee & employer referencing using intuitive Blockchain technology. I look forward to working with Luke and the R_Block team for the indefinite future whilst they continue to evolve their product."

Anthony McCabe
Talent Manager - GoCardless

We are delighted to announce our second corporate partnership with Qualcomm a legendary technology giant! This partnership will lend us a huge amount of credibility and traffic to the network; we aim to do our part to bring the best talent to Qualcomm.

https://www.qualcomm.com/

Hello, how to verify the terms of this announcement?
I can't find anything on the Qualcomm main site, can you please provide us a link? Thank you.

Hey xxxgoodgirls, thank you for your question. They have been trialing our beta product for the past few months and they will be using our saas tool from day 1. We are just waiting for them to come back with a statement. Also please have a look at: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6362305675657306112/

But I still do not understand why you completed the bounty program in December? It would be logical to continue it until the end of the ICO - that is, until the end of February.

Keith Teare gives his thoughts on R_Block. Keith is an advisor to R_Block and is the Executive Chair at Accelerated Digital Ventures. Advised ICOBox and Crypterium. Founder of TechCrunch, EasyNet, RealNames. Two achieved Unicorn status. https://youtu.be/B9LYlfGodLE

Crowdsale is now live. Hold onto your hats 🤠

Get yourself registered at: https://rblock.co/register.html

Over $1m raised so far.

Believe in the project! buy more tokens possible

https://etherscan.io/token/0x77377bcd4c84da61bb333491e2dde1fbb33f942a#balances  - The address of the contract for which tokens are distributed from pre-ICO. After finish ICO, the remaining tokens will be distributed under this contract.

Now  tier 2. 1 CVT=0,98$

Have you already developed MVP?

I am participating) 0.5 ETH
good luck

Of course! In fact our partners have been testing our beta product for a few months now. Please refer to the website for sneak preview  ;): https://rblock.co/page2.html

Thank you for your kind comments! It is great that you share our vision to transform the hiring process. CVs and cover letters have been around for hundreds of years. We need CHANGE! With R_Block you don't have to be a 21 year old Stanford grad to land your dream job, if you are really good through R_Block you will be able to prove your competence. Even if you are a high school dropout from Colorado you will be able to prove your ability.

Brilliant! Welcome to the R_Block family - I hope you got the email regarding your privileges as a community member. i.e. voting rights etc  :)

We understand. Thank you Tarolog for being so active despite the bounty ending :)

If price of the CVT will jump above , say, $ 30, will you arrange the sale tokens in 2019 and in 2020? It might be reasonable then to burn them?

The dates are provisional and we will hold the sale based on various factors including the token price. We will have a look into this option.

In case you missed it, we're thrilled to be the first European partner for Oracles POA network 😄


http://"drive.google.com/file/d/1yqOnS39IrKSO69WIdxx1TM5wJbMSOSW0/view?usp=sharing"

Oh fantastic thank you!

Hi dwminer1, in case you missed it here is a video from one of our advisor Fabian Vogelsteller "https://twitter.com/feindura"

You mean this: https://twitter.com/feindura/status/959038362140147712 ? I saw ;)

Ah perfect!

Thanks AndrewBUD! If you are wondering exactly what rights CVTs give you: https://medium.com/r-block-blog/the-higher-utility-the-cvtoken-ee15641a6c8e

Who can participate in the ICO? USA, SINGAPORE? Do I need to complete KYC? Thanks for answer.

 1- can I use Jaxx to send eth to the project right?
2- instead of the email rblockco.eth , can i use the HEX address I received from the confirmation email.
Thank you in advance

Hi for USA you need to be accredited. For Singapore there are no restrictions and yes you do need to KYC.

Yes you can please refer to the etherscan page: https://etherscan.io/enslookup?q=rblockco.eth

P.S. Always cross check addresses!

🥁 Huge annoucement 🥁 R_Block today announces a major integration with the continuous liquidity provider @Bancor. "We understand the importance of liquidity of the CVToken so we're pleased to announce this new partnership" #liquidity #CVT #tokens #Bancor https://medium.com/@R_Block/r-block-integrating-with-the-bancor-protocol-cc243afb5e95

How do you look at translating your publications for the Russian community?

ICO - 2200 ETH (excluding PRE-ICO). For end of ICO - 2 DAYS.

In a few hours, the ICO ends. In my opinion, investors have underestimated this project. Let them now buy on exchanges - at a very high price.

ICO ended now https://etherscan.io/address/0xb4b67fba9949105b89dd5785c6d99e452ac2888e (https://etherscan.io/address/0xb4b67fba9949105b89dd5785c6d99e452ac2888e)

Averall amounth on ICO (without Pre-ICO ) - 2596 ETH. Tier 1 and tier 2 all sold . This is great success of R_block

how will r_block adapt to the newer blockchain innovations being brought forward obviously we're seeing companies bringing out these uber huge blockchain ideas to outperform ethereum. If another company furthers this idea on a more efficient platform in the future. I can see that as a distinct possibility

Why We need CVTs: "[Native tokens] allow communities to govern themselves, their economics, and rally a community in powerful ways that will allow open systems to flourish in a way that was previously impossible."

https://blog.coinbase.com/app-coins-and-the-dawn-of-the-decentralized-business-model-8b8c951e734f

It would be 18 decimals.

Fundamentally, blockchain and DLT will reshape the way technologies will challenge the organisational structures like companies. This will be a huge challenge for companies like Uber who will need to rethink their business model.

However, we understand that we need to stay lean and move as fast as possible.

I think that the listing on big exchanges must be in April- May, when the beta version R_Block will be implemented. Otherwise, the price may fall.

POA: the best short term scaling solution? https://medium.com/@web3/investigating-short-term-scaling-solutions-for-ethereum-a5951fee8967

It seems that today there is nothing wasted with blockhain network, all the activities we do can generate its own income, like this R_block project

We believe that it is only right you get your just reward for your data!

A token a day keeps the doctor away. 8 new tokens went live on the Bancor Network last week.  And CVT already in Bancor.

https://medium.com/r-block-blog/decentralised-value-creation-r-blocks-community-vision-5ab0541a39cb

also, all presale tokens are locked for one year, correct?
that means that the circulating supply for rblock for the following months will be:

tokens sold on tier 1
tokens sold on tier 2
airdrop/bounty tokens

AMA tonight at 6pm. Ask your questions here: https://www.tokendaily.co/p/r-block-decentralised-hiring-network-ama-at-6pm-utc (https://www.tokendaily.co/p/r-block-decentralised-hiring-network-ama-at-6pm-utc)

I think you interest many question. In april will be main start of R_Block.

FROM TELEGRAM

Yes we do have new clients that we will be announcing during our next campaign. The next big campaign will be focused around our next significant event - the mainnet launch.

~ Some of the R_Block team were at EthCC in Paris last weekend. We're applying for and planning the event calendar for the year.
~ We are going to be presenting Decentralised work in London in April. Plus we'll be holding a joint event with Medichain for our next installment of ABOOF. Check out our Meetup page to keep track of these events.
~ We have a very flat structure at R_Block but Charlotte is the CMO and co-founder.
~ We are currently working on this :)

Congrats on the Bancor listing. New Bancor users can find tutorials on converting via metamask here https://support.bancor.network/hc/en-us

Now is the best time for team to work hard. Then we moon during the next bull run. Can share a lil bit on what are the marketing campaign initiatives for next month

Presale  started on 20th of November. ICO  started on 30th of January and will end of 20th of February.   is this right ?

does this project already hit exchange right now ,i cannt find the token in coinmarketcap.com ,please help me ,thanks!

linkedins are outdated and many of the team are advisors and consultants, so that people dont work full time
if you can point out each member i'm sure staff can explain and how many hours they're expected to work

Hi Coinmarketcap is requiring around $100K in circulating supply for the token to be listed. However, we are listed on Bancor, Idex, etherdelta, etc

Yes I have informed the team to update their Linkedin profiles, we have some exciting new hires stay tuned :)

Team focusing on their tech, marketing campaign has not started yet, it will at a later stage once amazing beast product is release

Hear Hear!

We have 2 big announcements today.

 1. Radar Relay: https://twitter.com/_R_Block/status/982157879250571264

 2. R_Block’s new Lead Designer: https://medium.com/r-block-blog/team-announcement-josh-collie-r-blocks-lead-designer-37670e8b5ff1

How's the main net coming along?
Couldn't care less about exchanges to be honest. Final working product is key here. Would love to see some news about this especially

 CVT lack the daily volume req. I think the team is making a push in symbiosis with the product release.

On which ICO listing websites I already can find your project?

 IDEX have renamed ticker. Developers been a busy week working with lead designer Josh on competitor analysis / branding Charlotte is now working full time on the project
Three new team members expected on Monday

I hope team is working on solving this issue with a rebranding or any other way  because from potential investors it does not appear serious

Information about "mainnet" will be in new roadmap. Team will release it next week. Have a nice weekend.

Do you mean as an recruiter? If yes, then maybe, it all depends on how it pans out and what I'm doing in the future, since it might year/s away this gets traction in my country.
I probably wont use it as someone getting recruited, I've never written a CV and don't plan on doing it.
But the tech is interesting and it fills a gap I know exists, and the potential adoption is unlimited for the future.
There is alot of interested people here, but right now it feels like it's no use writing until we see what the dApp actually can perform and looks like, we can't discuss anything unless we know what we're discussing about.
The ones screaming the same questions over and over are the ones who think "crypto" is about making money on quick flips and most likely are in over their heads. They are everywhere in this space.

The team is moving slowly. they have to work a bit faster.  :-\ :-\

Hello!

Why do you copy my words from telegram without leaving a source?

I do NOT want to get impersonated by you.

/P

Team is working hard thinking about name and brand identity. The team is coming together and more new joiners are expected shortly.

As developers said, they had a good event last week in Shoreditch London. I hope soon will be good news and price will be rise.

What happens with unsold tokens???  they are locked 2 years i think, after that the team decides what to do with them

Developers are working on an exciting new brand that embodies their vision, tone of voice and style. Stay tuned… all will be released in the coming months.

40% more of the funds will be released upon main network launch. When this happens we will have more money to consider applying to some of the bigger (more expensive exchanges)
Developers anticipate the rebrand to be the same time as the launch of the product. When this happens (combined with the 40% of additional funds)  they will have more time to concentrate back on applying and speaking with exchanges.
Currently developers have only released 30% of the funds from the ICO - so at the time of the close of the ICO it was $858,826

From telegram

As some of you know we are going through a rebrand and as part of this we are considering a company name change. Obviously this is a very big decision and a lot of factors are at play so we want to make the right decision taking all factors into consideration. In changing the R_Block name we will inevitably lose brand awareness as well as ranking organically on page 1 - we currently dominate the first page (bar one website) and a new more popular name might prevent this from happening for a few months at least. (These are things to bear in mind when making your decision)

For the new name we have been looking at the following factors:

~ The name must be memorable.
~ The name must convey trust.
~ The name must have some relevance to what we’re doing.
~ The name must have a cutting edge or futuristic feel to it.
~ The name must be one or two syllables max.
~ SEO friendly and searchable.
~ The name must not be an established crypto company or recruitment company in the UK (we have particularly struggled with this one due to the sheer number of crypto companies)
~ Reasonable domain available.

Over the past few weeks we’ve produced and sifted through over 6000 suggestions and conducted independent research as well as consulting with an agency. Based on the criteria above,  we’ve narrowed it down to 3 options. After this hard work we want to gift the R_Block community with the power to dramatically shape the future of this project. We are handing over the reigns to you, our valued community to define what we call ourselves and shape the future name of this movement. Here are the options…

1. RBLOCK - as you can see the beloved underscore has gone!  We appreciate this doesn’t bode well for SEO and ease of use. RBlock is arguably the most relevant because of the ‘recruitment’ and ‘reference’ element as well as being powered by blockchain. As mentioned above we have also got some brand recognition for the name. If we change it we will lose the SEO presence in the short term (3- 6 months)

2. ZINC
It’s short, it’s punchy, it’s memorable. Zinc is typically used as a catalyst in bringing two organic things together. Although the relevance is somewhat tenuous we think it best fulfils the criteria in other areas.

3. KAIZO
Derived from the term ‘Kaizen’ (the philosophy of continuous self-improvement) which is one of our core values (https://rblock.co/mission.html). Kaizo or Kaizu is short and memorable and has a futuristic feel to it. Both versions of the word are SEO rankable. We have also read that highly ranking scrabble letters work well for memorability and it doesn’t get much better than Z.

Please vote (link below) for your favourite name based on the criteria above. (please note we are waiting for the full report back from the trademark lawyer to see if they can find any potential infringements)

*Instructions to vote*

dApp: http://rblock.co/vote.html

We’re holding the vote on the blockchain! So you’ll need to have Metamask installed and be connected to the Ropsten network. You'll also need some Ropsten ETH to vote (get it for free here: https://faucet.metamask.io/). You can only vote once.

And there are more coinceptions in the future, they also get access to more funds from the first funding once the product is released.
Read the whitepaper.
Great post by Luke explaining the model of funding, and a insight to their thoughts.
https://medium.com/r-block-blog/the-coinception-crowd-sale-framework-ecd67a8e4283

Developers are working on marketing through building a strong partnership network (which will soon be released) and of course the rebrand. They are building close relationships with ICP so that when they launch they will have companies and subsequently workers using it immediately.

Their target customer to begin with are blockchain companies as opposed to workers which requires a lower marketing acquisition budget.

As mentioned developers are working with a PR agency to coincide news articles with the launch of the product. They are continuously looking for new news angles and they are in talks with some big conferences towards the end of the year.

Developers wrote the roadmap last year. The crowdsale and token distribution kept they busy until the end of March. They then went through a hiring process and had the full team by mid-April. These are some of the reasons things have been delayed. Developers will be providing more information on the launch later today.

WEEKLY PROJECT UPDATE


* Encryption protocol public-key cryptography.

This week R_Block has designed and implemented the encryption protocol which will protect user data. We’re using public-key cryptography to ensure that only the user themselves can access and control their work history data – true to the decentralised nature of the project. Read about it in our open-source repo: https://github.com/R-Block/wiki/wiki/Encryption-and-Key-Management


* Roadmap.

Despite some delays we have an official launch date for the end of June. The team are working very hard to ensure this happens and we don’t go over our estimates again. We are working with our PR agency to build relationships ready for the end of June and expect to send out two press releases between now and then. We will have a very soft-launch of the new brand at the Startup Grind Conference in 3 weeks time.


* Will dApps trigger the evolution of internet login?

We share our solution to the crypto communities login problem we think is holding dApps back from going mainstream. We walk through the R_Block first time desktop web login journey as a example use case for the newly created login standard EIP 1078…Read about it here: https://medium.com/r-block-blog/will-dapps-trigger-the-evolution-of-internet-login-369a3e85045a

Analysts expect the HR technology market to grow significantly over the next few years with old/incumbent vendors, services and solutions providers getting replaced by agile, easy to use, mobile applications. Introducing R_Block 😀 http://bit.ly/2sjoN79 

Hello! Tell me, what will be spent on the funds that are collected at the pre-ICO?

FROM Telegram

#04/06 WEEKLY PROJECT UPDATE


* Data modelling & smart contract design.
In the past week we refined the design of our data models and improved infrastructure set-up, the smart contract designs are in progress and are on track to be QA'd & audited in time for the V1 mainnet launch. We’ll be implementing a bespoke contract to record the provenance of work identity claims on the blockchain. Web3 and IPFS helper functions have been completed for QA to speed up development in coming weeks. We will now be focusing on implementing the core web functions of the dApp and implementing processes for security by design.


* Styling & components
We set up Fela—a CSS in JS framework for styling our components and application. Storybook was also integrated into the application so that components could be visually tested and shared internally in isolation from the application. We spent some time looking into UI libraries and have decided to use Vuetify for the first version of the application so we can efficiently test and validate the UX ahead of investing time building our own components. Vuetify is a very popular and mature UI library built in Vue and implements near enough all components from Google's Material Design suite. This week we will start to flesh out the login flows and user profile page using components from this UI library.



* Using cryptography (TweetNaCl-js) to protect user data.
We have written and published an extended version of the encryption wiki page.



* Data science workshop. :
R_Block are partnering with Birmingham Uni and a Coding school to host a Data Science workshop this weekend (9th - 10th June). It's a 2 day beginners course into all aspects of Data science hosted at the R_Block office.

FROM TELEGRAM

#08/06 WEEKLY PROJECT UPDATE

R_Block becomes ZINC
After working hard on the company name and conducting market research and the Telegram vote (thanks to those who contributed) we are thrilled to announce that along with changing our brand, we will be changing the company name to ZINC.
Expect to see A LOT more in the coming weeks...
 

We have included CVT since it’s still viable, IDEX will be a less important market for us as we move forwards. However we are open to changing the name if that is the consensus. Here are the other options:

- WORK - related to our market
- ZINCT - ZINC Token
- ZN - The chemical name for ZINC in the periodic table
- ZINC - Consistent with the name (One dormant contract listed on Etherscan)


Start-up Grind Conference & Start-up Grind Top 20 Europe Program.

We are exhibiting at the Start-up Grind Conference next week which will act as a soft-launch for our new brand. We will be distributing a press release in the morning of the 12th to coincide with the event - this will will include our new company name. We are really looking forward to exhibiting and networking with potential investors, customers and partners. In other news....

:mega: We received a huge accolade from the Start-up Grind Conference which is a big win for everyone…

ZINC have been selected as one of the Top 20 Start-ups to watch in 2018. They will be releasing a press release regarding this (we will send a link next week), but here’s an extract from Start-up Grind:

‘This has been the most time that we have ever spent in deliberation over selections. There are so many fantastic companies that the selection process has been extremely difficult to narrow to 20 companies.

We are pleased to announce that Zinc has been inducted into our Europe 2018 Startup Program. You are guys are part of the most elite group of companies we have ever had to choose from and it was very difficult to narrow to 20.

As a part of the Startup Grind family, now and forever, you have a corp of people who are and will be advocates for you on your entrepreneurial journey.’


Smart contracts
We’re in the final stages of implementing our own unique smart contract design and setting up Web3 functions that will record work identity claims on the blockchain.


Login & components.
We’ve worked on integrating the BE API login flow into our application so users can securely access their profile data and interact with the platform. We’ve also been integrating Vuetify into the MVP code base to leverage a suite of battle tested components that implement Google's Material Design spec. To differentiate ourselves from a generic Google application, we’ve been overriding Vuetify's variables and theme constants to make the components look like the ones Josh, our UX designer has created.


‘A race against time: future of blockchains’  🥁
Ali Azam from the core Zinc team presented the keynote ‘A race against time: future of blockchains’ at Blockercon yesterday. Over 100 people attended the event and his presentation was very well received. We have already been speaking with a couple of companies regarding partnerships as well as some blockchain companies keen to start using the product at the end of the month.

https://www.kucoin.com/#/trade.pro/ZINC-BTC WELCOME TO KUCOIN !  Zinc (ZINC) Trading Competition, Win 750,000 ZINC!

ZINC (ex R_BLOCK) are launching  a new listing promotion together with KuCoin! 750,000 ZINC as rewards!

Read more about this on:
https://www.kucoin.com/#/rank/ZINC

The Zinc Brand Series 🕺
As part of the Zinc rebrand, we will be releasing a series of articles and documents to give the community an insider perspective on the design and thought-process. Here’s the first in the series: R_Block becomes Zinc

https://medium.com/zinc_work/r-block-becomes-zinc-4cad6c60f5fb

ZINC had some great coverage this week. Check the links out below and show your support:

YouTube
Ken The Crypto has reviewed Zinc and included ZINC in a low supply, high demand gem https://youtu.be/6Yg0ZPVXHCs

Medium
-This article has been updated with ZINC testnet: https://blog.goodaudience.com/spotting-the-silent-bombs-of-the-crypto-market-and-how-r-block-might-just-be-one-of-them-8d4b5b53a2ff

Third party integrations
ZINC thrilled to announce that they have successfully integrated with Greenhouse, and profile is now live within their app. ZINC will be releasing a press release with Greenhouse in the coming months.  Customers of Greenhouse can now validate their candidates skills easily through Zinc. ZINC can be found within the partners page: http://www.greenhouse.io/partners (http://www.greenhouse.io/partners)

What is an applicant tracking system?
An applicant tracking system (ATS) is a softwareapplication that enables the electronic handling of recruitment needs. An ATS can be implemented or accessed online on an enterprise or small business level, depending on the needs of the company and there is also free and open source ATS software available.

Who are Greenhouse?
Based in New York City and San Francisco, Greenhouse Software is the fastest-growing provider of enterprise talent acquisition software. Thousands of the smartest and most successful companies like Cisco Meraki, Time Inc., and Airbnb use Greenhouse's intelligent guidance to design and automate all aspects of hiring throughout their organizations, helping them compete and win for top talent. Greenhouse has won numerous awards including #1 Best Place to Work by Glassdoor, Forbes Cloud 100, and Talent Acquisition FrontRunner leader by Software Advice. To learn more, visit http://www.greenhouse.io (http://www.greenhouse.io)  

Payment solution
After much consideration, research and consultation, ZINC decided to implement a freemium subscription payment plan which can be paid for in tokens and fiat. Using a credit system in app to simply the UX for users. Recruiters and companies hiring can sign-up to Zinc and try it out for free, enabling them to test the platform, request up to 3 references per month. After this is used up, recruiters can opt to sign-up for the Startup or Enterprise plan, choosing to pay in fiat or ZINC tokens. The monthly subscription will enable them to conduct 20 or 50 references (plan dependent), and very shortly this will include ID checks. The credits can be used across the platform and one reference and one ID check will cost 10 credits each. This offers maximum flexibility where a user can choose where to use their credits each month.



https://medium.com/zinc_work/october-update-7c5cc3e687bc