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Freelancers & the Blockchain: Reasons Why Decentralization of Payments is Long Overdue

Our goal is to turn our existing freelance platform Content Hourlies, into a zero (or exremely low fee) commission platform for content (marketing), and related services.

Why do we need our own token for that?

As it would become a non-profit organization we need volunteers, and volunteers need to be rewarded.

Our own token would be the perfect way to provide incentives for:

• Freelancers to produce more work
• Clients to leave feedback for freelancers
• Volunteers to handle disputes between clients and freelancers

A platform that isn't moderated would quickly turn into a cesspool of scams, as feedback systems can be manipulated by undesirables.

Quality checks are therefore mandatory to turn the platform into a success.

Problems most freelancers run into:

Problem #1: A study shows that nearly 6 out of 10 freelancers have had an experience with runaway clients that don’t pay for their work.

Solution: When a client places an order the cost will be deducted from his/her balance and kept in escrow till the work gets approved.


Problem #2: Unauthorized payments (fraudulent chargebacks).

Solution: Payments made through the blockchain are irreversible, so there will never be any Paypal dispute or credit card charge back.


Problem #3: Most freelance platforms charge 20% commission, on top of that there are Paypal or credit card fees.

Solution: By rewarding volunteers with our own token we reduce the overhead costs to near zero so there's no need to charge any commission. The result, cheaper services for clients and increased earnings for freelancers.

These are serious issues that every freelancer deals with on a regular base, Content Hourlies aims to solve this once and for all.

any bounty campaign sir ? i believe with bounty campaign this coin can be successful.

I believe the project is great, but you won't have many investors since the tokens will be locked for minimum of 2 years.

Especially these days, as everything is very dynamic, and people prefer short time investments to see some gains, even if they are smaller than with a long time ones.

Obviously it will only attract the true believers of your idea, but they won't be as many as there could have been if you changed the strategy a bit.

Content Hourlies is a platform that matches freelance (writers) and people that need content (think of articles, press releases, ebooks), or other content marketing materials (editorials, guest posts). Its a bit of a mix between a site like Textbrokers and Upwork. The site has been in development for over a year

We are not looking at investors at this point, perhaps in the future.

The announcement thread has been adjusted, we are focused on building a community instead.

Would you like to explain the more information about your token sale, sir? You said that the token sale will last 1 year. It is very long time, isn't it? Why you plan the token sale yearlong, I still don't understand enough. 

i don't understand  :) , why the token will be locked for min 2 years ?  , isn't it very long time ?

There will be no public token sale.

Existing clients can however purchase tokens to receive discounts on services that we offer at Content Hourlies.

Could you tell me if this company has a telegram chat?

Here is an invitation link for our Telegram group: https://t.me/joinchat/HZZHkRFclj4vmoRfW3AmJQ

Though we are more active in our Discord channel: https://discord.gg/KxF7t4J

A strong team I wish all success. I do not have a question of confidence in your team I wish further development

Thank you, development is a slow but steady ongoing game!

Really excited about the progress!

Thanks, stay tuned I would say, we might have some great news in the very near future, working on it as we speak!

Has an independent audit been done on the smart contract. If so by which organisation? Thanks

No we haven't done that yet as we're still debating whether we stick to Ethereum or switch to another blockchain.

We went through the verification process at Etherscan.

This have a very good platform with a good intention for the freelancers and crypto enthusiast, very professional website and very nice dashboard. Keep up the good work and I will be keeping watch for more features of CHW.

Registered but my balance under Account -> Payments is showing 0 CHW  ???

Thanks Ben.

We're currently working on an automatic withdrawal system for the airdrop tokens.

Main focus right now is getting those tokens in the hand of many through our airdrop, building a community, and once that's large enough we start recruiting freelancers of all professions, and hit the exchanges.

Thing is, we can't do one without another as we can't expect from freelancers to get paid in tokens when it isn't traded widely, after all freelancers need cash, not a token they can't cash out, or buy anything with.

Making the actual switch to zero-commission is a minor adjustment that can be implemented in a day, till then we use the company proceeds to fund awareness.

Most new tokens first need to build a product with ICO proceeds, and then its a question if that actually happens or if it turns out be just another scam.

Our advantage is that the actual product / platform is already finalized, and in use by clients and freelancers.

We manually add the tokens every other day, so please check back tomorrow.

I haven't really looked into Bluewhale, but it's a good thing that there are multiple platforms with similar goals.

We're talking about a trillion dollar industry here so the ones that should be concerned are established freelance platforms like Upwork, Freelancer, PeoplePerHour, Guru, Fiverr, you name it.

We mostly focus on content, and marketing though, and I think we, and others can make quite a dent in the market.

Where i can find more information about ur team?

Over here: https://www.contenthourlies.com/chw-token/ - links to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn are included.

there have been many projects about freelance who want to use blockchain technology but until now I still haven't seen their platform really work.
how can you make this better?

it looks like you have a very high quality of security, but that needs to be proven, because now there is more and more fraud that makes us all anxious.

Blockchains are simply said inefficient databases, so we're not going to build anything on the blockchain.

We simply use it to process transactions, and that's what its meant to be used for without all the bells & whistles that others try to invent.

The benefit of the token is that it can be traded for money, so it can be used to reward our volunteers, who are definitely needed when setting up a zero-commission freelance platform.

I think other projects focus way too much on all kind of new features that are either unncessary or could've been accomplished with regular databases like mysql.

We like to keep it practical.

In the future we will hire a blockchain developer, to make our current escrow function decentralized, so that I (the one who hosts the website) doesn't hold it in escrow himself.

Work flow:

- Client pays for a task in advance
- Funds get stored in escrow wallet on blockchain
- Smart contract sends payment from escrow wallet to freelancer wallet (after the task has been submitted and approved)

There's nothing more to it then that really.

End result, a zero commission platform that wouldn't be possible without a token, and a feel-good thing for clients and freelancers to know that their transactions are secured by the blockchain, and no risk of chargebacks or Paypal disputes later on.

Right now its rather small so I keep everything in check myself, and I have good relationships with my freelancers that alert me when something looks off, so in that sense it's 100% hacker proof.

However, when we start scaling things there will definitely be a bug bounty campaign, and I think there's plenty to find. We got the usual security in place but a clever hacker might be able find a way in.

I did hire a security consultant before, that showed me some obvious leaks that we fixed, but I don't think its enough.

First we need to hit some exchanges and build a large community so that the token gets a value, until then I don't think anyone is interested in a bug bounty campaign so first things first.

in my opinion you have been able to conclude many of the solutions that are a symptom of the current freelencers, I hope your project is fully successful, because freelencers really look forward to the solutions that you offer.

Thanks, I've been a freelancer myself for years, hired a ton of freelancers as well, so I also know what's going on the client side of things.

I wasn't happy with the other platforms like Upwork, so decided to set up my own, and since then talked with a lot of freelancers as well.

Many freelancers despise those platform as they are taking a fairly large cut, so if there is a market I got to tap into, then that's the freelancers that currently refuse to work at other freelance platforms so the market is wide open.

The more challenging part would be to find clients, as the benefits aren't all that large too them, you'd think lower costs, but that most often results in simply better rates for the freelancers, I don't think they are going to offer clients 10-20% discount instead, and even if they did who would know if its just their flat rate or a discounted rate.

We've been contacting numerous exchanges in / and around the top 100 (sorted by volume CMC) purely to inform about listing fees, and what it takes to get approved.

First thing we noticed:

• Most exchanges expect us to provide liquidity
• Most coins that are traded at such exchanges have close-to-zero volume
• Most of these exchanges still ask 2-6 BTC for a listing fee.

Considering the extreme low volume for the majority of coins this doesn't sit well with us. Paying a heavy fee for virtually no service.

Taking it in our own hands

So we decided to set up our own exchange which will go live next month, under CHWEX.io

Thanks for your support Denis

I haven't seen any working freelance platforms at all.

They all come up with the idea, run an ICO, and then nothing happens.

Content Hourlies is a fully functional platform that has been in use for over a year so I guess that's a good one for starters ;)

It did not look bad. You have to try the bounty. A good investment can be profitable if it comes.

Thanks, we still have plenty of things to improve of course, but I think we are thus far the only coin initiative that already built a platform vs just an idea.

Was recently talking to someone about how awesome freelancing is, both for the client and professional. Glad to see an airdrop coin approaching the freelance market. I hope for good growth of the project! Discord content and team activity seems solid so far, keep it up

Thanks Acho, we just contacted Airdrops.io to get ourselves listed there so that should help spread the news!

Feel free to send me your proposal.

Airdrop listing just went live: https://airdropter.com/content-hourlies

Thanks Andrey

Awesome platform for freelancers  :o

Actually we don't have an ICO, perhaps in the future.

We do our best!

50+ suspicious accounts have just been removed from our airdrop campaign, if you believe your account was removed accidentally feel free to email us at payments@contenthourlies.com

Thank you!

How i can participate in bounty program?

As I understand it, the team puts the main emphasis of the project on security of transactions and user convenience. The idea is attractive, I will follow the development.

Sign up here first: https://www.contenthourlies.com/token-registration/

Then after you've completed the bounty assignments you can email us at payments@contenthourlies.com to claim your extra tokens!

Content Hourlies is starting a brand new initiative named 'Crypto Hourlies'.

Here is what we will offer at Crypto hourlies

• Airdrop listings
• Blog / News section
• Trading experts
• Events calendar

Trading experts

The trading experts section is a brand new initiative where TA experts will offer entry and exit points for both alt coins and bitcoin.

Users can purchase those calls with our own CHW token, funds will then go in escrow and only if the target is reached the TA expert will get paid, if not the user will be refunded automatically. Obviously this comes with a feedback system where users can rate the experts.

Top rated experts will be able to charge more for the service they provide, making it a win-win for everyone involved.

Bounty campaigns

Bounty campaigns will continue with a max of 4% of total supply, which comes down to 840000 tokens.

There will be no initial coin offering, people that are interested to purchase the token can do so on our exchange.

Airdrop listings

We will charge a small fee for both to be paid in CHW, though the first 50 or so listings will be free as we need to fill up the site.

Everything we do is to increase demand for our own token.

Thanks

Nice to be a part of this project.. I am looking forward to this project..  ;D

"A study shows that nearly 6 out of 10 freelancers have had an experience with runaway clients that don’t pay for their work."

I truly agree with your problem statement #1
I myself have faced such scenarios
It's time we use the blockchain in order to restore faith
in Freelancing.

When I sold services at forums I had my fair charge of fraudulent chargebacks on payments that were initially received through Paypal, and once such order gets escalated there's nothing one can do, all work for nothing. Luckily it were relatively small amounts but even then, I'm doing the work, paying my writers.

That's so awesome about the blockchain, payments are permanent.

Facebook trading group, and daily news, CHW token updates and more:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cryptohourliestrading/

good news because tokens can be traded, of course, we hope the price can be in line with what is expected, hopefully in the future it will be good for CHW.

Thank you!

We are very strict with our airdrop to prevent any possible abuse and people dumping their tokens on the market, that's why we've decided to buy all tokens back that get sold at less than a cent so that we at the start can at least maintain a price of 150 Satoshi / token.

As more use cases are introduced, and our community grows I'm 100% confident the price of the token increases with it.

We are not an ICO funded project, which means we fund it all out of our own pockets so it will take time!

Nice to be a part of this project.. looking forward to earn from this project.

How chw does provide support to the users with different areas of ecommerce, payments and investments?

I don't think I understand your question, please clarify.

We just took over: https://www.cryptonewsinc.com/

We will brainstorm a use case for our CHW token at that site as well!

AIRDROP

Visit our page, and fill out the registration form at the bottom to claim your 100 CHW tokens.
https://www.contenthourlies.com/chw-token/

BOUNTY CAMPAIGN

Like and share one of our posts on our Facebook page & receive 50 CHW tokens
https://www.facebook.com/ContentHourlies/

Share one of our post on Twitter and earn 50 CHW tokens
https://twitter.com/contenthourlies

Invite your friends to our Discord and earn 20 CHW tokens / invite
https://discord.gg/FgBYV8X

Publish a blog post about Content Hourlies, and earn 250-5000 CHW tokens
https://www.contenthourlies.com/

Weekly leaderboard for our Discord, the person with the most invites wins an additional 500 CHW tokens!

Free press:

http://www.jobsportalwatch.com/content-hourlies-gives-canadian-freelancers-new-opportunities/

CHW can now be traded at EtherDelta:

https://etherdelta.com/#0xd4a8748ddd8673216c879764c54147ea83c803a9-ETH

BREAKING:

https://www.cryptonewsinc.com/bitcoins-crash-unusual-behavior-well-in-advance/

MUST READ:

https://www.cryptonewsinc.com/the-shady-side-of-the-crypto-industry/

We're not the only one, though we do things quite different:

https://www.cryptonewsinc.com/active-freelancing-platforms-that-will-pay-you-in-cryptocurrency/


Haven't heard from us? That's because we're busy building a community on minds, see for yourself:

https://www.minds.com/ContentHourlies

This campaign is very interesting with a reasonable level of prize money, surely you will succeed when its owner.

Thank you.

BOUNTY CAMPAIGN

Like and share one of our posts on our Facebook page & receive 50 CHW tokens
https://www.facebook.com/ContentHourlies/

Share one of our post on Twitter and earn 50 CHW tokens
https://twitter.com/contenthourlies

Invite your friends to our Discord and earn 20 CHW tokens / invite
https://discord.gg/FgBYV8X

Publish a blog post about Content Hourlies, and earn 250-5000 CHW tokens
https://www.contenthourlies.com/

Weekly leaderboard for our Discord, the person with the most invites wins an additional 500 CHW tokens!

I assume this is dead now? I cant even get the the web page anymore.