Bitcoin Forum

As we continue development of our website and continue to grow, we get asked almost daily. What is Bitcoin? and, How does it work? Everyone from the offices below us in our building, the mail man, the building manager, the painters that came in, even the girl at the coffee shop across the street. For the time being as we are working on our infrastructure and website, we have to refer them to bitcoin.org or other spinoffs that have explanations and the result is always the same. The next time we see them, they just have a blank stare on their face and reply with.... " I dont get it".

Now with that being said, take into consideration that most information available with a quick google search is written by Nerds, Techies, and Geeks like myself. When read by other Nerds, Techies and geeks, it makes perfect sense. If not, most of us spend at least 5 hours a day behind our computers and we set out on a google mission until we find the answer we are looking for. Lets face it, grandma and grandpa, sometimes even mom and dad, even after watching the cheesy video or reading an article are still left scratching their heads.

It seems the members of this forum need a little motivation to write as our previous attempts at getting input have failed. So we have decided to host a contest and offer a $200 prize to the winner who gets their article published.

Contest rules:

Your article must comprehensively cover what Bitcoin is and how it works in laymen terms without being to heavy on technical explanations. Think birds and bees talk with your kids, not full on human anatomy and biology.

The article must be a minimum of 800 words.

The article must be an original work and will be checked heavily for copyright infringement and duplicate web content.

The author of the winning article must sign and submit a copy of our publication agreement before they will be paid.

All articles must be submitted in private message on this forum or to admin@thebitcoinsociety.org , Posting your article as a reply in this thread will be an automatic disqualification as it instantly makes the article useless for SEO as it will be duplicate content.

The author acknowledges that upon payment the article becomes the sole property of The Bitcoin Society and they release all legal rights

This contest will end when a suitable article meeting the criteria has been submitted and we will announce the winner in this thread.

if you want everyone to understand it, may I suggest no minimum amount of words and allow graphics ?

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Graphics are perfectly fine, the word count is for SEO purposes, without it there is no point in investing tens of thousands into a website, 800 words is not a lot of words, the average paragraph is about 350 so its really a 3 paragraph article. If you spend a paragraph on "What is Bitcoin"? and two paragraphs on "how it works" you are pretty much done.

We are all for graphics if you want to include them with the article. We would need a copyright release form for each one though.

On it will try to send you some quality material soon. Thanks.

its not about how many words we can write, personally I can make a whole monograph about bitcoin functionality.
It is about how much time people are willing to invest reading an article about bitcoin.

And again, its about three paragraphs to make 800 words. $200 prize for 3 paragraphs is 100X more than we pay our in house writers. Beyond that if people dont have 4 minutes to read 3 paragraphs, they defiantly do not have the patience top deal with bitcoin confirmations and would probably be best to stick to fiat.

Contest is still going guys

Will try it!
It's so interesting!

Bitcoin should be put in a simple facade so everyone can see and appreciated it. As I am not an english major, this would be difficult for me to put in words the beauty that is Bitcoin.

$200 prize and no takers yet ???

I'm here to claim the $200 BTC prize for your writing contest. However, in order to maintain a high degree of transparency, while at the same time noting your concerns with duplicate content...

First, I took the liberties of running it through Copyscape. It passed flawlessly. I then went ahead and took a screenshot of the entire article at 1:1 resolution; conveniently avoiding the duplicate content issue altogether.  Here's the link to the article image:

http://UberNifty.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/BTC_Demystified.png (http://UberNifty.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/BTC_Demystified.png)

Insofar as the publisher agreement you need signed... what kind of process / contract are you talking about? If if it's quick, easy and simple: Count me in! If it's too complicated, I'm perfectly happy with retaining my own copyright.

Can I have your permission to repost this onto my blog?

I take that to mean the image of the article? Are you partners with the individual throwing this contest?

Is this contest still open?

I think so. The rules say that the winner will be announced on this thread.

I am officially retracting my entry.

1)  No I have no affiliation - I liked it a lot and thought it could serve as a great written primer.  I think that BTC is already easily explained enough from the video here:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um63OQz3bjo

and the banking system  is conversely explained well here:  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6zpfE7WjHI

If the contest is still open I'll try it out. Need confirmation that its still open.


UMM is this the winning entry?: http://www.thebitcoinsociety.org/content/bitcoin-beauty-trustless-transactions

It looks like it is to me since its on their webpage nice submission wonder who claimed it

Yes its still open, sorry for the delay guys, i had a personal family emergency which took me away from work for a week or so.

Glad you're back! I'd like to re-enter my entry since I now know the OP is still kickin' ;) And yes, it's still completely virgin (unindexed).

I should ask when do you expect to close this contest

As soon as we have a few entries to chose from to compare content.

oh, and were not virgins anymore we finally got indexed. ( damn google sandbox )

he.. hello? is thi.. is this thing on?

Yes

i want to try
if i win the contest , i will invest more and trade more

You should put the prize money in escrow, not that I don't trust you...

Would be pretty silly for people to put time and effort into this and not receiving a prize.

You can check our trust comments, we have always paid. ALWAYS for any work that is done, articles that are published, or anything else which payment is due. We will not be placing funds in escrow for a contest in which we have received 1 viable entry for thus far.

Its part of the publication agreement. We cannot publish it until you have signed it, you dont sign it until your article is chosen as the winner and payment is made. Its the way the legal system works with publishing.

So what if you get no more entries, would the one guy who submitted an article win?

almost 2 pages of "what if" & "you should" now and 1 viable entry in weeks, i think we are going to officially cancel the contest and hire a writer directly to write the piece. Thank you to the one person who made a submission, unfortunately without others to judge against it is impossible to have a "contest" as the only reason we were offering such a high prize was to have access to choose from several submissions for the best one Vs. just paying a professional writer $100 to write 1 piece and publish it. 

Don't believe what this person says, it is not true at all.  They scammed me out of $20 (a meager amount, yes, but it is the principal of the matter) for an article I wrote.

I was asked to sign the publishing agreement and provide a payment address so they could pay me the next day, which I did, and then I got the run around for a month until they finally said they were not going to pay me.

Regardless of whether or not they use the piece I wrote, I was promised payment and did not receive it.  "The Bitcoin Society" has shown that their word is good for absolutely nothing.  Just another scam artist who will make up excuses and drag their feet and ultimately not deliver what they promised.

Ridiculous, that one person put effort into writing an article and now you're cancelling the contest?
This is unethical at the least and I'd consider it a scam.

As we had to remind the idiot who posted above you, a scam is when someone takes something from someone or cons someone into giving up something with promise of payment which is not received. We offered to hold a contest for which people could submit articles for consideration of publishing if they won against other submissions. In this case there were no other submissions so there was no contest.

And for the idiot who posted above you, maybe you should spend more time working on your English and writing skills and less time thinking you are going to get paid for garbage in which no publication would publish.

Its funny when you type the word scam into google and this website fills the second page, 80% of the children on here use that word for ANYTHING that makes them unhappy. So let us help you have better understanding of what your favorite 4 letter word actually is.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/scam

Now please feel free to carry on with your banter as we ourselves focus on more important things, like the future and awareness of bitcoin

pls escrow the full amount first.

Sorry this didn't work out. PM me if you'd just like it written (see footer for details). $100 is a decent fee for 800-1000 words.
By the way, I wouldn't start by trying to explain what Bitcoin is, because it's not like anything we've seen before. It's easier to explain some of its properties. Who cares that it's strings of code on a decentralised network when the bottom line is that you can send money anywhere in the world, quickly, for next to no fees, outside of the authority and interference of any government, bank or other corporation?

You won't get very far by calling people idiots, my concerns were spot on.
You can't just let people spend time into writing an entry for your contest and then cancel the contest.

I am a very talented writer, I can write you something for the ages. PM me, we can negotiate if this is legitimate. I will ask more than the $ offered however, I can guarantee you gold.

email: mckie@outlook.com

Your three sentences were littered with mistakes.

You're most welcome. For 0.2 BTC it's all yours:

http://UberNifty.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/BTC_Demystified.png (http://UberNifty.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/BTC_Demystified.png)