Purpose: To encourage and support excellence in writing among Devtome writers and to give Devtome writers an opportunity to showcase their best work to the Devcoin Community. Awards:1st Place - 250,000DVC 2nd Place - 150,000DVC 3rd place - 100,000DVC Theme: Why I write Entries must be:Based on the Theme Not previously published Published on Devtome 1000 to 1500 words in length Original Can be collaborative (joint works from multiple writers) Collated works are not eligible. Entries Close: May 13th Judging We will use the forum polling system on the Coinzen Forum to gather votes. I will set up the poll once we have all the entries. The poll will run for 14 days. In the event of a draw, a decision will be made by the Sponsor(s) How to Enter: 1) Reply to this post with the title of your article, a link to your article on Devtome and a link to your Devtome profile. The tip wallet on your Devtome profile will be used to pay the winner. 2) Send the same to melodiem ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=192892) in a private message 3) Not necessary, but helpful to create a profile on the Coinzen Forum to follow the contest and all things Devcoin and Devtome Sponsors: This is a sponsored award - More sponsors are welcome to add to the total of the award, please PM me. (Sponsors are not eligible to enter the award.) Sponsored by:Papacrusher - 250,000DVC MelodieMuse - 150,000DVC HunterBunter - 100,000DVC
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Thank you for that advice, There seems to also be alot more pages to read on that subject, so I'll keep busy doing that. http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=how_to_get_setup_earning_devcoins_by_writingWhat I still need help with is how to set up a Devcoin wallet. Which one should I use and how do I set it up the right way. Is that the same as a Bitcoin wallet except for the type of coins it works with ? If I am not mistaken, this is the link to the official site and the official wallet. There are instructions on the site, but if you need help, I am not your man...lol. I am not very technical, just a writer. http://devcoin.org/Papa |
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Hey,
You don't earn marketing shares until you have a least one share earned per each round. Hope this helps.
Papa
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The music, art aspect - yeah this originated from mid-last year ....
It originated and seemed settled, yet here it is again. Not only here but on the new forum as well. Coincidence? It would be one of my three wishes that literature and art could fall under Open Source yet they do not. Full stop. It is being suggested yet again that we take Devcoin, the supposedly ethical coin, and change the concept of supporting open source developers? That sounds very unethical to me. It is my feeling that other open source developers would feel the same being drawn here under false pretenses. If one likes the concept of Devcoin and would like to support the Creative Common license in the same way then create Commoncoin instead of trying to undermining Devcoin. There is nothing to stop folks from putting out bounties for graphics and music contributions under Public Domain and Creative Commons licenses to add to their Open Source projects. Like a game for example. They could be rewarded in DVC. Life is wonderful. But Devcoin was put in place to support Open Source developers. You know those programmers like MarkM that made the coin a reality in the first place? Now that it exists those practicing in arts that cannot even fall under Open Source want to redirect it? If that is not unethical it is hard to say what is. - Nova "Devcoin is an ethically inspired cryptocurrency created in 2011 to support open source projects by programmers, hardware developers, writers, musicians, painters, graphic artists and filmmakers worldwide." This direct quote from the official Devcoin website can be seen as "unethically"misleading then. I'm not disagreeing with Nova on this, just pointing out that some people may see this as mixed signals of what the website says and what the forum decisions are. I love and appreciate the chance, as a writer, to be involved with DVC and I'm here for the long haul regardless of the direction it takes, but if it's not going to include artists and musicians, then it should clearly say that and not draw these people under false pretenses as well. Papa |
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I've been mining datacoin on my old i5 laptop just for fun. I'm hoping it goes through the roof one day.
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If you are willing to risk leaving coins on an exchange (e.g. Vircurex, that has made good both times they did suffer a hack) you don't even need to hold, you can just chop up your coins into, say, ten portions, and place then as ten sell offers on the sell side of the order book. If you are conservative and think the next few upswings might not touch 200 Satoshis but don't mind waiting through maybe a bunch of upswings to get such a price you could pick 200 as top spot, or if you actually would prefer to hold long term yet would like to get a nice hot price sometime you could pick 300 as your top spot if getting that much would compensate you enough in your view for having even your topmost dearest coins get bought. Then step down, like maybe 200, 180, 160, 140, 120, 100, 90, 80, 70, 60 or something like that. Or if you really want ten percent relatively soon albeit it at a low price, maybe even step down to 50, which still looks like it might easily get bought any day now on random ups and downs. Personally I have half a million for sale at each and every Satoshi of price all the way to up over 300 but it took me a long time to get there, a lot of input coins originally then at least three or four swing cycles that went up near or over 200, one of them over 300 then back down to 30 or even slightly less. (I replenish my supply by having lowball buy offers on every Satoshi of price too, with the offers being for more and more coins the lower the price. I have picked up oodles of coins at only 30 Satoshis or less by my offers having been there already in place when such moments - or weeks, or months - came.) Once you have gone through a swing cycle you can easily get all your original input to the exchange back out and from then on all the coins "at risk" by being on the exhange are pure profit earned by being on the exchange, plus then also milk it some each swing cycle to get some added income while still also increasing the volume of pure profit left lying around on the exchange to make more pure profit with... This also has the advantage of making times when the prices go low be nice times, times you look forward to, because they are times when your lowball buy offers get gobbled up, giving you lots and lots of coins to sit back up on the sell side as highball offers ready for the next upswing. Plus Vircurex even pays you to have bitcoins sitting there, so your lowball offers are earning bitcoins for you in the meantime. You can also save on Vircurex fees by signing up using a referral URL. ( Such as mine, which is https://vircurex.com/welcome/index?referral_id=597-1636 ) -MarkM- Hey mark, I have started doing this on a much smaller scale and it is already starting to pay off. Just need to watch it (and your e-mail) and it seems to be doing a good job so far  Thanx for the info! I have as well, great advice mark! |
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I have a technical question from a non-technical person . My daughter has become very interested in DVC. We live in the same household and use the same internet and router. She is wanting to download her own DVC wallet and apply for an account with Devtome. Will using the same internet and router cause any issues? Thanks Papa |
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Devtome - issue raised on photographs. Any photos incorporated into articles have to be your own, or licenced under creative commons or similar. There are plenty of sites with repositories of usable images. Most other photos (like Getty images) will be subject to copyright so can't be simply uploaded to a file hosting site and embedded into devtome.
I wrote an article on my blog dealing with using free images etc. http://www.moneyandpotatoes.com/webmaster-links-free-stock-images-useful-tools-and-much-more/Basically, Compfight has one of the most extensive searches of images out there but requires attribution. If you use images from Pixabay, they don't require attribution but nobody will know you got the image from Pixabay unless you put it at the bottom of any article where you use the images. Excellent resources! Thanks for sharing. |
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some noob just sold 25 mill at market?? hahha sucker.
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Here's what I do:
If he/she hasn't heard about Bitcoin or its recent price spike, I send them the 1-year daily price candlestick chart. I often get back the question "how do I buy bitcoins?"
Then I suggest setting up an account at an exchange and offer to send him/her 1 BTC to play with. For many people this is incentive enough to get into Bitcoin.
(Yes, for free, why not? If you're an early adopter, think of 1 BTC being worth what you bought it for, say $20, rather than its current price. You can of course offer 0.5 or any other number that you think will incentivise your friend/relative.)
You can probably classify most of your friends/relatives as "non-tech-savvy", but you can further divide that category into "some computer understanding" and "clueless", because obviously there's a lower limit of knowledge required to use Bitcoin. The person must be able to operate a computer to some extent. So how to know if your friend/relative is tech-savvy enough? One way I use is to ask them if they know the website address for Facebook. If a person doesn't know that "facebook.com" is the website address for Facebook, I just move on to the next person. Thanks to the dumbing-down efforts of Microsoft et al, it seems like over 50% of Facebook users just type "facebook" into the browser address bar or search bar, not understanding or even knowing about the concept of a website address/URL.
These are some really good ideas. Until the general public embraces cryptocurrencies, we will not know the potential ceiling for what they can achieve. |
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If it is your first time buying BTC, then I would definitely suggest using localbitcoin. I would think this would be the fastest method.
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I was thinking about the conversation being had about devtome and it's accessibility. I agree it needs quite an overhaul in the long run to appeal as a source of "stuff" to the general public.
I'd like to propose a bounty, if I may, for "A better devtome system". 6 different strategies for 6 shares each, on how devtome can best be organised to:
Allow contributors to easily add content (as they do currently via the wiki version, but it doesn't have to be this way; think about the options).
Allow easy indexing of the content so categories form more naturally.
Allow easy administration for tasks such as plagiarism checks, copyright checks, managing writers (if need be), etc.
Allow the audience to find what they want quickly (front page with random articles? automatic related article finder? automatic internal hyperlink system? etc).
Ideas for a better categorization system, if one exists.
Ideas for other ways of delivering content - eg reading apps for mobile devices?
This is a discussion paper where the writer describes what the perfect system would be like, by identifying problems with the current system and imaging improvements. You don't necessarily have to practically solve them, just logically. I would expect each page to be 1000 words or more, to thoroughly explore the topic. The above parts are just examples of things to think about, but there are tons more worth considering and the writers can explore ideas and brainstorm. I'd also encourage the later bounty seekers to absorb the good ideas from the first few in their own, if they can - this is open source, after all!
I'm not sure whether the wiki has plugin options, but if it does, we can either consider building the current one out to better fit our needs (and the needs of our readers), or biding our time until we can build our own software in the future if it's more valuable. Again, this is just about ideas at the moment, on how we can make it a pleasant experience as possible for mass audiences, such that they would find themselves having a hard time staying away.
Any objections? Is 6/6 overkill?
I was already rolling this idea around in my head. I think 6/6 is sufficient. Having 6 different attacks on the same problems will definitely produce some creative solutions. If this is approved, I would like to claim one of the bounties for my article posted on Devtome located here: http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=devtome_ease_of_use_improvementsThanks for suggesting this, I think the results are going to be game changing. Papa |
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Devtome
1) We've been trying to leave new articles on front page for at least a week to give time for visibility. Submissions are growing so that may have to be reduced. It's not personal and done solely on basis of addition date.
2) Non-fiction articles need references. A lot of recent writing in particular is just opinion with little to no background ref. That doesn't work for factual claims, information or book reviews. Referencing, links and formatting account for a significant proportion of ratings, so even if you can't be bothered to source and reference it will be reflected in earnings and therefore mostly your loss. (i.e. a rubbish rating today will take a long time to correct later due to averaging, so the earlier corrections are made the better for the writer).
2) This was becoming a concern for me as well. It is imperative to reference factually based claims to differentiate between opinion and fact. It also goes a long way in legitimizing devtome as a whole. I am in the habit of having a reference section at the bottom of my factual articles and I was wondering if that was the preferred method or do the admins have a different way they want articles reference. I have no problem altering my writing style to fit the needs of the community. Thanks for any guidance with this. |
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Welcome aboard! Your journey will be interesting if nothing else.
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The one developed by sidhujag, I believe its the most recent one added to devcoin.org.
Ok, that's shakezula's installer and it should just be the same source and .exe packaged in an installer. Sorry he's the guy to ask on that as not heard of any problems previously, and sure he'll be along soon. Thanks, I appreciated your effort. I even tried to break the amount up. If I try to send 200,000 DVC it says it is over the limit and if I try to send 251,000 DVC it says that the transaction amount is too small. This is an experimental version but you can try mine, it sends/rcv's coins no problem im using it for my wallet. v 1.0.10 https://sourceforge.net/projects/devcoin/files/let us know if it works. Using this latest version, it still said that 260,000 DVC was over the limit, but allowed me to send it with an additional 6 DVC fee, which is fine by me thanks for the help. |
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The one developed by sidhujag, I believe its the most recent one added to devcoin.org.
Ok, that's shakezula's installer and it should just be the same source and .exe packaged in an installer. Sorry he's the guy to ask on that as not heard of any problems previously, and sure he'll be along soon. Thanks, I appreciated your effort. I even tried to break the amount up. If I try to send 200,000 DVC it says it is over the limit and if I try to send 251,000 DVC it says that the transaction amount is too small. |
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Quick question. I was attempting to send DVC for the first time yesterday from the new wallet and it allowed me to send 150,000, when I tried to send other amounts anything over 2,000 produced an error saying that the amount was over the limit? Has anyone else ran into this and is there anyway for me to fix it?
Can anyone please help me with this? Yesterday 5000 DVC was too much and today 250,000 DVC is too little?!?  I'm attempting to support the spend devcoin sites, but I can't get the wallet to accept the amount. Thanks. what 'new wallet' do you mean? The one developed by sidhujag, I believe its the most recent one added to devcoin.org. |
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Quick question. I was attempting to send DVC for the first time yesterday from the new wallet and it allowed me to send 150,000, when I tried to send other amounts anything over 2,000 produced an error saying that the amount was over the limit? Has anyone else ran into this and is there anyway for me to fix it?
Can anyone please help me with this? Yesterday 5000 DVC was too much and today 250,000 DVC is too little?!? I'm attempting to support the spend devcoin sites, but I can't get the wallet to accept the amount. Thanks. |
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Quick question. I was attempting to send DVC for the first time yesterday from the new wallet and it allowed me to send 150,000, when I tried to send other amounts anything over 2,000 produced an error saying that the amount was over the limit? Has anyone else ran into this and is there anyway for me to fix it?
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