NXT FUNDING COMMITTEE VOTE STARTS IN 3 HOURS AT 12:01 AM MARCH 1 (UTC)

ALL SLATES COMPETITIVE - THIS VOTE WILL DETERMINE WINNERS AND LOSERS FOR ALL COMMITTEES

CANDIDACY DECLARATION CLOSES IN 2 HOURS.  
DECLARE YOUR CANDIDACY BY 11:01 PM FEB 28 (UTC)[/color]

If you are an established NXTer and want to be on a NXT funding committee, go here:
(previous nominees get automatic inclusion on slate; all others vetted by rickyjames, whose decision is final):

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=479167.msg5280476#msg5280476

Background:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345619.msg5280786#msg5280786

Good luck to these nominees who have declared themselves candidates:

NXTmarketingfund: allwelder, Damelon,  Mario123, Asian Prepper, joefox, brooklynbct, CoinTropolis_NiftyNikel, Uniqueorn, salsacz, CoinTropolis_JustaBitTime
NXTtechdevfund: EmoneyRu, Anon136, l8orre, abuelau, antanst, BaiMangal, Jean-Luc, Arckam (aka frmelin)
NXTinfrastructurefund: chanc3r, EvilDave, pandaisftw, ChuckOne, ^[GS]^, ferment, marcus03

DETAILS ON VOTING (YOU CAN START THIS NOW):

PM rickyjames with the message title saying Vote

You will receive a reply with a user number and a password

Further instructions to come...

Your declaration of candidacy is not late.  It was submitted several hours before the deadline, which is OK and at your choice.

I sent a PM to hughmanwho at nextcoin several days ago, when we started the campaign cycle, for precisely the reason you state.  I also posted the nominations on the main forums at both nxtcrypto and nextcoin.

EDITED TO ADD: I went back and checked, my email to hughmanwho was actually at nxtcrypro.org.

NXT FUNDING COMMITTEE VOTE STARTS IN UNDER 9 HOURS AT 12:01 AM MARCH 1 (UTC)

ALL SLATES COMPETITIVE - THIS VOTE WILL DETERMINE WINNERS AND LOSERS FOR ALL COMMITTEES

CANDIDACY DECLARATION CLOSES ONE HOUR BEFORE VOTING STARTS. 
DECLARE YOUR CANDIDACY BY 11:01 PM FEB 28 (UTC)

If you are an established NXTer and want to be on a NXT funding committee, go here:
(previous nominees get automatic inclusion on slate; all others vetted by rickyjames, whose decision is final):

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=479167.msg5280476#msg5280476

Background:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345619.msg5280786#msg5280786

Good luck to these nominees who have declared themselves candidates:

NXTmarketingfund: allwelder, Damelon,  Mario123, Asian Prepper, joefox, brooklynbct, CoinTropolis_NiftyNikel, Uniqueorn, salsacz, CoinTropolis_JustaBitTime
NXTtechdevfund: EmoneyRu, Anon136, l8orre, abuelau, antanst, BaiMangal, Jean-Luc, Arckam (aka frmelin)
NXTinfrastructurefund: chanc3r, EvilDave, pandaisftw, ChuckOne, ^[GS]^,ferment

Dude.  101nodes, alias redirect, 1000+ cloud servers, 100s of physical servers in a private data center.  I hereby assign you to the infrastructure slate.  Good luck.

NXT FUNDING COMMITTEE VOTE STARTS IN 12 HOURS
AT 12:01 AM MARCH 1 (UTC)

CANDIDACY DECLARATION CLOSES ONE HOUR BEFORE VOTING STARTS.  
DECLARE YOUR CANDIDACY BY 11:01 PM FEB 28 (UTC)

Remaining eligible nominees with as-yet undeclared intentions

2Kool4Skewl, Arckam_(frmelin), bitcoinpaul,  buybitcoinscanada,  Come-from-Beyond
Damelon, davethetrousers, drevil,   ferment, Fry, hughmanwho, jl777, Klee, landomata, laowai80,  msin, mww
nexern, opticalcarrier, PeercoinEnthusiast,  Pouncer,  Ricot, SecondLeo, smaragda,  VanBreuk,  ZeroTheGreat

Something Zahlen said:  A candidate does not need to be good at writing English. Some candidates may not have English as their mother tongue. If you're voting, don't confuse lots of writing for ability to judge the worth of a project. Remember that ultimately the committee's job is to decide which projects get funded.

If you are on this list and want to be on a NXT funding committee, go here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=479167.msg5280476#msg5280476

Background:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345619.msg5280786#msg5280786

NOTE SLATE UPDATES:

(Actually, antanst was a little late to the nominee party and was never on the blue list above.  But he's a coder, he runs multiple NXT nodes and he wrote the NXT Reddit tipbot.  Since I'm drunk with power and making the rules here, I say he's now a candidate for techdev.  If you disagree, don't vote for him - run against him!).

(However, I am not so drunk that I'm gonna let just anybody on this slate.  Newbie BC.NXT has posted on the candidate thread.  However, after checking his credentials and posting background, I will not be listing him on the slate or ballot.   To quote the mythical American television commercial: Sorry, Charley, only the best tuna get to be Star-Kist.)

(Another non-nominated NXTer has posted to be a candidate: BaiMangal.  He is a coder, a frequent poster of serious posts, and runs the website www.quicknxt.com.  I am adding him to the slate for techdev.)

(Jean-Luc has declared his candidacy for techdev.)

(rickyjames has withdrawn his candidcy for infrastructure.)

(CoinTropolis_JustaBitTime has declared his candidacy for marketing.)

WE NOW HAVE A FULL SLATE.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_slate

Good luck to these nominees who have declared themselves candidates:

NXTmarketingfund: allwelder, Damelon,  Mario123, Asian Prepper, joefox, brooklynbct, CoinTropolis_NiftyNikel, Uniqueorn, salsacz, CoinTropolis_JustaBitTime
NXTtechdevfund: EmoneyRu, Anon136, l8orre, abuelau, antanst, BaiMangal, Jean-Luc
NXTinfrastructurefund: chanc3r, EvilDave, pandaisftw, ChuckOne, ^[GS]^

Yeah, you may have seen this before.  I'll be putting it up every ten pages or so.  It's one of those "legitimate, transparent process" things.

NXT FUNDING COMMITTEE VOTE STARTS IN 25 HOURS
AT 12:01 AM MARCH 1 (UTC)

CANDIDACY DECLARATION CLOSES ONE HOUR BEFORE VOTING STARTS.  
DECLARE YOUR CANDIDACY BY 11:01 PM FEB 28 (UTC)


CANDIDACY WITHDRAWAL CLOSES IN ONE HOUR
WITHDRAW YOUR CANDIDACY BY 12:01 AM FEB 28 (UTC) OR YOU ARE GOING ON THE BALLOT

rickyjames has withdrawn from infrastructure slate to concentrate on treasury spreadsheet duties / possible non-voting de facto secretary organizational work for all committees / other NXT activities

Well, after being the one who argued successfully for creation of the NXTinfrastructure fund in the first place, I have decided to withdraw my candidacy for it.  I have the desire but not the technical background that would be appropriate for an in depth deep dive into evaluating its proposed projects.  The slate is still full with five other qualified candidates, maybe more will join them if I move on while there is still time.  I will still be pursuing infrastructure questions here on the forum with great interest, but I'm thinking I am more use to NXT doing more background treasury organization stuff, maybe acting as de facto secretary behind the scenes for all committees perhaps, creating more marketing copy, etc.  We can all only split our time between so many projects.

So...NXT infrastructure committee.  If you're interested in it, your chances for getting on just got better.  Think about it.

You need only 1 NXT to forge and it becomes active to forge after being unlocked and online for 24 hours = 1440 minutes.  The less NXT you have, the less often you will forge a block.  Blocks are forged once a minute and there are 525,600 minutes in a year.  With a billion NXT in circulation, if everybody owned an identical 1,000,000,000 / 525,600 = 1900 or so NXT in their account, and they all had their accounts always unlocked for a year to try and forge, they would each eventually be selected to forge one block per year on average.  In reality, some accounts obviously have more than 1900 NXT in them, some less, and not everybody has their account unlocked to forge at the same time.  Ratio accordingly with reasonable estimates to see where you really stand once the time bouncing settles down.

Welcome to the realization that NXT forging is not a quick road to riches like Bitcoin mining is supposed to be.

The file has been corrected for the "Johns" typo and is now located at the same and link as above / before.

Poofknuckle, in my eyes you are as big a member of the brochure team now as anybody with your typo catch.  We want very much to get on the Zerocash team's good side, and correctly spelling their home institution is (duh) important.  Thanks.

This is the correct path to take - an intermediate group that acts as an advance scout whose main goal is to get the code ready for public circulation.

The WHOLE POINT of going open source with this code is to share it with others.  Open source code is useless to anybody who can't make sense of it.  Releasing it March 1st is a guarantee to make that happen.  Taking the month of March to show the code to a transition team of others whose sole job is to UNDERSTAND IT and COMMENT IT and DOCUMENT IT (and not ADD to it) is absolutely the right thing to do.

What is the ideal outcome we should be shooting for?  1000 new coders on April 5 that can pick up the NXT open source modules and immediately start adding many new features in a coordinated, cooperative fashion.  Are we currently on a path to achieve that ideal goal?  Hell no.  So let's use the time we've got on the clock to start moving in that direction.  Releasing undocumented, mystic / confusing code on March 1 instead of April 4 only makes the clusterf#@k happen a month early.  We don't want that.

Designate a code documenting transition team that starts interfacing NOW with the current devs.  Ground rule number one is that devs drop all the cryptic mumbo jumbo talk and come clean with the transition team where everything actually stands as of right now.  Then we can all start picking up the pieces to build something even more wonderful.  

I'm right there with you.  

But one thing is for sure - this is a community that is chomping at the bit to make NXT work, and work right as the revolutionary invention it can be, not just make money off of it.  

One way or another things are going to be very different in six weeks.  CfB will be gone, the complete source code will be out (hopefully, and with or without comments) and we can take inventory on which of the original devs (if any, including BCNext himself) wants to stick around for Phase 2 of NXT.  And we WILL get a team together, and we WILL understand this code even if we have to reverse engineer line by line as some kind of alien tech we found in a UFO crash, and we WILL go to da moon.

CfB and BCNext are good, smart men who have my respect.  But even as my confusion grows from their cryptic words, my faith in this NXT community also grows because of the tangible acts I see it perform.  

Acts will persevere over words.  Wait and see.

NXT FUNDING COMMITTEE VOTE STARTS IN 29 HOURS
AT 12:01 AM MARCH 1 (UTC)

CANDIDACY DECLARATION CLOSES ONE HOUR BEFORE VOTING STARTS.  
DECLARE YOUR CANDIDACY BY 11:01 PM FEB 28 (UTC)


CANDIDACY WITHDRAWAL CLOSES 24 HOURS BEFORE VOTING STARTS.  
WITHDRAW YOUR CANDIDACY BY 12:01 AM FEB 28 (UTC) OR YOU ARE GOING ON THE BALLOT

Remaining eligible nominees with as-yet undeclared intentions

2Kool4Skewl, Arckam_(frmelin), bitcoinpaul,  buybitcoinscanada, Cointropolis_JustabitTime, Come-from-Beyond
Damelon, davethetrousers, drevil,   ferment, Fry, hughmanwho, jl777, Klee, landomata, laowai80,  msin, mww
nexern, opticalcarrier, PeercoinEnthusiast,  Pouncer,  Ricot, SecondLeo, smaragda,  VanBreuk,  ZeroTheGreat

Something Zahlen said:  A candidate does not need to be good at writing English. Some candidates may not have English as their mother tongue. If you're voting, don't confuse lots of writing for ability to judge the worth of a project. Remember that ultimately the committee's job is to decide which projects get funded.

If you are on this list and want to be on a NXT funding committee, go here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=479167.msg5280476#msg5280476

Background:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345619.msg5280786#msg5280786

NOTE SLATE UPDATES:

(Actually, antanst was a little late to the nominee party and was never on the blue list above.  But he's a coder, he runs multiple NXT nodes and he wrote the NXT Reddit tipbot.  Since I'm drunk with power and making the rules here, I say he's now a candidate for techdev.  If you disagree, don't vote for him - run against him!).

(However, I am not so drunk that I'm gonna let just anybody on this slate.  Newbie BC.NXT has posted on the candidate thread.  However, after checking his credentials and posting background, I will not be listing him on the slate or ballot.   To quote the mythical American television commercial: Sorry, Charley, only the best tuna get to be Star-Kist.)

(Another non-nominated NXTer has posted to be a candidate: BaiMangal.  He is a coder, a frequent poster of serious posts, and runs the website www.quicknxt.com.  I am adding him to the slate for techdev.)

(Jean-Luc has declared his candidacy for techdev.)

(rickyjames has withdrawn his candidcy for infrastructure.)

WE NOW HAVE A FULL SLATE.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_slate

Good luck to these nominees who have declared themselves candidates:

NXTmarketingfund: allwelder, Damelon,  Mario123, Asian Prepper, joefox, brooklynbct, CoinTropolis_NiftyNikel, Uniqueorn, salsacz
NXTtechdevfund: EmoneyRu, Anon136, l8orre, abuelau, antanst, BaiMangal, Jean-Luc
NXTinfrastructurefund: chanc3r, EvilDave, pandaisftw, ChuckOne, ^[GS]^

Yeah, you may have seen this before.  I'll be putting it up every ten pages or so.  It's one of those "legitimate, transparent process" things.

No.  I am right there with you and so are many others.  But leaning back to watch what happens next seems to be the only "action" we can take until the source code is released and becomes OURS, not THEIRS.

You are correct (and I was wrong) that Auroracoin is not an official Icelandic Government project or currency.  It is being promoted by an Icelandic entrepreneur named Baldur Friggjar Odinsson whose name is at the bottom of some of the Auroracoin.org text.  He is almost certainly goes by "balduro" here on bitcointalk - that is the moderator of the Auroracoin [ANN] thread and its <sniff> mere 31 pages since Feb 2.  It's a pretty good bet that Baldur himself is set up somehow to mine a good chunk of the other half of Auroracoins after the first half are "airdropped" to his people on March 25. (To non-Americans, the whole "airdrop" thing is kind of a joke because our former Central Banker Ben Bernanke said in a speech that it was so important to get cash in the hand of people to spend and break the ongoing  recession that he would drop it from helicopters, leading to his nickname of "Helicopter Ben").

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=446062.0

One angle that is very important here, I think, is inflationary vs. non-inflationary coins.  Iceland has been absolutely clobbered by inflation and that is at the heart of their problem in many ways.  Auroracoin is a litecoin clone and so is inflationary.    NXT is PoS and non-inflationary.  Somehow, if they're going to take a mass national plunge into cryptocurrency in the next month,  you could probably get a lot of Icelanders to prefer dealing with NXT rather than Auroracoin because if it's one thing they understand, it's dilution of their currency.  Iceland is a small, isolated group of people.  If we can't get NXT penetration into a group like that, we're never gonna make it in the big wide world with a hundred other altcoins all trying to get attention in their own way...

I say let's give Baldur a round of sincere hearty applause.  The guy runs a thread and coin pretty much by himself with only 31 pages, and yet comes up with a cryptocurrency that (1) is just behind NXT in market cap on coinmarketcap.com and (2) is about to be the first "official" cryptocoin for an entire nation.   We've got 5000+ members and 2000+ pages and have been working on establishing ourselves 3-4 times longer than he has, and we're just barely ahead of one guy...

Anyway, I think if we don't reach out to make contact with Baldur and somehow try to do a cooperative effort with him at NXT, I think we will be missing out on a big, big opportunity.  Just thinking out loud and trying to spark some brainstorming here....

Hell, we've got whales that could give 3 NXT to everybody in Iceland for the same price Klee made a donation to a brain fund.  No disrespect to Klee, who did a WONDERFUL thing with a science angle to boot, but if an NXT whale matched Baldur's attempt to get everybody in Iceland a cryptocoin start with NXT to get out of their rut, which event do you think the media would cover more?  And which event would do more to reinforce the reputation of NXT as a premier pioneer in the cryptocurrency world?

I tell ya, we gotta figure out some way of connecting with Baudur ASAP for our mutual best interests...




 

Texas Bitcoin Conference NXT Marketing Brochure

I would like to thank bitcoinpaul, w4llace, LiQio, EvilDave and especially mvag for their prompt and generous assistance in revising my primitive, clumsy attempt at an NXT marketing brochure into this thing of beauty:

http://nxt.sx/images/resources/NXT-Brochure-4.pdf

It's still wordy, and that's my fault.  Still, This Is A Great Job.

And thank you again, generous donor, in funding 5000 copies of this to be printed at Austin, TX for my pickup there on Tuesday.

NxtMinnow, I will be sending you what I don't use in Austin for you to hand out in San Francisco.  Mail 'em on to the next Conference when you're done with them.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345619.msg5398685#msg5398685

Now, on to getting my new new2nxt.com website shaped up over this weekend...

Would you entertain an offer from the NXT community to go on contract to US starting April 4?

Um...NXT Asset Exchange?  Icelanders attach X Auroracoins to a single NXT colored coin and then make deals with them peer to peer amongst themselves?  Otherwise, on what exchange are they going to sell Auroracoins - Cryptsy, in Florida USA?

Since I'm not going to achieve psychic mindlock today with CfB and BCNext to get the information dump we all need, I'm gonna change the subject.  (Squirrel!!! : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSUXXzN26zg )

There is a new coin on coinmarketcap.com just below NXT in market cap and that is Auroracoin.  If you don't know about Auroracoin, you should take a minute and read some about it.  It is a litecoin clone that is about to become an official government currency for Iceland.  Without going into gory details, the banking system in Iceland has had huge problems over the past few years and the government is desperate to engineer a reboot.  Thus Auroracoin.  It has a 50% pre-mine that is being held in trust and will be given out to the people of Iceland in 25 days.  They are encouraging activity to get tools in the hands of Icelanders to allow their easy use of this new currency.  


http://www.auroracoin.org/

http://theconversation.com/free-cash-for-iceland-but-it-pays-to-keep-cool-about-auroracoin-23061

The 64,000 NXT question is - could NXT somehow get on this bandwagon and become part of the Auroracoin management system via AE?  If we can get EVERYBODY IN ICELAND (population 300,000) owning NXT as a part of helping to manage their new Auroracoins...

NXT FUNDING COMMITTEE VOTE STARTS IN 36 HOURS
AT 12:01 AM MARCH 1 (UTC)

Remaining eligible nominees with as-yet undeclared intentions (PM me if you want off this list):

2Kool4Skewl, Arckam_(frmelin), bitcoinpaul,  buybitcoinscanada, Cointropolis_JustabitTime, Come-from-Beyond
Damelon, davethetrousers, drevil,   ferment, Fry, hughmanwho, Jean-Luc, jl777, Klee, landomata, laowai80,  msin, mww
nexern, opticalcarrier, PeercoinEnthusiast,  Pouncer,  Ricot, SecondLeo, smaragda,  VanBreuk,  ZeroTheGreat


Something Zahlen said:  A candidate does not need to be good at writing English. Some candidates may not have English as their mother tongue. If you're voting, don't confuse lots of writing for ability to judge the worth of a project. Remember that ultimately the committee's job is to decide which projects get funded.

If you are on this list and want to be on a NXT funding committee, go here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=479167.msg5280476#msg5280476

Background:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345619.msg5280786#msg5280786

WE NOW HAVE A FULL SLATE

(Actually, antanst was a little late to the nominee party and was never on the blue list above.  But he's a coder, he runs multiple NXT nodes and he wrote the NXT Reddit tipbot.  Since I'm drunk with power and making the rules here, I say he's now a candidate for techdev.  If you disagree, don't vote for him - run against him!).

(However, I am not so drunk that I'm gonna let just anybody on this slate.  Newbie BC.NXT has posted on the candidate thread.  However, after checking his credentials and posting background, I will not be listing him on the ballot.   To quote the mythical American television commercial: Sorry, Charley, only the best tuna get to be Star-Kist.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_slate

Good luck to these nominees who have declared themselves candidates:


NXTmarketingfund: allwelder, Damelon,  Mario123, Asian Prepper, joefox, brooklynbct, CoinTropolis_NiftyNikel, Uniqueorn, salsacz
NXTtechdevfund: EmoneyRu, Anon136, l8orre, abuelau, antanst
NXTinfrastructurefund: rickyjames, chanc3r, EvilDave, pandaisftw, ChuckOne, ^[GS]^


Yeah, you may have seen this before.  I'll be putting it up every ten pages or so.  It's one of those "legitimate, transparent process" things.