Decentralized.Tech Bounties:
- Earn up to $110!

$50 - 6 user limit - First 6 users to earn the Knowledge Dropper badge.
- Only links and technology submissions will be counted towards the bounty.

$25 - 4 user limit - First 4 users to earn the Keyboard Warrior badge.
- Spam posts will not count towards this bounty. Spam posts will be deleted and automatically removed from your total post count. Repeat occurrences of posting spam will result in a temporary ban, and then a permanent ban if you continue to spam after your temporary ban.

$25 - 4 user limit - First 4 users to earn the Crypto Hipster badge.
- No restrictions. Anything that is rateable (Technologies and Links) applies towards the bounty.

$5 - 10 user limit - First 10 users to earn the Portfolio Wizard badge.
- Only include coins coins in your portfolio that are in the top 150 in market capitalization.

$5 - 10 user limit - First 10 users to create a public portfolio.
- No restrictions. Create a portfolio, and make it public.
10 out of 10 $5 bounties have already been claimed.

More information on how to earn user badges can be found:
Here: https://www.decentralized.tech/forums/general-discussion/changelog-development-updates
or Here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1971829.msg19757089#msg19757089

How to Participate:
1. Register for an account on www.decentralized.tech
2. Verify your email

3. Add your Bitcointalk profile link to your decentralized.tech profile.
3a. Find the link to your Bitcointalk Profile by clicking Profile on the top navigation bar, then "Summary" under "Profile Info" on the left navigation bar. The address that shows up is the address to your Bitcointalk Profile. It should include your user number. IE. Mine is: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=67959;sa=summary
3b. Click on the "User Control Panel" drop down selection after logging into Decentralized.Tech, and select "Profile". Then select the "Edit Social Media Links" tab and enter the link to your Bitcointalk profile under "Bitcointalk Profile Link". If successful, a link to your Bitcointalk profile should show up at the top of your profile. It is a button with the Bitcoin symbol on it. https://www.decentralized.tech/profiles/CoinHoarder

4. As soon as you have earned one of the badges, then let me know by posting in one of the following threads:
Decentralized.Tech thread: https://www.decentralized.tech/forums/general-discussion/bounties-win-up-to-110
Bitcointalk Decentralized.Tech thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1971829
or Bitcointalk Services thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1985452
4a. Include the Bitcoin address where you wish to receive payment.

Some Updates:
- Links and Technologies can now be associated with more than one category and subcategory. This was done because many technologies/websites/etc. fit under multiple categories, and I do not want to limit accessibility/categorization unnecessarily. I completely reprogrammed the category and subcategory logic and databases.
- The Market Data page was made to be mobile friendly. It lost some functionality such as exporting data to csv/pdf/etc, searching by cryptocurrency name/symbol, and the 7 day price graph. It is my intention to add these features back whenever I get a chance. You can still search by cryptocurrency name on the graphs page, which has all the same information + graphs. Making the web site visually pleasant on mobile phones is a priority for me over functionality. Expect more changes on these fronts.
- The web site's efficiency was greatly increased overall, but I will still be working on improving it. That alone is a big project.
- A development milestone has been knocked off the list!!! See below:

Introducing User Badges
- Badges earnable by interacting with the Decentralized.Tech web app.
- These show up both under your user profile and by any post that you make in the forums. I will probably add them to your portfolio overview page as well.

Knowledge Dropper
Earned when you achieve 100 approved submissions (Information, Links, and Technologies submissions are all counted)


Portfolio Wizard
Earned when you reach #1 on the 7 day portfolio leaderboards



Keyboard Warrior
Earned when you have made 100 forum posts.


Techno Hipster
Earned when you rate 100 Links or Technologies.


Note: These images are from my development server. On the actual web site, the DecentralizedTechBot has only earned the Keyboard Warrior badge because he has made 800+ posts, and he still has the admin badge that he has always had... because he is a boss. Everything the DecentralizedTechBot does and posts is done automatically via code... he is exactly as his name states... a robot. I only use the web site with my username CoinHoarder.

Sent, thank you!

Check out the web site if you have some time. 😁

https://www.decentralized.tech

Good point that although pruning is not all that needs to be considered when scaling a cryptocurrency, it is still a good feature to have as far as optimum scalability goes.

Hello,

What coin were you looking for? I use Coin Market Cap's API and there are around 890 cryptocurrencies on it which are automatically added to my site. It's definitely not all of them, but quite a bit of them for sure. Right now I do not have a feature for someone to add a cryptocurrency, but maybe I will implement that feature in the future. Right now the easiest way to get your coin on my website is to ask CMC to add it.

Any and all suggestions are more than welcome. I still have a lot of work to do on it.

Thanks for checking out the site!!

much fun
so timely
many doges
no premine... wow

Hello all,

I would like to welcome you to a web site I have been developing! I am still putting the final touches on everything, but I would like to invite ya'll to come try out the website if you would like! Things are still a little rough around the edges, so please pardon the mess! This web app is powered by Meteor and written with much love and frustration in Javascript, Node.js, CSS, and HTML.


Features:

Market Data (similar to Coin Market Cap) - Mobile Device Friendly



Price and Volume Graphs (24 hours, 7 days, and historical)



Portfolio Value Tracking and Discussion (keep your portfolio private, or view and discuss any certain public portfolios)
(public portfolio values are obfuscated, and other users can only see the percentage of each coin held in a portfolio- not the amount owned)



Blog Posts (sortable by various social metrics, and discuss specific blog posts)



Portfolio Leaderboards (the best performing portfolios the past hour, 24 hours, and 7 days)


Cryptocurrency-specific Information, Statistics, Links, and Discussion
(filterable by cryptocurrency)


User Dashboards (portfolio statistics, market data for followed cryptocurrencies, and recent replies to followed topics/posts. Eventually, everything that is followed will show up in some way or another here. Feedback as to how to implement it is more than welcome.)




General Cryptocurrency Links, Reviews, and Discussion (both individual discussions and category discussions)
(filterable by category, subcategory, and applicable cryptocurrencies)



Decentralized Technologies, Reviews, and Discussion (both individual discussions and category discussions)
(filterable by category, and cryptocurrencies implemented in)



Forums (with labels for topic subjects for categorization within subforums, topics are sortable by social parameters such as likes, follows, etc., and there is the ability to reply directly to a reply in a forum topic rather than to the topic itself.)


Profiles (with avatar support, personal information, social metrics, and social media profile links)


The following entities are both likable and followable, with social metrics under a tab in your profile:
Cryptocurrencies
Portfolios
Links & Reviews
Technologies
Users
Forum Posts

Development Roadmap:
- Higher Efficiency (lowering the latency and load time)
- User Dashboard (with a news feed for anything that you have followed, and market data for cryptocurrencies you have followed)
- Increased Mobile Compatability (making sure the site looks good on mobile phones will usurp utility via features)
- Advanced Portfolios (which can keep track of the values bought and sold at, and track exact performance of a portfolio)
- Remove Reliance On CMC API (aggregate market data directly from exchanges rather than CMC's API)
- International Support (alternative language and currency support for international users)

Your feedback is more than welcome. I look forward to seeing you guys around the site.  

You claim a more fair comparison is bitUSD versus Tether, but that is an unfair comparison. You can't compare Tethers to bitUSD... they are two completely different things.

One is fully decentralized, and pegged by free market dynamics on a decentralized exchange.

The other is fully centralized, and pegged by a promise from a company to maintain the peg on centralized exchanges.

There are some big differences there.

Even comparing Tether adoption versus bitusd adoption is flawed. Tether started with a large amount of private investment capital, and was able to instantly use that to create a large amount of liquidity. I speculate that it also used that to gain trading pairs on some exchanges, because it almost instantly became a "base" pair on some of the biggest exchanges trading against multiple cryptocurrencies on each one.

bitUSD on the other hand has to slowly and organically grow over time due to its free market based peg. As usership grows, market depth and liquidity will increase, which will also reduce the spread and volatility. But it will take a while to reach "critical mass" where the design works optimally.

By your own stated metric, bitUSD is actually doing pretty well.

Oct 2014:
bitUSD:
Market Cap: $392,539
Bitcoin:
Market Cap: $5,241,480,575

Today:
bitUSD:
Market Cap: $4,252,534 +1083%
Bitcoin:
Market Cap: $41,066,547,811 +783%

But your metric is flawed because it doesn't account for market dynamics. Right now there is higher demand for bitUSD and Tethers due to the bearish nature of the cryptocurrency market, as evidenced by ballooning market caps of both in recent time. When the cryptocurrency market is bullish, their market caps will shrink. This metric will be different if taken at a bearish or bullish time in the market.

Not to mention the combined network effects of all cryptocurrencies (and even Bitcoin alone) is exponentially larger than the network effect of bitUSD, therefore they will grow at a faster rate. Bitcoin's (and other cryptocurrencies) usage, value, and market cap growth is effectively 98% based on its network effect.

You keep citing that bitUSD is highly volatile, but fail to see that it is way more than stable enough for one of its main uses (which is the main reason why people use Tether too) is to hedge from cryptocurrency volatility or a cryptocurrency bear market. Comparison versus crypto was meant to show that it is quite stable over the long run... which again is backed up by historical data. It always comes back towards $1 even though there might be small fluctuations in its value away from $1, and thus it is a good asset to hedge against a bear market. It serves this purpose well.

Ok... it seems there is some things I still need to clear up.


You were wrong in stating people need to pay $2+ to get $1 of bitUSD. People don't need to pay $2 for $1 worth of bitUSD unless they want to bet on the price of the Bitshares token rising against the dollar. If they don't want to do that, then they can simply purchase $1 of bitUSD off of exchanges for approximately $1.



Compare the stability of bitUSD compared to other cryptocurrencies and crypto assets.... the difference is obvious. They might not be stable enough for your liking, but they seem to be stable enough for a lot of people based off of usage statistics.

Apparently, bitUSD, bitCNY, etc. (plus all other smartcoins) are stable enough to garner $1,861,211 worth of volume, and a combined smartcoin market cap exceeding $14,788,736. The volume metrics do not even account for trading against user issued assets like Open Ledger's IOUs. A large percentage of volume is therefore not tracked on Coin Market Cap, and the total Bitshares DEX's volume is $9,741,567.

https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/bitshares-asset-exchange/
Click on each asset to see the Market Cap of each tracked Smartcoin.

More accurate volume statistics:
https://cryptofresh.com/assets

In summary, although they might not always trade $1 to $1, Smartcoins are sufficiently stable enough for their respective use cases (hedging cryptocurrency investments, ecommerce, etc.)


Many people have said the same for the past few years, and they are slowly being proved wrong. You are late to make such accusations IMO. Preston Byrne and company are slowly but surely being made to look silly for such conjecture.

Yes, a lot of the data is intended to be aggregated by user submission. However, over time I will add any APIs that I can find to automate as much data as possible.

I do have "Collectable Wallets" under "Wallets" which is meant to be applicable to physical cryptocurrency collectables. I suppose that I can nuke that subcategory and make a more general "Collectable" subcategory under the Physical Goods and Services category. Good suggestion, as I agree that it is more applicable under the physical goods category.

Bitcoin address?

No problem, but cryptocurrency-specific data is meant to be data only regarding specific cryptocurrencies. For more general market data, I already have a page for that as posted earlier in the thread:


Users will also be able to "follow" a cryptocurrency and access a more personalized Market Data page with the same statistics.

I will give you an extended timeframe to make another suggestion if you like.

Thanks

I think this is more applicable under the exchange category.

Thanks for you suggestion, I will add that subcategory!

Sending $5 now!

I feel like I have received enough feedback for now, and it is time for me to get back to work!

I will allow about 5 or 10 minutes for anyone to submit new suggestions (incase someone is currently working on a reply). After that time, I will no longer be paying for suggestions.

Thanks!

Sending now. Thanks!

Hi,

Someone else mentioned adding currency conversion and translation. I am not sure if I can delay the website much longer for such features, but I will definitely add this sort of thing to my development roadmap for the web site. Allowing more global access to the web site would be great- the more the merrier.

Currency conversion is a given, but I'm not sure translation features are needed. Don't most browsers automatically do this, or am I spoiled from using Google Chrome? When I load a web page that is not in English, Google Chrome asks me if I would like Chrome to translate it for me.

I suppose I can add Instagram because it is pretty popular. I just didn't want to go too crazy with social media links, seeing as though there are around 20 or 30 decently popular ones. On each user's profile, you can share your profile information to many Social Networks- including:

Thanks for the idea regarding a visitor counter. I will think about adding something along those lines later down the road. This website is a web app written in javascript/node.js with data that updates reactively, so those types of stats would be easy/cool to add to the footer of the web site.

Thanks for your help! Sending $5 now.

Hello,

I assume that you mean the total spent on electricity securing the blockchain given a global average price of electricity?

I guess the formula for per day would be: (Total Hash Rate / Most Efficient Hardware Speed) * Most Efficient Hardware Electricity Usage Per Day * Global average price of electricity

I could probably add that down the road, because I do plan on eventually making a more intensive mining section eventually. It won't be available on launch though, because I already have too much to do in between now and then. The more I add, the more I delay the website launch, and believe me... I have added a lot since I started development! I keep getting new ideas, lol.

Changing categories and subcategories is a fairly simple edit for me, but this is a bit more complicated for various reasons.

Thanks for the idea anyhow. Bitcoin address?

Going to bed. I will respond more in the morning. Thanks for yall's help!

At this rate the maximum bounty recipients will fill up pretty quick. Please keep that in mind when spending time to submit ideas.

I don't understand, I am sorry. Can you try to explain it differently?

Job Boards is already under Digital Goods and Services. Sorry but it was already on the list. :\

Also, signature campaigns is maybe a good idea but these are constantly changing. I think a list of signature campaigns could fit under the previously submitted category "Money Making Guides". I'm not sure it would be good to create a category for that, as a bunch of links to inactive signature campaigns would be hard to maintain.

Good ideas! Thank you.

I will add an option in the user profile section to set a preferred currency, and then automatically convert all USD values to whatever your preferred currency is.

I guess I agree with you that they are more digital services than physical objects that you can buy like electronics or clothing. It is kind of borderline, but I will move Flights and Hotels to Digital Goods/Services.

I will add a Money Making Guides subcategory to the Guides category.

Also, I will add Software and Games to digital goods, and change the Games subcategory in News/Entertainment to Free Games.

Good suggestions, thanks a lot. I will send you a little extra.

Good idea, thanks. I added Loans and Lending to the Cryptocurrency Services category!

Bitcoin address?

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1/4th of the bounty has been claimed. 15 more users can submit ideas.