Salsacz- I've thought a little more and have made slight mods to my suggested short-line edits. In particular, adding "Max" and "go green with NXT" and "there's a lot of smartphones". I think if you fade them in slightly after the text above them appears, it will add dramatic and comedic beats to your excellent video. But these are only suggestions, this is your show and you obviously have a gifted touch for running it. NXT is lucky to have access to your creative energy. SUGGESTED IN COLORED OUTLINE FONT YOU ARE USING: ******************************* Bitcoin network:
7 Transactions Per Second (TPS)Max.He's mining NXT right now
On his smartphone
NXT: $300 a day for 7 TPSMine NXT with your
smartphone or Raspberry Pi
NXT: $300 a day for 7 TPSDon't freeze in IcelandDon't waste energy on BitcoinGo green with peer-to-peer NXT
NXT network:
100,000 TPS coming soon(there's a lot of smartphones)mynxt.org************************** If I get to speak in Texas, I will leave this video looping over and over with no sound behind me on the screen during the 20 minute audience question and answer session.... |
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Gold. Gold. Gold.
We must establish a precedent that any NXT coin representation will always be seen in a gold color and never in a silver color.
+1 And a green NXT blockchain logo goes well with a gold background. Gold and green are traditionally linked colors. We should decide on the official RGB shade of green to use for any and all future NXT blockchain logos. We should push the green angle with a green logo color as an option (tho our official color is blue), but if we're gonna show it in green occasionally, we need to establish the exact shade of green... |
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Ok, I will re-render it all.
Nice. I will buy some when available. Will they be silver? Gold. Gold. Gold. We must establish a precedent that any NXT coin representation will always be seen in a gold color and never in a silver color. |
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Ricky: I have still little problem with: "Don't freeze in Iceland" - Iceland is very free and green country that supports Bitcoin and will be supporting Nxt when we beat this bastard. So I don't want to be cruel to our crazy friends  I don't think the Icelanders will take it personally. They are good people. They will get the joke. |
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Excellent!!! Excellent !!! Excellent!!! Here's some comments as I watch it scene by scene: Leave the "Emmanuel Abiodun" tag line up longer (at least 10 seconds) before you cover it with the "$17 million" tag line so the viewer can ID the guy. Currently you just flash this for three seconds and the viewer wonders what they missed and didn't have time to read. Don't make the viewer's eye shuffle back and forth over three short lines. Center in the screen a top line that says "Bitcoin network:" and below that a SINGLE LINE centered on the screen that says "7 Transactions Per Second (TPS)" - all words with initial caps, bring the two parens as close together as possible. Pop the Bitcoin network line in first, the fade the TPS lin in a few moments later. The blue outline script is perfect - brrr! I would reedit the overlays and the video in your next sequence a little. The musical opening is perfect. Slowly fade in the top line, "He's Mining NXT right now" using the the contraction. Just as the phone becomes visible (because you've reedited the timing of the scene a little), fade in a new second line in the middle of the screen, "On his smartphone". This works because the viewer is mentally asking "How?" from your first question, and you answer that explicitly with video shot so the phone is perfectly positioned below the center line talking about the phone. After a beat you fade in a third line at the bottom (in the same orange outline text - drop that yellow solid text), a much shorter version of what you say in yellow: "NXT. $300 per day for 7 TPS". Hold that for a beat, then fade in two new top green lines: "Mine NXT on your" and "smartphone or Raspberry Pi". (Note the "y" and not "I" on "Raspberry". Then cut these two top lines and fade in your " Iceland/ Bitcoin" lines. Again, I would shorten the Bitcoin line to a single line of "Don't waste energy on Bitcoin" and just leave out the word mining at this point. Shift the emphasis from the mining to the total coin itself. In general, try to make the lines as short as possible and avoid having to make the viewer cycle their eyes back and forth. I suggest the following short lines (and only short lines) for your overlays: ******************************* Bitcoin network: 7 Transactions Per Second (TPS) He's mining NXT right now On his smartphone NXT: $300 per day for 7 TPS Mine NXT with your smartphone or Raspberry Pi NXT: $300 per day for 7 TPS Don't freeze in Iceland Don't waste energy on Bitcoin NXT: 100,000 TPS coming soon mynxt.org ************************** Short lines stick with the viewer. Long lines distract them from the video while they figure out the long lines. This is REALLY GOOD WORK, Salsacz. Congrats! If I get to speak in Texas, I will leave this video looping over and over with no sound behind me on the screen during the 20 minute audience question and answer session.... |
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of course its too wordy. like i said in my orginial post you always start out with something longer than you need and trim the fat with revisions. you guys are really beginning to frustrate me. notice how its gets less wordy with every revision.
Anon, I respect what you are doing and I am not trying to frustrate you. Let me leave you with one thought to consider. I think you might be focusing too hard on making the perfect one minute spot and that is really not the right goal to focus on here. The right goal is to focus on how to make the best 26 spot campaign. Don't start by thinking about what you want the listener to think at the end of the first 60 seconds. Instead, what do you want the listener to think about NXT four months from now. That NXT is cool tech? Profitable? A great gang to hang out with? Fun? Good audio advertising isn't about conveying dense information. It's about creating an atmosphere around a brand. You need to come up with a opening. You need to come up with a musical stanza that becomes Pavlov's bell so that in four months, when people hear that stanza they know the next 57 seconds are going to be about NXT. You need a slogan or a tag line that is said every time in every ad. You need to list the 26 points you are going to get across in each of the 26 ads. You can do it! |
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Honestly, I can barely follow you reading.
Listening to this will be just noise. Especially if you try to squeeze it in one minute....
This is waaaay too wordy. Especially for a 1 minute spot. It's not close to easily digestible, as it needs to be. I would turn off before the end of the second sentence. Some friendly constructive criticism. Not trying to hammer down a good intentions, but one minute verbal spot is just not the place to introduce deeply complex new concepts, starting with NXT itself. On a cost per word basis, on a cost per information basis, print in Bitcoin Magazine is the way to go, not sound bites on Let's Talk Bitcoin. Which one establishes our cool blockchain logo brand? http://bitcoinmagazine.com/ |
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I'm with Rickyjames on this one. I feel like the prices they are asking is steep as hell and they already invited us to speak there for free, didn't they? NXT is the future so they'll have to talk about us frequently if THEY want to be relevant. Also after hearing some of these samples I get a feeling that we are a cheap brand desperately trying to get attention. NOt a good look. If it was interactive, sure, but this is just random soundbites I see your point and I think it's a valid one. If we could somehow manage to get someone on the show, that would be amazing! We still got the community fund ~13kk Nxt so thats quite a lot of money. We could do multiple things. It's really a joke actually if we compare our marketing efforts to those of Ethereum. We got the transparent forging, not them  A community fund of 13K NXT is only 5% of the 275K NXT is about to be spent / blown on these audio ads. I think some serious thought needs to be put into whether or not these are worth the high price being charged especially since page one color ads last and last and last in a prime print location while a voice message is gone in 60 seconds. Plus the print ad has the follow-on URL / QR. Plus it's three times cheaper. |
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So, just curious...How many of these spots will run in three months? And what is the estimated number of listeners per spot?
I think its two episodes per week, with a listener base of 10000. So we are paying a CPM of around $75 for this advertising. That's really expensive. I'm not saying these audio spots are a bad idea, I don't know. I'm saying $20K is a LOT of real money for an advertising budget. If we are ready to spend that kind of cash, we should consider print ads in Bitcoin Magazine. For $20K we could get full page color ads on page 1 for the next three years in a printing of 25,000 in each month's production run. http://bitcoinmagazine.com/advertising/http://btcmag.9wizards.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/BITCOIN-Pricing-List-Interactive-Issues-17-19_web.pdfThis would have a CPM of around $20-$25. Don Draper of Mad Men would say that's three times more effective. Plus every ad could have a QR code or URL that would sweep the user immediately on to more info. |
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Funding request
We have paid for 1 minute sponsor spot at the Let's talk Bitcoin for 3 months.
It cost 290k NXT for 3 months
We've paid the current equivalent of $20,000+ for these spots? Wow. So...how many of these spots will run in three months? And what is the estimated number of listeners per spot? For this kind of cash outlay, we need a list of deadline dates for when the next new spot is due, and who is responsible for providing it. You know, centralized management.  So, just curious... How many of these spots will run in three months? And what is the estimated number of listeners per spot? |
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Funding request
We have paid for 1 minute sponsor spot at the Let's talk Bitcoin for 3 months.
It cost 290k NXT for 3 months
We've paid the current equivalent of $20,000+ for these spots? Wow. So...how many of these spots will run in three months? And what is the estimated number of listeners per spot? For this kind of cash outlay, we need a list of deadline dates for when the next new spot is due, and who is responsible for providing it. You know, centralized management. |
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anyone opposed to the idea of hiring Stephanie Murphy from LTB as a voice and special liason to crypto community in general? she is quite embedded in the crypto world and she has an authoritative and sexy voice which people listen too..I don't know how she pulls it off. I'm sure she is a good choice but this discussion of female voices has reminded me of the Christmas present I have been enjoying tremendously over the past few weeks that my wonderful wife got me - a boxed DVD set of the Emma Peel episodes from that classic British TV series, The Avengers. I loved that show as an adolescent and I am enjoying it all over again all these decades later. The Avengers is a timeless show. So while I am sure Stephanie is an excellent choice purely on your recommendation, it would just be so cool if we could get a British female voice, I think they are just so awesome.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4g3zvz8fgohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJSpUFnSsB0http://www.amazon.com/The-Avengers-Complete-Emma-Megaset/dp/B00E5G03I4 |
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i hate to sound sexist but it would be difficult to find a female who was capable of sounding authoritative.
I wish I had that problem. At least my second wife is nice to me. |
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I read the following link in a previous post: http://wiki.nxtcrypto.org/wiki/Account_ControlThis would be a really brilliant feature! It means almost theft-safe accounts, provided that you can set a control as not reversible I would do this way: 1) I create a "safe" account A and a "spending" account B 2) I set that account A can only send Nxt to account B and only a limited daily amount If someone stole my passphrase for account A he could do nothing, if he stole account B he could steal my Nxt but the damage would be limited. If I found that account B is compromised I can create account C and lock account B in the same way as A I wonder if such feature could be implemented in bitcoin? Probably it requires some great change in the protocol +1. This is a great idea as an option that should be implemented and offered ASAP, if for no other reason to give my caplock button a break so I don't go off on a rant about account freeze codes. |
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Is this including exchange accounts?
yes, and i see no reason in excluding them, as the exchange owners have FULL control of those NXT. (Voting and forging power) Which account numbers go to which exchanges? |
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Are we going to become the CyberWallstreet? Devoid of morals and only caring about our own wallets? Am I the only one here who actually cares about NXTs potential to make a huge impact on the worlds economy and environment?
Dude. Go to the second graph in this article, add lines plotting the levels of BTC and NXT electricity usage that you calculate ON THAT SCALE to show us the HUGE IMPACT switching to NXT from BTC is going to make, and return to us here with your updated graphic for us to use in our marketing materials. http://randompolicy.blogspot.com/2010/11/iea-2010-world-energy-outlook.html |
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I had no idea that talking about the single most pressing and confirmed issue in science in the recent decades would open a can of worms.
I personally believe humans are radically altering the Earth's ecosphere and may well render this planet uninhabitable in a century or two, whether global warming is true or not. Check this out: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2540955/Beijing-clouded-smog-way-sunrise-watch-giant-commercial-screens-Tiananmen-Square.htmlThis is what happens when you pass a Clean Air Act in America and then buy your plastic trinkets from a country like China that has no such regulations. I am easily convinced that things like massive Chinese coal consumption is causing global warming. However, putting a cryptocoin in the middle of the political debate over global warming is stupid, unnecessary and almost certainly counterproductive. Energy efficiency over Bitcoin is a valid point. Saying switching to NXT is going to Save The World is a stretch. We should not go there. |
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It's a polarizing farce that we really shouldn't attach ourselves to.
That's all there is to say. Leave it at energy costs and other implications. +1 |
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Hey, guys and gals, I would be interested in representing NXT at the Texas Bitcoin Conference on March 5-6. I am in the American South not very far away (relatively speaking) and just checked, I can get a round trip jet ticket to Austin for under $300 if I book soon. The conference fee is $275 until the end of January, $325 starting in February. If the devs/community could back me for $1000 (currently around 10K NXT), I volunteer to cover this. I will kick in 20% of my annual vacation time from my day job. I am an aerospace engineer in real life, one thing I know how to do is make concise, organized presentations of complex topics... http://texasbitcoinconference.comwant a wingman? Dude. Absolutely yes. Anybody that wants to join and tag up with me, here's my trip details. I am booked at America's Best Value Inn at Buda, TX on Tues (March 4) and Wed (March 5) nights. http://www.abvibudatx.com/I have a Dodge Avenger reserved that supposedly (you know how that goes) seats five, we can carpool. I'll arrive at the airport at 3:55 PM local time on Tues (March 4). My flight out is Thurs (March 6) night at 7:10 PM. Anybody that wants to meet up, PM me. I am going for BBQ Tues night at Taylor, TX. http://www.louiemuellerbarbecue.com/(Whew...I just made an airline ticket change for only $3 more...) |
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