Hello,

This is Karl Perkin. I have a Twitter project (which got major help from crowetic), aiming to demonstrate the undervaluation of Burst. June 22nd I had 120 followers and would about to write the 19th tweet. Now, the 25th of June I have 188 followers and posted 50 tweets. The first batch of tweets, got 9-10 retweets (thank you!).

I have to admit that all tweets are not directly about the chosen topic, but most are.

I do not write this to brag, overall I have very few followers but hope they will grow to a larger group. I was thinking I would share the first 50 tweets with you. Please note that the list sometimes differ from the actual tweet (I write them off-line, and when posting may need to edit them).

The primary objective by posting the list is to encourage the Burst community to contribute in this thread with possible Twitter material to tweet to be used. I do have material for continued tweeting for awhile, but then my (and crowetic's) imagination might dry up.

A secondary objective is that we, although in an odd 140-characters limited phrasing, collect all the positive arguments for Burst. The results, I hope, could be useful for the PR-team in various situations.



The List


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The fact that some tweets are labeled 18a, 18b, 18c and so on, is the reason that we only are on tweet number 32 and not 50. I can see that bitcointalk doesn't like the URL shortener "is .gd/", but I assure you there is nothing suspicious being linked.


Please, if you like the project and want to support it, post possible tweets or possible topics to work with, and secondly, if you use Twitter add my account https://twitter.com/karl_perkin and retweet the posts you find relevant.


Thank you!


Warm regards,
Karl

Asustek privately developing burst web service?

Yes I made a stupid mistake (was drunk and got pissed off by an idiot troll).

It was very unfortunate that the mods seriously thought I was ever going to try and do anything wrong with the forum's money and it is a pity that the 200 BTC (yes I was holding that much for the forum) I had held previously has been "removed from the record" (no now it looks as though I only was looking after 50 BTC - but I can prove that is not correct with a GPG signed message from @theymos if required).

Why my "stupid stunt" affects the AT software I don't quite get (and in fact I only wrote the C++ version anyway).

If you guys think that the name CIYAM is such an issue now then feel free to fork and rename as it is open source.

Personally I have been rather disappointed that 4 years of good work that I have done is just "thrown out the window" because of one "stupid mistake" I made whilst drunk but I guess that is the problem of "social media" (it only cares about "drama").

Why don't you guys start some crowdfundings.

Say, let's give BurstDev and the other people who developed this some 100 million burst for all their work.  
I think that would be fair.

Launch other crowdfunds too, like the one for mixer that I suggested.
Or other interesting things.

Since I hold about 16M (or something like that) I will contribute with 1.8% to any of these crowdfundings.

Why do these people baghold on their burst. They can't possibly ever sell even half of it at the kind of volume this coin has. Why not give to developers? And for that matter, why not give more to miners.
In either case, I like the idea.
Just don't bag hold. At least fuckin pump. Or at least dump!! Alright. If everybody just sits on their coins waiting to become millionaires in the future, guess what: It's not happening!   You have to either pump (i.e. put buy orders) or spend your coin somehow: either donate, increase rewards or just dump.

I think what I'm saying is pretty much proven, I keep saying this since I first shown up in here, and the market has only proven me right all this time

So if anybody knows how to use crowdfundings, please make a tutorial somewhere and launch some as well. Burst has this feature, let's use it.

I'll just state right now that I'm 100% against you.

Bitladen is a Greedy Bastard, plain and simple!

He has some how manage to amass a fairly large amount of hardware but he doesn't give a shit about the coin or the project. He has dumped everything he has ever mined, check his wallet balances. It's all on the exchanges.

No person in their right mind should partner with this guy. He's trying to screw all of us even though we're all miners just like him.
Do not partner with this guy, if he is openly willing to screw us he will do the same to you.

I will personally be investing in more hardware to ensure he cannot take over.

Ok, this is a suggestion and I hope I wont write about it for the next 20 hours and become rude I thought of that donation you got and, in communication with crowetic, I come to the conclusion that you need a lot more money then 50 BTC. So:


1. Run a traditional crowdfunding campaign. Do not use Burst own platform but one of the established ones. There are many to chose from, and also a bunch of sites of more informative nature (for the latter, see for example http://www.realitycrowdtv.com/blog/news/the-9-stages-to-crowdfunding-success/

2. In the presentation, be supportive of the blockchain technology per se, being one of the centuries biggest innovation that will.

3. Point out one big failure of bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies: energy-waste. There are graphs showing how much electricity POW coins consume and will consume in the future.

4. Presenting Burst, focus on its eco-friendlyness. If possible, also show this by a picture. For nuance, possibly give credit to KNC, how (if I remember correctly) gets their power straight from a waterfall.

5. Create a stand-alone website for the campaign, informative but easily readable.

6. More knowledgeable people will bring up POS as an alternative. Use the regular counter-argument but also highlight Matthew Czarnek's criticism (burstcoin.info/blog/).

7. Do not set the goal too high, maybe $50,000 and call it seed money.

8. Set a number of goals you want to reach by means for the seed money, and be honest about that more funding will be required, either by a new crowdfunding campaign when goals are reached or by venture capital, to really challenge bitcoin.

9. Even if you are asking for a relatively small sum, offer a professional (looking) business plan along with the presentation, where not only the coin is presented and the short-term goals are mentioned but also how each goal will be achieved (and cost), and how that relates to the bigger plan of challenge POW coins energy problem. Some of the goals should be technological and rather simple achievable; other can be hiring someone to design a logo  (see no. 10). There should be hesitation among the devs that they can reach the goals within the time-frame.

10. To get funders feel they are not only is contributing to a risky business, but also give them something back. Ask them to create an account on crowetic's online wallet (simple) and transfer them a few coins, pointing out that these can be really valuable in the future.

11. Consider a fork of Burst with a new name to mirror this promotion. Something with "eco", "environmental" or "save the planet" are names possible. If forking, possibly adjust the valid criticism raised against the coin. A fork do have the advantage that you are not Burst, a year-long mined coin costing 70 satoshi, but generally keep most of the things unchanged and highlight Burst as the innovation you will build on the future on. If you chose this path, a higher sum probably can be asked for.

12. If this does not suit you there is one other alternative, but it is not as straightforward and more related on luck.

Can anyone help with the Wallet Api?

I could only find the NXT api documentation which left some guess work.
I wanted to check a few things before issuing some asset dividends, so
to test I tried checking my account assets via the api.

From NXT wiki Get Account Asset Count
http://localhost:7876/nxt?requestType=getAccountAssetCount&account=NXT-8N9W-TN4F-YA2S-H5B7R

My Burst version
http://localhost:8125/burst?requestType=getAccountAssetCount&account=BURST-N8KB-DKKW-9C4W-AF289

But I get
{"errorCode":1,"errorDescription":"Incorrect request"}

Can anyone point me in the right direction please.

This request works fine
http://localhost:8125/burst?requestType=getBalance&account=9482343705890921001

Also, prior to me making dividend payments
amountNQTPerQNT=100000000

How many NQT per burst please? 100,000,000

This is my last post in this thread. I agree with Elmit's first part of the cited post. The PR Team has evidently failed to promote BURST in a proper way. However, that doesn't mean we haven't worked hard, did our best and put in the hours required. That we have done (more than Boba who joined rather later but who done a great job).


So why have we failed...? I think there are a numbers of reason that I'll bring up. It might not be the truth, it certainly isn't complete, but perhaps will this post start a constructive discussion of what have gone wrong, the strengths BURST indeed has and all the things achieved, so you as a collective will to find the correct way forward. And, yes, I'm pretentious.   Some of the reason according to me:


he wrong
1) Bad leadership in the PR Team, mainly due to we (I) aimed way too high with bad time schedule. Too many projects were started at about the same time, with many new people joining the group. I realize that I'm highly responsible for this failure, as I for for awhile had some kind of a "leader role" regarding the PR work.


2) Lack of funding. I used to be against all forms of pre-mining and IPO/ICOs. The fact that BURST was "clean" in this respect was one important reason that I got involved in the first place. Today I think differently, although not completely the opposite. To develop a coin technically and at the same time be able to do decent promotional work does, simply, require some sort of funding. The PR team has asked for donations and ran an AT to get the means for improving our PR efforts; however positive it is in one aspect, a sad and troublesome fact is that we now have more than 20,000 registered BURST accounts while only a handful from the community have contributed in a substantial way to the funding (and ironically, the main contributers are found in the PR team).

I fully understand that not everyone can donate 1mil or 500K, but small sums like 500 or 1K BURST from like 18,000 community members is not unreasonable to ask from a miner to further develop this great project. The Team clearly haven't been able to explain the importance of funding and what "micro-payments" can achieve. To spread a single press release in a proper and efficient way costs several hundreds dollars. Hence, the Team, and I had an important role in this, have failed also here.


3) Lack of community involvement. Early on the BURST community was awesome, doing all kind of things, like creating tools and improving the infrastructure of the coin. It was an exiting time.   But things changed. Less people contributed "voluntarily" to protect their BURST investments, probably thinking someone else would do it or they just selling those "free HDD coins".

It is of utterly importance that a wider part of the community gets active to be able move BURST in the desired direction.

Fortunately enough, a lot of the things that are required is mostly easy things, like building an attractive FB page, contribute with possible topics to tweet about, arrange a thunderclap, do fun stuff to get attention, working on an new and improved OP, or using your social network to try to get more devs on-board. Sure, the PR Team today is relatively large but the members are recruited for their special skills and work on quite restricted projects. BURST is nothing without the community helping each other out instead of have seemingly endless personal vendettas.


4) This very thread. A new, self-moderated thread to keep all the trash should have been created
a long time ago - with an state-of-the-art OP, easy to update. We have discussed that possibility, but not all agreed and the idea was not prioritized. But, imho, this is a key issue. 1050 pages, an outdated OP and a unfinished homepage will not attract investors. The PR Team might be the reason this never was implemented, but more importantly nothing will stop the wider community from contribute to such a cause.


5) Greed. I'll not comment much on this, as it's related to point 2) above but it's not only the everyday 2TB miner who seeks to make a buck or two who is the problem. Also some members of the PR Team have their own agendas to earn BURST in ways that does not involve trading, mining, or utilizing the developed features we have. Unfortunately the hardworking Boba is an example of this, spamming page after page with info of a pool. Stuff like that should be put in a separate thread; BCT even has a forum for pool ANNs. I'm far from a communist/socialist: I think, as the movie speech states, that greed is good. Without greed the world would stop - but the implication of greed short term must be put in relation ti the the overarching objective of making the massive potential in the BURST concept a reality. That's a just a different form of greed.

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So... the PR Team failed with many things, more than are mentioned here.

But BURST does *not* consists of 15-20 people; BURST is nothing without the many thousands account holders. With a little activity from all of you, BURST could be so much more. The community members who wont see community work as an investment equal to mining also failed; more then 19,000 account holders who didn't help the core-devs, the software programmers and the PR team. Almost all of us failed.


With all this said, I still believe immensely in BURST. We have one of the most brilliant main-devs around, we have unique features already developed and in the pipeline, we have a shit-load of skilled people who does things without much attention, and we were even able to get geniuses as vbcs and the CIYAM developers involved.

But we need to realize that BURST requires more than pure technology. BURST could very well end up like betamax in the beta/vhs war, where betamax clearly were the superior technology but failed to enroll the key actors and lost.

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Lastly,circumstances will prohibit me from contribute in any significant way in the future as it has for the past month. But I wont sell a single BURST; I will donate all I've to the hard-working core dev-team along with some btc and two cloud mining operation which constantly (so far...) produce btc to support the development of BURST. I never reached my goal of owning 10% of the outstanding shares, but I'm pretty close. My hope is that this funding will be sort of a new start for BURST. How the money will be spent is up to the core members of the dev-team which I have great trust in and who became true friends the last 8 or so months. However, and very important, my actions doesn't mean that BURST is saved - far from it.

BURST needs you. Your time, a bit of you money, your social network, your creativity. You can even do a simple thing as register an account at bit-x.com with the referral link in my sig, as that will increase the btc mining power and give the devs - and yourself - an opportunity to create one of the greatest coins ever. BURST needs your efforts.

At the moment I'm organizing the transfer of funds I've. As I had control over the BTC donation account, mczarnek, crowe or xizmax will publish a new address for btc donation shortly and update the homepage.


Bye.

do you mean some sort of AT which you create and it distributes the coins to at creation time defined accounts to hide traces?

from design perspective this sounds really interesting but i think  a major design flaw for any concept may become that there always will be an endpoint which receives the funds.
since everything has to be visible to the blockchain i assume we need more certain features in the burst core to enable this in a really anonymous way.

i think of some sort of integrated asset within burst which someone who wants to mix can buy.
as soon as you buy this "asset" you receive a encrypted message from the "blockchain" with a key you enter offchain into the "fresh" wallet you want to mix with.
since every wallet would be able to generate such tokens i am not sure wether this is a good idea (the key may get compromised by grabbing it from the jre memory).
if this can be protected securely this design leaves no traces caused by transactions which relate to your account (maybe except corresponding timestamps - you bought 5 mixes and 2 blocks later someone enters 5 keys).
with trusted offchain services such approach is not too complex to realize but we all want this on chain  

currently the best way to "mix" coins is to pool mine a few burst and to issue an asset which several accounts buy and/or transfer.
but as said before every transaction is visible to the blockchain.

i currently extend my mysql backend to trace all miner exchange transfers and can say it is really intersting to see how people deposit and withdraw to exchanges  

miner: BURST-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX exchanged: -4262006 blocks: XXX fees: 13900 rewards: 4514522 lastblock: 103XXX polo_sell: 980937.0000 trex_sell: 10.0000 ccex_sell: 3281059.0000 polo_buy:  trex_buy:  ccex_buy:

There's a 2.8M BURST bounty for a coin mixer in burst. Out of which 1M is my contribution.
I figure it would take at least 10M to be of interest to a coder, maybe you guys wanna add to this bounty, instead of holding on to the coin forever

I was just wondering about that too.

Have it set to syncronize every 30 minutes.

Yup, as soon as the market started bombing...

And for the love of god I STILL can't find as many blocks mining solo as I can while mining on a pool. There is definitely something broken when I host a wallet and based on what I heard about nix and about windows, it could be because I'm on Windows. I noticed this in the first two weeks I was mining this coin and people said I'm crazy, four months later and it's still happening.

The whole sillyness with the Blago miner being quite inferior to the DCCT miner which is nix only compounds things too. Blagos still crashing with the 'out of bounds' error I reported two months ago

Going back to what I complained about three months ago, this coin is very dependent on CPU hardware, not just HDs. Even with really fast hardware you end up around a 40s mine time if you use Windows (5TB HDs), but then you get people using DCCT one nix reporting mine times around 6-10s (like Bitladen) for a PB. I know PoC2 is supposed to fix this, but it's not here and Burst hasn't talked about it in quite some time. What does this mean? Someone with a insanely fast scan times scoop up all the fast blocks, which artificially increase how much they get paid. Fastblocks account for like 10% of the network volume.

Yes, he just walked away with asset money without a warning and now, who bought his asset, can't sell it and will not be paid anymore since there are no fees from pools...not a nice move

Oh man, I didn't know he did that... What a shame...

I guess I could say that maybe one of the reasons he did, maybe, was because I refused his offer of buying his pools and new code for 10k USD, and instead, had my own pool code commissioned through catbref. (best decision I ever made, btw. THANK YOU CAT!)

Just a FYI I deposited some Burst at Poloniex and I haven't had it credited in my account. I contacted them and they said they'd 'look into it', but that was yesterday. Be forwarned.

And no Poloniex has nothing to do with the dump. That was a classic pump and dump, now the coin was lower then where it began with. Probably has something to do with Bitladen 'generating more volume so people see it and buy' strategy. -_-

Elmit and haitch, please go to burstforum.com and make a thread to discuss this, or use PM.  Personally I really don't care, I skim right over those comments and don't know what the newest argument is, but it reflects poorly on Burst to have constant bickering in the comments anytime Elmit posts something.  His miners have been warned that he make be taking large cuts or be having issues and can look around.

Your "asset" is of course completely open so anyone can verify that your by hand calculations are correct and you're not sending funds to people that no longer own your asset? right ?

H.