That's a great idea, to promote the various bands, and you could also sponsor the campaign so that  donors could know what metal coin is all about.

Yes, I'm certainly going to do the site, I'm not exactly sure if we will start with a humble beginning or with a running start. 

If I only wrote this: "in all seriousness, Carrie (the pedicab driver, er rider) has such a great spirit she is a great ambassador for btc." it would be more than sufficient, heck it was probably longer than the OP.  However, IN ADDITION to that I responded to the really funny comment indirectly by quoting part of Chef Ramsey's post.   

anyway I think the person that did the complaining as well as the person that deleted the posts got carried away. 

I went here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=990261.msg10776351#msg10776351

"Quote
Quote from: Chef Ramsay on Today at 09:25:01 PM
Solitude's comment was so vulgar and shocking that I literally burst out laughing, sorry for that. ...


+1


in all seriousness, Carrie (the pedicab driver, er rider) has such a great spirit she is a great ambassador for btc."




Then got notice that: "A reply of yours, quoted below, was deleted by a Bitcoin Forum moderator. Posts are most frequently deleted because they are off-topic, though they can also be deleted for other reasons. In the future, please avoid posting things that need to be deleted."  

Did someone get trigger happy or what?  just because there's a "+1" doesn't mean the post is "spam". Read the rest of the post, "in all seriousness, Carrie (the pedicab driver, er rider) has such a great spirit she is a great ambassador for btc"  Where is the problem in the post?

I’m very encouraged by this news, I hope many other companies do the same.

As a direct result of so many bank failures some 15 years ago and more in ~2008 there was mass consolidation of banks -- super banks.  That hurt competition, and drove fees through the roof. 

So as soon as IBM or any other fortune 200 firm does this, particularly for reasons indicated by IBM, the world will be a less expensive place to do banking.

Wow, this is interesting after reading the above post I went to the article, as I was reading I thought ProTip worked a very specific way, and said wow that's a fantastic idea, then I went to the Protip website and read something different and wasn't as sure what the program was about, if this was a start up offer or what, so I went to the crowdfunding campaign.  There is where I read more of the same like the site but was able to view the video and that's when I finalized the fact that it was not as I initially envisioned.  

My idea for you guys is totally different than your model, get at me for info before I forget it.

Question: does Bitpay support all other publicly traded cryptocurrencies?

I ask because it said: BitPay currently supports nine currencies:

AUD – Australian Dollars
BTC – Bitcoin
CAD – Canadian Dollars
EUR – Euros
GBP – Pounds Sterling
MXN – Mexican Pesos
NZD – New Zealand Dollar
USD – US Dollars
ZAR – South African Rand


and I thought it would be crudely odd to accept USD and the fiat bunch but not any other CC.

In the coming weeks I want to launch PICISI -- a crowdfunding website that accepts fiat and cryptocurrency.   PICISI will be where crowdfunding (CF) Organizers, Sponsors, Donors, and Contractors gather to materialize dreams.   The platform will accept all publicly traded CCs, and any fiat accepted by Paypal.

PICISI will have many sponsorship opportunities:
  -  Host CC - is the currency that all other CCs will be converted to for a particular Campaign.
  -  Campaign - sponsor’s logo is affixed to body of campaign.
  -  Donor Perk -  CC escrowed on behalf of a specific campaign to be used as a perk, if not sold is converted to host CC and donated to the campaign
  -  Advertising Perk -  CC escrowed on behalf of a specific campaign to be used as a perk, if not sold reverts back to the sponsor.  Unsold funds are NOT donated to campaign.
and
  -  Video - 5 sec message at start of campaign video: “This video is brought to you by xapo.com [show xapo.com logo] …”


If you like the concept please indicate your support for the idea here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=972973.msg10770607#msg10770607

Xapo, you are invited to be an official sponsor of PICISI.  

I've heard of this sort of thing a full year + ago. Every game developer should be doing something like it.

Xapo is invited to be an official sponsor of PICISI, PICISI is a crowdfunding website that accepts fiat and CC I'm hoping to launch it in the coming weeks. .

I’m very encouraged by this news, I hope many other companies do the same.

As a direct result of so many bank failures some 15 years ago and more in ~2008 there was mass consolidation of banks -- super banks.  That hurt competition, and drove fees through the roof. 

So as soon as IBM or any other fortune 200 firm does this, particularly for reasons indicated by IBM, the world will be a less expensive place to do banking.

Whoa, dude good to see you.  

I sincerely hope you are working on a movie and book deal, as well as a worldwide meet-up tour.

For the life of me, I will never understand why any currency promoter would not see the wisdom of paying for their goods and services with their own currency.  Currency is supposed to be used as a means for the transfer of goods and services between buyers and sellers.

PICISI will be a site that will accept all publicly traded cryptocurrencies, because we respect the notion that everyone should be able to treat their own currency as a currency instead of only as a commodity.  The strength of a currency is in utility. 

As for Coindesk, obviously they have a right to demand the currency of their choice, but it obviously make easy sense to have a path for acceptance of btc.   

Congratulations


PICISI is sponsored by:

There is nothing to fear, as I mentioned if anyone has too much power and uses it in an abusive fashion people will simply exit the market.
Remember BTC is firstly a technology, considering the fact that it is an open source technology it obviously can be duplicated.  The community
is a totally different story, communities are extremely difficult to create, once hurt or damages if they start to exit it is almost impossible
to win them back without a huge influx of resource.   

Ripple is a great example of the same technology in the control of a single entity however the community is comfortable so no problem.

In other word, if China takes over via mining power or majority coins it doesn't matter they are not looking to screw up, nevertheless as I mention earlier I doubt if they want majority interest it simply puts too much weight on them.  Whereas being a large minority share holder of any position allows you to complain with force because all you need to do is get with others like you to make things happen if you really want change.

Thanks for your input, there are a couple purposes for creation of the coin/token:
1) fundraising - in the beginning it would be to raise start-up funds
2) compensation - it would be used to pay associated for doing various assignments, ie: write an article get x number of tokens
and
3) investment opportunity - we would used the fiat portion of our fee to buy our coin/token at our official sponsor exchange (if we have one, otherwise any exchange)

NXT looks like it will be the platform of choice, I've tested it and I think it will do however I have not finalized the particulars.

#2 above is a critical part of exponential growth, it will enable PICISI to higher very many people all over the world for very specific assignments.  It would be a very efficient way of producing work, in the long run it will be enormously expensive however since it will also serve as a major promotion vehicle, keeping things relative it will likely be a good thing.

You said: "Since you wrote this here, I'm going to remove the link on my article page itself."  Just because I read the same story numerous times doesn't mean that others did.  Not everyone looks at every story everyday. 


As for PICISI, wow, you should be exhausted jumping to all of those wrong conclusions? 

You clearly didn't finish doing your homework.  It's probably best to ask questions before you make too many assumptions.  At least get the fundamentals correct so you could argue your point(s) intelligently.

You said: "I don't agree with the PICISI concept at all:  a bunch of cryptocurrencies that can pay to promote themselves while others utilize your site to crowdfund their ideas (which are probably less than stellar, or slathered in fraudulence. The best ideas would want to to go for the most liquidity, seeking the highest opportunity of success ... ponder on that one.) for a slew of different alts."  HUH???  What would lead you to presume "probably less than stellar, slathered in fraudulence"?  

The "the best ideas would want to go for the most liquidity" statement is drenched in ignorance.  It assumes all crowdfunding sites have the same funding guidelines such that organizer can go to anyone they wish, with is not the case, there are many things that could be done at indiegogo that can't be done at kickstarter, and neither of them accept multiple currencies in a single campaign or any kind of CC.  

As for "... seeking the highest opportunity of success..." I see loads of campaigns on all of the top performing sites with plenty of campaigns ending with ZERO donations.  What is the success level of zero?   At PICISI not one campaign will close with zero donations.

Earlier you said the best ideas go to where the highest probability of success is at, then later you said: "... I feel like the best ideas can be bootstrapped and/or find proper private investment capital".  Are talking about angle investors, or equity investment, those avenues have the highest levels of failure which is precisely why crowdfunding was created.  

You said: "Your idea, while nobile, [yeah, you spelled it like mobile with an 'n'] will not garner support because the cryptocurrency community by in large has been BURNED by alt-coins" hahahaa, the CC industry has been burned by unscrupulous people not by "alt-coins", nevertheless 90% of the harm caused to the CC industry was cause to BTC,  Mt Gox was about BTC not xyz coin, take a look at this long list of major btc heists and remember it is only the major ones: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=83794.0

You said: "... but reality will set in real quick when the site is live for 7 months and there's 10Million + in funding requests with less than $200 in actual funds 'pledged' to campaigns...."  PICISI will accept fiat and CC, the CC can be any CC: BTC, xyz, and/or lmnop token.   Liquidity of a coin has nothing to do with the pledges of a campaign.   You mentioned 10 Million, 10 Million what?  Then you mentioned "$200 in actual funds pledged",  clearly you are confused.  A donation is a donation.  If someone want to donate 10M xyz CC then if that is the host CC it remains as such, if someone donates 10M Mint, and xyz is the host CC the mint is immediately converted to xyz.  If someone donates $200 USD and that is the host fiat it remains as such, if someone donates $200 USD and the host fiat is Euro it remains in USD until the campaign organizer requests for it to be converted to USD, otherwise it will be delivered as it was collected (USD).

As for: Bitcoinstarter.com,  swarm.fund, vinumeris.com, and cryptostocks.com.  I never heard of the last 3, but from their sites none appear to be doing anything of substance.  Bitcoinstarter.com doesn't do any CC other than BTC, doesn't do fiat, and is in no working condition to compete with any working crowdfunding site.

Based on this: "... 3 articles, paid for, to promote your idea, which has no actual working prototype website, nor competitive advantage over existing competition, will. get. you. nowhere."    I could tell you didn't read though that thread, you didn't finish your homework, and you allowed yourself to jump to more wrong conclusions -- your assumption that the articles were "paid for" was wrong.  

As for: indiegogo.com and kickstarter.com those are PICISI's future competition, in about a year.

As for the fee structure, it is extremely competitive, and mindful of many nuisances of crowdfunding.  You jumped to the wrong conclusion there too.


Unlike you who took the short cut in the wrong direction and got lost but never like PICISI in the first place, most people like PICISI but also take the shortcut and end up in the wrong direction.    My job is to get everyone on the right page about PICISI.  So PICISI will start ever so low and slow, after 3 months I suspect most in the CC universe will know PICISI for what it actually is as opposed to some preconceived notion based on reading of a few paragraphs.

you say that with a straight face, as opposed to a   or   or even  

Bitcoin is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a stable currency.   Look at 80% of the coin's performance for the YEAR 2014, nothing but downward dog -- talk about inflation.

The whole btc community is waiting, with baited breath, for btc to reach 300, not 3000 or 30,000 but just 300.  My God, that's where the coin was when it was just getting on it's feet two years ago; where's the stability in that?

Saw this article a couple times in different locations -- same show different venue.

It would be great if 21 supported PICISI, write that story.

Your earlier statement was about ability: "I don't think anyone will ever be able to "control" Bitcoin " as I mentioned that is relatively easy.

Now as for the deeper question of 'if you can control but choose not to control are you actually in control', the fundamental answer to that question lies in YOUR definition of the word control.

You tell me your definition of the word 'control' and I'll let you know.    

It's always nice to see new converts share their view of bitcoin.   Still innocent, undefiled by CC scams, ... whooops, I wrote that before I got to 5:50 hahahahaa when he started to talk about the growth of bitcoin. hahahaha followed by referring people to 'localbitcoins' to buy bitcoins, otherwise it was good.

thanks

control of bitcoin is relatively easy, it's been proven numerous times.   In fact, one major pool in the UK purposely chose to limit the size of their pool so as to NOT be in a controlling position.