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Hi Dabs, We've recent built Spinjar, which is designed to test whether or not we can incentivize donations by entering part of each one into a lottery pot. The theory is that it may encourage higher or more frequent donations overall. If you're interested in using it somewhere, we have already created a Spinjar address for Feed the Children: 1jarXLGpwsbZodTrhSNHzNn5NcguYefSL |
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Well you have a great start with this idea! Gamifying the donation's process as an incentive is the way to go and providing a lottery on top of an address is simple and elegant. But to be more "socially engaging" the users must have an incentive to "collaborate" to achieve some goals and so sharing the offer as much as possible. For this i think a great way is to provide the donation process as a mean to unlock the access of a bonus content that is unlocked when a threshold amount is reached. This can be as simple as a widget with a progress-bar and a qr-code to accept donations, when the goal is reached the progress-bar is replaced with the link of the desired content.
To be clear, we're really talking about two applications of this general paradigm, right? On the one hand, there's the simplest form: a standard tip jar, where the person who created the Spinjar address is simply trying to collect some indeterminate (but maximized) amount of funds. And on the other hand, there's a crowdfunding/Kickstarter-esque approach with a monetary (or content) kickback incentive. I think that both of these ideas are interesting and valid, and certainly possible to do under this framework. By the way, we received a few PMs requesting them, so I should say it here: If anyone wants a Spinjar address to test out, just email me... connect@humint.is |
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Interesting idea and it makes a change to be shown an idea with some real thought behind it as well as a nice clear site.
I personally don't know how I feel about incentivised donations but good luck to you and I'm sure the idea will take off. My only question is whether it would increase donations or is just a nice side product to donations you would send anyway.
Indeed, and I'm not sure if this proof-of-concept will answer the question either, since there are literally countless ways to tweak it. Josh suggested that we need to make the whole process more socially engaging, so we'll think about that. If you or others have suggestions, we are all ears. If we can prove some model that really does increase donations on the whole, it will be a win for everyone. Thanks for the feedback! |
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 "Spinjar is a Bitcoin donation address that gives users the chance to win with every donation."A few months ago Josh Rossi (of Satoshi Square fame) suggested that it might be possible to incentivize donation and charitable giving, by creating special addresses which automatically enter part of any Bitcoin sent there into a simple lottery. We lovingly refer to this as "the Satoshi Dicing of everything". There's a famous book suggesting one should consider productizing one's development byproducts. As it happened, the requirements for an absolutely minimal implementation of Spinjar manifested along the path of learning some new tools, thus we have this to share: http://www.spinjar.me/previewAs far as we know, Spinjar is the first implementation of such an idea. And though the addresses listed work, this is only a proof-of-concept, and has several drawbacks: The winning odds aren't great, we are not sure how to handle minuscule donations, and, at least for the time being, we need to generate Spinjar addresses by hand. We would like some feedback on the concept: Would you use this -- why or why not? How could we make it better? Provided a little bit of idea validation, we'll continue the development openly and push out an easy-to-embed widget like this:   If anyone here wants a Spinjar address, please email me: connect@humint.isThanks for your consideration! |
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Hi guys! I'm sorry for the delay regarding clarity on this subject. We went back in forth on how best to distribute our gift package, but in the end the reality of the physically disparate locations of all the translators (and the fact that some did not want to reveal their identities) made it untenable. So, although we know that this is well under appropriate market value, we'd like offer a little BTC (~$40 USD worth) to the translators who have contributed full translations thus far. To claim it, please send an email to w@hivewallet.com with your desired receiving address. On January 25th, we are going to be releasing our "1.0" version at the North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami. Although we unfortunately cannot offer any additional compensation for this work, we would very much appreciate your help in getting across this finish line by translating the few additional strings we have added. Finally, regarding compensation at this time for future translations (and in response to iFA88): While I hope that we are funded one day to the degree that we can make such promises, right now we simply can't. We are still a very young free software project. I hope you guys understand. Thank you to everyone for your interest and participation in our community translation experiment! It's been truly amazing to us to see all of this happening! |
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Late to the party (ahem), but the Hive team is definitely in for this.
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Hi guys,
What Bitcoin events are going on in the world in February? Strangely enough I'm finding it difficult to Google that particular query.
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Hey Wendell how are you doing, My name is Jason. You seem like a pretty interesting guy and I'd really like to get to know you better. How long have you been doing bitcoin for and what do you think about the recent movements of the coin. Thanks for letting us know who you are!
Also, what exactly is Hive?
You know Jason, that's a great question about recent movements of the coin. The rise was definitely too steep, too fast. I feel like I've seen it all before; very similar things happened a couple of years ago, and even at the beginning of this year and I feel as though I'm starting to get a spidey sense about it. But who knows. Fascinating though, no? Hive is a wallet for OS X focused on usability. Check it out here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=304060.0;all |
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Wendell from Hive here. How's everyone doing? |
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