The system will be equipped with reputation module. If person is found to cheat later, their reputation would suffer or even they would be removed from the platform.  It is not worth to build up portfolio with false identity. This would not be useful for employment purpose in the future.

With manual verification process one can be asked various additional questions which can be easily verified in addition to student id.


Bogdan Fiedur

Of course.  Application will allow any University Student to be registered.
Since the registration will require verification of student Id,  students from universities which are not yet in our database might require to go through manual verification process, similar to a process of verification on exchanges.

That's correct.

You will find all info on presale here.  https://presale.bitjob.io/
Public ICO starts on Sep 12.

Hello Diced90,

Good observation.
This is expected behaviour.

The minimum in the presale is 22.50 Eth.
If someone sends less than this, the transaction will fail.
Bad jump means that programmer wanted it to happen when condition was not met.

Occasionally it might happen that not enough gas will result in such an error. This is mostly possible when someone manually sets the gas.
Wallets will automatically allocate enough gas. You should use  250000 gas for this transaction.

Bogdan Fiedur

Yes we are considering running of our own blockchain.
You can't stop people from using any images they want.
This is called sharing.
Most of the images on Pinterest, Instagram or Facebook is  already stored somewhere and each site offers sharing buttons.

Hello,

This is good question.

Current blockchain technology doesn't offer fast solutions which could match existing client server technologies and be scale-able enough.
This is why our solution will be a hybrid of client server solutions and blockchian.

Blockchain application will only be responsible for important and crucial components like user registration, upvoting, rewards and financial transactions.
In addition every blockchain data already in existence will be mirrored on client server components in essence cached for quick access.

As solutions like bigchainDb and Swarm mature, we will possibly integrate them.
We are also in the process of researching of our own blockchain Pos solution to allow for fee-free usage of blockchain.
Obviously with millions of users, even small fees would be adding up.

We will be also adding an affiliate program to our platform which will pay rewards in tokens easily convertible into other crypto currencies.
I've bee involved in affiliate programs for last 15 years.

Bogdan Fiedur

Thank you very much. Looks great.

The bitjob platform is unique in following areas compared to similar platforms for freelancers.

1. It offer jobs for students ideally in their chosen profession.
2. It connects students with their potential future employers.
3. Gives students opportunity to gain experience in their chosen profession.
4. It allows students to receive their earnings in STU tokens or FIAT or another crypto currency.
5. Affiliate program allows on quick adoption of this platform due to incentives given to Student Unions and other students.
    Referring sponsor will be able to receive portion of earnings on every transaction between student and employer.
6. Built in escrow system will allow both students and employers to be protected in case of disputes.
    Payment will be released or returned based on mutually beneficial agreements.

7. There will be also reputation system and means for conflict resolutions.

8. In addition this platform will allow students on exchange of other student related items and ideas like sharing of accommodation, pooling, books and tutoring.

Our vision is that every student will have our app on their phone.
It is a social project for the Students with focus on jobs.


Bogdan Fiedur
CTO Bitjob

Hello,

We are not trying to take credits for your work at all. Forking of open source projects is allowed and your license allows it.  You might remember several months ago we have approached you and offered you participation in our project, which you have not accepted by simply not replying. At that time we have been looking at your work and then it is when fork has been created as we have been considering various options and one possibly contributing to your project. We have removed this fork now from our repository. 

Our project is different in scope and 80% of our data will be stored on off-blockchain databases to save costs of storage. Only essential info will be stored on the blockchain and long texts of data might be only stored in form of hashes on the blockchain for verification.
Our project also will handle FIAT transactions, offer affiliate program, and use internal coin to handle blockchian payments.
Although you have done great work with your ethlance project, your design is not compatible with our requirements.
It is also too bad that you have decided not to work with us. With your experience and ours we could create even better product.

Also we have team of experienced Solidity designers and front end developers and for several months are working on high level design, discuss security and various models with our team of experts.
You can be assured that we won't be using your product now and/or in the future.

By the way if you are afraid that someone will use your work, you should not make it public or provide license which prohibits others from using it. Currently your GNU license allows free copying of your work, modifications and other options.

This is good question and we have plans to deal with those issues.

1. Rating/reputation system will be in place which will allow both student and employer rate each other. When hiring employer and students when undertaking the work will be able to review those ratings.

2. Students will be able to build resume based on the work and tasks provided to employers, this way any unfavorable ratings would show up.

3. We will implement escrow service for additional fees and both employer and the student will be able to signup for this service to protect themselves. This way payments can be released according to the milestones and only after both parties sign off.
Both parties would have to come to terms themselves for money to be released or returned.

4. We are considering options to dedicate certain percentage of fees towards members contributing to the community who could support arbitration process and conflict resolution.

Bogdan Fiedur

Hello rhinomonkey,


Thank you for asking this question.

The plan is to build blockchain solution and record both PayPal and STU necessary activity on the blockchain. 
Tasks like member registration, job posting, interviews, job engagement and completion will be stored on the blockchain ( or necessary minimum related to those tasks).

Users will then have the option to choose method of payment. In case they choose to use PayPal, our role will be to make the payment to them in form of FIAT.
This might include some conversion fees. We will partner with organizations/exchanges which offer such conversions.

The end result to the user will be that they will receive their pay in the selected currency.
Choosing FIAT will have obvious disadvantage in form of additional fees, while choosing STU will have no fees attached to it, other than fees
of using Ethereum network and platform fee.

With the time, students will become familiar with the platform and switching to STU will be as hard as making choice in the drop down of
available payments.

Allowing FIAT transaction in the platform will increase adoption of  bitjob.io

Once the market becomes more liquid we will work with University facilities like cafeterias, book stores to accept payments in STU. 
Possibly down the road more merchants will accept Bitcoin as form of payment and accepting STU will only either require
converting to BTC through e.g. ShapeShift or paying directly to the merchant.



We believe this future is not very distant.

Bogdan Fiedur
Bitjob CTO

Let me introduce myself.

My name is Bogdan Fiedur and I'm Co-founder & CTO of bitjob.
If you have any technical questions or suggestions let me know.