Crowdfunding total is now over $16,000.
Ezira remaining is now 966,000 in this funding round. Pace has accelerated, and continues to mount with Ezira's marketing campaign on twitter, and facebook.
The Release of the 'Build your next world" graphic series has been a great step in humanizing the project and highlighting use cases in a relatable way.

Ezira was featured on the Beyond Bitcoin Bitshares Hangout:

https://www.facebook.com/EziraNetwork/

New infographics are being released over the course of today to discuss personalized use cases, and put all the pieces together for what Ezira can offer.

The Main ICO will use a reverse dutch auction to price EZIRA starting at $30, and reduces by 5% per day, down to a minimum of $6.44 (30*0.95^30)
The Preliminary ICO prices EZIRA at $0.50 each.
If all of the Main ICO funds sell at the maximum price, this results in a discount of 98.3%, and if it all sells at the minimum price, this corresponds to a discount of 84.4%. It will depend on the level of demand during the main ICO to determine the clearing price of the dutch auction. This high discount reflects the differential between the value of the Ezira network before the team is established to produce a working product, and after the pioneer release has launched.

5/3/18 Update:

Project website has been updated:
Now includes social and bitcointalk thread link on top navigation. Bitcointalk outreach focus will be much higher going forward.
Whitepaper and investment thesis are now hosted on google drive, a much more consistent hosting and embedding solution than Scribd, which was requesting user signups to download the pdfs.
Landing page now includes infographics for comparison to other services and cryptocurrencies.
Icons included for graphic description of main feature set.


Now Announcing: EZIRA infographic bounties:
Every member the Ezira community that is in the Ezira telegram channel and following the Ezira Twitter account and subscribed to /r/ezira is eligible to participate.

Create an infographic that describes the Ezira project and post it to Twitter and /r/ezira for your chance to win!
Specifications: Infographic must include the Ezira logo*, the phrases "distributed social media and business platform" and "Freedom. Transparency. Community.". They must contain the hashtag #ezira and the tag @EziraNetwork on twitter, and a link to the Ezira telegram channel in the tweet or reddit comments. www.t.me/EziraNetwork.

Infographic links to a tweet and reddit post should be posted to the Telegram channel and/or this bitcointalk thread when released, with your valid bitshares address to enter.

• Every valid infographic will earn 10 EZIRA. Multiple entries of unique infographics are acceptable up to 5 per person.
• The first 10 valid entries will earn a bonus 20 EZIRA, for a total of 30 EZIRA on entry.
• The infographic with the highest engagement* will win 500 EZIRA at the time of the competition closing at 12:00pm UTC 12th March 2018.
• The best infographic as chosen by the project team will win 200 EZIRA.
• A randomly selected infographic will win 100 EZIRA.
• The winner of the competition will choose one of 6 community organizations* for the Ezira project to donate $300 to. For every valid entry into the competition, this donation pool will increase by $1.

*Engagement = (reddit score + twitter likes + retweets x 2)
*Ezira logo available here: https://i.imgur.com/FkI7k6E.png
*organizations: Bitcoin Cash Fund, Ethereum foundation, Electronic Frontier foundation, Wikileaks, Steem Park, Bitshares Core Dev team - at the discretion of bts:fox
 
Telegram competition - Members of the Ezira telegram will receive a bounty of 20 EZIRA if they invite 5 new members to the telegram channel.
The member that has invited the most new members on the 31st of March will win 1000 EZIRA

Join the Ezira telegram at: www.t.me/EziraNetwork

Subscribe to /r/ezira at: www.reddit.com/r/ezira

Sign up for the Ezira mailing list at www.ezira.io with your bitshares address to receive an airdrop of 1 EZIRA


Ezira crowdfunding progress now stands at over $11,000. [$489,000 Remaining:1 EZIRA = $0.50]

Join the Ezira preliminary ICO at: www.ezira.io/crowdfunding

An excellent project with massive potential implications for the data storage industry. I am in the process of building a social media and business network, with distributed storage services rewarded by the blockchain. I hope to use a similar proof of storage mechanism to enable network Supernodes to host files for user posts, and earn rewards. The Sia project was a large inspiration for this aspect of the Ezira network storage design. Comments and suggestions to implement this functionality into the Ezira network are appreciated. PM me for further details.

Ezira Update 4/3/18 -

Whitepaper has been updated to include new changes and features -
Ezira investment fund will now use the Bancor protocol to price a selection of cryptocurrencies and cryptoequities for automated liquidity,
Connection system now shares voting power differently to prevent edge case abuse by multiplicative stacking,
Release scheduling has been reshuffled to prioritize private transactions earlier, and smart contracts later, inline with plans to implement EOS smart contracting mechanisms

Ezira Investment Thesis has been released -
Details predecessor business models, benefits and flaws
Explains growth strategies, revenue model, expense outlines and fundraising goals
Contains frequently asked questions about the Ezira project

Ezira.io team page has been added www.ezira.io/team - 6
Shows CEO, full stack developers and advisors

Ezira had a twitter competition to engage with users and define the word "Distributed". Golden Bear Speaks won the major prize of 200 EZIRA

Ezira fundraising has now exceeded $10,000 USD
Crowdfunding contributions can be made in multiple cryptocurrencies by filling out a form on www.ezira.io/crowdfunding

The CEO of Ezira, Harrison Mclean engaged with the Bitshares community on the Bitshares hangout on 24/2, which can be heard here:
https://dsound.audio/#!/@chuckyfucky/20180301t043152331z-beyondbitcoin-bitshares-hangout-excerpts-ezira-network-by-dahaz159

Meetings have been had with two Melbourne Companies - Compliance Experts, and Matrixthread to discuss plans for partnerships.

The Ezira telegram channel is having a telegram competition to introduce new members to the community. Every member of the Ezira telegram that introduces 5 new members will earn 20 EZIRA to their bitshares account. The member with the most new users added on the 31st of March will win 1000 EZIRA.

Telegram: https://www.t.me/EziraNetwork

Yes, EziraCoin emission is linearly fixed at 10,000,000 per year. The supply will be bought and burned by network revenue sources. If demand is insufficient in the short term, there may be inflationary pressure until the value of issued coins is equal to the value of coins destroyed. The market will determine that supply.

The Ezira project has released the Investment Thesis on our telegram channel for community overview. Join https://www.t.me/EziraNetwork to join the discussion.

The Ezira Project is well underway. I haven't been monitoring this thread for quite a while, and have returned now.

Project updates:
www.Ezira.io website has been live for over 6 months.
Ezira whitepaper has been thoroughly revised, upgraded, and shortened into a white paper, and a developers whitepaper.
Project slide deck is up and available.
In talks with developers to start work on the graphene codebase, as the project has now matured beyond the whitepaper review phase.
Ezira Preliminary Initial coin offering is underway, and will raise $500,000 for seed funding.
Project has a twitter account: @EziraNetwork
Project has a community Telegram Channel : @EziraNetwork
Undertaking grassroots marketing at Melbourne Bitcoin meetups to grow community support and find new team members. PM me if you are interested.

Ezira is a distributed social media and business platform that aims to enable everyone to share information and value freely.
www.Ezira.io

It presents an open source network for building communities and businesses by empowering them with cryptocurrencies, user sovereignty, and digital identity.
Ezira is a decentralized autonomous organization that incentivizes and directly compensates its contributors, asset holders, and workers at the blockchain level, and provides a wide scope of public services to network participants.
It enables the creation of digital businesses operating on a powerful, transparent, and accountable financial system.
Ezira offers a next generation platform for banking, payments, business management, and uncensorable communication.
Ezira will be based on the graphene blockchain protocol, used by Bitshares and Steem.
It will use a hybrid of delegated proof of stake, and proof of work to produce blocks every 3 seconds, with a block reward of 1 EziraCoin.
Each transaction will have no transaction fees, and will be rate limited by the amount of voting power held on the network.
Ezira will offer two main coins to users, each with voting power:

EZIRA:
Maximum Supply: 10,000,000
No block issuance
Sold during coin offerings
Earns a dividend of 20% of all issued EziraCoin
Does not need to be vested to offer voting power.
10% of EZIRA sharedropped to holders of BTC, BCH, ETH, ETC, STEEM, BTS, DASH, XMR, ZEC and LTC

EziraCoin:
No Maximum Supply
Issuance: 10,000,000 per year to network contributors, 1 per block.
No initial supply
Bought and burned by network revenue
Must be vested to hold voting power, and earns interest from block reward
Can be Vested for extended periods to offer voting power and interest bonuses

Network revenue will be earned from:
Post promotion expenditure
Monthly account memberships, via an on chain asset
Premium content sale fees
Marketplace mediation fees
Decentralized exchange trading fees
Decentralized exchange Lending fees


One page Summary:

White Paper: www.ezira.io/whitepaper

Investment Thesis www.ezira.io/investment-thesis

Twitter: www.twitter.com/EziraNetwork

Telegram: www.t.me/EziraNetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/XhbGfrd

Founder - Harrison Mclean (harrison@ezira.io)