Can I find somehow some statistics about how many people actually pay to read articles? Seems to me that everyone is getting money from this. In the end yes, maybe the people that are losing money on exchanges are the ones paying for the articles that they never read obv. But in theory if this is a viable project some users should be paying to read. I know I would never pay to read and many others would prefer to have ads on the side.
Users do not pay, like news sites do not charge users, other social network do not charge. So its not everyone is getting paid, earning from platform is not an easy task. People promote their post which leads to use of steam. I saw some people have taken initiative to bring big advertisers to steem platforms which will increase the use case. Now, advertisers see value in using steemit to advertise because there is huge traffic daily and its only increasing with good pace. But yes, your concern to increase use case is right, it is happening as people made products around it. Soon may be some companies will come and use steem blockchain database for data analysis and trend analysis, which will further increase the demand. So, in the end, lot of possibilities are there, i think future have potential to transform many things with steem. |
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Hi guys,
what is progress in ICO, still dont have date when it will happen?
Not sure if any updates were posted, dont see on main annoucement. Could someone tell here what we have done in recent weeks and what is planned for coming weeks.
Hey there fonship! We haven't released token sale information yet. When info on that is announced, you'll be able to find it in the OP of this thread as well as our Telegram pinned FAQs. Thank you for taking my question. But can we atleast have some plan that you have made, or tentative timeline of future events for this project. I can see we have big community now and everyone excited for the project. Unnecessary delay will suppress this vibe about project. Its been 7 months since it was announced, so we should have some plan going forward, right? |
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today - yes it took so long - i found out / or realised out what i like most about the merit system.
i dont have to answer to posting i lik. i just can sent 1 merit instead.
this makes topics shorter and it saves me some time.
unfortunately is does not really help preventing spam i think.
Also, users do not know concept of smerit, majority dont understand this still. I think if we want to keep merit system beneficial for genuine people, we should do something. I this original purpose to stop forum abuse is already met in term of restricting spammers, so now time to educate people to make it friendly feature. I do not see people using their sMerit. |
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This is to EggdraSyl, the dev of Eggpool, or anyone who can help (he does not allow messages from newbies): Hi there! Can U tell me, please, how can I lower minimal payout from 10 to 1 BIS? I can't find this in settings. It says "You can ask to lower your Min. payout down to 1BIS", so I'm asking  Thanks in advance. He is available on discord channel, you can ask him in mining section. Someone else may also help, i am fine with minimum 10 so did not explore that setting |
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Hi guys,
what is progress in ICO, still dont have date when it will happen?
Not sure if any updates were posted, dont see on main annoucement. Could someone tell here what we have done in recent weeks and what is planned for coming weeks.
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Hello Community I just wanted to give a quick update. I’ve been working on Proposal #11 - Social Change Engine and have expanded it a great deal. Granted, the graphics and diagrams aren’t where they need to be, but I think the rest is in a form that can be understood. Please take a few minutes and drink it in.
My hopes are that through discussion, we can collectively shape the rest. I will continue to enhance and refine this proposal until we’re satisfied with its state. If anyone has questions or would like to update a section, either post here or in the comment section on GitHub.
Together we’ll shape the future of The Movement.
This is just one of many visions for The Movement. I look forward to opening up discussion and constructive criticism.
Below you will find a link to the proposal.
Thank you for your time.
https://github.com/MovementDAO/DAO-Proposals/issues/11
Wow, just had a glance of it, man so much effort you did on that, congrats and great work. Will read in detail in coming days. thank you so much good work! |
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These exchange and other related links like livecoinexchange, can we add to main announcement so that other users can see that we are listed and traded.
Also, if we can include all other relevant links.
Do we have any update on website, i know dopper is working on it but any news when it will be released.
What is the progress in getting started on Greenpoint?
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where i can fine details about these and how they are determined and what they mean:
Activity: 504
Merit: 516
Politeness: 479
fMerit: 273
Imagination: 130
Virtue: 6
Coins: 275
Karma: 8
So is this April fool prank?
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Hey Dev,
Can we have some update about development and what is planned ahead?
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It is hard to complain about merit system specially when it put control on system abuse, but it require lot of learning for users to understand how merit works. in lack on that, no matter what quality you bring, if your post read by educated person, you might get merit otherwise not possible.
But every good thing comes with drawback and i wish we could do more to educate people how merit works.
It's rather like, if your post read by educated person having Spendable Merit then you might get merit otherwise it's not possible  True, people have no clue that there is something called sMerit as well, and some think spending sMerit will take away their merits. Seriously majority don't have any clue of this new system. |
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great show guys, always watch this, when is next episode, friday is coming and alt season as well!
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It is hard to complain about merit system specially when it put control on system abuse, but it require lot of learning for users to understand how merit works. in lack on that, no matter what quality you bring, if your post read by educated person, you might get merit otherwise not possible.
But every good thing comes with drawback and i wish we could do more to educate people how merit works.
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To clarify the MN approach:
- MN will still need Bis collateral and rewards will be paid in BIS
- A technical paper with strategy and details will come later, it's too soon right now
- A PoS chain, as a second level, will allow MN to reach consensus independently from the Bis PoW chain.
- Nothing will change for Bis, Users or miners. Bis and balances will stay on PoW chain.
- The two levels operating on two different strategies allow to highly strengthen and secure the network, since an attack would have to forge 2 chains with very different triggers.
So the MN implementation will not just be a "ping" test like on some coins, but would embed, from the start, innovative and secure algorithms.
All this is being evaluated, coded, documented, tested by the team.
Thank you for detailing on this. It is always exciting to know such things in detail. Surely its early stage and i am ready to wait for this to take shape. |
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Looking for more details about below tweet from BismuthDev tweet handle:
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Masternode layer is now planned to run on an independent PoS chain, rewards to be paid in standard BIS. New features in consideration: ecdsa, byte-level operations, blake2b, operational database column. Nothing final yet.
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Could you please dumb it down and take some time to explain, what this change is, what is thought behind it. Also, what will be this PoS independent change and if it will not be linked to the main chain, will we will have the same BIS coin on both chains? How will two independent chains work or PoW will end when PoS starts?
Also, these new features will come to which chain, what each change will bring value to BIS.
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Hi,
Owner of EggPool Here.
I'm not used to talk or watch over here, but you'll find me at bismuth's slack and discord.
Since I see some questions about the pool fees, let me give some perspective on the why.
When I launched the pool and the gpu miner, Bismuth was being raped by a few private solo gpu miners.
I spent a month coding a pool and miner from scratch. really from scratch, all of it.
It's not some clone like other coins, where you drop some files on a vps and use an existing miner.
All is custom, from scratch.
Why such fees?
- because I'm dedicated 24/7 to this project, Bismuth and Eggpool
- because the fees cover the pool, but also the miner. It could be 5% pool + 5% miner fees.
- I do a spent a huge amount of time supporting users. Join slack or discord, you'll have answers. You won't have to run after me for days.
- superior infrastructure: it's not some cheap vps. I do run several Bismuth nodes, supporting the net with stable nodes, and I have designed a distributed pool architecture, with a central dashboard. I operate from several dedicated servers, in different parts of the world. A pool can crash or be under maintenance, you continue to mine. Check for historical pool downtime, you won't find. I did plan for long term reliable operations, not some quick cash.
- R&D. Lots of R&D goes into the miner. It's far superior to the open source solo miner. Lately, I sold some bis, I have to admit, so I could buy a 1080Ti for tuning purposes. Before that I bought an AMD Gpu so I could do specific optis for AMDs.
- Look, last update of the miner alone gave the miners +15 to +20% more hashrate. So, even with the 10% fees deducted, miners still get 5% more!!!!
I could have lowered to 5% fees, let the miner as it was, and everyone would have lost.
I'm really trying my best, both for bismuth - not all pools or solo miners are dev team friendly - and you miners: support and updating miner, reliable distributed pool, so everyone can win more. I don't do this as a side project, I'm heavily involved.
Don't look at what fees I "take", it's of no use: you do have the choice to pick another pool or mine solo, or dev your own pool and miner. I did it, you can too!
(See, I even help wanna be bismuth pools for the technical side)
If you mine on Egg, it's because you get more (even with the fees deducted) than you would the other way.
In the end, YOU get more. Isn't that what counts?
And moreover, you're supporting a dev friendly pool, that helps and stabilize the bismuth network long term.
If I dropped my fees today, that would only mean less support, less dev, a higher netdiff maybe, and a few more coins dumped by the miners. Would that really help?
Thank you for a detailed, balanced response. I can say that yes latest miner code improved hash by 10-15% on AMD. And I also know you have been very active and actively contributing. Thats true that it all matters is how much miners earn. Also I agree that kind of facility you give attached with a cost and valuable time. I think I am ok with level of effort you are putting in provide a good service and also contributing in development of project. Since your number of coins will not change much, so I expect when BIS cross $20-$30, you would consider lowering fee. |
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So if I safely assume approx block reward and number of blocks, we are close to 30 million coins now?
Am I right?
Any idea what will be supply at the sixth month and at the 12th month from coin launch?
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Just checking in here. I am experimenting with some solidity contracts on the side while waiting for Decentraland to release the tools for the big build. I am also working with parallel AR/VR projects in anticipation for possible integrations into Greenpoint (top secret ideas on other related fronts developing quickly). The key concept here, in my mind, is that we are all part of a "value building" network and all of our efforts will combine to bring forth something none of us could have accomplished alone, right? I think that what we are about to create is even bigger than our imaginations will allow us to imagine. This is big! It's all about the community; the community is where the value lies, not the exchanges.
I agree with value building aspects of the project, and that's true exchange and price action do not bring merits to project. Price is not a reflection of what a project is and that can be seen everywhere in crypto. The more community involvement is required and that is what will take everyone forward. I see more participation as we start building GreenPoint. |
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Hello all!! Long time since my last post so here i am sharing a few thoughts with you all! I was thinking about social interactions within decentraland and for greenpoint and was asking myself : - As a new borderless world is creating, new possibilities are arising, letting freedom fully express in that space. In fact, this is like the birth of a new country, instead this time this is a world. So shouldn't his creators be writing some sort of constitution or something like that? Defining this freedom space and it's limits? Or should we push the experiment to letting freedom happening, knowing that there will be some abuses... This makes me continue on the next topic : - If some rules are set, who will apply those rules and how are we going to set all of this system? (some members already gave the start of an answer by submitting issues.) Is it the job of official admins of decentraland or is it the movement's job?? some jobs could even be created "ingame" for community members: ie barkeeper, policeman or whatever... Some local communities might also be required for helping and applying rules in a largest number of languages possible? I know i'm full of  but this is the way to get answers  Have fun in the meantime and don't forget : Connect & Create! Considering rules by decentraland rules as mother Earth rules. And we should have our own rules to govern Greenpoint, but may be each rule set should go through voting from current token holders, same voting system can be used which someone is making. Than that whole thing can take shape of constitution. Then we should have rules for constitution amendments etc. for ongoing purposes. |
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Couple of discussion going on here and I would like to share my views for that:
Pool Fee: 10% was ok when miners were getting $60 a day, but then also they were making $5000 a day, if i correctly recall, now since miner profits decreased significantly, same went for pool owners also, but in may be i agree to bring pool fee around 5%, because the kind of early money they would have got, should have covered their initial cost and reward and now, it would require reward for future development and running cost, which i think 5% fee would cover, if not, pool owners can tell everyone what they plan for that fee and i will be happy to support them with 10% fee if they propose a value additional for that to project.
Signature Campaign : I think by now, most serious crypto people know what BIS is, so may be when we get some big update and what more people to get attracted, signature campaign would make sense, but till then i wont see purpose for this.
So questions I have is, I want to know what project stages Dev team is targeting in coming months, I know RPC and masternode are in making, but if we can have a structured way to see what is coming and when we can expect that, that would get everyone some clarity in terms of where we are heading.
Also, there is huge pool of open source Python developers, and not sure what steps have been taken to attract that pool of talent. That would be of immense help and huge factor in long term success.
Also, Bittrex invited good POW projects to apply and I am not sure if we have done that or not, I know some other projects have done that and shared that to their community. Not sure if we have not done that or not shared that or if i did not see that update.
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