Help with a Project?

[Woodcock36]

Fear not, I am not asking for anything.

I am working on a book and am looking to research. I posted something about this in my introduce yourself post, but figured I would try to post my own thread. The project I am currently working on is about the societal influence of the internet on modern society. It sounds broad, but given my background it will be much more informed than most works of non-fiction on the subject. I am going in deep y'all, and hope that you will assist me in my research for this. A little background, my best friend Elliott introduced me to BTC back in 2010 and I dabbled briefly before my life tore me away and it took a back burner. I have always kept track, but have never been involved. Then this project sort of threw itself in my lap and the internet and all it's mechanics came back to the forefront of my existence. Naturally when I was given the option of working on this project BTC came pouring back into my life and I started to research it again. It is my hope that you people, as a community, will give me your blessing to lurk, question, and participate in your community. I believe that writers owe their subjects the right to contribute to what is being written about them, and I hope you will give me the honor of being a part of your community as an observer, as well as a participant. I hope to learn more about Bitcoin, about the community that makes it work, and about you as individuals.

   I will be happy to elaborate more on the project at another time. It is Saturday and I am pretty deep into a bottle of bourbon. Please give me initial feedback. Good or Bad.

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I will be happy to elaborate more on the project at another time. It is Saturday and I am pretty deep into a bottle of bourbon. Please give me initial feedback. Good or Bad.

It's better to elaborate under the guidance of Bourbon! 

[Woodcock36]

Not 20 year old Pappy Van Winkle. If I were to go into detail at this point it would probably read like a 15 year old girls facebook status.

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Not 20 year old Pappy Van Winkle. If I were to go into detail at this point it would probably read like a 15 year old girls facebook status.

HAHAHA..............................haha......

In all seriousness, writers aren't be utilized by Bitcoin. Someone needs to write some more stories I had thought about it myself actually.

edit: Ok, I'll entertain you more. I had thought about a way where you write Chapters and people pay bitcents to unlock the content to each chapter to keep going through each one. All doable.

[Woodcock36]

Mission for the night completed. Make a forum alum laugh. Done. The basis of the book I am working on is this: Online Culture is already such a huge part of everyday life, but when will the balance change when online life dictates the policies(cool, not cool, right not right, viable, not viable...etc) of offline life. My theory is that we are nearing that point. Whether it is online friendship, relationship, commerce, currency(why I am here)....whatever the situation is. We are facing a time when what happens online can and probably will dictate what happens in the real world moreso than what happens in the real world dictating what happens on the internet(yes I realize that this has been the case for a while, but the people not deeply involved in the internet do not see it this way). So what I am trying to do is find out what is going to tip the scales to make the "IRL" crowd realize that they are at least 2 years behind the times in most aspects of their lives. The topics we speak about are unknown to them and seem foolish to most. BTC to even the most forward thinking of my friends sounds like, as one of them put it, "monopoly money for grown ups"....For those of us who know better that seems foolish, but it is the way of things right now. Now as for why I am here, well, I hope to learn more about Bitcoin, I hope to see why people have faith in it, and I hope to be a part of it when it turns truly mainstream(yep, I'm a greedy motherfucker like that). But all in all I just really want to learn what makes the community tick, and hopefully add something to a community that, even after a couple hours, has been a great group of people to talk to.

I know I will read this in the morning and scold myself for sounding like a total d-bag asshole. But whatever.