[ANN] ESL Coin & Try English App (ICO coming)

[cahkalem]

but when i can read the whitepaper of this ESL Coin

The first draft version of it will be ready before we ICO later this year. Our next major announcement will be about the specific timing and structure of that. Then we'll get to work on the bounty system... we're keeping all the bounty requests in a pile until then. Sorry to make you guys wait

ok,, i will wait for that,,
and i hope the draft version will finish as soon as possible
thank you

[aizzaku]

Hi everyone,

I am glad to be a part of this amazing and dedicated team.

We are working on things as i speak. I will be looking into the graphic designing and also helping with other small things.
All the suggestions and criticisms are welcome, which would only help us improve and refine the project.

Regards,
Isaac 'aizzaku' Nandgavkar

[TheCrimsonFucker]

Dev, I really liked your project! But you still inactive... And the rewards campaigns, when will they be announced? Any news? Which campaigns will be offered?

[The Bitcoin Co-op]

Dev, I really liked your project! But you still inactive... And the rewards campaigns, when will they be announced? Any news? Which campaigns will be offered?

There will be bounties for translations, social media, articles, etc, but we're still looking at different possible systems for managing it. More immediately, we need to decide the exact percentages of the initial coin distribution, and then we'll announce the details of the ICO. The premine will be divided between:

• ICO backers
• The ESL Coin dev team
• Development bounties for third party apps
• Marketing and PR bounties
• Grants incentivizing ESL groups/institutions to join the network

[maryvale]

interesting coin, but the front page UX not consistent, one with green/blue, another with red/orange, looks like a kid is playing with the color...

[disbil]

After reading the first post, I've still confused of what it is, and how it work, how will the coin will work with the APP?

[The Bitcoin Co-op]

interesting coin, but the front page UX not consistent, one with green/blue, another with red/orange, looks like a kid is playing with the color...

That's because we will have two separate websites, the domains for which have already been reserved. We may play with the colors more going forward, but Try English and ESL Coin do not need to have consistent designs. The ESL audience and the crypto audience are very different and have different tastes, and a large number of students will never visit the site or care about crypto (and vice versa, actually).

After reading the first post, I've still confused of what it is, and how it work, how will the coin will work with the APP?

At first, it will be an in-app payment method, which is very simple. Mainstream users are relatively familiar with the basic concept of credits or tokens and need not understand the cryptocurrency part.

We hope to work on more advanced decentralized features, however, such as putting the app's account and reputation system on the blockchain. The ultimate goal is to make the Try English app itself peer-to-peer, but we will have to rely on a server for a while.


More news very soon. Thanks for your patience, guys.

[modmalaney]

Hello dev, is there any update about the bounties?
What kind of bounties will be held?

[batesresearch]

Hey guys,

I would like to say thanks to Andrew for inviting me into the team, as some of you know I have worked with Andrew on CoinFest for over two years now, bringing CoinFest to the UK. I hope to bring my experience of business-to-business contacts, fundraising and business knowledge to the project. I will also be offering support with my crypto-dedicated hosting company and helping promote the app via CryptoBatesGroup.

Aswell as Andrew I know Isaac personally, he has an amazing vision with design and is a very dedicated to his work - The type of designer we need for this project!

I am hoping to dedicate more time to this project in the coming months, the team is very active on Slack, plenty of ideas being bounced around.

Adam

[The Bitcoin Co-op]

News update! The ESL Coin ICO will last for three weeks from November 13 to December 3. No new coins will be created, and the pre-mine will be distributed as follows:
 

• ICO backers: 50%
• ESL Coin dev team: 10%
• Third-party app devs: 10%
• Try English team: 10%
• Marketing and PR: 10%
• ESL Community Grants: 10%

ICO Process

ESL Coins will be sold throughout the crowdsale for a constant price of 1000 satoshis (0.00001 BTC). The total supply will equal twice the number of ESL Coins purchased; once the ICO is over, the second half will be created and properly distributed, and then coin creation will be locked.
 
Example: suppose 1 billion ESL Coins are sold for 10,000 BTC. Another 1 billion ESL Coins will then be created for a total of 2 billion, with 200 million each going to the ESL Coin development team, third-party app devs, the Try English development team, marketing, and the ESL community.
 
All grants, bounties and the development fund will be controlled by the ESL Coin Foundation. Its directorship is currently made up of the Try English team, but others may be admitted to the board for reasons such as having made a large ESL Coin investment or developed a third-party app. Other reasons for admission and specific procedures will be outlined in another post.
 
All funding from the ICO itself will go to the Try English team with app development as the immediate and primary goal. If funding from the ICO exceeds our goal of $10 million, excess will all be given to the ESL Coin Foundation to be used at its discretion. The crowdsale will close prematurely if a maximum of $100 million is reached.
 

Grants and Bounties

Grants will be given to ESL Meetups, groups, clubs and student bodies based on their size and activity levels with the expectation that they will participate earnestly in the ESL Network, which may include acceptance of ESL Coin. By the time we run out of funding, the network effect will already have taken hold.
 
Third-party developers and marketers will be on a bounty system. Developer bounties (one of which will be received by the Try English team upon the app’s completion) will be sized according to the scope of their project, and marketing bounties will be given to translators--who will be highly significant--as well as writers and for social media and forum activity.

[killerjoegreece]

News update! The ESL Coin ICO will last for three weeks from November 13 to December 3. No new coins will be created, and the pre-mine will be distributed as follows:
 

• ICO backers: 50%
• ESL Coin dev team: 10%
• Third-party app devs: 10%
• Try English team: 10%
• Marketing and PR: 10%
• ESL Community Grants: 10%

ICO Process

ESL Coins will be sold throughout the crowdsale for a constant price of 1000 satoshis (0.00001 BTC). The total supply will equal twice the number of ESL Coins purchased; once the ICO is over, the second half will be created and properly distributed, and then coin creation will be locked.
 
Example: suppose 1 billion ESL Coins are sold for 10,000 BTC. Another 1 billion ESL Coins will then be created for a total of 2 billion, with 200 million each going to the ESL Coin development team, third-party app devs, the Try English development team, marketing, and the ESL community.
 
All grants, bounties and the development fund will be controlled by the ESL Coin Foundation. Its directorship is currently made up of the Try English team, but others may be admitted to the board for reasons such as having made a large ESL Coin investment or developed a third-party app. Other reasons for admission and specific procedures will be outlined in another post.
 
All funding from the ICO itself will go to the Try English team with app development as the immediate and primary goal. If funding from the ICO exceeds our goal of $10 million, excess will all be given to the ESL Coin Foundation to be used at its discretion. The crowdsale will close prematurely if a maximum of $100 million is reached.
 

Grants and Bounties

Grants will be given to ESL Meetups, groups, clubs and student bodies based on their size and activity levels with the expectation that they will participate earnestly in the ESL Network, which may include acceptance of ESL Coin. By the time we run out of funding, the network effect will already have taken hold.
 
Third-party developers and marketers will be on a bounty system. Developer bounties (one of which will be received by the Try English team upon the app’s completion) will be sized according to the scope of their project, and marketing bounties will be given to translators--who will be highly significant--as well as writers and for social media and forum activity.

When will the translation work begin? What content will need to be translated? I presume it will last until December 3 ?

[Raxitto]

I would be very interested in contribute to your project with, a professional quality, Portuguese translation for the BtcTalk official thread and also other elements, as the White Paper, Website, articles and interviews.
Let me know if you are interested.

previous jobs:
-- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1786648.0
-- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1767517.0
-- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1792597.0
-- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1794030.0
-- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1751650.0
-- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1728455.0
-- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1766556.0
--------------- and more----------------

Good luck.
And best regards.

[koang]

News update! The ESL Coin ICO will last for three weeks from November 13 to December 3. No new coins will be created, and the pre-mine will be distributed as follows:
 

• ICO backers: 50%
• ESL Coin dev team: 10%
• Third-party app devs: 10%
• Try English team: 10%
• Marketing and PR: 10%
• ESL Community Grants: 10%

ICO Process

ESL Coins will be sold throughout the crowdsale for a constant price of 1000 satoshis (0.00001 BTC). The total supply will equal twice the number of ESL Coins purchased; once the ICO is over, the second half will be created and properly distributed, and then coin creation will be locked.
 
Example: suppose 1 billion ESL Coins are sold for 10,000 BTC. Another 1 billion ESL Coins will then be created for a total of 2 billion, with 200 million each going to the ESL Coin development team, third-party app devs, the Try English development team, marketing, and the ESL community.
 
All grants, bounties and the development fund will be controlled by the ESL Coin Foundation. Its directorship is currently made up of the Try English team, but others may be admitted to the board for reasons such as having made a large ESL Coin investment or developed a third-party app. Other reasons for admission and specific procedures will be outlined in another post.
 
All funding from the ICO itself will go to the Try English team with app development as the immediate and primary goal. If funding from the ICO exceeds our goal of $10 million, excess will all be given to the ESL Coin Foundation to be used at its discretion. The crowdsale will close prematurely if a maximum of $100 million is reached.
 

Grants and Bounties

Grants will be given to ESL Meetups, groups, clubs and student bodies based on their size and activity levels with the expectation that they will participate earnestly in the ESL Network, which may include acceptance of ESL Coin. By the time we run out of funding, the network effect will already have taken hold.
 
Third-party developers and marketers will be on a bounty system. Developer bounties (one of which will be received by the Try English team upon the app’s completion) will be sized according to the scope of their project, and marketing bounties will be given to translators--who will be highly significant--as well as writers and for social media and forum activity.

Good news dev ..
I have followed this Tread from scratch and I really like the way you work, from giving explanations about this project, recruiting team and giving the latest news about this project.

I will stay here and surely I am really waiting for ICO, to invest here.

[The Bitcoin Co-op]

Thanks again for your supportive comments. Soon we will begin choosing our translators, who will need to do the ANNs, white paper, website stuff... we're also crafting a structure for social media and forum bounties.

In the meantime, check out this graphic. It shows what the layered structure of the ESL Coin ecosystem will look like once it's mature. We may drop Ethereum for an independent blockchain if it has too many more freakouts like the other day, but the concept remains the same: the ESL Coin Network will provide the (distributed) user database, which would otherwise be controlled and milked for profit. This will allow third parties to utilize it and add their users to the Network, as well.

First we need to get the app working with a server, of course, but I thought that would be boring to look at--just a simple cryptocurrency integration, been done before (just not for ESL students).

[Yatsan]

Sir I sent you a PM regarding to Filipino translating hope I will be qualified.
Here is my past work
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1967393.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1979016.0

Thank you.

[erikalui]

Hindi translation complete: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2006246.new#new

[The Bitcoin Co-op]

Hindi translation complete: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2006246.new#new

Good job! We now have the ANN translated to Hindi, Indonesian and Tagalog. We've decided to lump the Translator roles together with Community Manager roles... they will help us reach not only regional crypto fans, but regional ESL students and business, as well, and get paid a regular wage after the ICO is complete. We're still particularly interested in finding people for China and Japan

[xdtiagonzhar]

Hindi translation complete: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2006246.new#new

Good job! We now have the ANN translated to Hindi, Indonesian and Tagalog. We've decided to lump the Translator roles together with Community Manager roles... they will help us reach not only regional crypto fans, but regional ESL students and business, as well, and get paid a regular wage after the ICO is complete. We're still particularly interested in finding people for China and Japan

I am still waiting for your order to translate sir, when will i can start translating?

Thanks

[The Bitcoin Co-op]

Hindi translation complete: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2006246.new#new

Good job! We now have the ANN translated to Hindi, Indonesian and Tagalog. We've decided to lump the Translator roles together with Community Manager roles... they will help us reach not only regional crypto fans, but regional ESL students and business, as well, and get paid a regular wage after the ICO is complete. We're still particularly interested in finding people for China and Japan

I am still waiting for your order to translate sir, when will i can start translating?

Thanks

We picked someone else, sorry... see, the Indonesian one is already translated. It made sense because she is an English teacher and so has more useful existing connections. We hope there are no hard feelings

[xdtiagonzhar]

Hindi translation complete: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2006246.new#new

Good job! We now have the ANN translated to Hindi, Indonesian and Tagalog. We've decided to lump the Translator roles together with Community Manager roles... they will help us reach not only regional crypto fans, but regional ESL students and business, as well, and get paid a regular wage after the ICO is complete. We're still particularly interested in finding people for China and Japan

I am still waiting for your order to translate sir, when will i can start translating?

Thanks

We picked someone else, sorry... see, the Indonesian one is already translated. It made sense because she is an English teacher and so has more useful existing connections. We hope there are no hard feelings

oh I see I have no problem with that Sir I am not narrow minded but it's not good to keep someone waiting at least you should reply though.

I am waiting for upcoming news about this project, look forward to it