If someone uses your profile to earn stakes in the bounty program, we have nothing to do with this. Why are you accusing us of this?
Because the very fact you need to advertise and garner support in this manner, appearing to actively encourage it at worst, and turn a blind eye to it at best, speaks volumes for the integrity of the program as a whole. In fact looking at the post history of your account seems to suggest that too has been hacked/stolen/sold. If the people behind this project had faith in it, they would post under their own accounts and not feel the need to try and artificially create trust by buying/stealing established accounts. If I have a business idea I want to pitch, I pitch it myself, I don't go to the bank dressed up as Richard Branson and try to convince them they are dealing with somebody they aren't.
The only people who will make money from this project are the few who want to encourage the many to part with a small amount. They know full well that the many will just write off their investment, its just like unsecured crowdfunding on a different platform. Stolen profiles, the irony of "bounty" rewards being paid to identity thieves and all this behaviour circling a project that expects legitimate business to part with significant cash for access to data and pay for advertising, and you want private investors to pony up double what the EIB invested in Qwant. OK, Good luck with that.
Just to note, in case you missed the bleeding obvious, the whole advertising model works for Google because of the data received from searches. They can then sell companies very specific targeted data for their adverts. That's why companies pay to advertise through google, so they can make sure their adverts are seen by people who are actually interested in their category of product. Without competing on the search side, you are just selling blind advertising space. What you are doing is recreating the yellow pages.
Im all for entrepreneurial activity, but to wake up one morning and decide you want to take on Googles advertising stronghold, with zero users and zero data input from millions of customers searches, and ask the general public to stick their hand in their pocket for $50m, is just daft.
Thank you once again, C3ALLtemp for comments regarding our project which obviously touches you deep.
Everyone from this forum can participate in the Bounty Campaign, we absolutely have no intention to buy/steal or otherwise relate to users’ accounts. However if you’ve got any proofs of account ownership you’re claiming please kindly provide it so we we could take it off from the campaign.
The user name “Tyska” is my own since the beginning. According to the Forum’s Rules it’s not prohibited to post in any threads on any languages… Our CEO Alex Bessonov is extremely busy with this project and isn’t able to monitor every post on this Forum. But you could be in touch with him by using a chat window on our genuine website.
Just a few more points on platform’ tech aspect. We don’t compete with Google in full as we don’t index the sites. We’re building product & services search engine. BitClave is playing two roles.
Role#1 is to build a platform that can be used to build 3rd party service and role#2 is to build the services. You can read more on a high level here
https://medium.com/@BitClave/search-engines-in-the-era-of-blockchain-be29d6cb582. IPFS, FileCoin, Storj are technologies for storing the raw data, these are not the indexes. The raw data will be anonymized and open to all to build their 3rd party services - this is to attract more players and to make the BASE ecosystem better.
The BASE DB is used to provide BitClave’s services for search and ranking - this is where BitClave is playing it’s 2nd role. At this stage, we do not plan to give 3rd party access to the indexes, but we are considering to give API to 3rd party to use the search results.
Off-chain distributed storage is required because on-chain storage is much more expensive, so this is cost reduction technique we are considering.
Search results are given to REQUEST contract (which is on blockchain) and then REQEST contract can further communicate with OFFER contract to finalize the deal. The role of search engine is to provide potential matches and the final decision is done by the contracts themselves.
Search Engine can be compared in its role to a realtor in real estate business - it tries to match buyer and seller but the final decision is by buyer and seller. And you can have many of these search engines.
All providing “potential matches”. The REQUEST contract is going to receive a pointer to “recommended” OFFER and then REQUEST can directly verify if he “likes” the OFFER. The “recommendation” will come from multiple search engines, but neither REQUEST nor OFFER trust the recommendation so they are going to verify each other directly. You can provide your own search engine. You have access to all the information. This is important design point for BASE, we want to ENABLE 3rd party services, so all relevant information is stored in open storage.
