BiblePay | 10% to Orphan-Charity | RANDOMX MINING | Sanctuaries (Masternodes)

[togoshigekata]

Twitter Profile
https://twitter.com/BiblePay

Medium article I wrote on April & March updates for community and Masternode Buzz:
https://masternode.buzz/dailybuzz-thursday-9-may-2019/
https://medium.com/biblepay-news/biblepay-2019-march-april-updates-f7863c5e8f2f

Recent Newsletter to subscribers:
https://www.biblepay.org/?na=v&nk=803-4d5615cc89&id=13

Sign up link for Newsletters:
https://www.biblepay.org/newsletter/

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Who our target audiences are,
How to Market/Advertise to them
and how to best explain BiblePay in one or more lines or pictures
has been in debate and still unclear

We've had debates on how the ANN post should look, What are ANN title should be,
how the Website should look and function, etc etc etc

Im open to any feedback, and we can use all the help we can get!
and I dont think theres necessarily any right answer, it can be pretty subjective
(the only way to be more scientific would be to do A/B testing)

But Id love for us to discuss who are target audiences are and how to best market/appeal to them
and what actions we can take to get more investors

Thinking Out loud questions:
- How do we reach the people that would be most interested in BiblePay?
- How do people find BiblePay?
- What do they see when they find us?
- Why would someone be interested investing in BiblePay?
- How easy is the path to invest?
- How do they stay in the loop / up to date?

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Also to anyone reading, if you dont have a Twitter account, its easy to get one!: https://twitter.com/i/flow/signup?lang=en

[togoshigekata]

Reposting Advertising/Marketing Ideas:

Advertising/Marketing:
a. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2388064.msg36138565#msg36138565
b. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2388064.msg41633372#msg41633372

Jaap & April need PR help:
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2388064.msg46534233#msg46534233
(April has some professional PR experience, shes been very nice to help us)

Stats/Growth Indicators:
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2388064.msg42714861#msg42714861
(a monthly report on our key stats/growth would be cool)

Google Ads:
https://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?topic=204.0

BiblePay Advertising Google Sheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1grgb5Y74XMqShKDp051h1bSZVbHzRLna1bYzoTh6MAY/edit#gid=0

Updates:
- I sent an appeal to Twitter Ads and they rejected us and left our ad ban on
- Facebook gave me $10 free ad credit, and they approved our post boost! (they had previously rejected one many months ago)

I may enter a proposal to get more funding for Facebook ads, ---- https://www.facebook.com/BiblePay/
I think we should also start reaching out to journalists

Christcoin is a dead coin now, but look what places it got articles:
https://baptistnews.com/article/market-christian-cryptocurrency-christ-coin-aims-find/#.XNs1E45KiUk
https://www.worldreligionnews.com/religion-news/first-cryptocurrency-god-christ-coin
https://religionnews.com/2017/10/04/christ-coin-launches-as-first-faith-based-cryptocurrency/
https://www.christiantoday.com/article/christ-coin-new-christian-digital-currency-launches-with-rewards-for-the-faithful/115333.htm

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Anyone can get paid BBP for helping do work for BiblePay!
http://wiki.biblepay.org/UnderstandingGovernance

Here is an incomplete ownership list of different resources:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BiblePay/comments/9utdsh/biblepay_ownership_list/

We need help running an email newsletter
We need help advertising our monthly budget proposals
We need help communicating on Facebook
We need help creating youtube videos
We need help writing articles

Other Links:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2388064.msg49403001#msg49403001
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2388064.msg49488109#msg49488109

[Dimarzio123]

Hi Rob

I have just seen a tweet introducing Biblepay.
Twitter is a good medium. However, to me the initial message is wrong.

"What is Biblepay(BBP) - Fork of Dash - No premine - no ICO - deflationary"

This seems to be aimed at the crypto community - hardened crypto geeks.
I feel that this makes BBP just one more coin amongst thousands and unlikely to get a second glance.

I think, we should change the initial message to be something like:

What is Biblepay(BBP) - Christian charity coin aimed at supporting charity and orphans.
We need your help. Please help continue our Christian work.

Might catch the attention of some likeminded Christians.

My 2c
Regards
PM

Do you have a link to that tweet? I think that your message is very nice, but different tweets can be intended for different demographics. We are always welcoming feedback!

This page has the same image and message - medium.com
This is then repeated on twitter

https://medium.com/biblepay-news/biblepay-2019-march-april-updates-f7863c5e8f2f

https://twitter.com/i/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fi%2Ftopics%2Fnews%2Fe1705038794%3Fcn%3DZmxleGlibGVfcmVjc18y%26refsrc%3Demail&t=1+1557323921173&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjc18y&sig=d5ea2d5e79b67e926f1b324d611b875518b9bc83&iid=ffbfc822d3524f9c848d2389db8d510f&uid=822078805&nid=244+272830480

[togoshigekata]

https://masternode.buzz/hacked-cryptopia-exchange-closes-shop/

https://twitter.com/Cryptopia_NZ/status/1128491715608727553
https://www.grantthornton.co.nz/press/press-releases-2019/cryptopia-limited-appoints-grant-thornton-as-liquidators/

[togoshigekata]

So talking further, what are the steps for someone to invest:

1. They first have to buy Bitcoin, so they create an account on an exchange where they can buy Bitcoin with their government fiat money
2. They link their bank account or credit or debit card (Note: may have to verify personal information for KYC (Know Your Customer))
3. If using coinbase, they do a market order and get their first Bitcoin
https://www.coinbase.com/

Then to buy BiblePay, they have to use another exchange

4. They create an account on a 2nd exchange
5. They generate Bitcoin deposit address on 2nd exchange
6. They send Bitcoin from 1st exchange to 2nd exchange
7. They wait multiple hours
8. They then, now with more scary/confusing chart and numbers, buy BBP with their BTC
https://www.southxchange.com/Market/Book/BBP/BTC

If they dont trust the exchange to hold their funds (I dont: Not your Keys, Not your Coins)
but also risk themselves losing the coins or getting hacked or forgetting their password:

9. Download BiblePay Wallet, Sync the Wallet to the network
10. Generate BiblePay address
11. Send BiblePay from 2nd Exchange to Wallet
12. Encrypt Wallet, Create Wallet Backups

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Theres a lot of steps!
(Why hasnt anyone made a video on how to do this???)
What regular person is willing to go through all of these steps to invest? Who is technical enough to do it, and also not mess up?

So you have potential target audiences of:
- Stock Trader background
- IT/Technical background
- People who are already Crypto/Altcoin Investors

People already invested into crypto are the easiest to market to,
because you dont have to sell them on Bitcoin/crypto, the first hurdle (why invest?),
and they already know how to invest and use wallets, the second hurdle (education)

Why Invest?
Why invest in Bitcoin?
Why then trade that Bitcoin for BiblePay?
Do we do a good job of why people should invest? How can we do better? What are the compelling reasons?

How to invest?
Do we do a good job of making it easy for people to invest?
Do we do a good job of educating people?
How can we do better?

And just repeating, Who are our target audiences? How do we market to them? How do we get them to find us?

If we want more investors, we need to figure these things out, and implement good solutions!

[noxpost]

It's been a while since we talked about this, but I'd just like to remind everyone that the BBP community has donated more than $150k to charity. It's incredible what has been accomplished here, the lives that have been changed. I'm so proud to be a part of this community with you all.

[capulo]

dont worry, enjoy cheap bbp
somebody just left business when btc is high...

[noxpost]

I'm getting a bad gateway error on forum.biblepay.org - passing the message along.

[bible_pay]

I'm getting a bad gateway error on forum.biblepay.org - passing the message along.

Hmm, just got back from street healing, let me check.

[bible_pay]

dont worry, enjoy cheap bbp
somebody just left business when btc is high...

Yep, it happens when we have a coin that is emitting a big supply.  I think when we hit our 2.6 billion emission mark things will be pretty bright and rosy, but in the mean time lets try to grab 5000 users.

[bible_pay]

https://masternode.buzz/hacked-cryptopia-exchange-closes-shop/

https://twitter.com/Cryptopia_NZ/status/1128491715608727553
https://www.grantthornton.co.nz/press/press-releases-2019/cryptopia-limited-appoints-grant-thornton-as-liquidators/

How sad, they seemed like good guys.

(Now Im not as unhappy that we went with coinexchange.io since cryptopia would have been a dead end but I say that sadly).

Anyway, I bet they are having a problem finding the root cause of the hack and they are preserving their good reputation by liquidating.  Maybe they will rebrand someday.

Good luck Cryptopia, you are in my prayers to recover all your user assets and your personal shares.

[bible_pay]

I am noticing my sancs are taking 80% of the memory on 1GB $5 machines of Vultr, which is new (it was normally 30-40%). Some of them have even crashed. I don't know the reason but I suspect of this sudden required RAM spikes.

Is anyone else experiencing a similar behaviour in sancs?

I think this was resolved by now, but nevertheless Im running a sanc report now.

If any log remnants exist please send them.

[bible_pay]

Hi Rob

I have just seen a tweet introducing Biblepay.
Twitter is a good medium. However, to me the initial message is wrong.

"What is Biblepay(BBP) - Fork of Dash - No premine - no ICO - deflationary"

This seems to be aimed at the crypto community - hardened crypto geeks.
I feel that this makes BBP just one more coin amongst thousands and unlikely to get a second glance.

I think, we should change the initial message to be something like:

What is Biblepay(BBP) - Christian charity coin aimed at supporting charity and orphans.
We need your help. Please help continue our Christian work.

Might catch the attention of some likeminded Christians.

My 2c
Regards
PM

Do you have a link to that tweet? I think that your message is very nice, but different tweets can be intended for different demographics. We are always welcoming feedback!

This page has the same image and message - medium.com
This is then repeated on twitter

https://medium.com/biblepay-news/biblepay-2019-march-april-updates-f7863c5e8f2f

https://twitter.com/i/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fi%2Ftopics%2Fnews%2Fe1705038794%3Fcn%3DZmxleGlibGVfcmVjc18y%26refsrc%3Demail&t=1+1557323921173&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjc18y&sig=d5ea2d5e79b67e926f1b324d611b875518b9bc83&iid=ffbfc822d3524f9c848d2389db8d510f&uid=822078805&nid=244+272830480

Thanks a lot!  Jaap and Togo have been writing the medium articles and have taken that.  Let's take Dimarzio's idea into consideration and maybe we can run with this from both angles during our next cycle. 

And yes, I know we need to answer Togo's questions also in order to evaluate and navigate the actual PR campaigns properly.

I'll take a look at some of the investment topics.  The tricky issue with this - and Jaap and I have discussed this in depth - is with the Howey test we are a utility, and we cannot market biblepay as an investment.  But with the right amount of creative thinking, we might be able to communicate that BiblePay is a store of value - but not a security - another words we need to express that a Christian business or a regular household 401k could hold a certain amount of BBP in place of traditional retirement cash, and target our deflation properties - but we cant legally say anything that promises a return on investment, or markets us as a security.  So we need to really sit down and create a properly worded wiki page with our statement as a utility, but that fulfills the investment objective for PR so our PR department can copy this without worrying our legal department.

[bible_pay]

I am noticing my sancs are taking 80% of the memory on 1GB $5 machines of Vultr, which is new (it was normally 30-40%). Some of them have even crashed. I don't know the reason but I suspect of this sudden required RAM spikes.

Is anyone else experiencing a similar behaviour in sancs?

I think this was resolved by now, but nevertheless Im running a sanc report now.

If any log remnants exist please send them.

Everything looks normal to me now, we have 30,000 difficulty level, so I believe something was happening yesterday at that particular time (like a failed instantsend tx cascading through the sancs, and all of them failing to vote on it).  I believe something exists in the old codebase that still has some type of instantsend bug that has been fixed in Evo.  (We should not see instantsend related crashes once we all upgrade in 20 days).

[bible_pay]

I'm getting a bad gateway error on forum.biblepay.org - passing the message along.

I sent a message to TheSnat, and since he is moving to limited duty and spending time with his family it might take a while.

Let's give him 24 hours to reply before we make any emergency repairs.

[bible_pay]

** C-CEX REMINDER **


C-CEX will suspend it's services for reorganization jun 1, 2019. Please, withdraw your assets. Withdrawals will not be possible after jun, 1.



NOTE:  So far it is only Capulo that has a locked account.  I re-emailed and skyped the owner of C-CEX, and I am waiting for a reply.
If anyone else is locked at C-CEX please PM me your username.  We want to unlock these funds before the end of the month.

[bible_pay]

I'm getting a bad gateway error on forum.biblepay.org - passing the message along.

I sent a message to TheSnat, and since he is moving to limited duty and spending time with his family it might take a while.

Let's give him 24 hours to reply before we make any emergency repairs.

Forum.biblepay.org is back up!

[eternalenvoy]

May I know where can check the block is "right" road?
I checked my MNs is different with explorer...

Since masternodes.online is not listed BBP .. anyone knows have another monitoring website?

[bible_pay]

May I know where can check the block is "right" road?
I checked my MNs is different with explorer...

Since masternodes.online is not listed BBP .. anyone knows have another monitoring website?

Here is one way:

https://chainz.cryptoid.info/bbp/


I believe we have this hash (high diff):


getblockhash 119916

e7addba62252b412d5b7a9433cd1802dbbcfd8687ff9432e4ca8da090e4a8ff1

[bible_pay]

ATTN all Proposal Creators and Devs:

Please add your proposal within 3-4 days if possible as I need to see what will be left for Compassion and add it early - as it will be a very hectic end of month with the Evo upgrade coming up.


Regarding Evo:  It looks like our mandatory upgrade will occur system-wide after this monthly superblock pays out (that will be approx. June 2nd).  I'll post the detailed upgrade plan asap.


Note to Devs:
Someone created some FUD on the discord a while back saying something to the extent that I was hogging the entire IT budget and that I would choose to hog the remaining budget for Compassion and not pay the devs.  Both of these statements are false.  I want the devs to know that I encourage you to add your proposals early and NOT wait for me to enter a proposal.  And, I realize we may go OVER the IT budget while our price is low.  Its to be expected that we might have a couple million extra BBP going to the devs during our lean times.  The main point I want to communicate is although we can't afford the full proposal for one dev, you can add a proposal that is capped at a reasonable amount.  For example if your payroll is normally 3 mil you can enter 1 mil being cognizent to share the rest with the other devs, but certainly I would rather see it entered and be overbudget in IT than to not be paid.  Our orphans are equally important but we will all take a hit together and reduce by 60% or so until the economic conditions improve.  So please, enter your proposals now.