[ANN][KARM] Karmacoin - New Initiatives - Helping People Do Good

[ShawnLeary]

BTW, if you are selling for 1 satoshi on Mintpal.com they are being resold on cryptorush around 2 satoshi at .00000040 LTC.

oh yeah.... at that 8 ltc volume "."

And 40 litoshi is something like 1.1 satoshi. ..

Good point!  I missed that volume.

[ShawnLeary]

Question:  Why are we not voting on the jwcplanet logos?  None of them are in the contest.  Can anyone tell me why?

I thought his was the K-art one?

The trunk one that is staring at us is using the most of the space it is given.  It's pretty neat, the trunk is thick but most of it is off the coin.

[kosmost]

Question:  Why are we not voting on the jwcplanet logos?  None of them are in the contest.  Can anyone tell me why?

Sure. See here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=447657.msg5578975#msg5578975

and here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Karmacoin/comments/1zv1xz/logo_contest_now_running_on_99designs_more_info/

for more info.

Also, if you'd like to donate to help cover the costs of this contest (already paid $299, as it is a guaranteed contest to attract more entries) you can send Karma to KBuE7G9Xf2JUgeUKPk6MkPkLNL6zXyznxz  - Thanks!

[cryptowho]

see an other day , an other 10 btc volume.

coins fine. 

[mattboldfield]

I was just getting ready to dump all my KarmaCoin when I saw this "rebranding" going on.

I think I'll hold for a while longer.  : )

LOL, dump away - your in for a rude shock!

[marsu]

karmacoin isn't in coinwarz anymore and the 24h volume is only 4btc. what's happening?

[kosmost]

New logo contest entry:https://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/bitcoin-logo-design-next-dogecoin-karmacoin-362189/entries/181

That one is currently the design with the highest average rating on my latest survey of global internet users. It may also show up better on a white background (if we have that) than the one below.

This one is in second place: https://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/bitcoin-logo-design-next-dogecoin-karmacoin-362189/entries/193

The black version gets the highest number of 5-star ratings overall when placed only with the first one: https://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/bitcoin-logo-design-next-dogecoin-karmacoin-362189/entries/134

Although the black version gets high ratings the white version of it does not. This may meant people like the contrasting colors of the black/white logo more than anything. If we use this logo design our entire website would need to be black (or dark), which may actually turn off visitors who are looking for something happy. As a logo it is nice, but as a brand theme it may not work.

I will continue to eliminate desgins that do not perform well in surveys. Currently I have 8 surveys running and have received about 170 responses.

I'll post the results of the final survey in a day or so, before the end of the contest.

Here's how the contest winner will be judged

Global survey results: 80%
Usability of logo (brandability): 10%
Practicality of logo in media (e.g., color transparency, visibility): 10%

[MCAltcoin]

Question:  Why are we not voting on the jwcplanet logos?  None of them are in the contest.  Can anyone tell me why?

Sure. See here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=447657.msg5578975#msg5578975

and here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Karmacoin/comments/1zv1xz/logo_contest_now_running_on_99designs_more_info/

for more info.

Also, if you'd like to donate to help cover the costs of this contest (already paid $299, as it is a guaranteed contest to attract more entries) you can send Karma to KBuE7G9Xf2JUgeUKPk6MkPkLNL6zXyznxz  - Thanks!

None of the jwcplanet logos were uploaded.  Am I missing something - we did not include them in the process?
I am not sure why this happened, but the owner of this process should have uploaded them.
I will donate to open the contest up to include them.
This is not right to have wasted that work in the process.

[ShawnLeary]

Question:  Why are we not voting on the jwcplanet logos?  None of them are in the contest.  Can anyone tell me why?

Sure. See here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=447657.msg5578975#msg5578975

and here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Karmacoin/comments/1zv1xz/logo_contest_now_running_on_99designs_more_info/

for more info.

Also, if you'd like to donate to help cover the costs of this contest (already paid $299, as it is a guaranteed contest to attract more entries) you can send Karma to KBuE7G9Xf2JUgeUKPk6MkPkLNL6zXyznxz  - Thanks!

None of the jwcplanet logos were uploaded.  Am I missing something - we did not include them in the process?
I am not sure why this happened, but the owner of this process should have uploaded them.
I will donate to open the contest up to include them.
This is not right to have wasted that work in the process.

Are you sure he isn't K-art Lab?  Those look a lot like his.  Loved his work and tipped him for it early on but the contest is bringing out some amazing logos.  The contest is still open for entires for the next two days so no one is blocking anyone from entering or creating. 

[Mad Scientist]

I was just getting ready to dump all my KarmaCoin when I saw this "rebranding" going on.

karmacoin isn't in coinwarz anymore and the 24h volume is only 4btc. what's happening?

I think I'll hold for a while longer.  : )

LOL, dump away - your in for a rude shock!

Just traded all my KarmaCoin for LiteCoin.

[kosmost]

Question:  Why are we not voting on the jwcplanet logos?  None of them are in the contest.  Can anyone tell me why?

Sure. See here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=447657.msg5578975#msg5578975

and here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Karmacoin/comments/1zv1xz/logo_contest_now_running_on_99designs_more_info/

for more info.

Also, if you'd like to donate to help cover the costs of this contest (already paid $299, as it is a guaranteed contest to attract more entries) you can send Karma to KBuE7G9Xf2JUgeUKPk6MkPkLNL6zXyznxz  - Thanks!

None of the jwcplanet logos were uploaded.  Am I missing something - we did not include them in the process?
I am not sure why this happened, but the owner of this process should have uploaded them.
I will donate to open the contest up to include them.
This is not right to have wasted that work in the process.

You can see the list of the 36 designers here: https://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/bitcoin-logo-design-next-dogecoin-karmacoin-362189/designers

As you can see there are nearly 200 designs that will not win the contest. This is not "waste" but part of the process of discovering the logo that best suits our needs, goals, and market.

6 out of the 36 were shortlisted for the finals. Unfortunately, jwcplanet was not one of the finalists. (And each designer uploads their own files.)

Please refer to the two links above (in the quote block) for more info on the reasoning I used to select the finalists. If you feel the contest is being conducted in a biased and unfair way please let me know and we can discuss ideas as to how the process can be improved.

During the finals the factor that most weights the judging of the contest is the result of the various surveys being conducted (that I am paying for out of my own pocket, by the way, along with the contest itself). I have detailed that in post #3601, above. I will not select a winner because 1) I think their design is the best; 2) I know the designer; 3) the designer is cute; 4) the designer could really use the cash, or whatever.

You're free to begin a contest if you'd like. The cost is $299-$1,379 for logos. It's a pretty nice system, and I can give you some tips if you'd like. But I am curious to see how a new contest could be done in a more transparent, fair, open, an unbiased way than the current one. I am always open to new ideas.

I appreciate jwcplanet's past, present, and future designs and hope to see additional designs (and I am sure he/she has appreciated all of the donations received for them).

[kosmost]

Just traded all my KarmaCoin for LiteCoin.

What are your other holdings besides Litecoin?

[BitTanker]

Contest is awesome, design is awesome, focus of coin is awesome.
All the people who contributed in some way are awesome.

Dedicated Leaders -> Good projects -> Increasing community -> Big future.

[mison]

I do not know, if is karma in trouble, dogecoin and lot of coins have the same issue, but it is not fair at all. If it is not truly random, it is better to mine fixed value. But it is only my opinion. Because if I expecting daily reward 4M and I will receive 1,4M, it is weird. Random block in the dogecoin was because doge was made as a fun coin.

I have noticed the same.. I can set set my miners and end up with actual result about 75% lower than the expected amount. This is also from constant KGW diff fluctuations, not only because of random block reward.

What is the reasoning behind having random block reward anyway? Is it just to add some element of lotto,gambling,randomness to the coin? It doesn't fit the theme of the coin and if it can be abused it needs to be removed or modified fast.

Glad to see that dogecoin will set fix reward too, after us.

[ptman]

Contest is awesome, design is awesome, focus of coin is awesome.
All the people who contributed in some way are awesome.

Dedicated Leaders -> Good projects -> Increasing community -> Big future.

Man... We will grow... a lot!

[mattboldfield]

Contest is awesome, design is awesome, focus of coin is awesome.
All the people who contributed in some way are awesome.

Dedicated Leaders -> Good projects -> Increasing community -> Big future.

Doesn't take you much to get excited, must be your birthday?

[CharityMiningPools]

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[kosmost]

I'll be happy to take part in whatever is needed, my superpowers are:
PR/Communications/marketing/project lead
I'm fully commited

Any updates, karmazaki?

We haven't heard anything from you.

Please note that I will be removing inactive usernames from the subreddit and project list on the 14th.

If you're active, please let us know what's going on. Thanks

[BitTanker]

Just to be sure, I noticed BTER exchange sites voting thread for new coins.
Everyone go and vote for KARM!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=502363.0

[pugwilfy]

erm.. not possibly the publicity we need...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=454186.msg5681370#msg5681370

and this one

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=454186.msg5681743#msg5681743