[GRC] Gridcoin Marketing and Strategy

[anonerd]

Promoting Gridcoin - Mining for Scientific Progress
(In case you haven't read about it yet, feel lucky to meet the next big thing)

LATEST News from the community:
We are ready to launch Gridcoin-Research in Oktober!
The main discussion board is located at CCT. Therefore, there was little to be heard on BCT.
Development efforts were coordinated at https://cryptocointalk.com/forum/464-gridcoin-grc/

What is the new client about:

Gridcoin benefits society and medical research by redirecting the massive computational force of the global hashing network to scientific programs like cancer research, Alzheimer's, AIDS and Malaria countermeasures. Desktop computers help in distributed tasks that progress science at Universities (e.g. protein folding). No special mining equipment is needed, computing tasks are too general for ASICs, so the currency stays decentralized!
By introducing Proof-of-Research, we are able to direct nearly all of the available processing power to advance science. Only a small overhead is necessary to secure network logistics. Which is by design the smallest footprint possible, as our network security model is improving on industry leading Proof-of-Stake implementations already being energy efficient. Proof-of-Research factors in mandatory BOINC participation for all clients in a cryptographically strong way. All of this is open source, go look into it!

Let's collect the growing efforts to promote Gridcoin and add to it.
This is a structured approach to let everyone see where his help is currently needed the most.
Maybe you offer a service on your own? - Please feel encouraged to mention it below.
Each promotion or point of acceptance would love to have a maintainer and progress-information.

I will update the OP with all ideas to finally get GRC connect all those ppl's heads!

For POR you need coins in your account that are "staked". This is not like POW where you find blocks with actual hashing!! You either need to convert old GRC classic to new POR GRC or you have to wait till the around the 20th of October when the POR GRC starts trading on the exchanges and get some POR GRC  so you can start staking in your wallet!! IF you have no coins right now in your POR wallet you will not receive anything!! You need to have coins in your POR wallet!!

This wasn't clear to me as well. The wallet says "boinc mining" and it's not true.
Also it's a pity I have compiled, installed, worked on it and boinc-end and I'll not get anything for days, cause I need to have stake power for a coin which currently I can't buy.
Not everybody's been following the coin for months.
I've gotten in a couple weeks ago and read a lot of docs, but I didn't notice that for POR I need POS, and it seems I'm not the only one.

To be an early adopter is never easy
We offer free startercoins on http://uscore.net

Already achieved:

Effort	Location	Maintainer
Official whitepaper	pdf	Robert Halford
Active Marketing on CryptoCoinTalk	thread	RTMoney
Listing on cryptocurrency-reddit	site	-
Listing on coingecko	site	-
Blockexplorer	site	CryptoBlox
Gridcoin giveaway	thread	andrewp
Gridcoin Infographic	image	traderman
Logo	discussion	aysyr
Sub-Reddit	board (on-site)	joeykrug, customminer
Trade at c-cex.com	https://c-cex.com/index.html?p=grc-btc	-
Trade at crypt otc us	[Suspicious link removed]	-
Trade at poloniex	https://poloniex.com/exchange/btc_grc	-
Trade at allcrypt.com (on halt)	https://www.allcrypt.com/market?id=151	-
Trade at swisscex	https://www.swisscex.com/market/GRC_BTC	-
Trade at OpenEx	https://openex.pw/index.php?page=trade&market=203	-
Trade at CryptoAltEx	https://www.cryptoaltex.com/	-
Trade at lazycoins	confirmed but not started (thread)	https://twitter.com/LazyCoins
Listing at cryptocoincharts.info	http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/#jump-grc-btc	-
Listing at coinmarketcap.com	http://coinmarketcap.com/	-
Listing at moola.io	http://moola.io	-
Listing at cryptoapi.net	http://cryptoapi.net/	-
Listing at cryptocoinrank.com	http://www.cryptocoinrank.com/Gridcoin	-
Have a Pool	http://pool.gridcoin.us/	-
Official Twitter	https://twitter.com/GridcoinNetwork	Traderman

Service Goals:

Effort	Location	Maintainer	Participate	Progress
Announce Prizes for scientific breakthrough using GRC computation	?	?	Setup crowdfunding	0%
Get accepted at Universities	?	?	Contact Science Faculties	0%
paper wallet generator	?	?	design and implement	10%
promotional avatar / character	?	?	design and discuss	5%
Trade at BTC38.com	http://BTC38.com	?	vote (thread)	10%
Trade at nexxuscorp.com	http://nexxuscorp.com/	?	vote (on-site)	10%
Trade at ecoinfund.com	http://www.ecoinfund.com/	?	vote (on-site)	10%
Trade at CoinedUp	https://coinedup.com	?	vote (reddit)	10%
Trade at CoinEX	https://coinex.pw	?	vote (thread)	10%
Trade at cryptsy.com	https://cryptsy.com	?	vote (login)	20%
Trade at crypto-trade.com	https://crypto-trade.com	?	vote (thread)	0%
Trade at coinmarket.io	https://www.coinmarket.io/	?	write mail to dev	0%
Trade at allcrypt.com	http://www.allcrypt.com	?	vote (on-site)	50%
Trade at crycurex.com	https://crycurex.com	?	?	0%
Trade at altswap.com	http://www.altswap.com	?	?	0%
Trade at cryptorush.in	https://cryptorush.in/index.php?p=list-your-coin	?	vote (on-site)	40%
Trade at Bittrex	https://bittrex.com/	]vote (thread)	?	30%
Listing at wheretomine.com	http://www.wheretomine.com	?	?	30%
Listing at cryptocoinexplorer.com	http://cryptocoinexplorer.com	?	?	0%
Listing at coinpayments	https://www.coinpayments.net	waterproject	vote (on-site)	10%
Payout at qoinpro.com	http://www.qoinpro.com	?	email them (support@qoinpro.com)	0%
Trade at mintpal.com	https://www.mintpal.com	?	vote (on-site)	20%
Trade at Atomic trade Ex	thread	?		0%

Community Goals:

Effort	Location	Maintainer	Participate	Progress
central repository for marketing materials	?	?	host a service	0%
Get on major News Site	?	?	write a good article	10%
World Lead in BOINC-contribution	http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/team/list/16/0/0	?	join team Gridcoin + contribute your CPU-power	45%
Cooperate with berkeley.edu	http://berkeley.edu	?	write them a letter	0%
Ad-Campaign at bitcointalk.org	http://bitcointalk.org	COINPRADER	Suggest ad ideas	5%

Network Goals:

Effort	Location	Maintainer	Participate	Progress
Scalable Network-Protocol	http://gridcoin.us	Rob	increase CPU cap, implement GPU pool mining	80%
package linux client installer with all dependencies	http://gridcoin.us	Rob	?	60%
integrate comprehensive block explorer	http://explorer.gridcoin.us	Rob	?	80%
Professional Introductory Video	http://gridcoin.us	?	?	40%

In case you know another place where to cast a vote for acceptance, please reply.

Original GRC-Thread is here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=324118.0

[traderman]

Before we start on any of that we have to wait for the voting of the new Logo and then we can go from there. Cryptsy and Crypto-Trade have been sent many messages and they are fully aware of Gridcoin. They will list it when they decide to, so there is nothing to be done there!

[anonerd]

Before we start on any of that we have to wait for the voting of the new Logo and then we can go from there. Cryptsy and Crypto-Trade have been sent many messages and they are fully aware of Gridcoin. They will list it when they decide to, so there is nothing to be done there!

at least I could help promote the logo competition with my link.
my point is more like every additional thread on GRC helps the cause.
Maybe not everyone has the time to stay up to date with the ongoing campaigns, so I decided to keep track and list them.

regards, anonerd

[COINPRADER]

Looks like a good start.  I agree with Traderman that most of this needs to wait until we get the logo (which is soon!).  But we do not have to wait to get the list going!
Maybe add a section on things that can be done (services you can buy) with your gridcoins.  A section on any Gridcoin promotions (links to threads of giveaways etc).  A section on advertising.  I am saving up  "Daily Bitcoins advertising credits" from here so that I can run some ads when we are ready.  You should also cross post this to https://cryptocointalk.com/forum/464-gridcoin-grc/ so that it hits the crypto folks as well.

Let's collect the growing efforts to promote Gridcoin and add to it!

This is a structured approach to let everyone see where his help is currently needed the most.
Maybe you offer a service on your own? - Please feel encouraged to mention it below.
Each promotion or point of acceptance would love to have a maintainer and progress-information.

I will update the OP with all ideas to finally get GRC connect all those ppl's heads!

Effort	Location	Maintainer	Participate	Progress
Logo Competition	https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/4279-logo-competition-voting-begins-for-6-finalists	aysyr	vote!	70%
Get on major News Site	?	?	write a good article	0%
Trade at cryptsy.com	https://cryptsy.com	?	vote (?)	10%
Trade at crypto-trade.com	https://crypto-trade.com	?	vote (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=361562.0)	0%
Listing at wheretomine.com	http://www.wheretomine.com	?	?	20%
Listing at cryptocoinexplorer.com	http://cryptocoinexplorer.com	?	?	0%
Listing at cryptocoincharts.info	http://www.cryptocoincharts.info	?	?	0%

Already achieved:

Effort	Location	Maintainer
Trade at c-cex.com	https://c-cex.com/index.html?p=grc-btc	-

Let's get inspired!

Original GRC-Thread is here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=324118.0

[COINPRADER]

All promotion is good.  Maybe you (and other Gridcoiners) can add;

"Add some science to your mining!  GRIDCOIN"

to your profile here so that every post you make is a small advert for Gridcoin

Before we start on any of that we have to wait for the voting of the new Logo and then we can go from there. Cryptsy and Crypto-Trade have been sent many messages and they are fully aware of Gridcoin. They will list it when they decide to, so there is nothing to be done there!

at least I could help promote the logo competition with my link.
my point is more like every additional thread on GRC helps the cause.
Maybe not everyone has the time to stay up to date with the ongoing campaigns, so I decided to keep track and list them.

regards, anonerd

[anonerd]

Looks like a good start.  I agree with Traderman that most of this needs to wait until we get the logo (which is soon!).  But we do not have to wait to get the list going!
Maybe add a section on things that can be done (services you can buy) with your gridcoins.  A section on any Gridcoin promotions (links to threads of giveaways etc).  A section on advertising.  I am saving up  "Daily Bitcoins advertising credits" from here so that I can run some ads when we are ready.  You should also cross post this to https://cryptocointalk.com/forum/464-gridcoin-grc/ so that it hits the crypto folks as well.

certainly, thanks for your appreciation!
as the list gets longer we will introduce categories for sure.
In fact, I would ask each keen participant to open up a new thread with their promotional idea to have it worked out there. To keep this readable we can simply maintain a list of efforts and link to their threads and maintainers.
cross-linkage to cryptocointalk will be done after some consolidation.
do you care to be enrolled in here as the first ad-campaign?

[COINPRADER]

Yep - put me down in the "ad" department.  Not sure how much I can do - and I will need help coming up with a great ad to place.  I figured I would start a topic in the threads after we get the logo/coin design. 
Also - very first line in this OP should be the link to the coin home page (http://www.gridcoin.us/) so that anyone seeing this and curious will know right away where to go.

Looks like a good start.  I agree with Traderman that most of this needs to wait until we get the logo (which is soon!).  But we do not have to wait to get the list going!
Maybe add a section on things that can be done (services you can buy) with your gridcoins.  A section on any Gridcoin promotions (links to threads of giveaways etc).  A section on advertising.  I am saving up  "Daily Bitcoins advertising credits" from here so that I can run some ads when we are ready.  You should also cross post this to https://cryptocointalk.com/forum/464-gridcoin-grc/ so that it hits the crypto folks as well.

certainly, thanks for your appreciation!
as the list gets longer we will introduce categories for sure.
In fact, I would ask each keen participant to open up a new thread with their promotional idea to have it worked out there. To keep this readable we can simply maintain a list of efforts and link to their threads and maintainers.
cross-linkage to cryptocointalk will be done after some consolidation.
do you care to be enrolled in here as the first ad-campaign?

[anonerd]

cross-linkage is in place (https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/4662-grc-gridcoin-marketing-and-strategy/),
slowly starting to roll..

[anonerd]

Also, to everyone asking where to advertise that you accept GRC for goods and/or services, you will want to post that on the "Marketplace" board under the "goods" or "services" sub-boards.

If you accept GRC for goods: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=51.0
If you accept GRC for services: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=52.0

This! and if you would like your offer to be referenced for the community to see, link here.

[groten]

Just writing down my thought's, maybe it's helpfull in finding a strategy how to go further,

- It would be very good to speed up the development, considered actions to be taken can be,

 1) Get a moderator for the forums, main responsabilities are,
       - Filtering messages and report important issues to the dev and report back.
       - Give a reply to the questions that the community could not answer
       - etc.

     Main goal is to get the dev. focused on the project, he should not get any negative energy from the forum, my advice to him would be do not spent any time on the forum, just rely on the moderators.

 2) Get some crowdfunding to help the dev. to pay for the expenses he has to make,

     - Use the Beacon GRC adress for spendings in Gridcoin, use it later to fund some kind of Gridcoin foundation
     - Ask for money on the landingpage off www.gridcoin.us to support the development, BTC, GRC, etc.
     - Let's raise a small amount of money to design a nice landingpage (www.99designs.de), we need a volunteer who has experience in branding a product, he can address all the needed marketing (the dev. should have his focus on the program).

3) Assign a team for this project, each member should have his focus on certain parts, the dev. can not do everything on his own.





 

[anonerd]

hey groten, thanks for the bunch of inspiration!
To wrap it up, your suggestions as I understood lead us to the following projects:

1) Write reports on community activity regularly for the dev
<< devs could then decide whether this aggregation suffices their needs. can be started right away.

2a) Fund and Constitute a Gridcoin foundation
<< long-term goal, but really this is where we should be heading, even doge has a foundation

2b) work out a brand
<< this ought to follow the logo specification and is a mid-term goal, imho

3) assign a team
<< the community wont take the lead here, Rob has a small team already, afaik.
some community members like aysyr work closely with them.
Therefore, i'd suggest we bring up a pool of help offers from members, which dev board can assign subtasks to.

your ideas would definitely boost this network!
are you fine with the projects i concluded?
I'd like to enlist them alongside your nickname, if you agree.
Otherwise they get lost in the stream.

Thanks for the help!

[groten]

hey groten, thanks for the bunch of inspiration!
To wrap it up, your suggestions as I understood lead us to the following projects:

1) Write reports on community activity regularly for the dev
<< devs could then decide whether this aggregation suffices their needs. can be started right away.

2a) Fund and Constitute a Gridcoin foundation
<< long-term goal, but really this is where we should be heading, even doge has a foundation

2b) work out a brand
<< this ought to follow the logo specification and is a mid-term goal, imho

3) assign a team
<< the community wont take the lead here, Rob has a small team already, afaik.
some community members like aysyr work closely with them.
Therefore, i'd suggest we bring up a pool of help offers from members, which dev board can assign subtasks to.

your ideas would definitely boost this network!
are you fine with the projects i concluded?
I'd like to enlist them alongside your nickname, if you agree.
Otherwise they get lost in the stream.

Thanks for the help!

I agree with the projects you listed. My main concern is that Gridcoin needs a visible team and some kind of Gridcoin foundation. It should be targeted as a bussiness with some very clear strategies and goals, therefore it needs a structured team with members who have all a clear target, responsability and focus, and preferably also the resources (that why I would be happy to fund this project).

That will help in maintaining and assigning the project tasks. Preferably Gridcoin should have their own forum on www.gridcoin.us, with subsections (structure) for all the things that need to be done/addressed, this makes it more visable and easier for the community to help on his or her own specialisation.

I agree that Rob probably already has a team and that he has the lead, I would like to see them taking soon some next steps and spread the giant workload. This is a fantastic project and can be very succesfull if you have a great team around you with brilliant guys or girls. And I speak for myself that I know how difficult it is to delegate and share, smart guys have the attitude to do everything by their own cos no one can do better (no offense to Rob btw).

[anonerd]

in case there was such a task scheduling board around, would you like to participate?
maybe pm me your email address?

[datguyian]

You can now vote for Gridcoin on openex:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=449473.0

[traderman]

I just voted!

You can now vote for Gridcoin on openex:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=449473.0

[anonerd]

You can now vote for Gridcoin on openex:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=449473.0

added to the list. thanks for the push!

[datguyian]

You can now vote for Gridcoin on openex:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=449473.0

added to the list. thanks for the push!

No problem, thanks for the OP edit. I'm pretty tied up with my day job and other projects right now. I would love to more to help Gridcoin along besides post links for exchange support and what not, that's about all I have time for at the moment tho. Hopefully my schedule will open up enough sooner or later and I'll be able to do more for the GRC community!

[Copepod]

re: "In case you know another place where to cast a vote for acceptance, please reply."

CoinedUp ?
http://www.reddit.com/r/CoinedUp/

CoinEX ?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=291647.580

[andrewp]

Listing at wheretomine.com

http://www.wheretomine.com

?

?

20%

We're listed. The dev added link to https://c-cex.com/index.html?p=grc-btc
Also I asked if he could include the calculation function and sent him a link to the Ccex API.

Will keep you posted.
Andrew.

[anonerd]

re: "In case you know another place where to cast a vote for acceptance, please reply."

CoinedUp ?
http://www.reddit.com/r/CoinedUp/

CoinEX ?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=291647.580

this is exactly what I was looking for, and still missing!
thank you