Advice regarding cryptocurrency scholarships

[Daniel_West]

Hi, I represent NewsBlockchain, an online news media covering DeFi, cryptocurrency, decentralization, blockchain, and everything related.

Recently, we’ve launched a NewsBlockchain Decentralization Finance Journalism Scholarship to spread knowledge of cryptocurrency and decentralization ideas among the young generation by awarding deserving students who have a passion for journalism and believe that the current financial system is unsustainable, not to mention unfair.

You can see it here:
https://newsblockchain.io/scholarship

We’re looking for 10 people currently and plan to give them 200 USDT each + a personal invitation to receive monthly stipend that requires the recipient to show lasting commitment to and interest in the various applications of the blockchain technology

Do you think that's a good idea? Should we adjust the initial reward?

We’ve posted it on some traditional scholarship aggregators but have received no feedback yet.

We suspect the users of these are reluctant to engage with something with crypto payouts/

That said, what are some ways we can promote it for free?
Which paid ads or other ways of promotion would you expect to be most useful?

Can we promote it in some way on bitcointalk? What would be an appropriate board to post it to?

Thank you for your replies.

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[QueenVera]

For free? You can post on the service board in search of some volunteers who're not currently monetizing their signature space to wear your signature ads for free, you're likely going to get some volunteers that would wear your signatures if truely what you offer can be proven to be authentic. This ad will be display as they engage in conversation on the forum.

Interested in paid ad?, The forum can help with that, it offers ad slots in form of auction that if you win, you'll given some number of slots to advertise your project which will be displayed at the top of all tooi or you can make use of paid signature advertising.

Ad slot: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5244598.0
Service board: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=52.0

[SFR10]

That said, what are some ways we can promote it for free?

Apart from the above comment, you can try to make a deal with some website owners ^{[preferably with similar traffic]} about displaying their banners on your websites and them doing the same thing ^{[for free]}.

Service board: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=52.0

Since he/she mentioned having rewards in USDT, then I believe the appropriate boards are:

• Marketplace (Altcoins)
• Bounties (Altcoins)

^{Take note: Daniel, make sure to read the rules and sticky threads on top of each board.}

[Daniel_West]

For free? You can post on the service board in search of some volunteers who're not currently monetizing their signature space to wear your signature ads for free, you're likely going to get some volunteers that would wear your signatures if truely what you offer can be proven to be authentic. This ad will be display as they engage in conversation on the forum.

Interested in paid ad?, The forum can help with that, it offers ad slots in form of auction that if you win, you'll given some number of slots to advertise your project which will be displayed at the top of all tooi or you can make use of paid signature advertising.

Ad slot: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5244598.0
Service board: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=52.0

Thank you for your reply, how should we go about proving it's authentic?

[DarkDays]

Free promotion is rarely good promotion.

If you really want to get students to get involved in this, why not send out flyers to students that live on campus?

You can normally find the addresses of student halls and dorms online, then you can simply send a flyer to every room in the block.

This wont be free, but should be massively expensive either if you use a local flyer dropoff service. If you can afford to give away $2k + more over stipends, you can afford to do some basic marketing.

[QueenVera]

Reread the thread, you must have misunderstood it, the USDT 200 amount isn't for promoting the scholarship instead its the reward given to the user that'll be opportuned to b selected. The user can make use of any board that offer the option of creating a thread on hiring forum members to promote their project provided they're willing to pay in the recommended cryptocurrency of that board.

Thank you for your reply, how should we go about proving it's authentic?

It might differs made on how different users will want you to prove it but I think uploading more details about the site, it's license, the team behind the site might draw in some trust into the authenticity of the scholarship also escrowing the fund might just do the trick for assuring the community, you intend paying the potential selected users and not just looking for cheap publicity to promote your website.

[Vod]

Thank you for your reply, how should we go about proving it's authentic?

Right now you've posted words, like everyone else.

Start by signing a message showing you have $2,000 in crypto.  If not, no one will take you seriously.

[Daniel_West]

Thank you for your reply, how should we go about proving it's authentic?

Right now you've posted words, like everyone else.

Start by signing a message showing you have $2,000 in crypto.  If not, no one will take you seriously.

Signing as shown here?