Topic: [ANN][BLT] Bloom ✤ PHASE 1 - BloomID and the invite system is currently LIVE! - page 6. (Read 27176 times)

I've been seeing you guys a lot of Reddit. It's a good sign, everyone is talking about you.

I'm still curious about this.

Bloom seems super pro-active, have you guys been to any blockchain conferences?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/7ft4v2/weekly_ico_discussion_november_27_2017/dqj0vsk/

/e: there was a bug which caused the wrong address to be shown for a short duration, the sale is legit.

I'd also like to see some video media.

It is, but it's also bad later on when they dump all those tokens right at launch.

I just wanted to say you guys have been killing it on your road map. Super ambitious timeline, but somehow delivering on it every step of the way. Keep it up!

I guess I should read the Whitepaper again.

What different here between similar project (paypie)? In addittional cards?

I think there should be a bounty campaign for project promation ,especially signature campaign ,will be good for project movement .

Do you guys have any video marketing materials?

I think this is for the best in the end. I could see contributors and referrals staying on for the long term more than a bunch of guys from 3rd world countries doing bounties to feed their families.

I don't think you saw this one when you were answering questions. Really curious about all the innovation possibilities.

Very nice. I don't see anything on smart contracts there though.

Interview with Co-Founder Jesse Leimgruber

https://www.chipin.com/bloom-co-founder-jesse-leimgruber-interview/

> What kind of smart contracts do you plan to use with this?

We're built on a number of smart contracts and IPFS. Please take a read through our roadmap and timeline here: https://blog.hellobloom.io/2017-2018-bloom-timeline-and-deadlines-8b5f4e7cb834

Here is our github with our token sale smart contract: github.com/hellobloom/crowdsale

> This is such an interesting project, and I have so many questions! They must be insanely busy over at Bloom though.


Very busy but happy to answer any questions!

> How do you plan to market Bloom post launch? I remember those freecreditreport.com commercials were insanely popular for a while lol.

We're working with a number of lending partners. https://blog.hellobloom.io/tagged/partnership These lenders already have streams of borrowers. In addition to this, we're going to invest a portion of our funds in go-to-market, this is described here. https://blog.hellobloom.io/how-bloom-will-use-funds-6c0c9eb4b738

> Will you support decentralized identity such as uPort or Civic? ie, how will this work with my governmental identity?

I don't think our attestation marketplace rules out the possibility of something like Civic or uPort hooking into our system and providing their services in a way that fits into the Bloom protocol as well. Owning the identity layer means it can mesh more tightly with other design considerations of the protocol. For example, right now the design includes providing your birthday, encrypting it, and attaching it to your BloomID. The Bloom protocol then uses this as a simple check when doing an peer stake (is John's birthday actually January 1, 1990?) and we can also require it be provided during an attestation that includes date of birth using the birth you provided on signup.

So while Civic and uPort could probably be mixed into our system without much pain, I don't think it would make sense to say "the identity layer is handled by X protocol we don't own" because identity is a broad concept.

> I don't think they have a bounty program here on the forum since they are focussing on different reward program like referral/contributors being rewarded.

This is right.

Thanks guys!

Whitelist Update: Thank you for everyone who participated! The whitelist was incredibly competitive, we greatly appreciate everyone who submitted an application! If you received a position on the whitelist, you should’ve receive a confirmation email from [email protected] detailing next steps.

We included over a dozen factors in the whitelist ranking including:
* Are you active in Slack? Email Newsletter? Twitter? Follower on Medium?
* Date that you joined the whitelist, email newsletter and Slack. (Earlier was given priority)
* Slack Activity
* Referrals
* Social Activity
* Contributions
* Form Submissions & Manual Assessment
* Introductions provided to the Bloom team
* Quality of discussion online and in community rooms

How high did I need to rank to get a position on the whitelist? Bloom has over 50,000 total community members. About 12,000 of these community members submitted a whitelist application and confirmed their position. Broadly speaking, the top half of contributors whitelist applications were given a position on the whitelist.

My Ranking was <> why did/didn’t I get a spot? Our final algorithm does not necessarily reflect the ranking visible on the website. While their is a strong correlation, some people with a low ranking were given a whitelist spot upon final scoring. Others towards the top did not necessarily make the cut upon final calculation

Please note: We've been getting a ton of DM's and emails from people who didn't make it. Unless you feel there is a significant error, please hold off from messaging us and recognize that we went through all applications in details and the cutoff is final.

If you did not make the whitelist: You can still participate in the token sale! The public token sale opens at 9am PST (5pm GMT) on November 30th. We expect demand to be very high, so the best option is to be prepared ahead of time.

How do you plan to market Bloom post launch?

I remember those freecreditreport.com commercials were insanely popular for a while lol.

I love this guy's enthusiasm, perfect for doing bounties lol.