EMC2 would be higher up if something was updated on github ... hehe. Looks like we'll have to get a new wallet just to say it's new and shiny regardless that the old one works just fine
Campaign is crawling a bit, getting more action in coins than USD, which was to be expected. However, come end of the month many will get paid and then no excuses to drop a few bucks.
Nice ranking there HYPER, considering liquidity only on bittrex, pretty nice.
Thanks
Well at least it sounds like the cryptocurrency funding part of the campaign has already been a success. Great original idea you guys had to bring the crypto community together for something worthwhile I think it's great.
I was recently made aware of a new CC ranking site:
https://www.coingecko.com/enNoticed that EMC2 is in top 100
Their system considers various factors to arrive at their ranking, specifically:
Development,
Community,
Social Networking,
Public Interest,
Liquidity
and
market capitalization
https://www.coingecko.com/en/methodologyOf course with such criteria objectivity takes a back seat and political influence moves further forward. But I like the fact some of the work produced by the board is factored into how we, as a coin and community, are portrayed and judged.
Coin Gecko is a great site that uses some interesting metrics to formulate their rankings. I like the public interest rankings that use google results and the metrics for social media account followers etc that are also taken into account. Glad to hear EMC2 is in the top 100 HYPER has a decent ranking there too
How is the crowdfunding campaign going?
Whoa, HYPER 35 ... its always good to see improved ratings eh?
The crowdfunding campaign is nearly 100% funded by the CC community, currently we tracked all of the funds except $10, which may have also come from the CC community. It's great to see the broad base of support from the CC community, but disappointing to know that indiegogo's platform failed to produce donations of substance as of yet.
When I search 'science' and see so many unproductive campaigns getting the prime search positioning above us I get steamed. Two days ago someone put up a photo (no video) of a castle, the campaign title was something to the effect of 'want to start a science university', has about 5 paragraphs of text, a goal of 3.5M euro and bingo, he's in first position for keyword 'science'. I noticed the campaign owner was an unverified 1 person team with no FB or Twitter connected followers, and no previous performance history with indiegogo yet he occupies first place on the 'science' search.
Nevertheless, we've been working tirelessly to create a wealth of backlinks to connect the campaign to our keywords 'cryptocurrency', 'science', and 'crowd funding', in the primary search engines, in this way the campaign will continue to produce impressions for Dr. Havekes, EMC2, and the sponsors for a long while.
Although we are on track for exceeding our base goal I thought we would be working on our first performance goal by now.
This experience has enabled us to create some protocols and guidelines for different aspects of the whole process of CF, marketing, campaigning, and campaign mgmt.
Believe it or not, it's very difficult to find science projects worthy of funding, if anyone thinks it's easy please take the job. In the run up to the campaign I saw a number of other Science related campaigns that were very interesting, I reached out to some of them, 'videos for science teachers' campaign responded. I think it would be good for EMC2 to be one of their youtube channel sponsors, that's something we will discuss after our respective campaigns have concluded.
That experience opened up a new marketing tool for us. So we created an account for The Einsteinium Foundation with the intent on finding worthy science projects to donate $1 to. The donation will allows us to support the campaign, allows the campaign owners to be introduced to and learn about EMC2, and allows us to contribute comments to the campaign that are visible to all who visit that campaign. This high quality, and highly efficient form of outreach can lead to finding EMC2 grant candidates too.
The more active EMC2 is in the CF space the more headway we create for the CC industry.
That's a great idea to send $1 to worthy science campaigns from the EMC2 Foundation. Maybe you could tell them that if they would accept an EMC2 donation you could give them more a little more in the form of EMC2?
Sounds frustrating. I never imagined it would be hard to find campaigns to fund. But with the long term thinking you guys have I am sure it will definitely pay off in the end for EMC2 being able to carry out its mission. Feel free to tweet some stuff to @hypercrypto and we can spread the word a little.
A dedicated EMC2 youtube channel is a great idea. Since we started posting weekly youtube video updates and also our new HYPER intro video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMTt3zAJgpg Interest has been soaring. I would highly recommend getting an EMC2 youtube channel off the ground with an intro video and weekly videos if you have the resources
Also it sounds to me like perhaps EMC2 should go straight for the source, and set up your own crowdfunding platform where people can donate EMC2 and other supported cryptocurrencies to worthy science / world changing projects. That would be something and as most of the support is from cryptocurrencies (especially EMC2) why not? It would get a lot of press too as there is nothing quite like it as of yet. Beats waiting around for Indiegogo or another site to add cryptocurrency support. With coinpayments it wouldn't be too hard to set up either.
Just my 0.02 EMC2 you all are doing a great job and you've been steadily plugging away at your goals while many, many other coins have come and gone.
