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+1 good idea Jacqul

An obscure although relevant question.. how many people in this forum listen to heavy metal of various denominations?

Brilliant Jacqul.  I'm on it.   Fucking brilliant.   As pissed off I am at the creative cryptos relying on a market cap based on money... This one would be based on creativity.  At the comm level.  And would give developers a sniffing list on projects they might want to take on...

  I think you just gave silk something very good here...

  Good work friend.  I'm on it.

 Silk Contracts anyone? ..

  

Hey everyone,

Very exciting to see the voting function in the new wallet!
These are still the first steps along a very exciting journey.
The ecosystem we have been discussing and dreaming, hoping, planning, is beginning to form.

All we need to do is get the first few moves right and the system protects and grows itself.
Bitcoin is so beautiful in its simplicity and design and thanks to that, made all of this possible.
Like mentioned before, the cryptocurrency system as a whole is busy evolving every second and all of it predicted on the Bitcoin foundation.
It reminds me a bit of Conway's Life or a complicated game of dominoes: beginning conditions are everything.

The only problem is that the natural selection and evolution happening in crypto world is very haphazard with so much reiteration and replication that a lot of energy goes to waste. In that wasted space is where my dreams grow for an "intelligent" cryptocurrency (doesn't really matter which one but Silkcoin by far the closest by virtue that the community and hence the coin itself has already hijacked its own further development.)

I imagine it a bit like a colony of ants trying to build a sand castle.
Bitcoin is the template of what this small creature, the unit of worker (an ant in my scenario) should look like.
It has all the features needed to pick up sand and move it from one spot to another. Fully self sufficient.
The only problem is that with all the other ants it has a hard time coordinating the actual structure of what it is building.
Of course there are mechanisms in place, a form of communication based on smells, pheromones and other clues, that help the ants communicate and some form of building to take shape.

With Silkcoin I hope for a metamorphosis. If we have the basic template for an organism to move sand from one place to another (the work performed in our scenario), why not expand on this idea until we don't need a hundred other clones? Why not take those elements but make our worker grow in size, give it a new nervous system, a better brain? Now instead of a colony of ants building a sandcastle it will more resemble a human building a sand castle. A single entity with many parts that all make up a unit and work in concert to build something that the individual ants could not even dream of.

The feedback system, the nervous system starts with the wallet and communication and voting as an integral part of it.

Our developers are not just programmers, they are genetic engineers, creating a new life form.


At the moment we have one topic we are voting on:
You're voting for: Voting platform URL
1. vote.silkcoin.io (52%)
2. soapbox.silkcoin.io (17%)
3. poll.silkcoin.io (30%)

It costs 10 SILK to vote. I voted for option 1.
I personally feel that my SILK gained from staking is fair game to be used in voting and enhancement. It did not cost me anything, I keep my wallet open to support the infrastructure.
I would be happy to send all my SILK gained from staking to causes I care about.

The SILK used in voting ends up being sent to a specific address that accumulates this fund.
The website to host the voting ideas is being created (hence us voting on it).
I have not spoken to the dev team about the future implementation so everything from here on is conjecture:

All the basic elements already exist to make this possible:

Bob wants SILK to incorporate a marketplace idea.
He wants a tab on the left that says "Bazaar" and if you click on it, it shows you a list of items/services that are linked to a Silkcoin address and is priced in $/BTC/SILK. Vendors can list items as per any other online marketplace, except he envisions a semi-decentralized version that pulls data from multiple sources (a bit like the "Market Data" tab). Bob has an idea for increased security by having the data supplied encrypted and then decrypted by the wallet based on a vendor supplied key. He also has an idea for having some vendors blocked or delisted for objectional sales/material based on community feedback and vote. (Examples of objectional sales would be nuclear weapons or your mother.) 

So Bob wants to raise funds for this as well as get community feedback on the merits of the idea.
He is well known in the community and trusted so people are happy to use him as the escrow for the "idea/vote fund".
If he wasn't, he would have to find someone trusted or take the slim chance that people will find him trustworthy.

Now he submits his idea to vote.silkcoin.io.
In the wallet there now appears under "Polls" tab: Bob's bazaar idea.
There is a link to a forum or other site with more information.
There is a drop down menu with options as discussed and contained in the extra information.

Space is limited on the "Polls" tab, so Bob has to put up a certain amount of SILK to have his idea listed.
He thinks this will really help the whole of Silkcoin and cryptocurrency so he sells his electric guitar which he never plays for $1000 and buys SILK. This SILK he submits to the vote fund and can be traced on blockchain explorer.
Since this vote now has a significant fund backing it, it rises to the top 20 of votes running and appears in the "Polls" tab.

Now Mary opens her wallet.
She has 50 000 SILK because she was a clever early adopter.
She really likes Bob's idea and an implementation described as option 2 makes the most sense to her and looks like the one most likely to be feasible. (Alternatively Bob has perhaps already found a developer who said it would be possible to do this and will take on the job if he could raise $20 000 and option 2 is in fact this developer who Mary has heard of before and trusts.)

So now Mary funnels her SILK gained from staking into option 2 of this specific idea.
Mary is not unique in thinking this is a good idea and another 50 people join her in the same way.
Bob set the time to 6 months to gain enough exposure and raise enough funds.
At the end of 6 months it is obvious which option won and how much SILK was raised and the SILK is now available to make the idea chosen by the community a reality.

While it is being implemented, the SILK in the vote wallet is silently staking and becoming more valuable.
A brilliant developer unleashes the new wallet with Bazaar implemented.
Bob pays the developer from the vote fund, conditions of payment or refund all described as per a contract on the initial idea-submission-page on vote.silkcoin.io.


End of story of Bob.

Jack came along later with an idea of how to make the whole system function without requiring reputation or trust but that is another story for another time.
 

I agree, this would be nice.  I'm happy to throw money to devs in this way.  It makes people feel like we are contributing, and honestly the devs deserve it + more.

New Client works great!!

The voting feature is awesome. Great things ahead for SILK as this evolves.

Will we be able to vote on more than one thing at a time? It would be cool to see all the issues/agendas being voted on

Silkcoin Bounties

1,000 SILK - ANN Chinese translation (NEW)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annsilkcoinpos-751385
PAID TO baby222

1,000 SILK - ANN Spanish translation (NEW)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annsilkcoinfull-posdesarrollo-globalnuevo-cliente-751557
PAID TO zarton

1,000 SILK - ANN French translation (NEW)

1,000 SILK - ANN Dutch translation (NEW)

1,000 SILK - ANN Polish translation (NEW)

1,000 SILK - ANN Russian translation (NEW)

2,500 SILK - Articles about Silkcoin on websites with a minimum of 100 visitors a day (NEW)
http://scforum.info/index.php/topic,9299.msg25927.html#msg25927
PAID TO baby222 08/24/14

5,000 SILK - securing www.silkcoin.io and transferring control to the webmaster our community nominates. Invoice and whois confirm required for payout.
PAID TO pandionrain

10,000 SILK - Professional grade YouTube video (NEW)

10,000 SILK - 10 positive news and promo Tweets from a crypto-related account with more than 1000 followers.
https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%40devnullius%20silkcoin&src=typd
PAID TO baby222 08/24/14

10,000 SILK - arranging a Silkcoin Coindesk article. Probably best to secure after major update or release. Correspondence with author required for payout.

10,000 SILK - arranging Silkcoin to be one of the featured coins on Bittrex strategically coinciding with a major update/release/promo (NEW)

30,000 SILK - for designing and publishing a new website at www.silkcoin.io
PAYOUT PENDING AWAITING CONFIRM (first 5K sent Jul. 5)

50,000 SILK - goes to the person or group who releases a polished Android wallet!
(not just some shitty alpha, but one that's competitive in fit & finish. For a good example see Zetacoin's release in the Play Store)

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Here's who's pledged to match bounties so far. DOES NOT INCLUDE NEW BOUNTIES
*** These are all voluntary and self-directed so it will be claimants' responsibility to follow up with the respective pledgers
*** The community donations being held in escrow by BadAss.Sx are completely separate from what's listed here

Mr. Joker - 20% MATCH - Old thread message #836
Arteleis - 100% MATCH - Old thread message #842
Ifxist - 100% MATCH - Old thread message #866
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Dimitry - 5,000 SILK to devs (mbishop75 + PalmDetroit) on release of 1.1 wallet - PAID Jul. 16
Dimitry - 2,000 SILK for establishing a dedicated multipool - New thread message #598
Mr. Joker - 20,000 SILK for establishing a dedicated multipool - New thread message #598
Ifxist - 20,000 SILK for establishing a dedicated multipool - New thread message #598
Jeffersonairplane - 10,000 SILK for establishing a dedicated multipool - New thread message #598

Donations for Development
SILK: BQLUqZZHD2R9jFRqQp4gVrxJgAkcjzCb3u
http://explorer.silkcoin.io/a/BQLUqZZHD2
BTC: 1SiLkm9SWbzQnqzyG1D2iW52sp9W3DB8q
https://blockchain.info/address/1SiLkm9SWbzQnqzyG1D2iW52sp9W3DB8q

Yes, you can never have enough silk and maybe............penguins. Ha.

same here!

The only problem I have with Silk, is that I don't have enough . 

TRUE

about the Penguins......we were just messing around to cheer up
and the picture was for the trolls

I'll make something clear here.  I know that there isn't any fraud going on.  I'm just saying that the rest of the world isn't always open-minded.  Sometimes all it takes is one goober seeing unexpected transactions that don't lead to HIM having more money, and writing about how it looks shady in his stupid blog to cuntpunch a coin into oblivion in its early days.
This is a crowded marketplace, full of distrust (understandably so).  We need a high attention to detail in order to stand out as the best. 

That being said.  Within the framework of how staking/mining has to occur with Silkcoin, is it even possible to make these odd-looking transactions not show up in your history?  If it isn't, it isn't.  But maybe an explanation of the mechanics that lead to these odd transactions could be available to the skeptics who need need it?

Anyway, that's all just my dumbass opinion
You can take it or leave it and I won't be offended.

Peace,

LOL i don't mess with Penguins... I'm Canadian.  Them things are violent mutherfockers.. you ever seen a penguin rob a gas station?? Well I have..

Damn straight. Silk has a very good community and THAT will not change.

Penguins are always cool, so don't mess with them

 All good.. I'm learning too.  (-; that's the beautiful thing about crypto - always things to learn.

  I was just lolling about penguins comment regarding fraudulent activity. Haha

  Ain't no fraudsters here, just an evolution of technology and community.   

  Always say what you mean and mean what ya say.  This the best way.

  No comments or questions unwelcome ever. Any truth harsh or pleasing is essential for advancement.
 
   We gonna keep advancing with loose tongues.  (-;

Lots of volume at cryptsy today!!