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Welcome indeed  

Welcome Melvster.

Thank you melvster, and also thank you for joining the team, your input and work will prove invaluable to our effort

Hi All

For those of you that dont know me, I've been a member of this forum since 2010.  Way back when Satoshi was still here, and difficulty was still 1!  I'm not a core dev, but have interacted with some of the dev team in the past.

I was alerted to this project and have been reviewing it for the last 2 days.

My first thought was, 'meh, yet another alt coin'!

But as I've read through the docs, the code and 65 pages of forum posts, I have become increasingly more interested.

I've donated btc to 3 projects to date:  Open Transactions, Trezor and now this one.  Here's why.

I originally became interested in bitcoin as a way to allow the internet to have its own money system.  Things have gone way better than I ever dreamed.  But there's still some functionality I'd like to see to make it scale massively.  For example, I enjoyed the bitcoin twitter integration and I think this tip I gave to Nassim Taleb was the equivalent of a Mark:

https://twitter.com/melvincarvalho/status/415195563722686464?refsrc=email

He even favourited the post!  That tells me that this is an idea worth spreading.

We've yet to see this functionality grow into bitcoind, bitcoinrpc or the bitcoin eco system in a decentralized and scalable way.  *core devs take note!*.  Satoshi was working on a reputation, advert, review, order and market system before he left, and we've yet to see that hit the core.

I believe this project can help facilitate this through running code.  And the idea will be compelling enough to be back ported into bitcoin core and other alts, without political wrangling.  Just show the scalability and let others say, 'yes we want that'.  What perhaps excites me even more is that this is just the beginning, with these scalability enhancements, crypto currencies can spread the same way the webmail spread email to the masses.

In short, this is the first alt I've seen with significant innovation to get involved.  I've donated to the project and offering my time and coding to help make it a reality.

Look forward to working with you all!  

Good thinking and big thanks to You!
It is a great pleasure to have man like you in community like this.

Regards to all

Thanks, that is exactly it.

Somebody with contacts and your exact mentality is currently working hard to reach out VCs who have future interest in the system we are creating (not the currency btm), perhaps something will come of that.

I quote: "it's a bit fkn annoying that timelines / cash, become so difficult when doing stuff you believe in.  hopefully we can change that paradigm [with marking]".

The irony is that this project provides the funding model for any project like it in the future, in any domain, it's a crowd sourced funding model and reputation system where if you work hard and create things people like, the likes given (marks) directly translate to money which funds what you do organically.

LOL

In the early days I donated 50BTM then later, a further 200BTM as i did not see why Mark should both develop and fund the original proposed getMarked 'pot' (200BTM at that time). Later still, I donated an additional 0.2BTC This was all before the idea of 'Developer Loans'... Perhaps the key word here is donated

So, what am I looking for? Simple; for Bitmark & Marking and any other associated service to grow and evolve into a fully fledged globally accepted thing of value. Not simply that as a result its BTC price will rocket and return me a nice profit, but more so that the services adopting & using Bitmark / Marking will flourish with it.

If I had the funds, I would not wait one heartbeat to be speaking with Mark about his weekly, monthly etc. financial needs and how his full time attention to the project could be guaranteed.

I believe there is a significantly 'bigger picture' here than mere investment & return...

Let's update as to the status of the project.

Marking is the primary focus and is being discussed intensively outwith this forum, with academics, technology specialists, socio economic specialists, people working on future systems, hackers, institutes, other projects, teams of students - the first primitive usages of marking (through twitter, and irc) are currently being created.

Discussion is mainly around how it will work technically, how it relates to Web of Trust and accountability, how it applies to decentralized autonomous organisations, communities, companies, and how it will utilize identifi among other technologies.

This is the primary part of the project, the primary usage, and sorry but also the part that will bring in funding to allow us to make it all a reality, so it is given precedence.

Outstanding we have:

1. An IPM pool which is 95% complete, it requires some UI elements and integration with ...
2. The bitmark.co website, which is 75% compete, and requires some further work,
3. A user focused website about the daily use marking, this is nearing completion and is to be released with the first usable marking, the twitter integration.

I have written these in chronological order, to the overall project and to maintain progress and enable further progress as our project rapidly evolves, they are required in reverse order.

If marking were to be released right now it would be used by many and spur our project on in multiple interested communities, if bitmark.co was released right now it would be viewed by a few, if the IPM pool were released right now there would be maybe two miners wanting to swap on to it to get some btc, and all investors who would potentially use it would find it cheaper to buy on market.

Scope grows daily, so many people are coming to the project from every corner of the web, and also many people who want to work on it part and full time.

Everything reduces to what is in demand, and bluntly, funding. If we were a well funded project there would be a team of people working round the clock on many different aspects and producing great things, that's in addition to my own productivity increasing substantially - given even quarter of the funding of these IPO scams people are so keen to invest in we'd be one of the most exciting productive and innovative projects on the web, let alone this forum. This is not the case, so please bare with me whilst I (and others) react to demand and have several meetings per day, we are working incredibly hard to create something new with far reaching impact and scope, far beyond the scope of this forum and existing crypto currency userbases, and beyond that of all current alt-coins combined.

I am not in irc all too much these days, mainly because I keep getting netsplits and disconnects, every time I return to my client or the web client it's disconnected - and also as it could be a little distracting.

Myself and other team members are online all day in slack, anybody can join, please send me an email for an invite, (or ask medic or estenuno). It's the nicest chat free from all speculation, just people working and updating.

I can be contacted at [email protected] any time also, this is the fastest route to me.

Or alternatively you can add me to skype for longer conversations, Mark.Bitmark is my username.

For the quickest responses email [email protected] at any time - I'm online many hours each day.

tobeaj2mer01 is correct, and is a good man, yet we are also unclear.

Here is our conversation from pm around the time of investment:


Mark