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Quote from: bithic on January 27, 2014, 06:20:21 AM

Nxt LTB Spot, Episode 1: https://soundcloud.com/bithic/nxtltbspot-ep1

Music is not good. It sounds like a Viagra commercial.

At some points you can hear a tiny tremble in your voice, you need to do more of these to practice and be more relaxed Wink

You can notice the progress even during this one minute: the first half is not that good, but second is Ok.

Kinda same with Joefox, his second minute is so much better!

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Gang,

Here's a little trinket someone may be interested in.

My dad used to be a master hand engraver and worked on many guns, knives etc that appeared in Hollywood films (mostly westerns back in the 70s). The last few years he's slowed down and does mostly automated commercial work.

He had a few spare business card holders, so we loaded in the Nxt logo, hit start, and voila.

Actually, the first attempt was bad -- .eps is notoriously wonky going between Mac <--> PC, and his CorelDraw didn't like my Mac .eps. For the second attempt (shown below), it's pretty good. Some minor flaws, but Winkelvoss or Cuban won't notice as you whip it out of your pocket at a conference.

If a conference ambassador wants this, let me know (Rickyj, Salsa, Mcjavar... I know there are more).

I opted to not put the logo tagline on as I wasn't sure how it would look. I can add it back. Also, my dad recommended putting someone's name below it (not sure if I'm crazy about that, I like the nameless/anonymous aspect of Nxt).

These holders are anodized aluminum. This one happens to be blue... I think he has one more blue, two red and two silvers. If I keep shoveling his snow this week, I might be able to twist his arm to do the rest of them.

Anyway, this is gratis for whoever wants it -- these aren't a big deal, but they may make Nxt look like we have our collective shit together (in a decentralized way, of course!)

Send me an address and I can mail it out today or tomorrow. If it's going to Europe, it'll probably take over a week since I'm cheap. Tongue

ALSO! My dad has some spare stainless steel water bottles (I didn't grab a pic but can take one today). Let me know if there's interest in something like this. Maybe we could put together a swag bag for schmoozing at a conference? I'm a little torn over this; it's kind of cheesy, almost as if we're buying favor (Nxt is strong enough to stand on its own). But if you've been to CES, E3 etc you know it's pretty cool to score freebies.

Anyway, enough babbling. Off to bed, then three days off from work to keep up with this thread.

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Quote from: bithic on January 27, 2014, 06:20:21 AM

Quote from: joefox on January 27, 2014, 12:23:41 AM

Hi everyone.

How about these for a couple of proofs of concept? Two one-minute spots I recorded this evening:

General Nxt intro: https://soundcloud.com/whatsupnxt/nxtminute-0001
Nxt minute: https://soundcloud.com/whatsupnxt/nxtminute_0002

I welcome feedback.

Here's my take on the one minute spot, using joefox's example as inspiration, and trying to take into consideration all the feedback that was given:

Nxt LTB Spot, Episode 1: https://soundcloud.com/bithic/nxtltbspot-ep1

wow great...even your delivery speed is good not too fast or too slow...just perfect.

+1

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Quote from: salsacz on January 27, 2014, 05:40:30 AM

Kim Dotcom is in hospital, (only hurt leg) maybe Beyonce=Kim Wink

I doubt that Kimble speaks russian.

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Quote from: joefox on January 27, 2014, 12:23:41 AM

Hi everyone.

How about these for a couple of proofs of concept? Two one-minute spots I recorded this evening:

General Nxt intro: https://soundcloud.com/whatsupnxt/nxtminute-0001
Nxt minute: https://soundcloud.com/whatsupnxt/nxtminute_0002

I welcome feedback.

Sounds great!

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Quote from: bithic on January 27, 2014, 06:20:21 AM

Quote from: joefox on January 27, 2014, 12:23:41 AM

Hi everyone.

How about these for a couple of proofs of concept? Two one-minute spots I recorded this evening:

General Nxt intro: https://soundcloud.com/whatsupnxt/nxtminute-0001
Nxt minute: https://soundcloud.com/whatsupnxt/nxtminute_0002

I welcome feedback.

Here's my take on the one minute spot, using joefox's example as inspiration, and trying to take into consideration all the feedback that was given:

Nxt LTB Spot, Episode 1: https://soundcloud.com/bithic/nxtltbspot-ep1

Well you both have great radio voices, that's for sure.

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Quote from: joefox on January 27, 2014, 12:23:41 AM

Hi everyone.

How about these for a couple of proofs of concept? Two one-minute spots I recorded this evening:

General Nxt intro: https://soundcloud.com/whatsupnxt/nxtminute-0001
Nxt minute: https://soundcloud.com/whatsupnxt/nxtminute_0002

I welcome feedback.

Here's my take on the one minute spot, using joefox's example as inspiration, and trying to take into consideration all the feedback that was given:

Nxt LTB Spot, Episode 1: https://soundcloud.com/bithic/nxtltbspot-ep1

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Funding request

We have paid for 1 minute sponsor spot at the Let's talk Bitcoin for 3 months.

It cost 290k NXT for 3 months

You can see discussion here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4765394

One stakeholder is willing to pay 1/3 of the NXT. Would anyone join him?

Could we spare some unclaimed coins for this advertisement?

NxtMarketing account:

2037401990853753795

(Info about acc)

More info:

Joefox already created first samples:
General Nxt intro: https://soundcloud.com/whatsupnxt/nxtminute-0001
Nxt minute: https://soundcloud.com/whatsupnxt/nxtminute_0002

Quote from: joefox on January 26, 2014, 08:04:39 PM

Important notice regarding Let's Talk Bitcoin 1-minute spots!

Salsacz and I have been in touch about recording 1-minute spots for the Let's Talk Bitcoin network and we'd love to hear from Nxt champions all over the world.

We're asking you to record SHORT (10-15 second) answers to this question:

What is Nxt?

Here's how to do it:

Go to http://vocaroo.com/
Use your PC's microphone to record a message including your name (real name or forum nickname), location, and your answer to "What is Nxt"
When you're happy with your recording, hit the "email" button and send your recording to [email protected]

FOR EXAMPLE: "This is Come-from-Beyonce, from Belarus. Nxt is so energy efficient that I can forge coins on a $35 Raspberry Pi computer powered by a solar panel!"

I'll be collecting these recordings and compiling them into a series of 1-minute spots to promote Nxt. Keep your answers short by focusing each one on a Nxt feature that that is important to YOU.

They are expecting a completed ad in a couple of days, so please make a submission before Wednesday, January 29. Record SEVERAL short pieces, if you like -- just keep each one brief. I'll wrap it into a nice package, and do us all proud.

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Quote from: bithic on January 27, 2014, 12:53:42 AM

Quote from: joefox on January 27, 2014, 12:23:41 AM

Hi everyone.

How about these for a couple of proofs of concept? Two one-minute spots I recorded this evening:

General Nxt intro: https://soundcloud.com/whatsupnxt/nxtminute-0001
Nxt minute: https://soundcloud.com/whatsupnxt/nxtminute_0002

I welcome feedback.

Good stuff. Week two is great. Week one has good content, but it sounds like a corporate advertisement. I think it needs to communicate the exciting community-driven nature of it somehow. It should make people feel like they want to get in on what's happening. I think it would benefit from a slightly more conversational tone too. Can you post the text, or send it to me?

Good. I'm in agreement with bithic's comments. The overall tone needs to be more conversational, but doing that in a 1 minute spot is a bit tough as it needs to be concise. Week one's ad should really compel a listener to pull up their browser and go to nxtcrypto to see what it's all about. Assuming they've never heard of it before, the common reaction is "oh another coin...". It has to bust through that wall, deliver a few critical points and get listeners excited. I think delivering Nxt as a platform in the introduction is most important.

For an intro something like "Nxt isn't just another alt coin. It's a community driven platform built on original code that's delivering features the crypto currency world want's and needs to move forward into the next generation." Then yada, yada with a few main points like "Nxt solves the 51% and even 90% attack of bitcoin with it's transparent forging feature". "This same feature allows the network to remain secure while performing visa scale transaction times." Cover the main failings of bitcoin and how Nxt solves them. Finish with the info source and hopefully that drives them to nxtcrypto.org to do some research.

It doesn't have to be exactly that, obviously, but I think you get the jist. Just my opinion. Hopefully it contributes.

We need to make sure people understand that NXT is currently evolving very rapidly. The fact that it can even evolve will probably be news to most people. We don't want people to get disappointed that not all of the promised features are there yet. I think we should talk about the incredible TPS, but in a future tense.

Join NXT as we enhance it to the point where it can handle thousands of transactions per second.

That is something that nothing else out there, first or second gen, can come close to. We need to solidify this in people's minds before April, when the attack of the klones begins.
James

Quote from: mindtomatter on January 26, 2014, 01:49:45 PM

With a minute spot, I would suggest getting a couple of different people to read different spots. You could have somebody doing mythbusting spots but I think it would be better to instead focus on the really cool features built into next and helping people imagine the reasons why they would actually want to use it. People are very creative once you point them in the right direction, but the metacoin layer thing is a tough sell at first. If you focus on the negative stuff people think about NXT, you come off as defensive but if you just talk about why your project is neat and why you're excited about it, that will attract more attention because people think its a good thing not a bad thing.

The perspective YOU bring, going into talk to people about NXT will be reflected in how they react. If you think they'll hate it, they're probably going to hate it because you'll couch your words in such a way to make them prepare to hate it.

You guys don't need to be defensive, you have a major advantage - a product that's out, and that seems to work with a development team that doens't have the legal liability of your competitors or some of the jurisdictional risk. Your disadvantage is NXT appears to be a bit headless, with a few self-appointed organizers but no real structure besides stakeholders acting in what they feel is their own best interest. It might be interesting talking about that, how NXT is a *real* decentralized org in that there is no formal company at all doing the development or paying for anything.

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Quote from: bithic on January 26, 2014, 08:33:17 PM

Quotable?:

Quote from: mindtomatter on January 26, 2014, 11:30:03 AM

It's really interesting watching this community - you guys are the only "headless" metalayer, lacking a founder or team and yet delivering with real working software.

Keep up the good work

If you're asking for my permission, feel free - everything I do is creative commons, attribution + noncommercial

For the minute spots maybe we're overthinking this, maybe it should really just be the NXT Minute on LTB, and twice a week listeners of LTB get updated to the most important thing "This is the NXT Minute, this week saw the release of the new client that does blah blah blah" you have enough room for about 65-72 words in a minute of human speech, you'll want to pick out some music (I can help with that) and leave a little space on either side to allow for the fade in and out.

I think the NXT minute with occasional experiential spots shared by members of the NXT community would go over really well. Then you could have something that would always be different, always be useful and informative, and whenever a really good community submission comes up you just run that instead of the update. You get the best of both worlds, informational, timely and cheap while community spots provide the emotional and real world context. It would probably be good to have people write these and then have them voiced by members of the community who are a) good at that, and b) have good mics, it makes a big difference.

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Quote from: opticalcarrier on January 27, 2014, 12:14:29 AM

Quote from: xyzzyx on January 26, 2014, 11:57:06 PM

It could be made so that an account that has a transaction in the current block is disallowed to forge the current block -- if the account forges the block and has one or more transactions contained in it, the block will just be rejected by the peers and the next account in line gets the opportunity to forge.

I had thought about that also and then decided I didnt like it - I dont like the idea of preventing transactions at all. Some things are just going to be mission-critical and the idea that you can be blocked out would be bad for NXT as a currency. I say just let the transaction go, but you still pay the fee. The fee just gets distributed according to some algorithm that uses accounts that paid fees from the past few blocks as candidates to receive the fee. It would be a cool random way to receive NXT that also rewards people who sent transactions.

So maybe if you wanted to send a transaction in your own block and you set a fee of 1 NXT you would be allowed to do this - you would just also be forced to also include a sendMoney transaction in the amount of that fee (in this case 1 NXT) to an account that sometime in the past 100 blocks paid a fee for something (if it paid a fee then the passphrase for that account is known) to send a transaction. It could not be arbitrary - it would have to have some set algorithm that would be followed to choose that account - that way it could be enforced.

With transparent forging, lets face it, many people are going to get free transactions. A block forger could even choose to not send ANY transactions except its own, a block chock full of only his own transactions, and do so for free while ignoring everyone elses transactions...[/i] Do we want this behavior? May be a good idea for us to discuss this more.

And actually, I think similar logic could be used for a fair voting system.... let me think on that a bit.

I guess all such tweaks are incompatible with TF Sad

BTW, "fee voters" are forgetting that in some way or another all NXTers have already paid fees when they obtained their NXT. Roll Eyes

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NXT is the future

Did you know it will be possible to mine coins on top of NXT?

One such coin is in the pipeline, many to follow!

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2000 accounts.

And "Volume in the last 15 hours: 4 NXT, 0.0004 BTC" Grin

Part-ey!

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Quote from: Damelon on January 26, 2014, 10:57:34 PM

Bah, these are the times I hate it to have too much of a Dutch accent for English Speaking radio Tongue

I don't see that as a liability; Nxt is global. Besides, you're probably more intelligible than many backwoods yank/brit speakers. Cheesy

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Quote from: pinarello on January 27, 2014, 05:43:35 AM

Quote from: Emule on January 27, 2014, 05:33:20 AM

Quote from: pinarello on January 27, 2014, 05:30:01 AM

Quote from: Emule on January 27, 2014, 05:19:13 AM

26 january no client again, not even glimps, smell fish

no trace CFB mmmm

Do you miss him?

We have to manage without him anyway, and he will leave us soon, so what is your point?

just worried he is hit by bus, that is all

All is going just fine according plan, today listing on vicurex and tomorrow testing of nexerns client.

No need to be worried unless you want cheap NXT, only way is up from here.

And thanks to the Miami team (nifty, justabit, eb101) we are on the map. Coudnt be going better.

Pin

+1. Very satisfying to watch. Good job ~~joefox and guys from Miami~~ everyone contributing.

I'm the most excited about the coming client...

I hear they're filming House of Flying Daggers - The Nxt Generation...

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NXT is the future

Quote from: Emule on January 27, 2014, 05:33:20 AM

Quote from: pinarello on January 27, 2014, 05:30:01 AM

Quote from: Emule on January 27, 2014, 05:19:13 AM

26 january no client again, not even glimps, smell fish

no trace CFB mmmm

Do you miss him?

We have to manage without him anyway, and he will leave us soon, so what is your point?

just worried he is hit by bus, that is all

All is going just fine according plan, today listing on vicurex and tomorrow testing of nexerns client.

No need to be worried unless you want cheap NXT, only way is up from here.

And thanks to the Miami team (nifty, justabit, eb101) we are on the map. Coudnt be going better.

Pin

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