Topic: Projects you should start, we need! (Read 1955 times)

If you want to start some type of anti crypto scam organization, you'd need to find a private investigator or social engineer who has skills like Kevin Mitnick. Someone who would be willing to track scammers down for a fee. Or develop a business model to use freedom of information requests or issue subpoenas to collect data from servers to backtrace scammers.

In practice, it could be run like an insurance service. Those covered under the insurance might pool their money to hire lawyers or whatever resources were necessary to track down scammers in an attempt to get their money back. There are many different ways it might be done.

I'm not an expert on the topic. I have no intent to try to piece together something that works. I only know that it is possible.

What makes things difficult is, the reactive portion of it only works if scammed/stolen funds are able to be recovered. If people can't retrieve what they lost it makes the process somewhat pointless which could mean it may only work if it functions within some form of rapid deployment, fast reaction, format.

That is the thing that the entire participant I mean the members in his forum wants. I want to have a sound future in this forum and for that I need something different which will give me a huge amount of money. If such kind of projects has been started I will definitely be there with you along with all he members I think because no one will miss such a great opportunity for their bright future.

First option is IP address. Second option could be any number of things. It might seem hopeless but there may be methods which could be utilized. Some scammers use proxy, VPN or TOR. Many law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the world own or operate proxies and VPN's expressly for the purpose of collecting data on criminals using the internet. To some degree proxies and VPN's can be backtracked. TOR could be more difficult but there may be ways to collect data on scammers there, too.

I wonder sometimes if more proactive methods could be used to cut down on the number of scams in crypto. Those placed in a position of trust could be obligated to provide collateral. The use of better escrow services and information campaigns might also help.

Your ideas are great but it's not easy to do. For example the 6th idea, how can you find out the profile of scammers? When someone wanna scam your money you will never know their real profile such as HYIP sites, it's possible to find out the owner of any HYIP sites that why a lot of people can't take their money back when they got scammed by these website.

I would have the same selection too on which i would pick up that number 8 since it would really be a profitable investment or business after all but i would say this wont really be an easy thing and i would say you would really need to comply lots of documents before you can able to start one knowing that fiat currency involvement would really need legality.

Number 8 is what we all people need, because we want an easy life, then having an exchange that accept everything will be a good thing start on so everyone can access it. Also there are not many crypto exchanges available with respect to the number of people using the fiat exchanges. If i was to start the new project i would definitely pick this one.

Good list, and it deserves a bump. Hopefully well meaning investors with the funds to burn , will see the OP and investigate further. There is so much scope for growth in the market and community.

The global exchange isnone of the biggest here. You need to be brave and go toe to toe with the officials and different country and you must have a vision on one goal and that will be hard to do.
Wiki leaks on scammers on the other hand will be hard because online everyone can have a fake identity and they will just create a new account to scam other people again.
If we're going in the big figures then we must at least contact a task force regarding that.
Nice Ideas by the way.

P2P transparent exchange is available already worldwide and in most parts of Africa too. So, I do not see how this should be a new thing. I have been using remiatno's P2P service for a very long time now and it has been awesome for both buying and selling of bitcoin in exchange with my fiat within few minutes with a great escrow. Sure, having more will make it worthwhile but at least we can promote the few ones we already have.

There's a field for notes that appears when buyer clicks "show advanced options" on the new transaction page. It's not a perfect solution since it costs gas to input long strings of text, about 20K gas for 15 characters.


There's a reddit discussion thread for the Dapp if anyone's interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/74f5lh/my_dapp_is_complete_a_paypal_like_escrow_system/

There's definitely risk. Almost all investing involves risk.
But if you do it right, there's goodly profits.

As for the collateral bit, the site actually does support it. You can use altcoins (most of them), or shares of site launched IPOs.

I've made quite a good profit from using the site. You learn pretty fast how to spot the lowlifes who are looking for a quick buck to run with. It won't be for everyone, but it assuredly isn't "crap".

I have heard so much about lending services and I still have no idea how people go into this since it sounds to me as the most risky investment someone can ever do online.

Lending to someone you have no idea where they are from, who they are and no collateral at all. Correct me if I am wrong since I have never even bothered trying one out but it seems like crap to me cause no matter what some people are just there to get all you have and run away with it without a little bit of conscience and I see lending services as the greatest opportunity for them.

Great ideas for projects.
Number 6 is very necessary at the moment! It is impossible to understand now which project is a scaffold, and which one is not. Even the forum does not help. Spammed from fake accounts, they are advertising the project as they can. Many would like to check a particular project for a certain number of coins. Also an excellent chance to earn coins by checking various projects on the bench.

Nice system. I'm impressed. Good design. The only nitpick I might offer is in addition to seller address, escrow address and quantity of ether metadata specified in the transaction, add a text field describing conditions of the transction involving goods/services bought/sold. That might help simplify disputes if the exact conditions are written in the transaction as if it were a legally binding document.

When it comes to escrow I think most are looking for long term reliability and brand name recognition. Banks, credit unions and other escrows enjoy such wonderful reputations that scams involving escrow in fiat are virtually unheard of. That could be the most important thing.

I can add crypto exchange p2p without any crytpo-exchange

Hi haroldtee, you are very correct, some people do not realise this, but a search on google will hopefully convince them. Not that it matters what they think really.

Sorry, but you wrong dear. A very large number of people use and trade crypto in Africa.

I still do not know where people always get there information from. I am an African and there are so many exchanges already in Africa, at least from where I am from that makes transaction in fiats (both buying and selling) to be easy. You may think people who make use of bitcoin in Africa are quite few, but you will be surprised they are so much more than some other countries. You can also start by checking google trends for the continent or country with the most asked question on bitcoin.

Well in regards to no.7, there is a project Potentiam(https://www.potentiam.io) which will empower writers, though it's niche specific
'music'. It is at least a start, it does cover other areas in the music industry too. Even more so the scale of which is yet to be determined because of the way the project is structured. It's one to scale in time.

I do agree with your list.

There's one, http://ethex.market/

It uses smart contracts to for P2P ERC-20 tokens trading. Just ERC20 tokens however, not all cryptocurrencies, but it's a start.


I believe it's still beta testing on the Ropsten test net.

What do you think of my solution? I developed a Ethereum Escrow Smart Contract/Dapp. Escrow transactions can now be confirmed once it's mined. Here's how it works.


How it works

The buyer creates an escrow transaction, specifying the seller address, escrow address and amount of Ether. The smart contract locks the buyer's funds. When buyer receives the item, he can release the locked funds in the Dapp.

If a dispute happens, the escrow agent can step in to refund the buyer, or release funds to seller. At any point in time, the escrow agent NEVER has access to the funds, which eliminates one big security risk of transferring the entire transaction amount to the escrow.


In exchange for his service, escrow agent can charge a percentage fee set in the Dapp.


It is live at: http://escrowmyether.com/


If you are looking to offer escrow services, have a look, it might be useful for you

Main Benefit
1) It greatly reduces the Escrow agent's workload, because if the transaction proceeds smoothly, Buyer will release funds himself. There is no intervention required by the Escrow agent, saving a lot of time. Assuming 90% of transactions have no dispute, that's 90% of time saved.


2) Once the escrow transaction is mined, the Seller will see the incoming escrow transaction in his dashboard, and knows the Buyer has locked up his funds in the escrow transaction. There's no longer a need to wait for the Escrow agent's reply, making it convenient for Buyer & Seller.


3) Safe. Escrow agents can't steal the funds. The smart contract locks Buyer's funds and only releases it when Buyer confirms he received his product, Seller choose to refund the Buyer, or Escrow agent steps in to refund/release funds. Escrow agent never has access to the funds, and can never steal it.


To use this Dapp,  connection to an Ethereum node is required. I suggest Metamask chrome extension (https://metamask.io/) as it only takes 3 mins to setup. Parity will work as well.


Below are some screenshots of the Dapp.


Picture of buyer's dashboard. Click initialize new transaction to create new escrow tx.




Enter seller address, escrow address and amount to send. If the address is entered correctly, the seller/escrow's name will appear.



If you own the address, you can update your profile info. It is stored on the blockchain.



Buyers, when you receive your product. Please head into the dashboard, click the transaction, and click "Release Funds"



When a transaction is complete, Seller can withdraw his funds from the smart contract. Escrow agent can also withdraw his fees. If transaction is refunded, Buyer can withdraw the refund.




I made a video guide for escrow agents and buyers: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLN7fp80Uh8Iwy0tI2jTU0A


For a written guide using the Dapp, please read this thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ethereum-escrow-service-by-trusted-sr-member-53455-ether-escrowed-2221107


It's all open source. You can see the code if you're interested

Escrow smart contract: https://etherscan.io/address/0x1c02ce498dc6d0d6ef05a253e021258b07eeba91#code

Smart contract for storing profile info: https://etherscan.io/address/0xcf356ab67132c1359ebdd0ccc928fdb020eaa929#code

Github: https://github.com/KayinCheung/KayinCheung.github.io


It has been reviewed by Reddit /r/EthDev community with a 1 ETH bug bounty: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethdev/comments/6zwb1x/escrowmyether_1_eth_bug_bounty/


Disclaimer: There is a 0.25% dev fee to support future development. If Escrow agent charge 1%, the total fees for Seller is 1.25%. It's free to use for Escrow agent and Buyers.


What do you guys think, is it an improved solution for escrow services? Will you consider using it? If not, why?

I am very much fond of this project, I have a dream regarding this issue. "Global exchange ( Accepting all fiats, accepting all altcoins)" would be the best project among of these mentioned here. but it requires a lot of money as well as a group of expert people. Hopefully, within a year we will take a project as like as this. if we are able to take an initiative to be accepted Bitcoin in a new sector then it would be another good platform for Bitcoin. 

as you mentioned regarding different type of potential project, I prefer following two projects to start with my team.
"Accept cash for ICOs.
Uber of everything but accepting/paying in Alt coins not just BTC (Everything)"
Basically when you are going to start a project when you have a related expert team. so that I am going to establish a team within 1 year.

for me better 2 then 5 then 1 then 3,6,4,7 and last one is 8

I don't have any good ideas. But I like trying to come up with ideas so I'll throw some out there.

#1  Fresh vegetables/fruits, meat & perishable food items are the most difficult things to directly buy with bitcoin. A service which filled that vacuum might be profitable.

#2  A kickstarter/gofundme/crowdsource website utilizing crypto might work.

#3  There aren't ways to earn interest on sums of crypto. If someone could come up with a reliable & legitimate way to give people 5% to 10% earnings interest per year on crypto holdings, the way IRA accounts do, that would be awesome.

#4  Crypto could benefit by having trustworthy escrow services to overcome confirmation waiting time.

#5  A bitcoin point of sale app to allow people to have yard sales or sell items for crypto at flea markets could be a good idea if there isn't already one out there.

the ideas are good but some can work somewhere and the same idea can not work in another country but about exchange bitcoin in Africa I don't think is a good idea because peoples whom deal with bitcoin are very few but to provide idea is good and some one can start from you post

for me  Best project is games make android & ISO game so users can use satoshi  to play

this already exists



 

it seems that Africans live in the hole

I live in Africa and $100 is nothing, you do not do anything with 100 $, buy a house in my country costs thousands of dollars the minimum is 100.000 $ for a basic house, a cell phone costs  $450 depending on the brand, for example an iphone 6 costs around $500 to $600 and you're saying that someone can live with $100

People in my country do business allowing them to have a cell phone, a computer, a tablet and the internet, few people in my country do not have a phone

Bitcoin is the thing that is not possible to get you high profit till the price of the bitcoin is known to you and you will get the high knowledge about it. A lot of people use to see the loss but not the loss actually but they only don’t get the profit because they start the business with bitcoin only without any experience and they don’t even wait till the price of the bitcoin get high. So if you are having the knowledge and the patience then you will earn the good profit from the bitcoin.

Has anyone here tried to write articles for Huffington post? What's their payment rate? Do you need to have some background in article writing or the quality is more important?

p.s. I know what HP is all about and the content is ridiculous

OP has got so many ideas. I would like to add one more idea to that. Its nothing but starting a cryptocurrency to fiat exchange in India. At the present scenario, this project has become very important because the existing exchanges in India are not able to handle  such a large cryptocurrency user base. Day by day new accounts are opened and the staffs are not able to provide proper support for the users. Just imagine it takes nearly 4 to 5 days to deposit  money into the account.

The fully P2P transparent exchange is also needed. There are some projects, but all they need better UI / UX / marketing / dayly volume

About number 5 I don't think that it's a good idea unless creating something different. We all know that there is some ads service that paid in bitcoin but the rate is too low comparing to Google Adsense, some of them even lowering their rate it may be due to lack of advertiser since mostly their ads are only about bitcoin. So I think maybe they have to expand their business like accepting unrelated bitcoin advertiser. Number 6 it's a big yes this industry is full of with the scammers and there must be a site that can stop this, so people can check the review before investing on that site.

I am not saying it to you that you have done a great job by putting all these trash points  like most of my mates with a gregarious nature did it.
Exchanges in Africa already exist accepting local fiat.
Cash has already been tried being accepted for ICO in the past.
A campaign of Cartaxi is already exist here solving this issues.
Craigslist of everything is not possible you know that very well.
In short you have come with a stupid dump topic giving it the name of new ideas that already exist. My advise to you is to study this forum keenly and you will get to know about everything you have asked for.

All the trending ICOs will never you profit bro. After you bought the tokens from them. They will do nothing to you. This is how ICO scams are happening now so you be careful and research about ICO and their services details twice.
I suggest to invest on GPU mining with the multiple rigs to mine Ethereum because it will be able to profit more 3k USD per month.

Many people find it hard but innovative businessman make some ways to make their dream business came true that's and we could see some of them running an ICO to gain some funds to used for there project and ICO's are so trendy todays and might OP will catch this Ideas up and he can gain what he want if he is honest and have a good vision to this project.

Very nice thinking , unfortunately it is hard to make or implement this ideas but yes we really need this one especially those who is getting into alt coins, they must be publitize like btc, but like I said it is so hard to me things in cryto world be use by everyone in here and out side this area. This list is good and everyone can choose few from his interest.

Those are some quality good projects you have mentioned. I have seen some couple of ICOs that have accepted cash anyway with the help of paypal while some even go as far as using bank payment method.

For the number 3 as well, I think there is a project I saw recently on service thread called Car Taxi.

With so many projects such as these springing up anyway, it will start giving in more way for people to start making use of cryptocurrencies, thereby increasing the demand and population of the cryptocommunity.

I like and agree with your idea no 3, but for its alt payment it is better to use alt which have its own platform and have wallet for android or ios.

Good ideas. And yes it's not that easy. Even big platforms are having a hard time making that kind of ideas a reality. Some factors are
Government conflicts
People don't have proper awareness on what is the blockchain and cryptocurrencies
People are closes minded enough to take risks on the new technology
We have our own ideas and opinions that can't be integrated properly into the big picture.
We need some backups in big companies too, imagine if the Amazon will accept btc and Microsoft too.
The regulations are quite blurry but govenments like for Japan is finding ways to implement it properly and as a pioneers of blockchain we have a very large room to grow.

Great information crowd sourcing. For me the first thing that should be familiarized and focused by those aspiring project managers is the #6. Just like in a ball game, the best defense is a good offense. And so if the whole community is well aware of those scammers and fraudsters in crypto world then we are free now to choose other projects that they might get their interested. I never thought of other ideas as well.

I think it would be a really nice win for Africa 

Completely agree with ccowl...

As for me.
I'm an investor on a p2p bitcoin lending site (btcpop.co), and we get a TON of scammers over there. Sometimes we find their usernames here as scammers (lucky), or vice versa.

I would love to create a database for scammers, and maybe this will be a project that I can end up undertaking... Either way, someone *definitely* should. It would be a great asset.

And badbitcoin is good, but they do websites. We need to find, and destroy the credibility of the people behind these websites, and scams. Be they people who took a 5 dollar (in bitcoin, obviously) loan and ran, or people on here selling fake services and such. We need to stand together.

Anything peer to peer requires a community that doesn't put up with garbage. Someone needs to take out the trash. 

I like your ideas. Too many posts about crap, but you are actually giving great ideas to the crypto community. Try to post on Reddit to get more views.

I don't know about Africa but another country off the top of my head, Armenia. $100 pays your bills and enough to get by. There are certain countries you can live comfortably as the price of living is quite cheap.

Seriously? If I may ask, what part of Africa are you from? If you are not from any part of Africa, then it is best you stop giving assumptive statements. Except the person in question is an extremely low life that doesn't have a future, responsibility or probably does not care about living at all, then I do not see how $100 can sustain any one for 2 months in any part of Africa. I believe anyone who knows about bitcoin apparently have access to internet, smartphone, PC and all, and I don't see how such a person can live with $50 a month.

i think bitcoin will really effect in Africa because 100$ can keep  families life for long time ( 2 months  )

Its easy to think of ideas for project that you think the community needs and at the same time you think are good and applicable. But it comes down to execution. Once you start acting on the idea, its then that you discover that your ideas werent that good after all, or worse, it wasnt really new and unique.

Can you expand on #6?

http://www.badbitcoin.org/thebadlist/index.htm I found this by a basic google search, would you pay to post/view on the site or just go here for information; ie., search the DB for any listings or names.

I have web experience, the CL idea and #6 are great.

These are good ideas. We surely need these businesses accepting Bitcoins and AltCoins. I would add that we need a site like Aliexpress accepting Bitcoins, not small online shop sites, like there are already some, but a real big one that have all the kinds of stuff to buy and negotiate with reputation and positive feedbacks from everyone. A decentralized service of post office would be interesting too...

I think we need especially something like #6 on this forum that is pinned to the top of every marketplace/dealing in bold font. We need to be able to warn new users about potential scammers on this forum so that they don't have bad experiences with Bitcoin.

If you gonna start the project and need of web maintenance team. In that case I would like to join hands with you build bitcoin related career along with you. It is pretty impressive idea from you buddy.  Please consider if I can help you.

Thats why we want someone to jump in and start it.

Interesting post on "new ideas". I'm also keen to see this forum generate newer ideas, or introducing better innovation. There are plenty of gems still to be found, but they tend to get easily lost under the pile of carbon copies. The "everything" idea is not practical, nor wise, in my opinion. There are still so many alts that don't even have a market outside of decentralised exchanges or P2P.

You only have to look at those exchanges that specialise in exotic alts to see that their models end up at nett loss when wallets fail and blockchains lose their nodes. You simply cannot sustain "everything". The hit you take to customer confidence is a risk not worth taking. Have you seen the rant posts of X exchange stealing 1000s of "XYZ coin"?

Impressive ideas i like all of them especially the 4th and 6th one. But to implement these ideas more popularity of cyptcocurrencies needed, cryptocurreny awareness and users community need to extend more. Btw keep it up mate.

Hi,

After long search and many similar projects, the market needs new ideas and projects to fill the market and mature it, if you are looking to start something but dont know what, here are some ideas:

1- Exchange in Africa with african fiats.

2- Accept cash for ICOs.

3- Uber of everything but accepting/paying in Alt coins not just BTC (Everthing)

4- Craigslist of everything but accepting/paying in Alt coins not just BTC (Everything)

5- adsense alternative but accepting/paying in Alt coins not just BTC.

6- Scammers/fraud exposers wiki (You want to alert about someone, pay something very minimum, plus verification of the scam)

7- Huffington post cryptocurrencies alternative. (Freelance writers)

8- Global exchange ( Accepting all fiats, accepting all alt coins)


3, 4 & 7 someone should get us that quickly.