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September 12, 2019, 03:50:56 PM
#51
cryptocurrencies is such an element where it is very difficult to predict the ending.
It seems to me that cryptocurrencies should take their place in the economic component of the world.
I am sure that cryptocurrencies are the future that millions will follow.
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September 12, 2019, 10:54:47 AM
#50
Government doesn't let cryptocurrencies for transactions because it will replace fiat money and it is very diffficult to replace it because it will take a lot longer and more money to establish and make it global. Another reason why government doesn't let cryptocurrencies because of it's riskiness cause by the volatility of its price and it will soon cause problems to those users.
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September 12, 2019, 10:49:03 AM
#49
The reality is like only a few portion of the population of the world know cryptocurrency. As a result, they do not know how to open wallet, buy and trade coins and what is the importance of cryptocurrency. Given these facts, cryptocurrency has a long way to go before being adopted fully. It takes time for cryptocurrency to be adopted fully.
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September 12, 2019, 10:44:51 AM
#48
The truth be told. There are so many people coming up with scam project just to make money and just disappear with money. This really tarnish the image of the crypto world. In reality bad thing spread faster than the the good news and this will scare people away and mass adoption is far from archiving.
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September 12, 2019, 09:16:51 AM
#47
can we trust this platform ...?
because most for now many platforms that provide a promotion that is so interesting and seem to be able to help all the problems in the crypto world. but apparently they only want personal information from visitors to be sold by them. or sometimes they look for target visitors so that these targets can be met which will then bring benefits to the platform development team.
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September 12, 2019, 07:03:23 AM
#46
In fact, states are afraid that Bitcoin will take their money for themselves and that no one else will use the dollar or other national currency. But at the same time, we see how bitcoin is slowly entering our lives.
Without approval from the government we will be in danger to use cryptos so mass adoption might not happen if people waiting to for the approval from governments but USA regulated it as an asset so when people pay taxes to it there is no danger in working but many places yet to come to accept it as payment mode.
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September 12, 2019, 06:52:53 AM
#45
That is good. When people became educated about crpyto they will easily learn and adopt about crypto world. Because the number reason of very slow mass adoption of crypto is lack of knowledge so they will easily believe about negative feedbacks and news about crypto. If they have enough knowledge nothing will stop their desire to invest and use crypto.

Thanks a lot , we are very glad to see there are like minded people like us, would you be interested to became one of our global partner and help us achieve our goal by your contributions? We will make sure your contributions are well rewarded!
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September 12, 2019, 05:11:19 AM
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That is good. When people became educated about crpyto they will easily learn and adopt about crypto world. Because the number reason of very slow mass adoption of crypto is lack of knowledge so they will easily believe about negative feedbacks and news about crypto. If they have enough knowledge nothing will stop their desire to invest and use crypto.
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September 12, 2019, 04:41:25 AM
#43
Sounds like Youtube to me.  Grin

I haven't opened the website yet but what else could we see here?
Maybe more information in text could also help.
Not all will just open a link because of too many phishing and hacks that are happening. Just an opinion though and maybe it could also boost with what you needed.

If it could really help for mass adoption then why not.

Yes we have some similarities with YouTube like we both feature videos, but we are not really here to compete with YouTube, more we behave as an extension to YouTube. let me explain

First of all we only feature crypto exclusive content and we are a curated video platform which means every video content here goes through some sort of filtration. 

By doing this we simplify and shorten the life a of a beginner who is trying to learn from YouTube. You can imagine hustle of finding the right sources among millions of content.

Also we classify quality videos under course titles and but them in a order, so you can learn everything in that topic in order without jumping from one end to another.

To add even more value on top of a video platform soon we will be implementing quizs where users can test their knowledge at the end of course completion. And not leave it there but we give you rewards to encourage you to learn more, ohh did you complete quiz with a 9/10 score here is your x token as a reward or another example would be, you upvoted a video and help us find those quality videos here X Token for your contribution.

Do you still think it is another YouTube? Grin
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September 12, 2019, 04:27:03 AM
#42
Maybe the volatility will be the problem for the mass adoption because people are afraid to pay with cryptocurrency, especially if the price is down after they receive the payment. But we have so many options of coins that we can use as the payment. We can use bitcoin, eth,  ltc, or even usdt and usdc, which will be more stable than the other coins.

Maybe that is why we need the stable coin so that we can exchange the bitcoin or the altcoin into the stable coin, and we can pay using that coin. Actually, we don't have to be afraid about the volatility because cryptocurrency can help us to prevent the volatility by using the stable coins. But the problem is people don't want to learn about how to use cryptocurrency with properly.

You give us a great idea by mentioning "Stable Coins". Because you are right many beginners are complaining about volatility issue and stable coins are there to tackle this very problem, we should definitely focus on this topic more and find reliable sources and include these on our platform to educate new comers about volatility issue.  thanks
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September 12, 2019, 04:22:02 AM
#41
When i read your post, the first paragraph has a good point but at the end of your post I realized it is some kind of shilling.  Grin

Anyway, back to the topic.

Actually, mass adoption is starting. It's just that blockchain technology is really hard to understand by the people who are not that interested to acquire new technologies like this. We can see the development of bitcoin but there are still so many people that are not aware of how can it be used, how it works and how can it become the new payment method.

Thus, in a positive side, it is being known and the name is starting to become popular. The convenience given by this technology is great and businesses tend to started to accept bitcoin payments. It makes the mass adoption to continue.

Thank you for your great insights, We felt like we need to comment on the shilling part, we have a goal which we detailed in the OP, and we know that we alone can't achieve this goal alone, this can only be achieved with a great community backing you up, and for this very reason we are looking for contributors and we wanted to mention it on our post. Because one we have you guys on board we believe we can achieve our goal which is everyone is goal in this community.
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September 12, 2019, 04:15:49 AM
#40
Those who came onboard to the crypto space at first knew almost nothing about cryptocurrency, let alone knowing about the technology behind it, block chain. So in one way or the other, people still get the information needed.
From personal experience, I was a noobs when I came onboard, but I still  managed to get to where I am now without any special aid.
So @OP, how do you intend to make it simpler, for other to know and understand better.

We do agree with you on, it is possible to make a start from scratch without an aid from outside now and even back then, but real question here is, how time consuming and how difficult is the process? If you want something to get mass adopted you need to make it user friendly less time consuming, you can see this case in many different industries and with many different technologies. So our aim is to not create something that is not existing we would like reshape and make it more user friendly and faster process.

How do we want to achieve this? First of all lets look at main issues making this learning process longer and difficult.

a) There are too many sources available, which thread should I check in bitcoin talk forum to find what i need?

b) Reliability of the source, was this guide written with the intention of teaching something or just to promote project X.

c) Way we deliver the information, what are we using to deliver to information is it a 2 hours long article?

d) Lack of incentives to encourage learning.

We looked at each of these problems then we said we have to create platform where information must be filtered (Problem a) from the sources which we can trust (problem b) and it needs to be in a form where people quickly can grasp the information  (problem c) and we have to put great rewards to encourage learning (Problem d) and at the end we came up with TokenTuber. A curated video platform exclusively featuring crypto related video content with a built in token economy. Curated part helps us to filter videos and after finding the quality videos we add these videos in to our course titles such as "Beginner" " Bitcoin" etc. each course title comes with videos in a special order so you don't jump from one topic to another, later we evaluate each video and make sure video that goes under these course titles are from reliable sources and lastly we reward contribution and learning by rewarding users with our tokens for their actions.
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September 12, 2019, 03:53:53 AM
#39
Even the majority of exchange sites have been creating a guide to the new users to understand how crypto works and that's even a complete guide and i think your idea is not a good idea. I just try to imagine how you can compete with an active and popular exchange site.
If you don't wanna need to know deep about crypto and then you just try to know the basic like send, receive and store. that's enough for a newbie.
crypto is not a difficult thing like what you have explained. If someone wanna know and just read thousands article on internet about that.

First of all thank you for sharing your opinion with us here, we are aware that there are many guides and some of these guides are right on exchange websites. These guides can provide information on performing basic actions which are still a good thing and we support that but their ultimate goal is to pull you on their exchange so they can make some extra income from you too. Again we are not saying what they do is bad thing it is a business model and if it helps people and also help to spread the word as well then it is win win situation for everyone both for exchanges and our community. However, when we talk about blockchain as you probably already know the concept is much more broader than just some simple actions you perform on exchanges. There is something called mining, then smart contracts then dapss and then on the trader site there technical analysis and much more. When you look at the situation not just from the trading perspective but little more broader you will see the lack of tools or guides and that is the paint point we would like to tackle.

 
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September 12, 2019, 03:52:17 AM
#38
Some points mentioned here like the high level of scam associated to crypto and other factors like not able to trace and retrieve funds when lost are truly retarding crypto from mass adoption.  Other vital issues are scalability issues, issue of hacks and meeting up with regulations.  We have a long way to go before mass adoption can be met.
In my opinion, the main problems, which are the main obstacles to the widespread adoption of cryptocurrency by states, are that cryptocurrency is relatively anonymous and cannot be controlled by governments. If not for this, states would have long ago legalized cryptocurrencies in their homeland. However, this process has been going on so far and many states are still pondering what to do with it. It’s good that the G-7 and European Union states have decided that cryptocurrency does not pose any threat to global financial stability. Therefore, it was simply allowed to be used as an alternative means of payment.

precisely in my country in central asia, that the policy in my country there is no prohibition on investing in digital currencies but the risk itself, considering that digital currency has not found a bright spot on security and that is also one of the reasons that hinder the legality in my country or consideration for making it a government financial asset.
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September 12, 2019, 03:42:57 AM
#37
You have done a great work, but however I do think the crypto is to a level noob friendly, the only thing required to get started is actually to get started because there are different informations to help one kick start a good journey. This forum is here to help, there are some interesting informations on YouTube etc. On the other hand, on the issue of mass adoption, one of the issues limiting is scalabilty of the blockchain which involves speed and so on; although different steps have been taken but we need more hands on deck. Mass adoption will take place but we need to get it right by focusing on projects with great concepts.

Thank you for your compliments, we do agree there are resources available out there if you want to learn from scratch. However, how organized and reachable these sources is another question. Even if you take this forum, finding the right information among thousands of threads is a big time consuming challenge. On the YouTube side yes there are many videos but can you tell which are really there to guide  and which are there  to sell you some project. Most of the influencers are willing to say anything about any project as soon as they are paid well. As you can see the waters are not very crystal clear when it is come to learning and to clear these waters we would like to function like a filter so we can gather quality contents with people who needs these contents.   
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September 12, 2019, 03:33:54 AM
#36
Well, I commend you for creating this kind of video site where you link several tutorial videos in order for the viewers to know more about cryptocurrency.  It seems you are planning to pay viewers with your token that is another good thing if implemented.

Some points mentioned here like the high level of scam associated to crypto and other factors like not able to trace and retrieve funds when lost are truly retarding crypto from mass adoption.  Other vital issues are scalability issues, issue of hacks and meeting up with regulations.  We have a long way to go before mass adoption can be met.

I believe several altcoins had already addressed this scalability issue, though I also agree that we have a long way to go before we can see this mass adoption we dream of  because of several government banning crypto, and majority of the nation are not yet prepared for cryptocurrency implementation or they just don't pay attention to it.  

Thanks for your kind words. We are improving our system everyday for now we are just compiling various quality videos and putting them in order so beginner can watch, more features we will be soon implemented like quiz after watching video sequences with a reward attached to it, and course title including different videos focusing on certain level or topic and many more to come.

On the token side,this feature already active and users are already earning tokens for their upvotes and some other contributions; more other options are going to be added to encourage people to learn. 
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September 12, 2019, 03:24:25 AM
#35
Hope you uploaded those videos on your site with the permission of the owners. I guess that is the right thing to do considering that you aim to make money from them with your native token.

Well, I think easy-to-understand information is very important for Bitcoin adoption. If most people learn that using Bitcoin is safe, easy, fast, and very useful, they will likely start using it.

He's not putting the videos on his site but linking to the original ones on youtube. Isn't that legal? It gives credit and money to original authors because whenever you click on the video you're boosting views for the author.

If he downloaded the videos and made them play on his site it would be a different thing but this way it looks legal and fair.

Yes, precisely we compile them using the original hyperlinks from original sources.
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September 12, 2019, 03:22:40 AM
#34
Some points mentioned here like the high level of scam associated to crypto and other factors like not able to trace and retrieve funds when lost are truly retarding crypto from mass adoption.  Other vital issues are scalability issues, issue of hacks and meeting up with regulations.  We have a long way to go before mass adoption can be met.

Yes there are some practical problems which can be avoided by with proper training and education which is what we are trying to achieve and there are other core fundamental problems like you mentioned we believe these will be resolved with time too, as more and more people puts their minds together to tackle these issues one way or another there will be a solution.
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September 12, 2019, 03:18:34 AM
#33
There's tons of exchanges out there nowadays that are made to be extremely simple to use and accessible for newcomers to crypto as well (though KYC and various things such as KYC is one of the trickier things for most people). Some of the people I've introduced to crypto and especially Bitcoin have complained about transactions taking a while to 'process' or confirm, but that's really the main complaint I've noticed. Most wallets nowadays are also very simple to understand and are very well documented, much better than how it was in 2014 when I really started to gain an interest in crypto. We've sure come a long way from then.

Very important points you have mentioned, KYC and processing time these are definitely has to improve and yes crypto space came a long way and improved many aspects along the way and it is becoming more and more user friendly. We are hoping to boost this positive change with our initiative, we would like to make every person ready with in 1 day whether they are interested in trading or developing other technologies using blockchain. 
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September 12, 2019, 03:06:33 AM
#32
The crypto space is not very noob friendly: bitcoin and blockchain are complex daunting topics; cryptocurrencies themselves are not very user-friendly; and the cryptocurrency space has gathered a bad reputation for being filled with scams. A small mistake sending coins from your wallet can cause you to lose your money and ruin your experience. So, while everyone has heard about blockchain and bitcoin, people are not only unsure how to get started, they are also faced with these high barriers to entry.
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I beg to differ. The crypto space is actually very noob friendly. Bitcoin and blockchain, both of them are not as complex as you think. The basics are very simple. You don't need to know in depth to how the technology works in order to use it. Using bitcoin is the same as using paypal. You need to make a payment? Just enter the wallet address of the user instead of his email address like you would when making a payment with paypal. Our computer is a very complex instrument. But as long as we know the basics we will be able to operate it. We don't need to know how it works in order to operate it. The same thing goes for bitcoin. You don't need to know how it works to use it.

Yeah, when I see what kind of people are actually able to use crypto, I would also think it's pretty noob-friendly.
I have friends who are the most technically inept people you'd ever meet, yet they can easily work with many different cryptocurrencies.

Sure, they run into problems occasionally, especially regarding fees with Bitcoin (back when the mempool was full), but after explaining it to them they did seem to get it eventually.

I explained the broader image on the reply above, so you can see why it is more than simple transactions. But also keep in mind that not everyone has a friend who can show a way to solve their crypto related problems. That is precisely the reason why we have started this initiative.
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