Send FTC to Scholarpedia
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Wikipedia now accepts BTC donations. Let’s turn our attention away from celestial bodies and shady wikies, and launch a rocket that will land on Scholarpedia. See http://www.scholarpedia.org
It is only now I realize that the text The Six Sins of Wikipedia was written by Dr. Sam Vaknin, a genius whose work is so important, that I will definitely try to present it here later.
In relation to Wikipedia, scholars face the same predicament as Feathercoin does in relation to Bitcoin: rejection. There are more similarities between us: Bitcoin was introduced by pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, while our Feathecoin has an accountable BDFL and a community consisting of people known under their real names. We will donate to Scholarpedia and we will ask them to accept donations in Feathercoin. We hope to raise awareness of Feathercoin among scholars while the price remains low.
The spaceship has 20 positions to Scholarpedia, 500 FTC each. With Calem’s permission, I am allowed to hold the bounty wallet.
The donation address (held by Calem) is:
6tpyypchotJyXHQqHagdSN8sF9e617xYsG
First come, first served. There will be no second ship.
Scholarpedia spaceship crew - boarding now
1. panoramix paid - 9f883615273c5a4e9f45a51529a147b7b39cbd4ef5bc1c822910a5b381e38532
2. calem paid - bddf1d04f65eaec24f68db9f121b034bdbc7f158c38bf46189fcdd211e5795d0
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I will immediately attempt a preliminary contact with Dr. Izhikievich, a neuroscientist and a technological enterpreneur (trying to make a Terminator CPU, how original) who runs the famous wiki. If I can fill 20 positions in reasonable time (about 2 or 3 weeks), I will take it as a sign of community support and I will propose to Dr. Izhikievich a mutual exclusive support relationship between Scholarpedia and Feathercoin brands. I will also ask him to tentatively consider the possibility of using Feathercoin as a reward currency within the Scholarpedia curation system (in place of the points they use today).
If the mission succeeds, there can be no refunds. If I cannot fill 20 positions in reasonable time (~ 2 or 3 weeks), I will forward the task of negotiating, at his own will, with Dr. Izhikievich to Bush. If this is rejected, or if the mission fails for any reason, donations will be refunded in full.
You are encouraged to donate more than FTC 500 to Scholarpedia, but please postpone your donation portion over 500 to such time, when Scholarpedia displays a link to its Feathercoin donation wallet on its main page.
Letter to Dr Izhikievich - https://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?/topic/7636-my-letter-to-dr-eugene-izhikievich-editor-in-chief-of-scholarpedia/
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If it’s ok with you Panoramix, I’ll hold the bounty wallet.
If there hasn’t been any donations yet, I’ll edit in a new donation address.
Also some changes might have to be made…
Because we don’t have a cap that must be reached otherwise the project is no go, there’s no need to have x positions at x ftc per head… Not to mention were still trying to get ftc to the moon ship 2 going and to most people 500ftc is a lot.
How about we change it to simply trying to gather as much ftc as possible (to a degree) that we can use to make the initial deposit. This is all assuming that they will start accepting ftc. If they do not, they raised ftc will have to be redirected evenly to the pre-existing bounties.
We need a game plan for how we are going approach scholarpedia as well.
It might be worth while simply contacting them first, and if they accept, we can donate directly to them.
The biggest issue is right now though, everyone is trying to hold all their alt’s. To be honest, they know they are better off accepting btc…
Let’s not get to far ahead here and do some planning.
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Nice
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With all that said, it’s a good idea and worth trying, but maybe not quite the right way to go.
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Please provide the address, Calem. To your concerns:
1. We do have a target cap: 10,000. If we can’t fill the ship, the project is a no go.
2. If we fill the ship but Scholarpedia does not respond favorably, the project is a no go.
3. If a project is a no go, money will be returned to the owners.
The primary game plan is that I will write to Izhikievich how I am a member of a great community, who faces the same trouble (rejection) with respect to our big brother (bitcoin) as Scholarpedia faces with respect to their big brother (Wikipedia). In that respect, I will propose to join our forces and ask Scholapedia to accept donation exclusively in Feathercoin (ad not in bitcoin), and display the fact on their website. The game plan has the next dimension: In Scholarpedia, scholars earn points for editing articles, in the order of magnitude of tens, at most hundreds. I want to propose to Scholarpedia to somehow reward these points with Feathercoins, but I need to better understand theirs system. For the time being, we need to act quickly, to encourage the real value creators (rather than moochers) to buy into Feathercoin while the price is low. It would be better if Bush is involved in contacting Izhikievich, but he doesn’t seem to visit forums much lately. This is the task that I can do alone if he doesn’t want to be involved.
I set the 500 per position on purpose. I want to see if there is enough support. If I can’t get 10k from 20 members, I won’t write to Izhikievich about how I am a member of a great community. (But, in such case, I will still donate 500 if someone else contacts Izhikievich instead of me.)
If the above still does not answer your concerns, please suggest what else should be done.
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What ever is raised is fine, but first, let’s try contact them. Maybe they would accept our NeoScrypt white paper as an entry… Keep this thread, keep that bounty address. remove the “positions” and host the donation wallet. If people would prefer, I’ll provide one too.
For now, if we could trickle grow the donation, we can have something to send if it works out. if it doesn’t, push the ftc to other bounties running. Like 2FA/wallet integration… (which still needs to be setup)
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OK, so the modification after your suggestion will be like this:
- I will keep this thread, and put back the original bounty address, belonging to me.
- I won’t remove the positions, because I want to see 20 supporters with 20 bucks over here before I go to extensively talk to Izhikievich.
- I will encourage the contributors to donate more than 500, but I will ask them to postpone those over-the-top donations to such time, when Scholarpedia actually posts Feathercoin donation wallet ont their website.
- I will immediately attempt to make a preliminary contact with Izhikievich.
I am personally interested in modeling dynamical systems, which are well covered in Scholarpedia (that’s why I know it), but I have not actually edited Scholarpedia, and I won’t raise my head if I don’t have enough support from the people over here. If I can get 10k FTC from 20 users, I’ll ask Izhikievich for mutual exclusive support (Scholarpedia promotes us rather than Bitcoin, we promote them over Wikipedia) and I will formulate the proposal for him, including the possibility of using Feathercoins as a reward for the edits. Otherwise, I’ll take it as a sign that the community over here is not able or willing to support me in this mission and:
- I’ll try to forward the mission control to Bush (I’ll ask him to contact Izhikievich himself).
If the mission fails for any reason, donations will be returned back to the donors.
As for the possibility of NeoScrypt article, this effort is orthogonal to the issue of mutual support. I don’t know if you fully appreciate the fact that Scholarpedia has class of a high-level scientific journal, such as Nature, and getting an article there is equal to publishing a review article in such a journal. Only if NeoScrypt has the qualities to be published in a top rank CS journal, can it go to Scholarpedia. Who is the inventor of NeoScrypt? It would be a standard practice for Scholarpedia to make him a curator of the article. For example, Petri net article is written by the fabled Carl Adam Petri himself.
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I like the fake rocket idea, it adds fun to an otherwise dull donation game. It might be an idea in the future to have a system built like bitcoinchipin so there are visual references to the target, people like them :)
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Well actually maybe yeah… the rocket to the moon image could be a good way to visualise fundraisers that aren’t for specific bounties…
Like what the PCUK fundraiser could have had for it…
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500ftc sent - bddf1d04f65eaec24f68db9f121b034bdbc7f158c38bf46189fcdd211e5795d0-000
Just waiting for it to pop up on the BC
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Who is the inventor of NeoScrypt?
That would be “John Doering” aka Ghostlander…
No one knows who he is I suspect… Maybe it’s satoshi… :D
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500 FTC received, thanks for the edit.
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… I won’t raise my head if I don’t have enough support from the people over here. If I can get 10k FTC from 20 users, I’ll ask Izhikievich for mutual exclusive support
I really think you should go for mutual support from square one.
Show them the link to this thread and the BC to show them we are currently raising funds for the initial donation (to show were serious).
Relay the contact via the forum and if they really are interested, I can organise someone to help implement ftc donations into their website.
Then go full steam with raising funds… but 10K is way to much to ask…
We need funds to buy an exchange and develop software etc.
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Looks good, I am overdonated right now but this project really have my attention.
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Save me a space please.
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I know your a feathercoin veteran panoramix and I love this project so please don’t take any offence. But I would feel happier with calem holding the donations!
Then I’d be more than happy to buy a spot on this scholarly space ship.
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If people would prefer, I have no issue’s holding the bounty.
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If people would prefer, I have no issue’s holding the bounty.
It is better, since you already held it once. Give me an adres to transfer to.
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Here’s a fresh feather address
6tpyypchotJyXHQqHagdSN8sF9e617xYsG
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Simply strikeout the old address and chuck in the new. That way It’s easier to see that the addresses have now changed.
