Send FTC to Scholarpedia
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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.
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It’s flying your way.
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is this donation address still current?
