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Original Reddit Post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BiblePay/comments/7s467y/my_zazzle_project_proposal_discussion_url/

Rob mentioned on bitcointalk that he was going to buy an item from there,
Im interested to buy a coffee cup/mug

I think having BiblePay in the shop name would be good, as opposed to just Glory Goodies.

I agree with Alex that the items would only mostly be useful to already investors, but I do think it could cause a few others to become interested slowly by word of mouth / proximity (wearing BiblePay t-shirt outside and at events, driving car with BiblePay bumper sticker, etc)

Is this the best use of Marketing funds? Im not sure, Alex brings up the point that a T-shirt Drive could potentially be better.
Is it too early in our development to focus on branded items in a shop? I dont know

Other Marketing/Advertising being worked on or in progress:  Google Ads (Rob), Bitcointalk Ad, Reddit Ad, Website Development

ALT-J90 is very interested to help the community and has been posting a lot on Reddit and is looking for different avenues to help.
Does anyone have other marketing ideas?

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Archived Proposals / Re: C++ Blockchain Developer Recruiting
« on: January 22, 2018, 01:09:15 PM »
An idea to find current blockchain devs:

Reach out to/contact everyone who has committed code to the bitcoin github,
and then move on to doing same thing for every other coin's github, working down the list on coinmarketcap,

I dont think Github has direct contact functionality and Im not sure how many github profiles have a contact method added, so each blockchain developer might require some research to find other avenues to contact them (twitter, website, blog, chat room, etc)

Would be an interesting project, Id be interested to move forward on this in the very near future.

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Another idea is to join any potential chat rooms of the crypto job boards and post there, I didnt know some of them had chat rooms

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Archived Proposals / Re: Jan/Feb Reddit & Twitter
« on: January 22, 2018, 08:07:23 AM »
I only started using Reddit in the past year, sent you an invite!

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Archived Proposals / Jan/Feb Reddit & Twitter
« on: January 21, 2018, 11:24:35 PM »
Ive been continuing to document on Reddit
and tweet updates on Twitter.

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Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BiblePay/
https://www.reddit.com/user/togoshige/

231 subscribers (was 105 a month ago)

Wrote ~50 Reddit posts since last proposal

I go through past weeks bitcointalk posts and compile and document on the Reddit,
I also update previous posts and add and organize on the sidebar.



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Twitter:
https://twitter.com/BiblePay

276 Followers (was 114 a month ago)

Wrote and Designed 36 Tweets and did 10 Retweets since last proposal



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My Previous Reddit and Twitter work Sept-Dec:
http://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?topic=47.0

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About 1 hour of work a day for 30 days,
30 hours work at $20/hour = $600 / $0.004574 per BBP = 131,176 BBP

I am requesting 131,176 BBP from the PR Budget

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If anyone is interested in becoming a Reddit mod, or gaining access to the Twitter account, please let me know.
Id like to not be the only key holder.

If there is any other feedback, let me know!

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Archived Proposals / Re: C++ Blockchain Developer Recruiting
« on: January 20, 2018, 03:41:53 PM »
Update:

Original Reddit -------- 341 Views (cryptocurrencyjobs.co and nodesk both point to here)
Crypto Jobs List ------- 362 Views
Crypto Jobs ------------- 229 Views (16 Shares)
Coinality -----------------   88 Views
Blocktribe ---------------   44 Views
Indeed -------------------  243 Views (22 candidates, some C++ exp, no blockchain exp)
RemotelyAwesome -- 307 Views
AngelList ---------------- N/A (4 applicants)
Upwork ------------------ N/A (14 proposals)
HiredCrypto ------------ N/A

I also had interesting discussion with a couple users on the C++ Slack

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There are a lot of candidates with great backgrounds, but no blockchain experience, I am going to invite those that are interested to our Slack/Discord and send them the blockchain learning materials I compiled, hopefully some of these seeds will sprout over time

There are other cool job sections we can target like Stack Overflow and Github, and a lot of Remote work sites, but they all cost money to post

Im pretty much finished with the work, a month from now Id like to come back and post the job ad everywhere again, since most of the research/digging has already been done, should be pretty easy. (and we can keep continuing to do this every month) In the farther off future we can also start paying for featured job ads.

For next round we need to target the words blockchain and cryptocurrency in the job title as well (for non crypto boards)

And we should look into finding where blockchain developers hang out and chat

The only other idea we should consider, is poaching/recruiting blockchain developers from other projects.

Overall it is going to be hard to find someone that even matches in skill to Rob while also having the same passion for the project, Rob is worth 10x his weight in gold.

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Note: I had not yet setup the real proposal, I need a way to send the biblepay coins to the pool, is there an official way of doing that?

Hey Lichtsucher, You will have to message Rob to have funds transferred into your pool account, otherwise you could send me the funds and I can enter the proposal in for you. Thanks!

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Archived Proposals / Re: Bitcointalk Forum Advertising
« on: January 17, 2018, 01:22:01 PM »
Okay, I found a CSS professional. Do you know the best way to contact fox123me?

https://www.reddit.com/user/fox123me

fox was also okay with someone taking his work and running with it,
so fox doesnt neccessairly have to be in the loop per se

This was the 1st banner that was rejected for being a full image: http://fozy.altervista.org/banner.html
But it looks a lot nicer then the current CSS one: http://fozy.altervista.org/bbp-banner.html


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Archived Proposals / Re: C++ Blockchain Developer Recruiting
« on: January 17, 2018, 09:43:56 AM »
Great work! Did anyone reply yet?

The main reddit job post now has over 180+ views,
Ive gotten 4 applicants so far, but I made it to where Im not totally the middle man,
so probably more than half the applicants will go directly to Rob

I wasnt sure how Rob wanted to do this, in a more traditional recruiting environment, the recruiter does an initial email, does a call, sells the position, potentially checks credentials/references, negotiates salary/hourly rate, sets up interview, talks to applicant after interview, etc etc.

Recruiters typically charge a 20-30% fee based on 1st year salary if applicant is accepted/gets the job.
I am not requesting a placement fee, though I would be open to a small one if the community is okay with that. This is how recruiters make the bulk of their pay, by landing candidates into jobs.

(I have dealt with over 100+ recruiters in my career and have successfully recruited a $70k/year software dev at a previous employer)

Rob will still have to do work interviewing/evaluating each candidate, getting them set up and running, etc, and I havent gotten any feedback on what happened to any interested devs from my previous SegWit developer posts, (which is why it can be good to have a middle man to check up on candidates after the fact)

There were 2 comments on the reddit job post that developers wont be interested in starting out initial work for free.

Anyways, Will be interesting to see how this all turns out

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Archived Proposals / C++ Blockchain Developer Recruiting
« on: January 16, 2018, 11:33:01 PM »
Rob asked me to recruit C++ Blockchain Developers, I jumped on it!
(in past I made posts to recruit Segwit Developer but only targeted Reddit)

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Reddit Posts:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BiblePay/comments/7ph4k8/hiring_c_developer/
https://www.reddit.com/r/coindev/comments/7qwqau/hiring_c_developer/
https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptodev/comments/7qwsxx/hiring_c_developers/
https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinJobs/comments/7qwztd/hiring_c_developer/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jobs4Crypto/comments/7qx2jo/hiring_c_developer/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jobs4Bitcoins/comments/7sa9uf/hiringpartner_c_blockchain_developer/
https://www.reddit.com/r/hiring/comments/7rg008/hiringremote_c_blockchain_developer/
https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/7ne705/whos_hiring_c_devs_q1_2018/dswnvp2/
https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockChain/comments/7rg6qc/hiring_c_blockchain_developers/

Slack:
/r/cpp - https://cpplang.now.sh/

Discord:
/r/startups

Hacker News (Y Combinator):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16206048

Bitcointalk Forum:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2783598
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2783601

Job Board Posts:
https://cryptojobslist.com/remote/job/c-developer-at-biblepay-8zyvs13o3
https://blocktribe.com/job/2804/c-developer/
https://crypto.jobs/jobs/c-developer-at-biblepay ($99 to feature for 30 days)
https://coinality.com/jobs/c-developer-2/
https://cryptocurrencyjobs.co/remote/
https://www.indeed.com/job/c-developer-blockchain-66683c1c39a70f40
https://angel.co/biblepay/jobs/319658-c-developer-blockchain
https://www.remotelyawesomejobs.com/jobs/togo-shige-c-developer-blockchain
https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~0126dc55e1e8d5fcba
https://nodesk.co/remote-jobs/
http://www.hiredcrypto.com/index.php/job/biblepay-5-c-developer/
https://beincrypto.com/
http://blockchainjobz.com/job/c-blockchain-developer-biblepay/

Job Board In Review / Maintenance:
http://www.thecryptostreet.com/ (Database Error) (7 day free, 99$ per listing for 30 day)

Cost Money to Post:
https://www.crypto-talent.com/our-pricing/ (25 euros)
https://www.dice.com ($395)
https://remoteok.io ($300)
https://www.workingnomads.co ($150)
https://www.computerworlduk.com/jobs/ aka https://jobbio.com (199 euros)
https://www.linkedin.com/talent/jobs (at least $5 daily budget)
https://hiring.careerbuilder.com/recruiting-solutions/small-business-subscription-plans-and-pricing ($199/month)
http://www.blockchainjobboard.org/ ($49.95 1 month)
http://blockchainjobz.com (Have to contact them first)

Cost Money Recruiters:
https://blockchain.works-hub.com ($250 per CV, usually 20% base pay if applicant lands job)
https://www.blockchainjobs.co/ (Didnt bother)
https://cryptohire.io/ (Didnt bother)

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Indeed:
reviewed 17 submitted resumes

Upwork:
skimmed through hundreds of profiles and invited 29 with C++ skills

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Learn Blockchain Development (Compiled Resources)
https://www.reddit.com/r/BiblePay/comments/7rlzfu/learning_blockchain_development/

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8 hours - Researching Job Boards/Sites
8 hours - Posting Jobs
8 hours - More Job Posts
8 hours  - reviewing, responding to, talking with and forwarding job applicants to Rob
- researching and documenting materials to become a blockchain developer

32 hours at $20/hour = $640 divided by $0.005650 per BBP = 113,274 BPP

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QUESTIONS:

1. Did we want to spend any money on featuring job ads / paying for job ads?
$400-800 to be highlight/featured for current posted job ads for a month
$1000 to post ads in other job boards

2. Are there any job sites I missed?

3. Should I attempt to poach developers on other cryptocurrency projects?

4. Other than job boards, what other ways can we find skilled developers?

Z. Any other feedback, concerns, ideas, etc?

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NOTE: A month from now we should post all the job ads again, most expire after a month

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gobject vote-many 2b648e09c068bc5313c63aa63ba9a628e53869576b9ffdaaa9813498a5b67302 funding yes

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Archived Proposals / Bitcointalk Forum Advertising
« on: January 16, 2018, 05:16:21 PM »
I propose that we place a banner ad on the Bitcointalk forum for ~8-11 days
(but wait until we have an exchange back online)

Bitcointalk currently has 1,686,605 Members
and is now ranked a top 1,000 website globally by Alexa

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I noticed the Bitcointalk Forum has ads every now and then inbetween thread posts,
there is an auction held by an admin every ~8-11 days,
there are 9 slots, minimum bid is 0.02 BTC, bids can only be multiples of 0.02 BTC

Current Round #233: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2716553.0
https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adinfo
https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adstats

Each slot gets 2-4+ million impressions over 8-11 days

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Previous Winning Bids:

Auction #232
4 0.14 ChipMixer
2 0.12 Blocklancer
3 0.10 Aengus

Auction #231
3 0.14 FortuneJack
4 0.14 ChipMixer
2 0.12 Aengus

So this would come out to ~1.5k-2k for one slot for 2-4 million impressions over 8-11 days

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The banner ad has to be HTML/CSS (and not just an image file),

Our Logo Design files: https://www.reddit.com/r/BiblePay/comments/7asnaa/new_coin_logo_zip_of_images/

BiblePay Colors: Red (Maroon) #971b20, Yellow (Gold) #e2ae24, White #ffffff

Potential Banner Ad Contents:
BiblePay Symbol and Name
"10% of mined coins go to Charity"
"Masternodes now live"

Potential Links:
Main Website: http://biblepay.org/
Bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2388064.0
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BiblePay/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BiblePay

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Current Banner Ad (In Progress):

fox123me:
http://fozy.altervista.org/bbp-banner.html

The previous banner by fox123me was rejected for being one large image,
so he changed it to be just a small image for the logo/name
and the rest is CSS, he requested help with the CSS though, hes totally new to it

Reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BiblePay/comments/7ndg5g/bitcointalk_banner_ad_need_htmlcss_skills/

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QUESTIONS:

1. What should the banner say? What should it look like?

2. Should we have multiple links?

3. Anyone with CSS skills that could help?
3a. What is a good way to find someone with CSS skills?

4. Is the cost worth the amount of impressions?

Z. Any feedback? concerns? ideas? Anything I missed?

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Archived Proposals / Reddit Advertising
« on: January 16, 2018, 04:16:07 PM »
I propose that we run a Reddit ad targeting specific cryptocurrency subreddits for a month
(starting after an exchange goes back up for us)

Reddit Advertising: https://about.reddit.com/advertise/

Max bid price for 1,000 impressions can be in range of $0.20 - $100, default they fill in is $2.00

The ad is just a picture, a headline and a link or text post

The picture would be our logo

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Im not sure about the headline, this is my idea so far:
main features, call to action and emoji to make it stick out more

✝ BiblePay (BBP) ✝ | New Cryptocurrency | 10% Charity | Masternodes | ASIC-Resistant | CPU Mining Only | Already Sponsoring 180+ Orphans Monthly | Find out more!

Some emojis we could use: ✝ (looks like forum doesnt support the 3 other emojis I linked, another cross, praying and halo)

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These are the subreddits I would recommend targeting:

Altcoin Investors/Traders:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/ ---- 482,858 readers - 43,501 users here now
https://www.reddit.com/r/altcoin/ -----------------   47,860 readers -     535 users here now

Other Cryptocurrencies:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dashpay/ ------ 18,710 readers - 2,660 users here now
https://www.reddit.com/r/vertcoin/ ------- 32,056 readers - 2,649 users here now
https://www.reddit.com/r/groestlcoin/ ---   4,793 readers -    111 users here now

(We could target other masternode, asic resistant and cpu only coins as well)

Not sure about:

Day Traders / ICOs
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoMarkets/ --- 105,140 readers  - 3,111 users here now
https://www.reddit.com/r/icocrypto/ -----------   29,886 readers -     329 users here now

Bitcoin / Bitcoin Cash:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/ -------- 671,955 readers - 28,456 users here now
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/ ------------- 159,454 readers -    5,186 users here now

In future we could also target christian and charity/nonprofit subreddits
(the headline/messaging would need to be totally different though)

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Examples of my previous advertising in Bitcointalk threads towards miners, traders and investors:
http://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?topic=68.0

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QUESTIONS:

1. What is a good max bid price for 1,000 impressions?
(default value they give is $2.00 per 1,000 impressions)

1a. For Reddit is there a way to see what other people are bidding? I couldnt find it, but I know google adwords somewhat shows that information.

2. Should we do a link post or a text post? (a text post could have multiple links)
2a. If a link post, what link should we send people to? (the main website? main bitcointalk post?)

3. What subreddits should we target?

4. What should the headline be?

5. How much should we spend a day for 30 days?
(default value they give is $20 a day, and it can go up to 20% more, so $24 a day * 30 = $720 for a month
which would be 360k impressions assuming $2 bid price per 1,000 impressions)

Z. Anything else I missed, should consider? Any other feedback, concerns, etc?

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Archived Proposals / Re: New Charity Organization - BLOOM
« on: January 07, 2018, 11:38:17 AM »
I think I can agree that any new charity proposals should be paused until we are current/up to date financially with Compassion. Id hate to lose any current orphan sponsorships! Thank you for risking your own personal money to keep it going Rob!

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PR wise for charities/nonprofits, it would be cool to get a shoutout on Facebook/Twitter/Blog (Social Media) and maybe even get a Logo image that links to us on their websites with a short description.

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Archived Proposals / Re: December 2017 IT expenses (payroll)
« on: January 07, 2018, 10:41:47 AM »
Woops I misread, sorry!
I think same scaling issue could happen though, once there are thousands to tens of thousands of letters, will be hard for a small group of people to check them all. I still think its a good idea, just if we could somehow apply it to everyone where we identify programatically users who are good at checking. I see your point of reducing the workload on Rob since he is currently the final gatekeeper, but it looks like any sort of solution will also require some dev work.

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Archived Proposals / Re: PR, Communications, Marketing Proposal
« on: January 06, 2018, 10:34:21 PM »
I think this will be interesting to see how this turns out. Just giving some feedback / talking out loud.

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Phase 1 - Step 1

I think this is going to be potentially tough, as I see communications funneling through one person as a potential bottleneck
(I like my freedom and lack of red tape LOL, but Im open to do what is best for the project)

Right now I may on average tweet and post on reddit once a day, and potentially post in the bitcointalk forums 0-2 times a day,
as well as Rob who posts in the bitcointalk forums potentially a few times a day. And sometimes we have information that needs to go out right away, like software updates, bugs, issues.

Not only is there the Twitter, Reddit and Bitcointalk forums, but there are also the BiblePay forums, Discord and Slack.
So there are 6 different places we are communicating and talking on.

In addition there is also email (I know Rob gets a TON of emails), there are also comments in other subreddits, comments in other bitcointalk subsections, comments on articles, Steemit comments and articles, and articles written about BiblePay by other people.

So far Id say most communication with the public has been about mining, most of our current users are most likely miners, and the talking has been more technical. But also now we have gotten more interest from investors because now we are more known as having masternodes (sanctuaries), which has also drawn in more speculators, day traders and swing traders.

Who would we say represents BiblePay? or speaks for BiblePay?
Definitely Rob for sure, and I guess me too since Im doing the social media?

I think the project is still pretty young and still definitely in a beginning startup phase, but I think we could blow up pretty quickly and good PR will become more and more important.

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Phase 1 - Step 2

There is a 2nd website in development, but nothing created so far, we have a viewable google doc, let me know if you would like viewing and editing access.

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We do have information about BiblePay in multiple places, Ill just list them all to also help step 1 above:

Main Information:
Website: http://biblepay.org/
Original Bitcointalk Post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2042657.0
Moderated Bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2388064.0
BiblePay Wiki: http://wiki.biblepay.org/Main_Page
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BiblePay/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BiblePay

Other forms of information/communication
BiblePay Forum: http://forum.biblepay.org/
Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/yWgbKdM
Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/biblepay/shared_invite/enQtMjgxMzI1NDgyNDk2LTQ4NzMzYjhkMWU4ZGYwYTI2MWU2YjU5Mzg3NmRhNTlmODExMzliNTBjMjA2YzRlMDY3MmY4NTg1NjM1NjJlMDY

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Phase 1 - Step 3

Currently I have been targeting those already trading cryptocurrencies and mining cryptocurrencies,

Examples of my advertising/marketing:
http://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?topic=68.0

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The average person is still not as interested in cryptocurrencies sadly.

Bitcoin Demographics:
https://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/01/22/bitcoin-owners-are-still-white-male-techies-to-no-ones-surprise/
"91.8 percent defined themselves as male, 72.5 percent said they are white and 65.8 percent declared themselves a techie."

https://www.coindesk.com/new-coindesk-report-reveals-who-really-uses-bitcoin/

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-users-who-they-are-and-what-they-do

7 Stats That Highlight A Millennial Propensity For Bitcoin
https://www.forbes.com/sites/spencerbogart/2017/11/08/7-stats-that-highlight-a-millennial-propensity-for-bitcoin/#5d706bdb32c4

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Phase 2 Step 1

We definitely could use help on Facebook, I think Matt currently owns the BiblePay facebook page but hes only made maybe 3 posts in the past 3-4 months and has I think 12 followers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BiblePay/comments/7m6v7w/biblepay_facebook/

Im not sure how to talk to / target / advertise to the regular average joe about Cryptocurrencies and BiblePay.

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BiblePay Summary
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xnhAMbHiN3YJw8e9K4u7b8QCNS-gQAPnHQOCDJvFk2s/edit?usp=sharing

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I know Rob is doing some Google Adwords advertising, but Im not sure what keywords he is using,
for my own advertising Ive used the keywords:
cpu mining, asic resistant, masternode, christian cryptocurrency (and variations of those)

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Hope this information helps!
Ill try to give more feedback later on, but I dont really know much about PR, but most of this sounds pretty good.

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Archived Proposals / Re: December 2017 IT expenses (payroll)
« on: January 06, 2018, 05:13:52 PM »
Sorry as well for hijacking the thread.

I forgot to add that I do agree with your conflict of interest concerns on the pool 616,
there has been a lot of FUD around the fact that Rob is running the main pool, which potentially scares some miners and investors, especially since there are some targeting BiblePay that have been amplifying this concern. (similar concern has come up recently about charity fund in the subreddit, sigh) [but I do think the reduced mining fee for writing letters gets a lot of miners writing letters who otherwise wouldnt write any letters]

I think the masternode letter writing is a neat idea, but I think it might be too small of a pond to just have masternodes writing letters (currently 84 masternodes), when there are potentially hundreds or thousands of others out there in the future that may be interested in writing letters (as well in the future there may be thousands of orphans to write to, even tens of thousands). Though I do understand more people more problems and there have been some already trying to game the current system. Hopefully a similar system that youve brought up could be applied to all users (though it is very hard to pinpoint anonymous users over the internet, as they can change IP addresses / email addresses, etc and keep attempting to game the system)

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