CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS: We are putting together a Feathercoin Media Team
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Is it possibile to translate wallet? This is probabily good start to local suport :)
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[quote name=“andr3jmb” post=“39174” timestamp=“1386095649”]
Is it possibile to translate wallet? This is probabily good start to local suport :)
[/quote]I think this is a great idea, Pete/ChrisJ any idea of what’s the best way to facilitate this?
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Once again thanks to everyone for replying and volunteering. I’ve sent you all a quick PM. I’ll be working on the baby steps for this in the coming weeks, so keep an eye out in this forum as I’ll be posting.
Finally, if anyone else is looking at this with fresh eyes and hasn’t yet volunteered, feel free to!
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Just a heads up, got the cart guide out of the way… and have a couple of busy days ahead. Calem, still working on the sound files with Chris… had a chat with him the other night and forgot to ask. Sorry. Will bend his ear soon.
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Hi All!
Longtime lurker on several sites, only really getting into things recently (ever since I left my job :/). But I’m pretty optimistic! Anyway, my job was actually in marketing…well, marketing consumer goods to retail chains, but many skills carry over to internet marketing.
About me: I live in New York, I’m 23, I have a BS in Biology, Rudimentary coding experience, and am a strong writer (ignore this right now, I’m being informal/in a rush). I’m looking to get more involved in the community here, which I feel is far more vibrant than other currently cryptos. Let me know if I can be of any help.
Alex
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[quote name=“andr3jmb” post=“39174” timestamp=“1386095649”]
Is it possibile to translate wallet? This is probabily good start to local suport :)
[/quote]Peter (Bushstar) and I have been looking into the translation files for the Feathercoin Wallet. There is a generic translation system, and you can choose your language in Settings / Options / Display.
We are part of the Bitcoin protocol and most of the translation work for that is “up stream”.
We also report bugs, and in future code back there if applicable to all Bitcoin protocol clients. Any changes and extra translations will trickle down, or be can patched to all the Bitcoin forked projects.
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Hi All!Longtime lurker on several sites, only really getting into things recently (ever since I left my job :/). But I’m pretty optimistic! Anyway, my job was actually in marketing…well, marketing consumer goods to retail chains, but many skills carry over to internet marketing.
About me: I live in New York, I’m 23, I have a BS in Biology, Rudimentary coding experience, and am a strong writer (ignore this right now, I’m being informal/in a rush). I’m looking to get more involved in the community here, which I feel is far more vibrant than other currently cryptos. Let me know if I can be of any help.
Alex
[/quote]Alex, you are most definitely going to be of help here. And yes, your skills sound like they are quite easily transferrable to slightly different mediums. Keep an eye out on the forums as I will be posting openly to the media team. You are actually our first US volunteer - and NYC has so much going on that it would be awesome to have your sales/marketing experience to rely on.
Thanks!
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Just a heads up, got the cart guide out of the way… and have a couple of busy days ahead. Calem, still working on the sound files with Chris… had a chat with him the other night and forgot to ask. Sorry. Will bend his ear soon.
[/quote]Hey that’s ok. No huge rush. I’ll start talking with Hizzle and try contact my guitarist friend in the mean time.
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I have been enrolled in bilingual schools for half my life, so I think I would be able to do English/Dutch translations if needed. I saw Bittylicious putting up a Dutch website so I guess they will be selling BTC in the Netherlands pretty soon, and I expect FTC (if succesful in the UK) to follow! :)
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Hi team! I like to think I do my part by telling everyone I meet about cryptocurrency, however one fact bothers me very much about cryptos and that is the fact there isn’t a standard rate i.e. 1 FTC=$1 USD. And not just putting that on FTC, no crypto has a flat rate and this in my experience has been the deterrent to potential investors. I have a self directed investment account with Merrill Edge that I do trading and investments with so I enjoy trading cryptos on BTC-E because it is so much faster (to earn or lose money) but I am mining the FTC so other than the 0.08 per kWh (almost a dollar a day for ~30FTC) my investment cost is minimal. To my potential prospects, I have no way of convincing them to invest thousands of dollars into mining hardware, or otherwise investing into the coin itself when there is nothing other than thin air backing the coin. What do we need to do to have the FTC backed by a physical item? My thoughts of cryptos are this BTC=Gold, LTC=Silver, FTC=Bronze. Although I don’t believe all other cryptos to be obsolete or worthless, I believe all other cryptos will have to be/should be converted in to one of the 3 main cryptos to be used/traded/spent. Again, BTC is already compared to gold and many, many observers have concluded that 1 BTC value will be equal to 1 oz. Gold. I can somewhat agree with that price point because of the rarity of the coin is similar to the rarity of the metal. However, it is all just speculation because none of the coins are actually backed by anything. Is that correct or am I completely wrong? I had 10 BTC I sold when the price was $1050.00 per coin cashed out, bought 5 LTC for $9.99 a piece and sold them when they reached $42.00, cashed out and have been mining FTC ever since because I believe that FTC will be used for everyday transactions if and when we figure out how to become mainstream currency and I think that will only happen when the three main cryptos (BTC, LTC,FTC) are backed by the metals? and value they represent.
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This may be true Blooddog but no currency has “flat rate”. Currencies have exchange rates as well that go up and down, they’re just more stabilized.
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That is my point, they are more stable because they are backed by a real commodity. If you do not already, go to BTC-E and watch the charts, the amount of +/- fluctuations across all the coins is…appalling? I don’t even know the right word to use.
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That is my point, they are more stable because they are backed by a real commodity. If you do not already, go to BTC-E and watch the charts, the amount of +/- fluctuations across all the coins is…appalling? I don’t even know the right word to use.
[/quote]Let me help you out with that right word(s): The amount of fluctuation in the price of a new, emerging, and highly disruptive technology that we’re seeing is “highly predictable”.
Every time bad news comes out, it loses a bunch. When good news happens, it gains a bunch. When the pump and dumpers pump it, it goes up, and when they dump it, it goes down. It’s very regular.
Now look at the 4 year chart for Bitcoin, and change your scale to “logarithmic”. Now instead of a bunch of fluctuation, you see a straight line with a few peaks and valleys here and there.
Wait, what? A straight line? It’s the same chart… it’s just now being plotted in terms of percentage of growth instead of price against an asset which is rapidly being devalued by inflation.
Alt-crypto-currencies have experienced a steady rise against fiat-currencies without any backing as well. All backing does it make a centralized party responsible for taking the loss on price fluctuation, but the correct move for crypto-currencies is to continue to appreciate in value. This is the long term trend for crypto-currencies against fiat-currencies WITHOUT backing against metals. Why on earth you would want to stop this trend is beyond me, say nothing for how you would actually go about doing it.
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Kevlar, what obstacles do you see preventing cryptocoins from getting main stream acceptance? Can the government interfere and take them down?
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I’d like to apply to assist. I just completed my degree and am working on my consulting business while I apply for bricks and mortars employment. I’ve got some time to devote. I’m capable of working at any level. Do you still need assistance?
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I’d like to apply to assist. I just completed my degree and am working on my consulting business while I apply for bricks and mortars employment. I’ve got some time to devote. I’m capable of working at any level. Do you still need assistance?
[/quote]Of course - I’ve added you to our team list and will be in contact shortly. Where are you based?
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[quote name=“futureproof” post=“40302” timestamp=“1386280525”]
Kevlar, what obstacles do you see preventing cryptocoins from getting main stream acceptance? Can the government interfere and take them down?
[/quote]Number one problem I see is education. People just haven’t heard about them, or if they have, they don’t know all the facts. Many people I’ve spoken to took one look at the “assassination market” article on forbes.com and said, “Nope!”, which really made me realize just how important public perception is with regards to this. Of course if they knew what their dollar bills were being used for, the same people would probably throw their bills in the fire place and demand to be paid in solid gold bars.
When people are properly educated about it, the overwhelming majority of people are very keen to the idea.
Yes, absolutely the government can interfere… but interfering and breaking are very different.
They could, for instance, make a huge purchase. They could do this, presumably, as much as they want by printing more cash, but to do so would drive the price of Bitcoins up, and the value of cash down, so that’s a losing proposition. It might be a end-game maneuver for a currency that they plan on abandoning. I think China is on the verge of doing this.
They could also liquidate a bunch of the ones they’ve seized, driving the price down.
The could regulate them, like China’s government just did, saying that banks can’t use it as a form of inter-banking trade, but to a more extreme end. It’s unclear if China’s move was a good one or a bad one, the jury is still out.
They could do like Germany, and declare it an acceptable unit of account.
What they can’t do is stop people from treating it like a currency. They can’t stop people from owning it, trading it, exchanging it for goods and services, and treating it like a store of their value. They can’t impose a tariff on it like they do traded goods (or at least if they do they can’t enforce it), or seize it like they do money in banks. They can’t print more of it. And perhaps most importantly, they can’t shut it down without shutting down the internet.
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I’m in Ohio, though sometimes I travel across states for work.
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I don’t want to stop cryptos, I participate in mining them and using them, I advocate for cryptos.
Every investor I know will not invest in cryptos until they are backed by “something”. What that something will be remains to be seen.
My point was, I can’t pay my rent with cryptos, Food Lion doesn’t accept my Mt. Gox BTC debit card. McDonald’s doesn’t pay me in Feathercoins, I don’t even have that option.
And just to be clear, the government CAN and WILL seize your cryptos, look at the Silkroad fiasco.
Also, no government may be able to shut off the internet but they most certainly can deny you, and me and everyone else for that matter, access TO the internet. -
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I don’t want to stop cryptos, I participate in mining them and using them, I advocate for cryptos.
Every investor I know will not invest in cryptos until they are backed by “something”. What that something will be remains to be seen.
My point was, I can’t pay my rent with cryptos, Food Lion doesn’t accept my Mt. Gox BTC debit card. McDonald’s doesn’t pay me in Feathercoins, I don’t even have that option.
And just to be clear, the government CAN and WILL seize your cryptos, look at the Silkroad fiasco.
Also, no government may be able to shut off the internet but they most certainly can deny you, and me and everyone else for that matter, access TO the internet.
[/quote]You obviously don’t know the Winkelvoss twins. The USD isn’t backed by anything at all anymore, yet foreign countries stockpile it. You can’t pay your rent with cryptos… yet. I can. I showed my landlord what it was all about and now he’s excited to get the rent check in Bitcoins. Food Lion may accept gift cards which can be purchased on gyft.com for BTC.
And just to be clear, the government CANNOT seize cryptos from encrypted wallets. The Silk Road fiasco happened because DPR was sloppy as fuck, and they STILL can’t unencrypt his personal wallet. All it takes is 10 seconds to make Bitcoins unseizable.
Also no government can deny you access to the internet. The recent revolution in Egypt made this point very clearly when the government tried to cut off access, and the people found ways around it by the hundreds of thousands.
Your arguments do not hold up under scrutiny I’m afraid.
