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    CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS: We are putting together a Feathercoin Media Team

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      Nixxle last edited by

      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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        mnstrcck last edited by

        [quote name=“Nixxle” post=“40316” timestamp=“1386283552”]
        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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        Of course - I’ve added you to our team list and will be in contact shortly. Where are you based?

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          Kevlar Spammer last edited by

          [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?
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          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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            Nixxle last edited by

            I’m in Ohio, though sometimes I travel across states for work.

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              blooddogg757 last edited by

              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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                Kevlar Spammer last edited by

                [quote name=“blooddogg757” post=“40609” timestamp=“1386349147”]
                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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                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.

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                  A Former User last edited by

                  Hopefully without causing any offense, I’d like to say, Kevlar is sorta right.

                  blooddogg, your fears are justified, but crypto’s are backed by software. Brilliant and open source software. It’s a currency where we can all have a say and part.

                  One thing you can’t do with dolars etc, is vote against printing more fiat which is putting the future generations into exponentially more debt…

                  I think crypto’s will survive just fine provided people feel it’s better that we as a group can control our money supply, not some private and faceless corporation which can decide when you can or can’t have access to said money. Untill crypto’s start funding wars which kill millions of innocent people every year, I will believe that it is a currency for the people.

                  Hence why for the next 3 days I’ll be working on some music as a contribution to what I believe in.

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                    MTRisner last edited by

                    [quote name=“Kevlar” post=“40723” timestamp=“1386364969”]
                    [quote author=blooddogg757 link=topic=5200.msg40609#msg40609 date=1386349147]
                    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.
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                    I agree with Kevlar 100% in that EDUCATION is the number one problem. I’m not sure that everyone is familiar with how big this issue is in the US (be gentle), but I can tell you from my experience with our public education system, that it is just as flawed as our currency system and our foreign policy. Given the choice between Ben Bernanke and Kevlar at the helm of the federal reserve, I would choose Kevlar based solely on his posts that I’ve read so far (also, I think he would find some way to shut the place down from the inside, if I’m reading between the lines correctly).

                    Long boring story short, we need to be educated. Not only on how the crypto system works, but also on how the system we’re putting it up against. The average american doesn’t have a clue how our money system works, so why would I expect them to grasp FeatherCoin? Especially if they don’t have an IT background.

                    tl;dr
                    We need to put together very basic educational materials that explain what FTC is at it’s core. I will help in any way that I can.

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                      MTRisner last edited by

                      [quote name=“Calem” post=“40980” timestamp=“1386399282”]
                      Hence why for the next 3 days I’ll be working on some music as a contribution to what I believe in.
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                      Hey Calem, if you need some guitar work recorded for any FTC projects, let me know. I’ve been playing for 14 years and I have a Pro Tools HD rig ready to go. Here’s a link to my band’s soundcloud that I set up (we’re getting ready for an itunes release pretty soon) [url=https://soundcloud.com/nevercast]https://soundcloud.com/nevercast[/url]

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                        CountBlood last edited by

                        Hi,

                        New here but happy to help with the media team.

                        I divide my time between UK and NL, so pretty busy but happy to help.

                        I am an excellent proof-reader, educated to Master’s level. English only unfortunately, but happy to edit/proof-read any document before you send it out.

                        I’m also a software developer and run an IT consultancy so might be able to assist in other ways in the future.

                        Someone asked about a way for the media teams to collaborate using some software that is better than the forums. I can HIGHLY recommend hall.com. We recently completed an evaluation on a slew of platforms for team collaboration for geographically dispersed teams - hall.com came top (against Campfire, GoToMeeting, Skype, MS Lync and a few others I cannot remember).

                        I think we can hall.com for free if since you only pay if everyone is on the same company domain (which we will not be). Also we don’t really need group video/voice conferencing, although you get 1-to-1 for free also.

                        I am not affiliated with hall.com in any way.

                        Cheers,
                        CountBlood

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                          A Former User last edited by

                          [quote name=“MTRisner” post=“41652” timestamp=“1386517331”]
                          [quote author=Calem link=topic=5200.msg40980#msg40980 date=1386399282]
                          Hence why for the next 3 days I’ll be working on some music as a contribution to what I believe in.
                          [/quote]

                          Hey Calem, if you need some guitar work recorded for any FTC projects, let me know. I’ve been playing for 14 years and I have a Pro Tools HD rig ready to go. Here’s a link to my band’s soundcloud that I set up (we’re getting ready for an itunes release pretty soon) [url=https://soundcloud.com/nevercast]https://soundcloud.com/nevercast[/url]
                          [/quote]

                          Definitely. There’s another guy as well who’s got some hardware synth’s. My brother and a family friend of ours is a brilliant guitarist too. So yeah. Once I get organised and finally finish this mix I’m trying to finish off, we could get stuck into some serious collaborations.

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                            HizzleFizzle last edited by

                            [quote name=“Calem” post=“42323” timestamp=“1386641095”]
                            [quote author=MTRisner link=topic=5200.msg41652#msg41652 date=1386517331]
                            [quote author=Calem link=topic=5200.msg40980#msg40980 date=1386399282]
                            Hence why for the next 3 days I’ll be working on some music as a contribution to what I believe in.
                            [/quote]

                            Hey Calem, if you need some guitar work recorded for any FTC projects, let me know. I’ve been playing for 14 years and I have a Pro Tools HD rig ready to go. Here’s a link to my band’s soundcloud that I set up (we’re getting ready for an itunes release pretty soon) [url=https://soundcloud.com/nevercast]https://soundcloud.com/nevercast[/url]
                            [/quote]

                            Definitely. There’s another guy as well who’s got some hardware synth’s. My brother and a family friend of ours is a brilliant guitarist too. So yeah. Once I get organised and finally finish this mix I’m trying to finish off, we could get stuck into some serious collaborations.
                            [/quote]

                            The other guy reporting in! I’m up for some serious collaborations and watching the thread! :)

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                              A Former User last edited by

                              Awesome man. I’ll get MTRisner, you an I working on something real soon. It will be really cool to see what the 3 of us can bring to the table. I know of a platform that will allow us to collaborate with ease. [url=http://www.chinesewhispersmusic.com/]http://www.chinesewhispersmusic.com/[/url]

                              I’ll suss it out and hopefully we can start something next week.

                              (my brother raeyhn is stuck in a remote-ish area and a laptop without the ability to record guitar at the moment)

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                                MTRisner last edited by

                                [quote name=“Calem” post=“42410” timestamp=“1386669013”]
                                Awesome man. I’ll get MTRisner, you an I working on something real soon. It will be really cool to see what the 3 of us can bring to the table. I know of a platform that will allow us to collaborate with ease. [url=http://www.chinesewhispersmusic.com/]http://www.chinesewhispersmusic.com/[/url]

                                I’ll suss it out and hopefully we can start something next week.

                                (my brother raeyhn is stuck in a remote-ish area and a laptop without the ability to record guitar at the moment)
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                                That site is going to be awesome! It’s one of those ideas that I see and think, “Why in the world did I not think of this?”. I signed up.

                                Quick question. Does your brother have a cell phone? I have a buddy of mine who isn’t set up to record at his place, so he’ll record his parts with his cell phone and I just use it as a scratch track to lay down a higher quality recording of what he plays. We could at least use that type of a recording to get some of his ideas/input.

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                                  A Former User last edited by

                                  [quote name=“MTRisner” post=“42494” timestamp=“1386687455”]
                                  Quick question. Does your brother have a cell phone? I have a buddy of mine who isn’t set up to record at his place, so he’ll record his parts with his cell phone and I just use it as a scratch track to lay down a higher quality recording of what he plays. We could at least use that type of a recording to get some of his ideas/input.[/quote]

                                  Well, Yes actually. That could work out just fine. I’m assuming his laptop has a built in web cam but he does also have an android based phone. Which reminds, we were trying to find an android feathercoin wallet… note to self… must do looking or raise this question…

                                  Anyways, yeah. I’ll get in contact with him and see what he thinks. In fact, I’ll get him to start been on the forum more… Will make things a thousand times easier.

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                                    mattmct last edited by

                                    I’m willing to throw my hat into the ring and help.

                                    I’m from England (so have the same accent as most of the Feathercoin founders haha) but live in Southern California (LA area).

                                    I’m self employed in the publishing / online media area for technology products., Have experience in SEO, marketing, video production / editing. YouTube etc.

                                    I love the community, and would love to help out more.

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                                      SkullandHeadphones Regular Member last edited by

                                      Hey Mattmct,

                                      I’m a music producer, and I did and album of the summer I would gladly let you use one of my tracks for this.
                                      I’ll send you a link of my work. one way or the other all the best.

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                                        mnstrcck last edited by

                                        CountBlood: Thanks for getting in touch and suggesting a team-collab alternative. We’ll be looking to get that set up in the coming weeks. I’ll be in touch very shortly on the forums.

                                        mattmct: Awesome! Keep an eye out - I’ll be posting shortly to get cranking on the first few steps.

                                        Thanks again for replying everyone!

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                                          mattmct last edited by

                                          Cool, will do mnstrcck.

                                          Cheers SkullandHeadphones!

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                                            A Former User last edited by

                                            Bumping this back into view. I think we have someone who will complete this package…

                                            http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,7388.0.html
                                            [quote name=“webbs” post=“56709” timestamp=“1391378191”]
                                            Hey Guys

                                            I Just introduced myself in the newbie section, hello again!

                                            I am a designer animator with loads of experience with global brands,

                                            I am invested and i am thinking of creating a 30 second animated viral spot for FTC to help the community and dare I say help my investment ;-) (I am a whore what can I say)

                                            obviously I can’t show alot of my work here for contractual reasons but here a some private things I’ve done over the last year or so for you to look at and maybe you could let me know if you would want me to take a stab at it.

                                            My General reel http://vimeo.com/66241895

                                            Avatar this is not but on the tiny budget we had this turned out ok http://vimeo.com/27144971

                                            Something I did for the Rozzers to try to stop pissed people getting in more trouble http://vimeo.com/27912351

                                            I think if I was to commit I would ask for your ideas/contributions to a brief of what everybody thinks is the key message we need to portray from which I would produce a script for peer review before committing to any work.

                                            Anyway thoughts comments and the like please!

                                            Very best and look forward to talking to you all

                                            Webbs
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                                            Stay tuned everyone…

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