Yes, a reasonable request! But would an Open Source offering serve a longer term need?

I guess that there is an outreach opportunity however, in having an association with a bigger player...

this could be implemented on a site similar to yahoo answers, where regular contributors can get paid for answering questions or maybe writing articles etc

Apologies - I was mistaken in thinking the quandora offering was about the forum? [Smiley for Doh!]

I did a lot of research for Open Source PHP Forum offerings a while back - it's all at home somewhere - will take a look later...

We can give the software a bitmark halving.

The forum acts as a faucet, I will give it 100 BTM, enough for 200 users.

Every user who signs up gets 500 marks (0.5 BTM), each post costs 1 mark which goes back in to the faucet.

Each users post or actions can be marked by other users, this gives them reputation and more marks to give.

When the users reach 50 the reward for joining drops to 375. When it reaches 100 it halves from the original 500 to 250, just as bitmarks block rewards work.

Every time the reward reduces, the cost of each action drops by the same amount.

So the 100 BTM is enough for an almost infinite amount of users, and the more the forum is used, the rarer and more distributed marks get.

For onlookers, 1 Mark is 0.001 BTM, a Mark is also reputation. http://getmarked.org/

Users 1-50 get 500 Marks, and a post costs 1 Mark.
They can mark any post or comment they like, giving marks to the other user
To take moderation actions costs 1 Mark, if others agree that your action was good by doing the same, you all get your Marks back and reputation increase. The spammer or bad poster has lost their mark, you now have it distributed between you.

Users 51-100 get 375 Marks, and a post costs 0.75 Mark.
Users 101-150 get 250 Marks, and a post costs 0.50 Mark.

Since so much of this is new, I think it best to create it from scratch, then open source it so everybody can have their own getmarked forum, where reputation flows between all forums.

It should not take long. We can save time by using markdown for posts, and having sign in using facebook/twitter/google/bitmark-address.

Zadinga, you make good points, and I appreciated your concern.

The IPM Pool is number one, before any of this; it is nearly complete, maybe tomorrow it will be ready for use.

Bitmark.co, getMarked, and the forum, can all be based on the same thing.

Why should Bitmark.co not be the community first, the forum? then expand it with links to other things, to the IPM Pool, the documentation, the code, and the wiki. It will serve us best that way.
Creation of the forum is creation of most of getMarked, so we can lead by example and strike many things off our list at the same time.

I wrote before:


Doing this solves 2, 3, 5, 6, and bitmark.co, and getMarked.org, it provides a place for everybody to come who we outreach to, and by hard working and innovation focussed on adoption 1 will be handled.

It also provides open source versions of what we create, to help other people and further boost bitmark adoption. We lead by example and make things which are useful to us, they will be useful to others too.

They may appear as separate ideas, but they are all linked together and provide usefuless and utility, and encourage adoption.

I have posted above.

The IPM Pool should be ready tomorrow, there is a bug I am testing today, and the user interface is almost complete. By Saturday at the latest.

The client is fine and has already been updated with release binaries modified to have new check points and fix a small bug which affected iOS users.

Bitmark.co is resolved by this, our community and work will all be in one place, on bitmark.co, it will be bitmark.co. It also creates getmarked.

So all the work can be done together, be far more fruitful, and achieve most of our goals.

Is there anything that I have missed?

Correct, and that is why you will often see me online here and in IRC but not responding for a few hours, because I am also working.

There is no need to be concerned, ask yourselves what is outstanding? The IPM Pool and that is all, today we are fixing a bug, a miner and I, one final test, and then launch.

Nothing else is outstanding, bitmark.co was a concern to me as I didn't like the boring unuseful direction it was going, and I thought the over all project needed some things which I mentioned earlier. This last idea sprung from that topic, and solves most of the issues or concerns we have.

I am not infallible, I may have missed something, please check and tell me if there is something else outstanding or that needs done?

I am eager to define the next round of concerted effort, so that in one month from now we have progressed a great deal.

Exchanges are a topic we have already covered. If you want Bitmark on an exchange to buy or to sell ask the exchange or bring them here to discuss any needs we may not have considered.

Correct, getMarked has already been funded with 0.9 BTC, and I am on Bitmark full time until that runs out or more replaces it. Let us remember that getMarked is Bitmark. We are here to use everything stable and mature we can on the core, maintain the core, add new things if they are really needed, and spend all the time we can focussing on adoption.

Project Bitmark is all about adoption. The concept of 'Marks' representing both reputation and money is how we will gain massive adoption.

At this point getMarked is most of Project Bitmark. More on this below...


I think it is perfect.
1. it is nice and provides what we need
2. it can be the first thing to support Marking, and we can test it ourselves live.
3. We can later provide a pull request to discourse so that every discourse based website old and new can support getMarked natively.
4. Jeff Atwood may want to talk about it, which tells nearly every technical person, doer, and tech follower in the world about getMarked.

So my vote is a huge YES, what could be better?

Several people have contacted me asking if getMarked will support this program or that, if we can ask other companies and communities to use it. The answer is yes to everything, in time, that is what we are here to do.

Somebody even suggested BeerAdvocate, how cool would it be for them to have a branded getMarked integration where you can give beers to people? The beers are marks and they can use them to buy beer. "That's a great idea have a beer", and you get beer money. Isn't that awesome?

getMarked is an application anybody can integrate in to anything, the application is just a wrapper for Bitmark support, with the notion that Marks are both reputation and currency.
getMarked.org is the main website to act as a flagship and a fun community, like reddit where the karma is money which flows to all users, and between all getMarked adoptions.

Project Bitmark is all about adoption.

Bitmark is just the core and the currency, the thing keeps it decentralized. From the start I made it clear that a new API and keeping the code always up to date was my commitment to the core, later others will do this.

The new API is dependent on having adoption, on knowing what we need to provide. getMarked adoptions will sometimes not be able to run a full bitmark node, so they will need to use the new API of a collection of public trusted Bitmark nodes. This is why we need a new API, and why getMarked and adoption will power the creation of that API.

Forget the world of QTs and dumps on exchanges. We are here to create a daily use currency with massive adoption, internet wide adoption first and later worldwide. Digital Money.

Every person who ever marks anybody or anything will increase the value of the currency a little, and distribute it a little bit further.

Do you really want to mine empty blocks and sell them to people who are simply hoping that some value is found? or do you want to be powering and protecting a network with massive usage where every day people are trying to swap their fiat for the bitmarks you have mined? Our adoption path is getMarked, where people use Marks, the block reward is 20,000 Marks, how valuable is that?!

Fun.

Mark has far exceeded my expectations, such much so that I have adjusted my understanding of what it means to be a Developer. I have raised my expectations of Mark as well, as are our involvement in Bitmark increases so to does Marks output. At times, Mark has made exponential leaps forward.

I have sent an additional 150 Bitmarks to The Bitmark Foundation, as a reminder to those reading that there are many aspects of Bitmark, we cannot allow the Foundation to be lost in a sea of innovative ideas and proposals.


Note: I will be releasing a Document shortly outlining the role which I has chosen to embrace.