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NXT General Discussion => General (non-client) NXT Talk => Topic started by: NiftyNikel on December 03, 2013, 06:35:22 AM
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Let's get some goals listed out so we can get items prioritized and give direction for those who would like to pitch in. What other ideas can we add to the list?
1. NXT Logo
- Ongoing discussion: https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,6.0.html
2. Client Development / Features
- Work to further develop client.
- Current Discussions:
https://nextcoin.org/index.php/board,4.0.html and https://nextcoin.org/index.php/board,6.0.html
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=5pecuc37ktdrohli90c0erm2b5&topic=345619.0
- [ST000] "bounties for developing NXT software and services e.g. Merchant solutions like Bitpay"
3. Exchange Development
- Further development of the DGEX exchange. Exchange support: https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,3.0.html
4. Forum Organization / Develpment - Moderators: [drexme] and [opticalc]
- Forum Board: https://nextcoin.org/index.php/board,10.0.html
- Create various sections to help organize the forum
- Need to add favicon of selected Logo to forum
- [drexme] "We need a couple of moderators to look over the forums when admin is gone."
- [drexme] "Maybe we could add some translations to get more people to NXT."
Russian: https://nextcoin.org/index.php/board,17.0.html
- [mcjavar] "And I could translate into Germand and Hungarian."
German: https://nextcoin.org/index.php/board,13.0.html
Hungarian: https://nextcoin.org/index.php/board,14.0.html
- [kevinkms] "I can do some translation in chinese"
https://nextcoin.org/index.php/board,15.0.html
- [salsacz] "Sign me up for the translations into Czech language"
https://nextcoin.org/index.php/board,16.0.html
5. NXT Reddit Page - [Alias]
- [Alias] "Should we set up a Reddit page for Nxt? In the style of the following http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/ and http://www.reddit.com/r/peercoin."
6. Get listed on coinmarketcap.com
- Now listed on http://coinmarketcap.com > Great Job Alias
7. What is NXT video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8dLMoZLMzM Topic: https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,57.0.html
8. NXT tutorials
9. Advantages of NXT
- Different formats
10. Social Media Organization
- Members to actively monitor/update social media outlets
11. Giveaways leading back to Forum
12. Conferences
- Updated article on Bitcoin Conference from Coindesk http://www.coindesk.com/inside-bitcoins-conference-las-vegas/
- Vegas Conference coming up December 10 Topic: https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,84.0.html
13. Opt-in News
14. Myths and Misconceptions
- https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,54.0.html
15. Activism
- [ST000] "Bounties for non programmers e.g. creating videos, signing up Merchants to the service above"
- [ST000] "Buy some NXT, tip 10 people on Reddit 10 NXT and get 500 NXT]
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- I think We need a couple of moderators to look over the forums when admin is gone.
- Maybe we could add some translations to get more people to NXT
- This forum could be bigger if more people from around the world join in.
Just 3 from the top of my head.
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We should strive to get Nxt onto www.coinmarketcap.com (http://www.coinmarketcap.com) to show how it stacks up against competing cryptocurrencies.
This is the coinmarketcap thread on bitcointalk - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=199685.0
As far as I see the requirements for a listing are to have an "Abe (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Abe (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Abe)) based block explorer" and a means of determining the current Nxt/BTC exchange rate. Would a simple API on dgex.com suffice?
From poster huyha123 recently in coinmarketcap thread:
specify these 2 to be added.
1. block explorer
2. one market where it trade
- I can do some translation in chinese 8)
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As far as I see the requirements for a listing are to have an "Abe (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Abe (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Abe)) based block explorer" and a means of determining the current Nxt/BTC exchange rate. Would a simple API on dgex.com would suffice?
Yea maybe you / someone can go ahead and inquire what's required, we already have simple market data at http://dgex.com/ticker.cgi and will soon add buy and sell levels API.
Does the NXT block explorer comply with the Abe requirements?
Other parts are progressing nicely, we now have the mods here and there is a DGEX charts bounty on the new bounties section on this forum.
- And I could translate into Germand and Hungarian.
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As far as I see the requirements for a listing are to have an "Abe (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Abe (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Abe)) based block explorer" and a means of determining the current Nxt/BTC exchange rate. Would a simple API on dgex.com suffice?
Yea maybe you / someone can go ahead and inquire what's required, we already have simple market data at http://dgex.com/ticker.cgi and will soon add buy and sell levels API.
Does the NXT block explorer comply with the Abe requirements?
Other parts are progressing nicely, we now have the mods here and there is a DGEX charts bounty on the new bounties section on this forum.
I just realized that coinmarketcap probably wants the blockchain explorer to determine the number of coins in circulation! We will only ever have 1 Billion - so that's taken care of already! Your ticker page might be sufficient. Excellent!
Edit: The current market cap right now (Latest Trade: 1 Nxt = ฿0.00001099, ฿1 = $1073.05) is $11,792,819.5! We'd rank 11th on www.coinmarketcap.com (http://www.coinmarketcap.com) right now!
Quote from Gliss on Bitcointalk who is the creator of coinmarket cap:
Quote from: hilariousandco on November 27, 2013, 11:39:09 AM
What's the criteria for new currencies to be added to the list?
1. It's a crypto-currency
2. It's traded on an exchange with an API
3. There is a URL somewhere that shows the total supply of coins in real time
- Should we set up a Reddit page for Nxt? In the style of the following http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/ (http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/) and http://www.reddit.com/r/peercoin (http://www.reddit.com/r/peercoin).
If nobody else wants to do it, I'll have a go.
- Great idea Alias!
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Should we set up a Reddit page for Nxt? In the style of the following http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/ (http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/) and http://www.reddit.com/r/peercoin (http://www.reddit.com/r/peercoin).
If nobody else wants to do it, I'll have a go.
I think this is a great idea Alias. If you would like to get it going, that would be great!
- Sign me up for the translations into Czech language
- Great job Nifty. This is exactly what we need to get moving in the right direction on all fronts.
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Great job Nifty. This is exactly what we need to get moving in the right direction on all fronts.
Thanks Nexthead! Glad to have you here to help out!
- Another user set up the reddit page here - http://www.reddit.com/r/nxtcoin (http://www.reddit.com/r/nxtcoin). The name "Nxt" was already taken as a subreddit name too. I have contacted the owner of /r/nxtcoin to see if I can be allowed to be a moderator and I will further develop the page.
I'm waiting on a reply from the creator of coinmarketcap.com, Gliss, to see if we already have everything we need to get set up or if we need to wait for Graviton to develop the dgex.com API further so that Gliss can grab the price of the latest trade to calculate the market capitalization (simply by multiplying it by 1,000,000,000). This might suffice - http://dgex.com/ticker.cgi (http://dgex.com/ticker.cgi).
- Other suggestions to add
1. What is NXT video
2. NXT tutorials
3. Advantages of NXT
* Different formats
4. Social Media Organization
5. Giveaways leading back to Forum
6. Conferences
* Vegas Conference coming up December 10
7. Opt-in News
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Other suggestions to add
1. What is NXT video
2. NXT tutorials
3. Advantages of NXT
* Different formats
4. Social Media Organization
5. Giveaways leading back to Forum
6. Conferences
* Vegas Conference coming up December 10
7. Opt-in News
Thanks for the ideas Nexthead! They are now added to the master list.
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Gliss (creator of www.coinmarketcap.com (http://www.coinmarketcap.com)) just private messaged me on Bitcointalk.
Just added Nextcoin :)
I had originally contacted him with this a few hours earlier:
Hi Gliss,
Sorry to bother you like this. I would just like to know if the following URL is sufficient for you to grab the latest traded value of our cryptocurrency NxT - www.dgex.com/ticker.cgi ? To calculate the market cap all you have to do is multiply by 1 billion as this is the total cap on coins and they are all in circulation (and will continue to be in the future). If that URL is insufficient for you, what is it exactly that you are looking for?
Everyone in the NxT community would greatly appreciates your time and effort.
Thank you,
Alias
Go team!
Please tick item number 6 off the list NiftyNikel! :)
- Please add this underneath #7
https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,57.0.html
- 14. Myths and Misconceptions
https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,54.0.html
- Please add under #12
https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,84.0.html
- Updated.
- The client desperately needs attention given to the bugs it has - I've not been able to send NXT with any version of it and I doubt I'm the only one. Coloured coins and other clever stuff are going to mean nothing if nobody uses the client because it's too buggy to begin with.
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The client desperately needs attention given to the bugs it has - I've not been able to send NXT with any version of it and I doubt I'm the only one. Coloured coins and other clever stuff are going to mean nothing if nobody uses the client because it's too buggy to begin with.
Valid concerns.
1. The developers are kicking new versions out almost daily. It's come a long way in just a few days for me personally, however, like you said, it still has a ways to go.
2. Not everyone is a developer. While those guys spend time on the code, there's a list of action items that can be handled in tandem but people with other skills.
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Please add
Updated article on Bitcoin Conference from Coindesk
http://www.coindesk.com/inside-bitcoins-conference-las-vegas/
- Updated.
- The Vegas Conference needs our immediate attention as a community.
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The Vegas Conference needs our immediate attention as a community.
What to do? How to do it?
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The Vegas Conference needs our immediate attention as a community.
What to do? How to do it?
You can take a look at Feathercoin and Peercoin reports when they were at the London Conference as an example. All we need is someone willing to shake some hands and pass out business cards leading people to find out more information about NXT. NiftyNikel provided a link in the main summary page.
- I am sitting in Europe, but if someone pays my flight, I will pay for everything else and am willing to do a lot of PR over there. Just let me know ;)
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I am sitting in Europe, but if someone pays my flight, I will pay for everything else and am willing to do a lot of PR over there. Just let me know ;)
Or... you can help us hunt down a few people that could help spread the word. :)
- I noticed on bitcointalk that Drexme - who has done a great job as a Mod on this forum - started a thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=357403.msg3823315#msg3823315) and is looking to start a NXT giveaway. While distribution of NXT is important to the future of the coin I don't think the traditional cryptocoin giveaway is the right way to go and I thought it might be interesting to have a brainstorming session for the best way to distribute NXT.
Erik Voorhees appeared on the Peter Schiff show (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mUn-d8R98k) and subsequently wrote an open letter to Peter Schiff afterwards (http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1rxmk3/my_open_letter_to_peter_schiff_followup_from_the/) and he made a very good point about the infastructure of Bitcoin being the most important aspect of it. The actual code can be repeated and used to create other coins, but it is all the online stores, brick and mortar shops and services that accept bitcoin and the development that is being poured into bitcoin which makes it so valuable and I think NXT should be looking to create infastructure as soon as possible and the distribution of NXT from the stakeholders could be used for this purpose rather than just giving it away.
I actually have 0 NXT at the moment so I have every reason to want a giveaway but I think there are a lot more innovative and effective methods out there to boost the quality of this coin.
I'm not trying to tell the stakeholders what to do with their coins, they started NXT and the coins belong to them to do with as they please but from what I've seen of the organisation and focus of the people behind this coin the stakeholders will be looking to distribute a large portion of the NXT they hold because it is beneficial to them but I think it is important to do it in the most effective way for the improvement of the coin.
Few ideas I had...
- Lots of decent sized bounties for developing NXT software and services e.g. Merchant solutions like Bitpay
- Bounties for non programmers e.g. creating videos, signing up Merchants to the service above
- Buy some NXT, tip 10 people on Reddit 10 NXT and get 500 NXT
- Yeah, those ideas are pretty good. I thought buying NXT's for $140, sold all of my IFC's at eBay to get that money... And theeen... Bam, "PayPal Pending Funds"... Buyer left me a positive feedback and everything, but funds are still in pending mode and will be there until Christmas. I was thinking to do something like what is your 3'rd idea... Unluckily, thanks to PayPal...
- That is real unlucky. Perhaps you could get some if any of these get off the ground.
To build on #3 it could even involve tipping people on reddit who aren't from crypto and bitcoin subreddits to try and get something going with a different market. But pick the subreddits wisely, /r/technology and /r/books could be 2 good ones. Tip them 10 NXT and post a link explaining what NXT is and how to obtain their NXT.
- Welcom ST000 and SBDomains! Glad to have you in the forums.
ST000, I have updated the master list with your ideas, you had some good ones there!
Do either of you happen to live in Las Vegas? A long shot I know but I gotta ask. We need to get someone to go to the conference so we can start spreading the word!
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How do I get involved in
- [ST000] "Buy some NXT, tip 10 people on Reddit 10 NXT and get 500 NXT]
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Welcom ST000 and SBDomains! Glad to have you in the forums.
ST000, I have updated the master list with your ideas, you had some good ones there!
Do either of you happen to live in Las Vegas? A long shot I know but I gotta ask. We need to get someone to go to the conference so we can start spreading the word!
No I'm from Europe.
How do I get involved in
- [ST000] "Buy some NXT, tip 10 people on Reddit 10 NXT and get 500 NXT]
That is just an idea for now - read my post at the top of this page - and please contribute any ideas yourself.
- Nxt isn't prepared for general public yet
- I agree, not ready yet. Being on coinmarketcap.com at this point is probably less than advantageous. People have most likely seen it, and then went on a hunt for info only to find a very disjointed market. Only convenient way to get nxt is through dgex, which looks like 80's banking software. I think a visually appealing website to link it all together could help. Just some simple wordpress slap together with a nice logo and links to all pertinent info would be nice.
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I agree, not ready yet. Being on coinmarketcap.com at this point is probably less than advantageous. People have most likely seen it, and then went on a hunt for info only to find a very disjointed market. Only convenient way to get nxt is through dgex, which looks like 80's banking software. I think a visually appealing website to link it all together could help. Just some simple wordpress slap together with a nice logo and links to all pertinent info would be nice.
Agreed on that. When we come out of beta, this needs to make it at least onto cryptsy.
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I agree, not ready yet. Being on coinmarketcap.com at this point is probably less than advantageous. People have most likely seen it, and then went on a hunt for info only to find a very disjointed market. Only convenient way to get nxt is through dgex, which looks like 80's banking software. I think a visually appealing website to link it all together could help. Just some simple wordpress slap together with a nice logo and links to all pertinent info would be nice.
I can see they are using a link to this site:
https://nextcoin.org/
Maybe it would be better, if there on that page was embeded video about NXT?
http://wideo.co/view/1302961386354824506-nxt
What do you think?
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I agree, not ready yet. Being on coinmarketcap.com at this point is probably less than advantageous. People have most likely seen it, and then went on a hunt for info only to find a very disjointed market. Only convenient way to get nxt is through dgex, which looks like 80's banking software. I think a visually appealing website to link it all together could help. Just some simple wordpress slap together with a nice logo and links to all pertinent info would be nice.
I can see they are using a link to this site:
https://nextcoin.org/
Maybe it would be better, if there on that page was embeded video about NXT?
http://wideo.co/view/1302961386354824506-nxt
What do you think?
That video is great. Just posted it on my twitter
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I agree, not ready yet. Being on coinmarketcap.com at this point is probably less than advantageous. People have most likely seen it, and then went on a hunt for info only to find a very disjointed market. Only convenient way to get nxt is through dgex, which looks like 80's banking software. I think a visually appealing website to link it all together could help. Just some simple wordpress slap together with a nice logo and links to all pertinent info would be nice.
I can see they are using a link to this site:
https://nextcoin.org/
Maybe it would be better, if there on that page was embeded video about NXT?
http://wideo.co/view/1302961386354824506-nxt
What do you think?
I do like the video, and it should be front and center somewhere. I'm just saying that when you hit nextcoin.org all you are presented with is a link to the forum section. You are then left to hunt for info on your own. There is no direction. If you look at peercoin they have everything you need to know in 30 seconds, and it is all right there. You can watch their video, download their client, find links to social media, and see exchanges where you can purchase them all right there. It is a very complete presentation, and one I think nxt is lacking. Besides, I read somewhere that this is not even the official site but I could be wrong on that.
- Would like to volunteer translating to dutch, also volunteer to be a moderator.
I have made a first tutorial video to. (NXT: 12088507821025750338)
let me know if I can be of any help.
kind regards
pinarello
- I can translate into Norwegian if that is ever needed.
Pm me!
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Maybe it would be better, if there on that page was embeded video about NXT?
http://wideo.co/view/1302961386354824506-nxt
What do you think?
This video isn'4 bad, but maybe to match text. We need it more simple. In which program was it done?