Re: [ANN][DRK] DarkCoin | First Anonymous Coin (DarkSend) | No Premine | Runs 30% cooler than scryp
First draft of Darkcoin bounties
These are subject to change. Please suggest more and give me your feedback.
A quick explanation of how this will work: The "base bounty amount" is not the final bounty, it's a relative figure to make calculations easier. The base figure is adjusted depending on the actual donations we've received in the fundraiser. The "adjusted bounty amount" is what will actually be paid out.
TL/DR: Donate more, and all the bounties will go up!
*** PLEASE NOTE: Translation bounties will apply only to the new website, which is not yet launched! Expect it to be launched within a couple weeks. ***
Fundraising wallet: Xc8xGSP7FwWGPQpgw298z7NYdA8xJK8ooh
PM me your submissions with some kind of proof that it's your work. Some of these bounties are first-in-gets-paid, and some will go into a pool where the best will be judged to receive the bounty (these are marked as such below).
These are subject to change. Please suggest more and give me your feedback.
A quick explanation of how this will work: The "base bounty amount" is not the final bounty, it's a relative figure to make calculations easier. The base figure is adjusted depending on the actual donations we've received in the fundraiser. The "adjusted bounty amount" is what will actually be paid out.
TL/DR: Donate more, and all the bounties will go up!
*** PLEASE NOTE: Translation bounties will apply only to the new website, which is not yet launched! Expect it to be launched within a couple weeks. ***
Fundraising wallet: Xc8xGSP7FwWGPQpgw298z7NYdA8xJK8ooh
PM me your submissions with some kind of proof that it's your work. Some of these bounties are first-in-gets-paid, and some will go into a pool where the best will be judged to receive the bounty (these are marked as such below).
Criticisms:
Your media outreach is a bit unrealistic and it's not helpful to just list the "big boys" and say an article. You want real media outreach. Include the big boys, but you can't expect any of those to take notice of DRK at this point. Your bounty should be way more specific:
1. Compile a list of "influencial" cryptocurrency bloggers to conduct outreach to (approx 10-20 to start). This list needs to include contact information and be approved before outreach begins.
2. Write (and get approved) an outreach letter/email. This should be short and concise introducing the currency, the developer and providing the person you are contacting an incentive to reply back (i.e. the developer is making himself available for an interview, online Q&A sessions).
3. Nominate a single (or no more than a few people) to conduct the outreach. Bounties in the wild will just lead to mass confusion with no one "officially" representing the project. Trust me, if random people just start spamming "WRITE AN ARTICLE ABOUT DRK" with no real connection to the coin, nothing will happen.
You need to set into place some sort of review & approval process if you want to be professional about this. Set up a real process to conduct outreach If the team is inexperienced have them start with the smaller journalists to do trial runs.
The Security Bounties Are Very Vague
If you are really going to control this, you need to really understand the importance of the testing/QA and final endorsement of the security community to this coin.
Again, random, small bounties for bugs isn't the right approach. You need to get someone in place who can do the research to find a notable third-party, respected party in the world of security and crypto to audit the security and the goal being some sort of endorsement at the end of the process. Right now, these are bug-fixes.
This is the most important part of your list and all other stuff needs to be secondary. Again, if this coin can't deliver on the anonymous stuff, all other efforts are in vein. Getting reviewed by/endorsed by someone notable is what you are striving for.