Quote from: Minerals on July 05, 2014, 02:56:54 PM

Here's a quick update on what we are working on right now and what are the plans

The main priority right now is to bring average gamer to the betting service and make sure its simple enough for anybody to acquire Minerals and bet. To solve this problem we need to develop the following:

1. Stream betting pages that will be appealing and easy to use for those who are new to crypto. UI design almost complete. Software ready, just need to update UI when its ready. Those who are betting right now demand a list of live streams to bet on. It will be implemented as well

2. These stream betting pages will also serve as landing pages which will explain people who are new to crypto how to hop in to the party and start making bets. This will include a guide how to quickly acquire some Minerals through tipbots and faucets which will help people to their first steps. We would also love to give an option to buy Minerals with fiat money, but the chargeback problem is still unsolved. Maybe the community will be willing to help with this one. Somebody may even see a business opportunity in selling Minerals for paypal or credit cards for a small fee. We are willing to support any solution that will help people to purchase Minerals quick and easy.
As I said earlier stream betting page UI is almost complete. I will be updating you guys when its finished

3. Referral program. One will be able to promote a stream betting page (or tournament betting page later on) and receive 1-2% of what people win while betting on these pages. This will give streamers an opportunity to promote Minerals betting and receive money for doing it. Referral program is about 50% complete, should be ready in a couple of days.

4. Tournament live betting. Is almost complete. We are testing it right now and if everything goes smooth we will be releasing it for the public test tomorrow. Pick a match that you would like to bet on http://wcs.battle.net/sc2/en/schedule and post it here. The match that will be most voted for will be picked for a public test betting (assuming this betting feature is available for public test by the time when the match will begin)

5. LOL and Dota 2 betting. The concept is still in development, no final design yet, but it seem to be pretty similar to what we currently have for StarCraft II. The reason why we are trying to rush for LOL and Dota 2 is that these are the most popular e-sports games right now and we've got almost everything we need to set up betting process for these games.

These are the main things that we are focusing on right now.

I see lots of people here willing to help Minerals to be successful and there are plenty of things to do:
1. Contact streamers on twitch.tv (mostly StarCraft II streamers) and ask em if they are willing to support Minerals for a donation and a tipbot that we can set up for their channel. Betting referral program will be up and running in a couple of days so theres one more source for the streamers to earn money.

2. Contact those who host tournaments and propose em to establish a Minerals prize pool, we can sponsor em with Minerals as well as I think someone will be wiling to donate their Minerals to the prize pool as well.

3. Contact gaming youtubers and ask them to do a promotional video for bounty. After all its how the future of e-sports betting will look like, they might be interested

4. Test betting betting features and send your reports and suggestions to dev@minerals.pro. There are few people that do that and I am very grateful for their work since it helps us a lot in achieving our main goal - develop a betting service that people will love and enjoy using.

Sorry if I don't post here often. I can see that those who gets betting figured out seem enjoy it even tho its clunky and unclear at its current state. And that is really inspiring. I can assure you that this is now a project of my life. I absolutely love it and I see great potential in it. It is probably hard for me to imagine what you guys feel since you are uncertain what my future plans might be. For me its absolutely clear: Minerals and its betting services is what I'll be working on for the next 10 years.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND that was all I was asking for. A few quick daily updates to keep the community's blood flowing.

Because dev came through....I am ceasing FUD in 3......2......1...... Wink

**back to 4.5-5k sat by tonight?? Perhaps Grin