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Thank you!

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Thanks!!!!

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Thanks!

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Thank you very much!

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That's good, MP3 and WAV are easiest.

Would you pay 25 cents for a ringtone that nobody on the planet has (yet), especially if that ringtone was Bitcoin related?

There are usually two types of ringtones:  Music ringtones and sound clips.  Imagine if you received a call at a party or crowded room and some goofy cartoonish voice started screaming "Bitcoin" from your phone     Might it be a good conversation starter?

Would anyone here pay 25 cents for custom, original ringtones?

Hello, everyone!   

I have decided to go through with starting up a Ringtones for Bitcoins service.  I am a musician of many instruments and would like to create unique and original ringtones to be purchased for Bitcoins!

My goal is to make these ringtones easily available to consumers with different types of phones, and, most importantly, I want to provide them at a very low cost.  Whereas typical ringtones cost between $2-$4 USD, I would like to make these ringtones available for 25-50 cents.  I hope to create a diverse lineup of ringtones for all of your musical (or quirky) tastes.  Of course, you can also expect to find ringtones that specifically relate to Bitcoin

Feedback for this poll is important.  I am curious to know what formats of ringtones are most widely used.  I have found it troublesome, for example, to create a ringtone in QCP format with the same clarity as in MP3 format.  If I were to find out that almost nobody uses QCP, I might drop that format entirely.  But, if I find out that many use QCP, then I will have to reconsider my approach.

Any additional feedback is encouraged and welcome!  Thank you in advance for your support

Another "Bitcoin" revolution?

Sounds like drugs.  Some stuffs good, some stuffs bad.  You try to suppress the bad stuff.  Sometimes an improvement on bad is still bad.  I'm not saying that's the case with Bitcoin, I'm saying I don't know.

You're creating a false dichotomy, and that's beside the fact that Bitcoin is trying to un-invent or suppress fiat. 

I think you are misunderstanding what I mean by "cater to the rich" in the way that you say "for the rich."

By cater to the rich, I mean that it will either 1) help the rich get richer at the expense (direct or indirect) of those less wealthy or 2) will naturally be easier for a rich person to acquire and use than a poor person.  I mean 'cater' in an accoutremental or ergonomic kind of way. 

As an example of #1:  If you can afford to buy a house outright (i.e. you are rich) then you end up paying less than if a poor person bought the same house because of the interest he would have to pay.  Thus, rich people are more likely to be homeowners (duh ).  This is where gentrification starts.  Rich people move near other rich people, property values go up; poor people move near other poor people, property values go down.  But, either way, anyone who isn't rich takes out a loan/mortgage.  Bitcoin is great, but I don't see Bitcoin being so equally distributed among the population such that everyone can afford to buy a home without a loan.  I haven't really spent time thinking about how we could manage to have bank lending on the scale we do if it weren't for fractional reserve banking.  How will Bitcoin change this?

As an example of #2:  If you are rich, chances are you were born into at least a fairly wealthy family.  You would have access to people with knowledge of how to handle money and invest it, have access to the latest and fastest technology...heck you can even have money to pay people to handle and invest your money for you using the latest and fastest technology.  This type of example was more along the lines of what I had in mind when I originally asked if Bitcoin catered to the rich.  Rich people have the time to learn about Bitcoin, would be more likely to be exposed to the type of media that would even consider mentioning Bitcoin, have access to the technology and knowledge (or people) to engage in all aspects of Bitcoin -- mining it, trading it, investing it, buying and selling with it, starting businesses.  Actually, they wouldn't even need to know anything about it.  They could just pay people to build an empire for them.

$84m. might not get you the super yacht of your dreams, but it would allow some rich people the monetary possibility of literally owning the entire Bitcoin market.  I believe that most rich people want to just keep getting richer (otherwise, why not retire or simply volunteer?), and having a lot of money allows you to make a lot of money.  There are thousands of people living today that could swallow the entire Bitcoin market at any given time.  And, while you can shift decimal places all you want, the more you do, the more power the rich are allowed.

I asked "what?" because your argument makes absolutely no sense.

We're not talking about fiat.  Just because you can argue that fiat caters to the rich does not mean that you can make any conclusions about Bitcoin.  Both can cater to the rich, but if you believe Bitcoin does not, then I would like to hear an argument that makes sense.

...what?

Well, "Bitcoin" would obviously be one of the lyrics.   Other than that, not so much.  I consider song writing (as opposed to, say, music theory) as my greatest musical capacity and I typically write my songs as I go (continually revising, of course), so I honestly wouldn't really imagine having any specifically great ideas until I was already in the middle of the process.  I would also likely write the lyrics last after I have written and completed recording the song.

I really like the first song that was posted.  I mean, I REALLY like it.  But, in my opinion, it gets a few minus points for sounding too much like the Beatles (I actually don't really like the Beatles; they kind of bore me, but this song is pretty) and it also gets a few minus points because I swear they did almost a direct copy of that "down....down" motif.  Not sure where I heard it, though.

I do agree there is room for more, and perhaps this leaves open the possibility for a "Pac-Man Fever" type of song, one in which the word "Bitcoin" is repeated throughout the song, and one that is more geared toward the "novelty" side of things...the kind of song that might get 1,000,000 hits on YouTube in a week and then zero after that. 

Nice!

That's a great opinion.

I was never thinking of a gangsta rap song.  I had never heard Pac-Man Fever before and it's stunning that that was what I was originally thinking; something along those lines.  But, I see your point.

I actually write a lot of rock, acoustic, and piano music and I could easily go more in the direction you're suggesting.  Actually, I think it would be more natural for me.

It'd be nice to hear other opinions too

Hello  This is my first post straight out of the newbie section, so I hope that this isn't a ludicrous idea to many of you.  But, I think there's something to it.

I like to dabble in some music writing from time to time (see the name?).  Since I'm going through this Bitcoin kick, I had an idea that could combine music, Bitcoin, and marketing.  So...

Why not a Bitcoin theme song?  I'm thinking the song needs to (1) be extremely catchy, (2) be extremely cheesy to aid to it's catchiness, (3) have simple, cheesy, catchy lyrics that are repeatable and that get stuck in your head, and (4) be able to be choreographed either in the form of a line-dance or a tonga conga line.  (I was mixing conga lines with Tonka trucks  )

Of course, only 1990's style rap and hip hop is suitable for this task -- sort of like a M.A.A.R.S. meets Will Smith meets the Space Jam rap song kind of thing.

So, for example (use your imagination here,)  "Na naa na naaaa na na (Do the Bitcoin!) Na naa na naaaa na na (Do the Bitcoin!)"

An additional idea that I had was to try to subtly incorporate various musical motifs from across the world into the song.  You know, like a "we're all in this together" statement.  Maybe some African drums, use of the akebono scale as an Asian motif, Native American wind instruments...but all of it would be integrated so that the song maintains its dance rhythm.  

I figured this might be a good way to help promote Bitcoin, either virally, or if you happen to get about 20 Bitcoin extroverts together someplace.

I would be more than happy to spend the time writing, developing, and producing an official Bitcoin theme song.

What do you all think?

What color skin?

No, actually you will find that -- perhaps to your surprise -- I am not a cat.

Curiosity

Hope it doesn't kill me.

This forum stuff gets deeeeep, doesn't it?