How about we get some roadmap or whitepaper, details are a bit sparse at the moment.

K I actually sold the bottom. Still in profit but looking to get back in..

Just saying, doing really good right now!

Ditto.

I don't remember this name before, what was the other one about?

Currency is probably the least interesting aspect of crypto. It's just everybody's too greedy to realise that. The people that do realise where the value is work in industry now.

I'm all for anarcho capitalism, build a platform that is censorship resistant and immune to central governance and yet easy to use with low barrier of entry and you have a winner. All great things start small.

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I think some people lean a little too much on libertarian ideals.

Crypto needs a bit of centralization. The exchanges you trade on could at any time take the money and run, we all know the famous incidences of this scenario happening in the past. The ones that stay garner a bit of trust and support, and that is exactly what we hope to do.

We built a functional site that we're continuing to develop more features for continuously. We plan on making HIRE the 'lubricant' of the site enabling people to get more out of it than just payments.

HIRE was always meant to help the crypto freelancer community have a platform to sell their services, and at the same time serve as a way for people to transact globally without worrying about converting currency, wiring money etc. etc. It also settles the payments directly in the currency chosen for payment, side stepping hurdles with paying through other trust based payment providers.

At the end of the day, the solution we have built and are continuing to build can be reached and used by absolutely any body in the world right from their browser. Sure, sys and bay have really innovative (and kudos to them) techie solutions to decentralizing market places, but let us not forget that despite their wonderful innovations in providing trust-less smart contracts for transacting without normal escrow, they were both mired in scandals at their beginning that could have largely been prevented. All the had to do was apply their clearly strong vision of not relying on escrow and perhaps use some of the tech they developed instead.

As I have mentioned in an earlier reply, I don't believe that building on the chain decentralised market places have enough traction not because the tech isn't "useful" or "valuable", but rather it has an inherent barrier to entry. Centralizing aspects of the platform means that we can reach a larger pool of users which is better for everybody. More jobs for freelancers, and more services to choose from.

If you do not want to support the project, then simply don't. We're not going anywhere, and we're still going to work on bringing more to the site.

Infact, in the next few weeks, you'll start to see HIRE have some unique uses on the site as well as being accepted for payment.

 

 

Note, we're not a decentralized market place.

It was an idea which we felt would have been more of a technical exercise and not really used.

There are plenty of coins with decentralized markets, and basically nobody uses them at all.

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The coin itself is nothing particularly unique in terms of technical innovation. This however doesn’t rule out implementing things like decentralised markets for which half of your questions relate to.

This was a conscious choice. Our aim was never to bring an underlying technical innovation to a coin, instead, we wanted to develop a platform for people to list their services and make money settled in crypto.

In a sense, $HIRE can be compared to what securities are for companies. Nobody asks what technical innovations one security have over another because their value isn’t derived from being technically distinct. Value proposition aside, $HIRE was created as an opportunity for us to create something that people will actually find useful. How people want to assign value to what we produce against the value of the coin is down to the market, not us.

Despite this, we can figure out ways to make the ecosystem very worthwhile for holders of $HIRE, this would likely come in the form of $HIRE bonuses for referrals, activity based payouts, advertising payouts and even adjusted fee structures for $HIRE.

User information is secured using encryption with SHA512. We do not store funds on the same server as the site database so in the event that the site is compromised, neither funds or user information will be useful or available to attackers.

Buyers and Sellers communicate through the website. Email notifications will be sent when gigs are purchased.

Buyers are protected from fraudulent service providers through escrow, the number of days specified for delivery would be stated and locked in once the order has been made. In the event that there is a dispute, the order can either be cancelled by the seller or the dispute is raised and we will look at the dialogue ourselves to resolve the matter.

Finally, I know you are looking for investing into technical innovation, and that is absolutely fine, if you don’t feel like we have anything unique, then absolutely just brush us aside.

I have left out answering some of your other questions because we’re not storing information on the chain. We don’t believe everything has to implement decentralisation, however it isn’t beyond the scope of the project to implement some of the mentioned features at a later date.

We want the site to be a bridge for people who wish to freelance, and we give them a low barrier of entry into dealing with crypto.

We did consider building decentralized markets, and some form of “Smart Contracts” protocol into the actual coin using multi-sig and Bitmessage and we may still go this direction after we are happy with the site.

As it stands though, you may not feel like investing for lack of ‘technical innovations’ but we stand by the fact that we want to bring something useful to the community that simply doesn’t exist in the way we’ve envisioned it.

A whitepaper is not limited to only delivery of technical concepts. Its clear, you seem to be more technically inclined which is fair but again, building a service product doesn't require a full technical overview.

When the project started, we wanted to solve some problems we identified with current services for freelancing and we observed a niche that could be filled with our service.
Clearly, our website is different to CoinToPay and we've chosen to go about the route of settling directly in Crypto and not in fiat. I'm not going to go into depth why that has its benefits, we've all heard that before. Other services like fiverr have integrated  crypto payments and also settle in fiat. Infact, they raised $60M in series D funding just do integrate this.

Many websites, reddit, zapchain changetip etc. have mechanisms for allowing micro-transactions and micro-tipping. And HIRE is in line with that idea. It also served as an opportunity for us to kick-start this project.

Whilst you could argue that users can perhaps get the same from other websites, I would argue that dealing with fiat is something we have chosen to sidestep and thus position ourselves as crypto-only. Furthermore, there is absolutely no reason why having more options to sell their services on other platforms is a problem at all. Especially given that the incumbent competition all settle in fiat and have some what of a oligarchy going on.

As for bag holding Bit hire, we are committed to giving holders the opportunity get real services on a platform where for once, they can do something with the coin instead of as you say bag holding. Again, it is another option and we are not a fault for giving people that option.

We have been running social media (see our twitter, facebook) for several months now, and I know plenty of community members here will back us up in saying that there is genuine interest in the project. I don't know and therefore can't comment on what happens with the coin out the gate, but what we're focusing on doing is continually to update the site and build something that people truly would like to use.

If you have further questions, I will do my best to answer them.

Clearly we've targeted our demographic around Crypto, whilst fiverr received an astonishing $60M in series D funding to essentially integrate Bitcoin Payments through BitPay, they still do not offer settlement in Bitcoin. We allow users to name their price in crypto and settle directly in crypto.

Thank you for the support. And we're looking forward to seeing your listings on the site.

We're building the payment solutions for both, so you will be able to choose which currency you wish to accept. Some extra features will be available for the HIRE, such as part payments, featured listings, tipping and bespoke custom orders for tailored jobs.

Hello HIRE community!

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been busy designing and implementing the payments system for the platform and we’ve taken great care on ensuring our system is resilient to different kinds of attacks. As you can imagine, any platform that involves handling money should have a strong emphasis on security, but at the same time, we still wanted our users to operate the way they have become accustomed to at other places.

So, once we’ve completed some more stress tests and internal testing, we’re going to be rolling out our first update which will allow  users to start actively doing business on the site.

This will mean initially, payments, deposits and withdraws will become available.

We’re going to be releasing this update immediately to the site so there will be some down time for the next day or so, however, we’re very excited to start getting the site active and getting all the freelancers onboard to start selling their services!

A notable competitor “fiverr” secured $60m in series D funding to bring crypto payment solutions to their site, and we’re very proud to be able to do this with the much smaller funding we received! Of course, as we’re a crypto platform, all payments will be made and settled in crypto.

Moving forward, we’ve already begun designing the bonus features on the site available to those who have HIRE tokens, and as soon as we have a concrete list of what features will make our next update, you’ll be the first to know!


Happy Hiring!

Yes, we're also listed on Bittrex.

Thanks to you guys for getting us listed at c-cex!