Bounty0x Spotlight article — Decentralized News Network

Decentralized News Network’s bounty campaign is currently live on alpha.bounty0x.io here with 10 million DNN tokens allocated to the bounty campaign!

About Decentralized News Network’s Bounty Campaign

The Decentralized News Network bounty campaign consists of fourteen different bounties and is currently live on alpha.bounty0x.io here!

Write an article about Decentralized News Network — Reward: 625 stakes

Bypass Review System with Bogus Article — Reward: 250 stakes

Discover Major Vulnerability in Review Contract — Reward: 100 stakes

Subscribe to DNN’s Newsletter — Reward:20 stakes

Facebook Page Interaction — Like, Comment, Share — Reward:10–30 stakes

Twitter Page Interaction — Tweet, Retweet, Like, Follow — Reward:10–50 stakes

Join Slack / Telegram — Reward:50 stakes

Subscribe to DNN’s YouTube — Town Hall Series — Reward:20 stakes

Find Major Vulnerability in Review System — Reward: 500 stakes

Discover UI/UX Bug in Alpha — Reward: 100–500 stakes

Discover Token / TDE Contract Vulnerability — Reward: 300 stakes

Alpha Feedback — Reward: 100 stakes

Review Article without Staking Tokens — Reward: 300 stakes

Find Scams and Phishing Attempts — Reward: 200 stakes

For those of us who aren’t familiar, please tell us about your project (problem it solves, team, background, stage of development, roadmap, etc.)

With DNN, we are setting out to rethink journalism and media by using the blockchain to create a censorship-resistant non-hierarchal news publishing platform, capable of incentivizing factual integrity among the community of readers, reviewers, and writers- by way of a cyclical review process.

In light of the influx of fake news and echo chambers, the idea of DNN is to serve as a community-managed fact checking layer that uses blockchain-enabled tokenized incentives, to deliver factually sound articles by way of a gamified review process.

Unlike traditional news organizations that are plagued with a bureaucratic and hierarchical editorial processes, DNN leverages the blockchain to create a publishing flow that incorporates the reader, reviewer/editor, and the writer in a way that does not need centralized oversight, is censorship-resistant, and separates biases from facts.

We have been getting considerable attention from the academic journalism research sector, as well as the blockchain community as a viable solution to and pioneer in addressing fake news by using the blockchain. We have a well rounded team (http://dnn.media/team), collectively with three decades of mathematics, democratic systems, media, and distributed systems experience. Our team has been together for about a year, and we are truly passionate and driven to continue to make a difference in news and blockchain in general.

For the past year we have been iterating on our live Kovan Testnet deployed alpha version (http://platform.dnn.media/) in an effort to refine the DNN review process before it officially launches. Based on the aggressive roadmap we put together, our goal is to reach mainnet by Q4 of this year.

In terms of partnerships, DNN is well connected with great legal, PR, and crypto-economic-focused firms in the space, which have all been instrumental in helping shape the DNN platform.

Please tell us a little bit about your background? How did you get involved in the crypto space?

Samit Singh (CEO/Co-Founder) and myself (“Dondrey Taylor” CTO/Co-Founder) were introduced to blockchains in the later half of 2013, when we began mining Bitcoin as a way to gain insight into using blockchains as a medium of exchange. During the same year we started a company called BTC Innovations- a cryptocurrency mining and consultancy company that we used to scale our mining operation in the states- which is currently one of the biggest Ether mining farms spanning between North Carolina, US and New Jersey, US. Around late 2015 to early 2016, when Ethereum came onto the scene, we decided to shift our mining from Bitcoin to Ether. In doing so, we came up with the idea of building an Ethereum blockchain application called Decentralized News Network (DNN). The whole inspiration for the idea came from the polarizing events that unfolded during the U.S. presidential election. You had ramped fake news, political pandering, and ultimately a growing mistrust in mainstream media reporting- much of which was amplified by misaligned incentives between news organizations and the general public.

As a bounty host, what types of bounties do you need completed?

The DNN bounty program is split between marketing initiatives and bug discovery. A significant part of the success of DNN is dependent on the community, which is why a big part of our bounty program will be devoted to building up an engaged community on slack (http://slack.dnn.media) and telegram (https://t.me/DNNMedia).

What tips do you have for the bounty hunters that would like to complete a bounty for your company?

Familiarize yourself with all of DNN’s material. Throughout last year we had some amazing conversation on our town hall (http://dnn.media/townhall), and had some amazing interviews with individuals from both journalism and blockchain. In addition to reading our detailed whitepaper, we encourage everyone to try out the DNN alpha review process (http://platform.dnn.media/alpha).

We are extremely responsive on slack (http://slack.dnn.media) and telegram (https://t.me/DNNMedia), so if you have questions please do not hesitate to ask us anything about the project to literally any extent you wish.

We value the community tremendously because without the community’s support, the DNN project would not be possible.

How do you see the future of bounty campaigns and how can Bounty0x help?

I believe bounty campaigns are a great way to build up an engaged community and awareness for crypto projects. In the future I see bounty programs becoming more standardized and aligned with the incentives of platform focused projects which is where I see Bounty0x coming in. Bounty0x is a great site because it aggregates the bounty campaigns from various projects in a searchable feed that makes it easier for bounty hunters.

How did you hear about Bounty0x?

/r/ethereum on Reddit

What excites you most about the crypto space right now?

What excites us the most about the crypto space isn’t so much the cryptocurrencies, but the real world applications that blockchains (“the technology behind them”) enable, that otherwise wouldn’t be possible with more traditional network stacks. What Satoshi Nakamoto really gave us was not just an amazing way to implement digital money, but a way to transact over a network without trusting the participants of the network- and driven by incentives. The applications of a trustless networks are limitless and something we are extremely excited about!

Where do you see the crypto space heading in the next few years?

The crypto space is headed for a future that is more inclusive of people that don’t have extensive knowledge of its inner workings. Much in the same way consumer facing applications abstracted the nitty gritty details of the early internet, so too will dApps (“Decentralized Applications”) for the world of crypto. The key for blockchains today and in the coming years will be to focus on breaking out of the enthusiast communities and achieve mass adoption, much of which is a big part of DNN’s goal.

Where people can go to learn more about you. (Social Media Links, telegram, reddit, etc.)

http://slack.dnn.media/ https://t.me/DNNMedia https://medium.com/@dnnmedia https://twitter.com/DNN_Blockchain https://www.facebook.com/DNNBlockchain/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DNNMedia/ https://github.com/dnnmedia

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