Thunderclap Campaign Update by G1ng3rBr34dM4n Our Thunderclap Campaign is now about 80% completed. Here are a few of its key ingredients. First, we have a title: "The blockchain is hiring!" We have a description of BitShares: "BitShares is a technology & toolkit striving to enable freedom through solutions for: finance, music, voting, insurance, & much MUCH more." Our Message (what will be tweeted) is complete: "Here's your chance to be one of the first people in history to be employed directly by the #blockchain AND get #paidbyprotocol." And we have snazzy graphic thanks to Cass: [img]http://i.imgur.com/PAlAndV.png[/img]. Mobile Wallet by Elmato We have begun working on a new mobile wallet! We will be releasing the alpha-2 version this week. The iPhone version is 90% complete. After a few more iterations we will publish on PlayStore/iTunes. On/Off ramps BTC are Starting bitUSD/Bitcoin integration next week. Meanwhile, our exposure efforts will be going in two directions. We will be reaching out to local bitcoin-believers to let them know about bitshares using Bytemaster’s pitch from Las Vegas. We will also be approaching tech influencers and local journalists interested in Bitcoin to pitch them about bitUSD/Bitshares and its potential." BitShares the Book and Internet Show by Bitmarket I am very pleased to announce two marketing initiatives have just been released.



First off, www.BitShares.TV, hosted by Max Wright, is a weekly Internet show dedicated to keeping you up-to-date with the world of BitShares. The first 3 episodes are online and ready for you to watch right now. Each episode is designed to give insight to a particular aspect of the BitShares eco system. How BitShares can improve the world we contract, interact, and do business with.



BitShares.TV gives you the inside scoop on the latest developments and allows you to meet the people behind BitShares, from core developers to marketing professionals. Because different aspects of Bitshares appeal to different folks, Bitshares.TV is a great tool to share with your friends to help them get as excited about BitShares as we are. And once a BitShares.TV episode sparks a light bulb in someone’s mind, they are more likely to share it, and get involved… and that is exactly what we want. I hope the TV show will spark enough interest that they understand and get involved in BitShares.



And that is where BitShares 101 comes in. BitShares 101 is the first book ever written dedicated entirely to understanding BitShares. I authored the book and the feedback I have received suggests the book does an excellent job of taking the advanced concepts of BitShares and explaining them in an easy-to-understand way. Even some of the BitShares faithful who received advanced copies of the book were impressed by what they learned, commenting on how easily understandable BitShares becomes.



Here is where you can get your copy of Bitshares 101: A Guidebook on How To Profit From the Next Generation of Bitcoin, Crypto Currencies and Decentralized Businesses for just $0.99. Grab you copy BitShares Vote by Adam Kaleb Ernest My team and I have been heads down, aggressively preparing for our recent demo in California. We had an awesome week, meeting with legislators regarding our BitShares based voting system and networking with voting registrars and officials alike. Our demo went extremely well. We met some serious resistance from established players in the industry, confirming that implementing our voting solution in legitimate elections is a long-term play. The good news is that we definitely made a splash and are continuing to attract all sorts of attention.



Now that crunch time is over, we are really excited to shift our focus to helping BitShares improve all aspects of our marketing, particularly with respect to our online presence and user acquisition methods. I’m an experienced Internet marketer with Will as my padawan in training (don’t worry, he actually has a degree in marketing). We’d like nothing more than to work with the community to establish short term priorities and coordinate to avoid duplication of our efforts. Linkedin Economist Contacts by Delulo I contacted two economists that proved their understanding of the economic properties of crypto currencies. Life of an IT Delegate by Riverhead While the life of an IT delegate should be boring, if all is going well, the last few days have been anything but. Friday saw the introduction of a bad update that caused a number of unnatural forks. The delegates rallied over various communication mediums and were able to recover with the network only going down to 60% participation. Sometimes it's the exceptions that prove the rule. In this case a bad update tested the mettle of DPoS. It passed with flying colours. This event has prompted me to redesign my delegate topology and implement measures to make fielding these issues more streamlined. Most good adventures have scars to go along with their stories. All the delegates now bear such scars and the network is stronger for the experience. Bitsharesblocks .com by svk The biggest news for me is that I'll be dropping down to 50% in my day job starting in January in order to have more time to spend on Bitshares related projects. I've also been hard at work on bitsharesblocks.com – adding translations and rewriting large parts of the frontend code to prepare for open-sourcing. I've learned a lot over the last few months so I've been able to improve a lot of the code so it's now faster and more reliable than ever. I have a bounty running for translations and as a result Bitsharesblocks is now available in seven languages: English, French, German, Chinese, Turkish and Spanish. It has seen a peak of 600 daily visits and about 250 unique users last week, with on average of around 30-40 different countries every day. I've also run a bounty for a new logo that was won by Abell Jeffry who produced a really great looking logo, thanks to him for that. I'll have Bitsharesblocks on github by the end of the year and hope to see lots of good contributions from the community! :). Referral and Faucet by valzav I am developing an accounts registration faucet. It redirects users from the wallet to website where user is asked to signup with facebook/twitter etc, after signing up faucet registers an account for user. It's done, the client's code will be in next release, hope we would be able to launch the faucet by the time of the release. Don't Cry For Me Argentina Don't Cry For Me Argentina by Matt608 I’m starting a campaign to get supporters to vote for argentina-marketing.matt608 to fund marketing campaigns for both Argentina and bitcointalk.



The Argentina Campaign will fund the Buenos Aires meetup giveaway (http://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Argentina/photos/25792368/);

future bitUSD giveaways at meetups; and video production in South America. It will include bitUSD drops to online Argentine groups, Spanish translations of texts + video, Editing of Western marketing videos to target the Argentine market, banner ads, press releases and sponsoring sig space on bitcointalk.



Marketing to bitcointalk readers starts with this BitShares news thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=895637.0 It will be regularly updated using info from cn-members' site http://news.aboutbts.com/. An Official BitShares thread for bitcointalk, packed with updated info will also be created. Give me Liberty Listing by JWF I have taken on the task of trying to aggregate a list of as many of the Liberty Minded sites as possible into a usable form. http://forum.nullstreet.com/index.php/221-list-misc-liberty-resources

This is an interesting task as it involves many "side chains" in the searches that lead to some unusual corners of culture. There are enough connections between the variety of sites/ideologies to evolve this into the Libertarian and Conservative Minded Contact List. This list ranges from Infowars to Liberty News and truthers to preppers.



“IMO neither religion, race, nationality, political affiliation, or economic status should be given preference in our marketing drive, as they ALL deserve the opportunity for financial freedom that BitShares provides.”



This led me to start the Liberal and Green Minded Contact List as well, which is still getting an initial sorting. There is room for people to help with these lists as I can't find all the applicable sites, so please go and comment them with missing information. Google document I

Google document II

Mira is also busy taking the same approach to the precious metals community. Once our client is ready to branch out of the immediate crypto space, we'll be ready to launch a full campaign from day 1. Here's a Toast by HPEnvy Toast reported that, "The core team continues to work on protocol stability, usability, and critical features. Also we started a thin client. It will be stupid-simple and integrate registration more smoothly." Toast has been active on the NullStreet forum providing assistance and insight into BitShares development. If you got the previous newsletter, you might remember that Toast informed us that ShapeShift.io plans on starting BitShares integration in the next few weeks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z7U4kU4NJA. She's Buying a Gateway to Heaven by HPEnvy Insomnia pays off. During my massive Coindesk email campaign, I heard back from someone in Business Development from Coinbase. Although it's not BitShare's first contact with Coinbase, it did help us take another step in proposing some type of gateway relationship. Bytemaster must have said the right things, a proposal request was issued. Read more Beyond Bitcoin by Fuzzy We would like to announce our Delegate Hangout Initiative! Delegate Hangouts are intended to follow the very same model Bytemaster has utilized to maximize community involvement in this project. If you would like to be a part of BitShares history by scheduling a Delegate Hangout of your own, here are some directions: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=12106.new#new. Remember, though the blockchain is trustless--the bitshares ecosystem thrives on shareholder trust. If you want to keep a transparent accounting of your candidacy, it is recommended you follow the example of our BitShares Founding Fathers! Read more Bitcoin conferences Bitcoin Conferences by general info Don't wait for the development team to make a decision if they plan on attending. We need forum members walking around, shaking hands and making contacts. We should have a presence at every event possible.



Miami January 16-18, 2015 TNABC http://btcmiami.com/

London January 24-25, 2015 BitExpo 2015 http://bitcoinexpo2015.com/ All events Faucet Campaigns

Valentine, Method-X and Rune Valentine, Method-X and Rune have been working on using Valentine's faucet backend for faucet campaigns that will help make it easy for new users to sign up, and give them a good reason to do it. The first such idea is karmatocash.com , which will reward reddit users with bitUSD for their comment karma and garner a lot of attention for bitshares. Join in Interview Transcript by onceuponatime Bitshares Forum and Null Street member onceuponatime has done a transcription of Beyond Bitcoin's Arthur Falls epic interview with Daniel Larimer entitled "BitAssets and the Austrians" http://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/beyond-bitcoin-22-bitassets-and-the-austrians. The transcript can be read in its entirety (Parts 1 and 2) here: Read more Reaching Out to Writers and Crypto Companies by HPEnvy I spent the last few weeks putting together marketing resources together that includes: Writers that have covered Bitcoin; companies that have integrated Bitcoin (payment processors, exchanges, debit card, on/offramp); and other technology writers



I would spend nights googling 'Bitcoin' and tracking contact information for any author that wrote something about Bitcoin in the last 5 months. We have over 300 technology writers that were harvested from different PR lists. I went through the last 4 months of Coindesk and located contact information for about 100 companies that might benefit our ecosystem. Everything was placed in Google Docs and shared with different marketing members from Brian's team to NullStreet.



As a result, interview requests are coming in; marketing has made contact with important companies in the debit, payment processor and on/off ramp. This is in addition to their existing contacts. We are locked and loaded for different PR campaigns.



There are so many heroes on NullStreet, this could have easily doubled in size. This is a new chapter in BitShares history. Allied “AltShares” Projects by allied projects Last, but certainly not least, there are numerous allied projects that we want to mention. These include Music (PeerTracks), PLAY, PTS, Remitabit and Sparkle.



The mere existence of these “AltShares”, and their own marketing efforts, help to raise public awareness of the underlying technology and BitShares as a whole Brave New Industry. We view them as so important, we plan to dedicate a second newsletter this month just for them. Watch for it next week. BITSHARES TV Useful links BitShares news on scoob

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