UPDATE: The price of Lumens increased so much that the original 1 st prize (800k XLM) is worth now over $35.000. Because of this I reduced the prizes to a more reasonable amount. I updated this post with the new information. Howdy! Galactic Talk is organising its first challenge aimed at content creators. We want Galactic Talk to be the best source of tutorials, reviews and information about Stellar and you can help us achieve this goal. From all threads created until the 15th of May we will award: 1 st place: 50 000 XLM 2 nd place: 25 000 XLM 3 rd place: 10 000 XLM 2 000 XLM to all participants in the challenge No matter if you are an experienced Stellar guru or are just starting out, this challenge is for everyone. Here are some ideas what you could write about: Review of stellar wallets Review of exchanges on stellar Review of applications submitted to the Stellar build challenge Your experience about solving a problem using Stellar Tutorials for developers Best practices for node runners Be creative! The winners will be announced until the 20th of May. Join us in creating the best content for developers and new users! Let’s form a helpful and active community around this great technology. Cheers, GalacticTalk Team

Galactic Talk content creators challenge

bkolobara

UPDATE: The price of Lumens increased so much that the original 1^st prize (800k XLM) is worth now over $35.000. Because of this I reduced the prizes to a more reasonable amount. I updated this post with the new information.

Howdy!

Galactic Talk is organising its first challenge aimed at content creators. We want Galactic Talk to be the best source of tutorials, reviews and information about Stellar and you can help us achieve this goal.

From all threads created until the 15th of May we will award:

1^st place: 50 000 XLM
2^nd place: 25 000 XLM
3^rd place: 10 000 XLM
2 000 XLM to all participants in the challenge

No matter if you are an experienced Stellar guru or are just starting out, this challenge is for everyone. Here are some ideas what you could write about:

Review of stellar wallets
Review of exchanges on stellar
Review of applications submitted to the Stellar build challenge
Your experience about solving a problem using Stellar
Tutorials for developers
Best practices for node runners
Be creative!

The winners will be announced until the 20th of May.

Join us in creating the best content for developers and new users! Let’s form a helpful and active community around this great technology.

Cheers,
GalacticTalk Team

anibalsalazar

bkolobara Hi, is other language permitted apart from English, e.g. Spanish?

saggi07

bkolobara If a contributor has more then thread/post then would each of his thread get 10000 XLM individually?

cryptoedu

Where is the content submitted?

bkolobara

cryptoedu Just create a thread about it on this forum.

GarrettMinks Can't wait to see the video. You don't need to reserve a spot in this thread, you can create a new one.

GarrettMinks

Sounds like a fun project! I'll reserve this spot to post my "Scalability Shootout" video where I will compare Stellar Lumens to NEM (proof of importance), directed acylic graphs, and traditional proof of work/proof of stake coins. The review will focus on security, transaction speed, and ease of use, as well as recommendations for future versions of the web wallet. I feel 2FA and Multisig support in the GUI are a must to ensure even if the private key is compromised there is another layer of protection before a new wallet can be created and funds withdrawn.

GarrettMinks

bkolobara Great I'll create a new thread once I get it finished and uploaded!

sim1981

Excellent ideas and very generous prizes ?
Hopefully we see many good posts as I'm personally tired of speculators and coin beggars who fill most of the content of other forums ?

dzham

What's a "thread", and who gets the reward? Just the original post, and the original poster?
What if it's the replies, the discussion, that make the thread great?

bkolobara

dzham
A thread is a discussion/topic. I just didn't want users posting in this thread. But the rules are not that strict, we are also going to consider replays.

The user that wrote the content will get the reward. If multiple users contribute to the topic the reward can be distributed between them.

Sazzi

Amazing prizes!!!

bkolobara

Only 10 days left. Still enough time to participate and get 10.000 XLM (~120 USD right now).

sim1981

You're currently a very generous man ?

I have the following remarks and questions:
1) XLM Price is always going to be a roller coaster. If you're thinking to have this challenge periodically, it's better to fix the prizes in USD value.
For example: You can have first prize equal to 2000 USD paid in Lumens at the exchange price of distribution date. And same time, you have to put a maximum limit of prize in Lumens as XLM price might suddenly crash to epsilon then you will have to pay millions of Lumens ?
By fixing the prizes value, the challenge would always have fair reward for all winners.
2) I hope SDF will support this initiative and similar ones so challenge will continue. Their build challenge rewards is the best way.
3) When Stellar sign up program resumes, we should see more users in forums as many will come to ask questions.

And my questions are:
Who will decide the winners of this challenge? Is it the admin alone?
If 15th May comes and quality threads are not present, are you going to extend the dates of competition? I'm not sure if we have a 800 000 XLM thread at the moment but still 10 days left ?

bkolobara

sim1981

This is the first experimental run of many competitions to come on GalacticTalk. I'm aware of some of the issues regarding price movements. I also had the idea to give away Tempo EUR/USD in the next competitions. It's more stable and anyone can exchange it directly for XLM on the network. So we stay in the stellar spirit and embrace the technology.

To answer your questions. Yes, I will choose the winners this time. And I will also take the freedom to break up the price between interesting discussions if there is no clear winner or extend it for a few more days if there are not enough participants.

benjaminb24

Hold up - let me get this straight - that's not 800 000 as in eight hundred thousand right? It's just 800 XLM? Or are the prizes actually 800 000 XLM, 100 000 XLM and 10 000 XLM. Because if that's the case you are a seriously awesome dude.

bkolobara

benjaminb24 Yes, 800000 XLM. Hope we get many submissions. And thanks ?

EhabElzayyan

Why Stellar?

In order of importance, people tend to think that financial access comes after things like education and healthcare, but financial access is actually a pre-condition for everything else. One big problem in the financial infrastructure today is that it’s terribly expensive to move money from one country to another, and Stellar can remove these costs. Stellar can help people receive or spend or save money, which helps them also pay for their education and healthcare.

EhabElzayyan

What’s has been the biggest challenge for Stellar?

Stellar is technical back-end infrastructure for the world, and very few people in the nonprofit, government, or even tech world understand this level of technology – it’s hard to explain to someone how the internet works, and that’s just the starting point for understanding Stellar’s technology.

bkolobara

anibalsalazar For now we will only accept submissions in English, as this is an english only forum.

YoungPhong

We are Asian. However, we are very interested in the practical issues and improvements of cryptocurency. From March 2017, I and my friend had a discussion about Stellar's future. My friend had a premonition and was very confident about Stellar, while looking at the look of Stellar. My friend, I see how intense that faith. At that time, he and I were betting that stellar se. However, the results are we are very excited, as we have won in Stellar belief, as well as our investment strategy in Stellar. Receiving daily news about Stellar showed us that what we decided was right. Thanks Stellar.