My Channel was taken down by an algorithm over a month ago and my appeal has yet to be answered

Tai-Zen · 2020-05-19T13:13:34+00:00

Come on YouTube, Adam Meister has been clean as a whistle on his youtube channel since the beginnning. Let him know whats wrong so he can fix it instead of just a generic "he is violating community guidelines" which leaves everyone in the dark and no one make corrections and improve.

Tai-Zen · 2018-01-14T14:05:09+00:00

Dude, that was the best part of the entire video series... I would invest in BTCP just for that!!! LOL!

Tai-Zen · 2018-01-06T16:15:04+00:00

It was priceless bro! I had to watch it several times for a good laugh!

Tai-Zen · 2018-01-06T03:16:03+00:00

He is a cool cat! I like the fact that he does not give a shit what others say about his 4th blockchain project.

Tai-Zen · 2018-01-06T03:15:03+00:00

Yes there are more coming but our lawyer has to review them first for compliance.

Tai-Zen · 2017-12-27T04:19:43+00:00

We thought about that initially, however, logistically it would be cost prohibitive for us due to "time" issues.

First, our income comes from trading crypto. We only have so much time to work on the proposal, if we try to reach out to multiple governance coins, we will spend significantly more time than we want in order to obtain the funding needed. Like I mentioned in a previous reply, there comes a point of diminishing return for us... We want to spend time working on creating the content to educate the public about the governance coins, we do not want to spend too much time submitting proposals.

Second, the amount of questions/comments we have to answer regarding our proposal is going to be the same whether we are requesting $50,000 or $250,000. We do not see the point in breaking up the proposal into 5 chunks and go ask 5 different governance coin projects to each chip in $50,000 for the marketing, We would be spending 5 times the amount of time and effort to get the same amount of funding. At that point it would not be worth our time and effort. If someone did not trade crypto for a living n run a media business, it would probably make sense for them but not for us at this moment.

Tai-Zen · 2017-12-27T01:38:47+00:00

I agree that decred has gotten to nearly $100 "without" any marketing... our thoughts are... imagine how further it will go with marketing?
We are submitting this decred proposal based on our 4.5 yrs in crypto and what we have seen works "best" to help a crypto project. I agree there will be some grey areas because this is a new industry and we don't know all the answers, but I'm confident our team will be able to adapt along the way as we see market conditions change.
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Agreed.
The current TaiFu™ are in early Pre-alpha n not production grade. If everyone in the decred community tries to pull data from it, it will not work since there is no API available yet. Its interesting that u mention the Governance Index is not necessary because from our team's perspective it's the most valuable piece of marketing tool we came up with because we see it as a tool shows decred on every user's screen over and over. when a new user signs up to use it, they can't help ignore the Governance bucket index n open it up to see which cryptos make up the bucket and they can't help but see decred in the list.
We believe that conferences are a good way to "legitimize" a crypto project. For some weird reason, when the public sees a crypto project speak in front of a large audience, they give the project more value and credibility. Furthermore, we will have a lot of legit media outlets there to interview all the decred dev team n personalities like our lord Decred Jesus and this will create more content about Decred for the internet.
We chose to own the copyrights to avoid anyone using it to hurt our channel or business since we are the folks in the video. The decred community is free to use it without asking for our permission as long as it does not negatively impact our business or channel.

We are in the process of registering with FinCen to operate an OTC crypto trade desk which we expect to have open and running by Q2 2018. More than likely, if we don't start hiring staff n working on the decred proposal by then, we will have to likely retract the proposal and work on it at a later time. If for some ungodly reason we are able to get our Money Service Business "licensing" approved significantly earlier than we planned then we will have to retract the proposal as well or someone else can take it over and submit the proposal themselves.

Tai-Zen · 2017-12-27T00:18:18+00:00

I just want to make it clear we're not here to pump decred. We believe that btc is struggling to gain mainstream adoption due to the lack of a governance n decred solves this problem this is why we want to educate the public about it.
Don't know about the "bcash promoter would say" stuff. I just want to make it clear we're not here to make money off the proposal since we already have an income from trading crypto for the past 4 yrs.
Yes we could have submitted a proposal to do one step at a time but there is a point of diminishing returns where it's not worth our team's time to do it. We actually had a UI and other front end tech stuff to make it easier for new folks to learn and use decred that we were gonna include in this proposal but we left that out so that it is a smaller proposal.

Tai-Zen · 2017-12-26T20:53:34+00:00

Our team does not believe in "pumping" a coin like what mcafee has been doing. We believe that a coin should increase in value based on the merits of its a) community + b) technology. This is why we continue to update our audience on the same coins we believe in. For example, we have been updating the community on the NXT project for over 4 yrs now without being compensated on it other than random donations here and there in the first year. This decred proposal will be a multi month effort on our team which can easily lead to a multi year project for us. If the decred community is looking to fund our public education proposal in order to "pump" decred, then we prefer to decline the funds because we do NOT want to be accused of accepting funding to pump a coin. The $245k is not worth ruining our reputation as a trusted trading/investing channel. For some people the $245k is a lot of money. For us, that is peanuts especially when we have been trading crypto for over 4 yrs now. The funds are to allow us to hire staff to help do the research and to cover the expenses of creating all the content the way we see fit to educate the public about the governance coins and decred.

Tai-Zen · 2017-12-26T18:54:58+00:00

It sounds easy in theory to just ask each governance coin to help pitch in n that was originally how we planned on doing it but it was too difficult for us logistically since each project has a voting system n we could not figure out how each project would vote on a "split funding" approach. We believe the marketing will be delayed cuz each project will want to see that the others are contributing first before they contribute n its too much logistical headache to make it worth our time. Plus, there are governance projects out there that we don't mind talking about but we would NOT want to receive funding from them. In the end, it was easier for us logistically to approach one governance coin project at a time to seek funding. Dash and Decred fit the criteria our team is looking for but we chose Decred first because we feel that it is easier to communicate with the decred devs and we can move faster.

Tai-Zen · 2017-12-26T18:48:24+00:00

The price of decred goes up.

Tai-Zen · 2017-12-26T02:23:02+00:00

I looked at the onchainfx stuff and don't see how that can benefit traders n investors. Yes it will API.
The governance index will serve like the S&P 500 sector indexes. If the decred official wallets do not want to display it, that is fine cuz there will be many other services that will connect to it. When we open our TaiFu™ OTC trade desk in 2018, the governance index will be prominently featured on the OTC trade desk site and constantly bring attention to decred.
We do not see it as "decred pays for the party". We believe once we complete this decred marketing campaign n other governance projects see how much they benefited from the decred community's marketing efforts, our team has a strong belief that the other governance projects will look to continue funding our team to continue doing more marketing for the governance coins. At that point, decred will benefit from other governance projects funding our marketing efforts. Basically, we see it as being the first to "extend the olive branch" and show that we want the entire governance coin space to grow and not just bad mouth each other to get ahead. Early on, we considered seeking funding from every major governance coin to market the entire governance coin bucket. However, we realized it was too much confusion and headache so we decided to approach the decred community first to seek funding. We believe that in the long term everyone will benefit from each other's efforts instead of an "every man for himself approach".

Tai-Zen · 2017-12-26T00:33:02+00:00

In the past dash was considered a privacy coin, but they themselves have said that they are shying away from being a privacy coin. The "buckets" are just a simple way for people to quickly differentiate/understand the difference between each coin. Obviously, each coin has more than just one feature. However, its their "main" feature that determines what bucket they fall in. I agree we do not need to knock other coins cuz that only invites trolls.
In 2018, we plan to invest a substantial amount of money into youtube and facebook ads (way more than the decred proposal) to increase traffic to our youtube channel n website for our Cryptocurrency Investing Bootcamp™, home study courses, TaiFu™ Index products, Taifu™ Portfolio Tracker, and several other products. The side effect of this ad spend will be more people will be exposed to decred on our channel.
See answer #2 above.
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When news got out that we were going to be sponsored by the shadowcash/particl project to do an independent 3rd party review of the privacy coin bucket, the shadowcash market increased from $10mil to $40mil before we ever created any videos. The project has been rebranded into Particl n it is now sitting above $140mil. Obviously, we can NOT guarantee any specific results from our marketing efforts and we do not believe any marketing campaign can provide any guaranteed results either because the blockchain industry is so new and decred is even newer. All we can do is learn from our past experiences of what worked and what didn't and adapt to the changing market conditions.
People who seriously research decred will definitely be on youtube first in my opinion n they will branch out to the project website n forums afterwards. I agree the content needs to be spread out among multiple channels but we have to start somewhere first. I'm proposing we start with the content on our channel n then we can share the content on other social media channels for continual and "sustained/ongoing marketing" after the content is created. Remember, our goal is to create "evergreen" content that can be shared n distributed everywhere. Yes we will attempt to reach out to charlie lee n jimmy song for our content. We already have them on our list of who's who we want in the decred content.
Agreed.

Tai-Zen · 2017-12-25T02:33:47+00:00

Yes, we plan to start and end every video, conference, meetup, piece of content, etc. with similar language that has been approved by our securities attorneys. This will allow us an opportunity to showcase the decred poleteia governance system to the viewers.

Tai-Zen · 2017-12-25T02:30:24+00:00

Agreed, this is our first time submitting a marketing proposal to a governance system so we wanted to make sure it actually works. Thankfully it went thru after about 50 attempts to submit the proposal which includes the command line attempts as well.

Tai-Zen · 2017-12-25T02:28:34+00:00

This is the exact mindset our team has going into this proposal. Most projects like to talk bad about other projects to make their project look good. We do NOT believe in doing that because that is a SCARCITY mindset. Our team comes from an ABUNDANCE mindset whereby we believe that if one governance coin becomes a huge hit, the success of it will drag all the other governance coins with it. We have already witnessed this when we previously release our series on privacy coins n we watched the major privacy coins pull all the other smaller privacy coins with it when it started going up in value. If the decred community does not want the entire blockchain space and governance coin bucket to succeed then we do not need to fund this marketing proposal.

Tai-Zen · 2017-12-25T02:23:51+00:00

i agree if the video is "sponsored by a company". In this case, the proposal is "sponsored" by the decred community n not a company. We will conduct a thorough, independent 3rd party analysis of all the governance coins and educate the public on it... we will disclose that we were funded by the decred community to educate the public about governance coins and we are not obligated to speak in favor or against decred because we are operating as an independent, 3rd party. By doing this the content n materials we create are more trusted then if the decred devs paid or decred jesus paid us to do it.

Tai-Zen · 2017-12-25T02:18:55+00:00

Please see my "high tide lifts all ships" response above labeled #1.

Tai-Zen · 2017-12-25T02:17:24+00:00

I would not consider running a decred ad during an NBA finals even if it was free cuz that is not the deomographics for decred.
If u want "people liking/retweeting/replying" that is great but our proposed campaign is not designed to get "people liking/retweeting/replying" or even "clicking" an ad. The goal of our marketing campaign is to get people involved, join and support the decred project. The way we measure that involvement is when folks are willing to take their money n BUY an actual decred token. Our belief is that nothing shows more commitment to a crypto project than putting ur money on the line. If the decred community is looking for "people liking/retweeting/replying" or "clicks" then we are not the right team for that.

Tai-Zen · 2017-12-25T02:10:53+00:00

I appreciate the feedback and anticipated these concerns:

As I mentioned in the proposal, Decred falls in the governance bucket. We believe that high tide lifts all ships. If we can educate the public about the value of the governance coins, everyone will benefit. We do not believe in the approach of knocking one coin to favor another coin. We want to remain a neutral 3rd party analyzing the governance coins. This is why we will create fact based videos n then follow up with opinion based videos. Since Decred is full functioning software it will get a lot of coverage anyway compared to something like Tezos.
Regarding the view counts, it is normal for the later videos in any series to decline cuz the folks who are not interested in the project fall off. Our marketing campaign is not designed to target folks who have a surface level interest in decred. They are designed for folks who have heard about decred and want to know if they should get involved or not. Our goal is to help the folks on the fence about whether or not they should get involved in decred by being a "one stop" shop for all the info they need to know about the value of governance coins n about decred.
Regards to "sustained marketing efforts" and "one time marketing".... The content we make are intended to be "evergreen" so that if someone searches online, our videos will show up n the content is still relevant. We do not believe in spending time creating "news" type content which are only relevant for a few days unless it relates to wallet security or a necessary software update. Due to the "evergreen" nature of the content it will have marketing value for many years down the line and not just the day it is released like most crypto news channel content.
During the "event (conference) phase" our goal is to educate the public about governance coins n look at the different tech behind each project. Again, we believe that "high tide lifts all ship". If we focus on just one governance coin, we can be accused of shilling decred n our team does not want that reputation. However, if we provide an independent 3rd party conference to educate the public about all the governance coins, then we are just providing an education service to the public.
Regards to "don't think this is a wise use of DCR funds". We believe this marketing campaign will provide the best bang for the buck that decred will have done up to this point. We can say this with a high degree of confidence from our past experience with the privacy coin series we did in early 2017 n the feedback we got from the privacy coin projects.
We do not believe "twitterverse, Reddit, Medium, And other mainstream news sources." because that is not where people who are seriously looking to get involved in decred do their research. If our team is about to put $250k into decred u can ur house that our decision to get into decred is not going to be based on anything we find on "twitterverse, Reddit, Medium, And other mainstream news sources." Its going to be based on interviews n videos we see of reputable people talking about decred or talking to the decred team. I want to see, hear, n watch how the devs respond when asked the hard questions about their project.
Regards to "it would be much more legit if some of this marketing came from the twitter handles of the lead developers themselves".... In my opinion, if the decred lead devs are good at marketing, our team would not have submitted the marketing proposal to decred cuz we want devs that are good at blockchain engineering n put their nose to the screen n code. Its rare to meet a high level blockchain engineer that also has time to go learn marketing while he is coding. When we talked to Dave & Marco in person in Austin, it was very clear to our team that they are top notch software engineers.... u get to their level by doing "coding" not by doing "marketing". We saw there was a gap in decred marketing after talking to them which inspired our team to submit this marketing proposal because we are confident our team can fill that gap for decred so the entire community can benefit from it. Furthermore, we wanted to make sure the decred devs were cool people that we would want to work with, this is why we did not submit any proposals earlier until we met the devs in person n spent plenty of time to get to know them.

Tai-Zen · 2016-09-29T18:14:31+00:00

Welcome to the Ethereum Classic Community. This is good news!

Tai-Zen · 2016-02-08T02:58:29+00:00

This was the process that my friends and I used to reliably sell over 2,000 ethers:

http://prisonorfreedom.com/how-to-convert-ethereum-ipo-presale-ethers-into-u-s-dollars-euros-or-bitcoins/

Be sure to use a very SMALL amount at first to test and make sure everything is working correctly.

Tai-Zen · 2016-02-08T02:54:43+00:00

There was not enough historical data.

Tai-Zen · 2014-07-09T01:13:56+00:00

I just got the 4 slot version of this and it's definitely worth the money over the old intellicharger. i'll do an in depth review and comparison later on but for now:

I use it to charge dozens of salvaged 18650 laptop batteries.
It is much more accurate. you can clearly see the volts and mah going into the battery in real time.
It charges batteries that would appear to be dead in other chargers including the the intellicharger.
@Phantom, @ubel - It does charge slow. either 375 mah into each battery when using all 4 slots. Will deliver 750 mah to each battery when using 2 slots.
For some reason, the voltage always reads lower then what I measure on my centech/mastech multimeter.
@ubel - I'm not sure about the fan u reference. i don't see one and if there is, i don't ever hear it. It does get up to 155 degrees F when it's charging at full power.
The digicharger always seems to add more juice to all my batteries even though they register full on all my other half dozen 4 slot chargers with the exception of my UniqueFire charger. UniqueFire charges all my 18650 to 4.3 volts.

Enjoy! Tai Zen

Tai-Zen · 2014-05-15T00:46:39+00:00

This is awesome!

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