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I want to share a program that is enabling early stage web3 startups to get up to $50,000 in developer services.

Today there'll be a LIVE discussion on how to get web3 startup founded.

About the event:

Topic: How to get your web3 startup funded?

Date: Today, 5 PM CET

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They don't lose anything, but they don't gain anything either.

We plan on forming partnerships with companies posting jobs under cryptocurrencyjobs.co and similar boards. High quality jobs founds and other growth methods who target both companies and freelancers, alongside easy and secure way to get paid in crypto will draw attention to CryptoTask and I believe, freelancers, who are highly skilled in what they do, will want to be found on CryptoTask's platform.

You'd get 100% of the task value credited to your wallet. Process and expenses of converting cryptocurrency to "real money" (cash?), vary from an individual and countries have different cryptocurrency laws. In Serbia, you'd end up paying 15% of the sold value to tax agency. There's been a rise in OTC trades allowing for 1:1 conversion.

Transaction fees wise, ETH fees are quite high at the moment. It'd cost you around $2 to transfer funds from the platform to your wallet. Higher the task value, smaller % of it, transaction fees make. You can always decide not to withdraw your funds right away, allowing you to collect a certain amount and save up on transaction fees.

We are at complete disagreement here. As for the possibly valid points, I'm showcasing the platform, where CTASK comes as an utility. Payments are done in stablecoins, DAI for example and CTASK is there for additional mechanisms, which client isn't required to use. Here's a technical old whitepaper which covers mechanisms CTASK is used for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26484040

You may have a point. What concerns do you have?

If you sign up on the platform, you can apply for a job, complete it and get 100% of the task value.

3% will be taken by the platform IF you decide to use an escrow system who's currently developing. You can always chose NOT TO use an escrow system.

Diagram showing 30% explains procedure for freelancers who can't find a job themselves, where 10% gets taken by the platform and gets used in CTASK burning and 20% goes to a middleman.

We aren't fixed on 20% and we may allow users to set the % of the task value they are willing to give.

Appreciate the feedback! When you put it that way, situation is ridiculous. That's the content quality issue. These jobs were manually approved and are legitimate, however due to lack of information they come of as shady. We'll add guidelines for clients to follow when creating a job listing and probably issue a requirement too. Accounts with no profile picture, no information on them, posting jobs titled with " NFT platform ", probably aren't employers freelancer is dreaming of.

There's an issue, where high quality freelancer, doesn't want to apply for low paying/quality jobs to build credibility on the platform. Potential solutions are in development - one having to do with a blockchain identity hence the partnership with Hypermine https://cryptotask.medium.com/new-partnership-cryptotask-hyp...

Here is an old whitepaper with technical explanations https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26484040

Here's quite technical but old whitepaper for anyone who's showing interest in CTASK and dispute mechanism https://drive.google.com/file/d/13zuCikwuh3Ns8fCEUYlU1YE_PnL...

Here's a link to the reply I don't paste another wall of text: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26480945

As for the actual Forbes article I keep mentioning https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidpetersson/2018/10/27/the-p...

Anyone who wants to work, can work. That's the idea behind platform. There are no restrictions whatsoever.

I can provide personal example, where I couldn't find a work because I had to rely on third payment providers, who Serbian citizens, at the time I was 16 couldn't use. That was around 7 years ago.

Thank you for the feedback! We'll be updating onsite content ASAP.

Here's a post containing two medium posts and additional explanation on backbone of the platform. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26480748

Blockchain fees are always there. However, there are solutions - such as NEAR (near.org) who reduce them. They claim to have "10K x lower cost per transaction than Ethereum" Regular client wouldn't feel those.

I see where you are coming from. Eventually, CryptoTask will be seen as a regular freelance platform with low fees and accent on security for onsite deals. Technology, which does scare away potential clients, provides that. In case of a dispute, you won't spend days / weeks resolving the issue, it'll be automated and the outcome will be decided by real users.

This will change as we drive more freelancers to the platform. There's a review/rating system in place which will allow for quality of freelancers to show over time.

You'd get 97% of the job value if you use an escrow system. If you are a freelancer, who can't find a job and you rely on a headhunter, in that case you'd get 70% (which is to be discussed). If you don't use either of those, you'd get 100% of the job value.

At the moment - tasks are manually approved. This is bound to change as escrow system gets developed. You can find development roadmap found about.cryptotask.org Feedback is added with after a task is successfully completed, which over time would create high quality freelancers from ones who don't perform so well.

As for the dispute system - I'll copy previously provided answer taken from Forbes article: "With a review system like that of CryptoTask, reviewers are token holders that stake an amount equal to the task value that they are putting themselves forward for as a potential reviewer. It means that being a stakeholder, you already have a chance of being selected. That chance is directly proportional to that individual's stake, so this prevents sybil attacks.

If they do, however, get randomly selected to be a reviewer and the task goes into dispute, they are required to cast a vote on whether or not they think the task was actually completed. If a reviewer votes against the consensus or does not vote at all, they do not lose any certain percentage of their staked amount.

Some of the benefits of such a system include:

    Selection happens in secret to prevent reviewers from influencing the consensus through collusion.
    A two-stage voting process (secret commit and then reveal) means reviewers can’t wait to see how other reviewers voted and then just go with the consensus.
    Reviewers would generally be professionals with a relatively large token stake and therefore in a good position to escalate and vote on a dispute."

This would sum up dispute system with incentive for reviewers being 10% of the task value split among them.

We are about to resolve content quality issues in future updates. CryptoTask platform would take 0% if you don't use escrow system, giving you 100% of completed task value. If you decide to use an escrow system, platform would take 3% from total task value. About 70% - There's affiliate system, which allows for freelancer who can't find a job themselves, rely on a headhunter type of users, who'd connect freelancer with a client. 10% from the total task value goes to the platform, where 20% of the task value is meant for a headhunter. As both systems are still in development (development roadmap can be found no https://about.cryptotask.org/), percentage of task value going to headhunter could potentially be manually set.

Here's a quote from a Forbes article: "With a review system like that of CryptoTask, reviewers are token holders that stake an amount equal to the task value that they are putting themselves forward for as a potential reviewer. It means that being a stakeholder, you already have a chance of being selected. That chance is directly proportional to that individual's stake, so this prevents sybil attacks.

If they do, however, get randomly selected to be a reviewer and the task goes into dispute, they are required to cast a vote on whether or not they think the task was actually completed. If a reviewer votes against the consensus or does not vote at all, they do not lose any certain percentage of their staked amount.

Some of the benefits of such a system include:

    Selection happens in secret to prevent reviewers from influencing the consensus through collusion.
    A two-stage voting process (secret commit and then reveal) means reviewers can’t wait to see how other reviewers voted and then just go with the consensus.
    Reviewers would generally be professionals with a relatively large token stake and therefore in a good position to escalate and vote on a dispute."

This would sum up dispute system with incentive for reviewers being 10% of the task value split among them.

There are a couple of medium posts describing technical background of the platform and token itself such as: https://cryptotask.medium.com/cryptotask-combines-defr-and-d... https://cryptotask.medium.com/technical-background-of-crypto...

We are running on AEternity blockchain (https://aeternity.com/), making gas fees sufficiently low. There have been 19.5k transactions https://www.aeknow.org/contract/detail/ct_X3szYGp5irejPsowXp... and we are alive :)

Successfully completed tasks are paid out in stablecoins, DAI being a primary example, as backbone of the CryptoTask is AEternity blockchain with DAI having highest liquidity on AE. CTask has a different utility and you may read about it at https://cryptotask.medium.com/ctask-token-utility-d4aac4ca69...

Jobs have no value limit as we don't depend on a third party payment providers and limitations which come with them. Our focus is on becoming the leading freelance platform for blockchain jobs. As for on platform activity you may follow it at https://www.aeknow.org/contract/detail/ct_X3szYGp5irejPsowXp... as current representation of listed jobs isn't accurate, because filled job positions get removed from the list. This will be addressed in the following updates. There's a Croatian section of the platform, as we acquired freelance.hr , with regional jobs.