The foundation has organized the fifth “Reinventing the Like” campaign in October, and for the first time provided rewards for readers to stimulate registration. This is a temporary cure before the permanent solution, a simplified registration process, is released in November.
Related links： Sept report | Aug report | Buy/Sell LIKE | 中文版
1. Ecosystem Development
Collaboration with Animoca Brands
The Foundation has secured an investment on LikeCoin from and established a strategic collaboration with Animoca Brands. Animoca Brands is a renowned game developer and publisher. Listed in Australia with the ticker AB1, Animoca Brands has in recent years engaged in the rapid development of blockchain by, for example, investing in Cryptokittes publisher Dapper Labs and publishing Cryptokittes in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Supporting #NEWPALMYRA Campaign
The purpose of #NEWPALMYRA is an effort to reconstruct the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria, which was destroyed by ISIS, in virtual space. Digital tools are used to preserve heritage sites. #NEWPALMYRA ties together artists, architects, archaeologists, researchers and others to uncover evidence, rebuild ruins, create new artworks, and encourage the display of cultural influence through the lens of constructions and buildings by cooperation with museum and exhibitions around the world.
The LikeCoin Foundation appreciates and supports #NEWPALMYRA. From October and for twelve months, a monthly reward of LikeCoin will be given to the creators of 3D models and other artworks of Palmyra. The subjects of October and November are the Temple of Al-lat and the Tower of Elahbel respectively.
Reinventing the Like Campaign
In October the LikeCoin Foundation held the fifth “Reinventing the Like” campaign. In order to encourage readers to register for a LikeCoin ID, LikeCoin was gifted to participating readers for the first time. A total of 565 creators and 593 registered readers have participated, showing a growth of 29% and 72% respectively from the previous campaign.
However, even when registration is incentivized, data shows 2/3 of the users who started registration didn’t complete the process, reconfirming the registration experience being too complicated for layman. As such, the team has spent a month to simplify the flow, allowing registration of LikeCoin to be done in a minute, regardless of computer or mobile.
The change also solves the current platform support issue and allows Safari and mobile browsers to log in, so that users can Like creative contents from various platforms.
Following the simplified registration process, mandatory login will be enforced before Liking creative contents. It helps combat Like spamming and make crowd-judging a fair process.
2. Technological developments
LikeChain
The internal preview of LikeChain has been on going in October. The preview includes four fundamental features: registration, transfer, deposit and withdrawal. Over the last month three nodes were added to LikeChain, and the team plans to kick off the first security audit on the LikeChain by December. If you are interested in becoming one of the first batch of nodes of LikeChain, please contact us by November 23.
LikeChain is completely open-source. Codes and documents are available on Github for interested developers.
LikeCoin WordPress plugin
The plugin has been updated to 1.1.4 to stay compatible with the upcoming WordPress 5.0. Testing are being done to ensure compatibility with the latest WordPress changes, notably the all new block-based editor Gutenberg.
Due to the development of bottom layer of the LikeChain and the simplification of the registration process, the front end of puttyimages and oice was not updated.
3. Community and others
Gatherings
- LikeCoin Hong Kong Meetup hosted its first Hong Kong gathering on October 5 with the topic “如何以 LikeCoin 拿回朱X伯格偷去的報酬?”. Registration of Liquid exchange was demonstrated, so was exchange of LikeCoin into Hong Kong Dollar. Attendees also had a lively discussion.
- The second gathering for LikeCoin Hong Kong Meetup will be held on November 23 with the topic of “化 Talk 為 Coin 談談創作”. Four participants will share their experience and thought on creativity. Don’t miss it.
- LikeCoin Taipei Meetup group were founded by 周永祐 and Boison. The first meetup was held on October 6 with the topic being “寫作者怎麼創造收入？” A total of 40 people participated, with a lot of sharing and discussing. Our thanks go to the venue sponsor Mozilla Community Space.
- LikeCoin Taipei Meetup is holding a micro novel event. Every week a topic will be released, and writers can either participate remotely or join meetup in person. The first topic was “上限 87 字”. The outcome were 13 novels and the results can be found at 微小說 Week 1 — 成果彙整.
- LikeCoin Taipei Meetup’s next gathering will be on December 1. The topic is “微小說工作坊” and it will be free to attend.
Webinar
- Our first Webinar was held on Youtube, and our team member Nick explained how to install MetaMask, register for a LikeCoin ID and include a LikeButton to your creation.
Events
- Our Founder kin ko attended g0v summit in Taiwan on October 7, Mozilla Festival (Journalism Tech Session) in London on 25th, and the World Camp Manchester on 27th, to share the rationale and technology of LikeCoin, in order to introduce LikeCoin to a wider audience worldwide.
- We sponsored the first WordCamp Taipei and have Edmond and Simonbut from out team to introduce to the audience LikeCoin WordPress plugin.
Articles
For the past 6 months, the LikeCoin community has not only grown in numbers but also become more active and passionate. It is especially obvious in October, with more articles on LikeCoin written by community than by the core team:
- 一夜間，我失去了所有LikeCoin、LikeCoin兌港幣圖文教學(上)/(中)/(下)
- dorisDC：如何將電子貨幣LikeCoin兌換台幣 (上) 台灣BitoPro與LIQUID申請部分、(下)LIQUID、MetaMask、BitoPro往返的兌換過程
- 懶散茶包：化讚為賞是可能的：作者的提領歷程
- 豬油拌飯：創作著的虛擬貨幣 LikeCoin 化讚為賞 透過創造力證明回饋內容
- Above are just a handful of them. Community member Daisy has compiled a (nearly) full list of them, LikeCoin 社群文章彙集（不斷更新）
Related links： Sept report | Aug report | Buy/Sell LIKE | 中文版