Hello fellow Marines, especially those autistic ones who have been researching ChainLink for the year or so it's been since the ICO. I come to you with an idea: Why would we not push smart contract adoption that utilizes decentralized oracles in the real world while making money in the process, through consulting actual companies with this stuff, teaching them how they can automate their businesses with smart contracts and weave in ChainLink to every single one of these use cases, adding demand for our nodes and the LINK token?
For my own background, I currently work in the blockchain space in marketing and business development and live in one of the financial capitals of Europe, so you technical guys would have a link to the business side through me. I have decent creds in this area and I'm pretty certain I could get meetings with some ok sized companies to explore how they could integrate smart contracts (and ChainLink) to their practices. I've also been a 100k+ LINK holder since the ICO and have read most of the research posted here.
The problem I would have in pursuing this alone is that while I know I could sell the shit out of smart contracts and using decentralized oracles for them, that is where it ends for me since honestly I'm just a biz dev, marketing and "ideas" guy that has enough a resume to have these people listen to me. Writing technical papers and creating actual executable plans for the integration I'd need help with.
Now I made this thread to see if any of the good people in the ChainLink Research Group would be interested in joining a discord group a bit like Delphi, except instead of island holidays where we jerk each other off and talk about Plato, we'd be in the trenches actually doing work for good money making the Singularity happen one adoption case at a time. I'm sure there are some NEET Marines who know more about ChainLink than AB at this point and wouldn't mind monetizing that knowledge while we wait for the Singularity?
It’s a great idea which Sergey actually wants us to do to grow the network however the dipshits on here would just spam memes .
Nathan Cox
Poo poo pee pee memes from a Peruvian goat sheering forum are only going to damage CL's reputation in the eyes of multi-billion market holders. Sergey knows what he's doing. This isn't his first rodeo.
Xavier Cook
Bump. Once mainnet is up we could actually build the compensation mechanism as a smart contract where the company receiving the consulting pays the fee into the smart contract, which then distributes the funds among the Marines who did the work. This way we can limit the amount of trust you have to put in me as the contact point to the company and distributing the funds equally. For FIAT-smart contracts I think CL mainnet would need to be up for this, but if the counterparty is cool with using ETH, we could do this already. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Kevin Davis
that's why we would do this as a separate discord group sort of like Delphi. I'm thinking with around 30 people we would already have enough manpower to execute most cases -very- quickly and effectively from the point of view of the client. We could literally wipe the floor with most regular companies and their execution timelines.
David Allen
marketing/communication manager here, How do you get in crypto marketing? you work for a specific crypto project or independent?
Liam Collins
I work with tech startups and the tech industry in general from a finance perspective. The problem is that on the whole brainlets aren't ready for this tech.
Most companies can barely even cope with cloud based computing nevermind fucking smart contracts.
Joseph Evans
T. OP (switched to another WiFi momentarily)
Anyway, I guess this was a bad time to post if most of the Marines doing the valuable research are Americans and still sound asleep. Are there really no eurofags who'd be interested in this?
Isaiah Stewart
Did marketing consulting through a blockchain consulting company (was good money end of last year), after which one of the clients wanted me to work for them full time. Right, but I think you can establish the value of SCs in smaller, simple use cases and scale internally instead of trying to come through the gate with this huge proposal of integrating blockchains at core business level. And even if they don't integrate, there are a few dozen G's to be made by doing simple research on -if- they would do it, how would they go about doing it. Everyone is interested in how they -could- utilize this tech, even if they're not technically ready to do so, since I think there is a bit of a consensus that blockchain technology is coming whether they like it or not.
Asher Lewis
we wouldn't be targeting the billion dollar companies, rather businesses in the million to a few million dollar range. Also the operation would look perfectly professional to the client.
