Quote from: SA on January 01, 2020, 17:52

So any new sites that could be worth a try?

No

Shame that wasn't the first reply, would of saved me some time

My Canva sales tanked for the first time this month.  Funny how every site seems to follow the same pattern.  Just when you think they're a reliable source of income, earnings fall off a cliff.  I've given up deleting my portfolio from sites.  I keep thinking I should start selling prints but haven't had the motivation, hopefully this will help.

I used to sell there buy nothing since November 2017.  I had forgotten about the site, so thanks for the reminder, as I had just over the $50 payout there.  I wonder how they keep going?

James West looked like a different person in that video.  This ends my love of Alamy.  I wont upload more there, I'll look at other options.

Quote from: cathyslife on July 17, 2018, 16:16

According to his doctor, he is taking statins. That crap messes you up. The brain uses 25% of the cholesterol your liver produces. Statins stop your liver from making cholesterol. Guess what happens to your brain...alzheimers. Guess what happens to your muscles and nerves. Pretty soon you can�t walk.

This is not true.  There is a small but significant chance of very serious side effects - e.g., neuropathy of various kinds and liver damage - but the incidence is very low and those mainly appear in people who are not like Trump (female, small body size, drinking too much).  Statins actually may protect against Alzheimer's, although the data are not clear on that.  Trump's problems are very unlikely to be due to taking statins - to me it looks much more like the early symptoms of dementia.  Here is a list of early symptoms (https://www.healthline.com/health/dementia/early-warning-signs) - Trump exhibits all of them at various times, most people his age show none of them.  Trump's father had Alzheimer's and his poor diet and lack of exercise increases his risk.  Reagan clearly had symptoms of Alzheimer's by the beginning of his second term and possibly earlier, Trump is showing the same already.

I don't think that's true either.  My stepfather didn't have many problems until he started taking statins.  They were really bad for him.  He went from playing golf regularly, to struggling to walk short distances.  The doctor insisted it wasn't statins doing it but in the end, he stopped taking them and was much better after about a month.  He never did go back to golf and his mind went a few years later but that might be coincidence.  I've heard that lots of men have had similar problems with statins.  A change of diet is much better for you than experimenting with a drug that can do harm.

I can't hate them as much as istock because they still pay me much more than istock ever did.  What I hate more is the people that constantly complained about istock, while doing nothing about it.  Some people were probably complaining here while they were uploading.  Many of us stopped uploading, deleted images and eventually closed our accounts.  That was the only way to hurt istock and at least make the other sites give us a bit more respect.

I'm not buying the tokens.  If it's a success, we can make money selling our images there.  If it fails, I wont lose anything.  I'd be more interested if they had a good answer to the EU VAT problem, if the cryptocurrency market had bottomed out and if ICO's were more trustworthy.

I don't understand why there can't be a smart contract, so that funds are only released to ICO's when they achieve certain goals.  At the moment, it's too easy for them to promise a lot and deliver very little.

Photochain has a better name.  The whitepaper is interesting but we will end up paying for hosting and probably not getting as much marketing as the current sites.  I'm still not convinced that enough buyers are going to use this yet, maybe in a few years.  Here's the whitepaper  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C4UPA9-9o2cOLJOEYMIVwN_Fi3Ebtn2YcRua58hQ7_0/edit#

I don't understand why.

if you have a 25mp photo, it is going to have a certain lifespan before people will no longer buy it due to poor resolution. a photo with 50mp should last longer in the market. although I do make a lot of money with 9mp photos.

in regards to the sensor, I notice an improvement from 1" to APS-C. surely a camera that is full frame or medium format must have an improved dynamic range that produces higher quality photos, which should mean less rejections on stock sites. in addition, I think Alamy is rejecting APS-C photos now.

I have tried contacting stock agencies to determine if they believe a better sensor is worth being and they never give me any information.

I still make money from my 4mp camera that I bought back in the early 2000's.  12mp is more than enough.  Alamy only reject if there's something technically wrong with the photo.  I doubt they will ever reject just because the sensor was APS-C.

I say every contributor should combine and put this agency out of its misery otherwise a day will come when every agency will follow suit and none of us will make anything.

That's fallen on deaf ears for a decade now.  I'd like to know how bad they can get before enough contributors ditch them to put them out of their misery.  It's years since my camels back was broken

I'm still enjoying using steemit.  It helps that I powered up, using money I made from other cryptocurrencies.  Looking at my latest post, here's what I made
Pending Payout    $ 3.450   ( ~ 0.335 SP, 1.311 SBD | 5.42 USD )
Transfer Amount    1.329 SBD

I spent 1.329 SBD on bots, to upvote my post.  That's currently worth $4.27.  I should get back $5.42, making a profit of $1.15.  It's not much but it only took about 2 minutes to post this https://steemit.com/photography/@sharpshot/big-ben-elizabeth-tower-westminster-palace-london-england-shallow-focus-photo-using-tilted-lens

Anyone else using steemit?

I wondering how all the blockchain sites will handle the EU-VAT. If there is no middleman i have to write an invoice and have to pay VAT for every single sale in the EU buyers country.

The administration cost will explode...

I've asked that question in the Wemark telegram group.  They're looking into it.  Will let you know what they say.

Certainly owners and creators of these sites and tokes can raise money on ICO's. But will they invest in marketing and development of good website? I higly doubt so.

It is all about speculation on coin and token prices.

Blockchain technology exits 9 years already. Show me at least one real successfull project using it.

A lot of the banks are using this https://ripple.com/xrp/