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« on: November 13, 2017, 04:23 »
at Fotolia you have to buy speculative currency (credits) too.
I think the main problem of Wiredstock is to currate the images. Only a double content protection is not enough. You need a good search engine that give buyers what rhey search and you have to sort out the garbage and keyword spam.
In 7 years though I don't think their "exchange rate" has changed so they have a similar risk profile to fiat currencies.....Cryptocurrencies are far more risky. I think the creative department would find it hard to persuade accounts to dabble in them...especially an un-proven one.
yes. WiredStock only have his own Credit called Stocken it is the same like Fotolia do.
But you have to understand how a blockchain works.
Wiredstock ist not mainly cryptocurrency ist is an content management system that can work alone for free. It almost controlls itself. Large parts of an agency would then be superfluous.
That saves money as we know some agencies get 80%.
If we save maybe 50% administrative costs that would be the USP of WiredStock.
I think Blockchain can facilitate payment processes manage licenses, and the image libraries.
It can sort out automatically duplicate content.
BUT it can not:
rate pictures by aesthetics for that you need humans. And if you dont currate the buyer will not find images he is looking for.
Searchengine and currating will be the main challenge for WiredStock.
Difficult but worth a try 
You can't trade fotolia credits afaik so to me its completely different....agencies typically spend 30% on marketing...they don't do that because they like giving money away (as we well know). But I do basically agree search engine is key.
yes you can not trade them but you have no control what FT/Adobe do with the values. If you can trade a Credit the Market controls the credit value not a single company. Anyway you can buy FT Credits or Stoken with , $ bitcoin or any other currency.
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« on: November 13, 2017, 04:15 »
rate pictures by aesthetics for that you need humans. And if you dont currate the buyer will not find images he is looking for.
Searchengine and currating will be the main challenge for WiredStock.
which turns them into another agency. taking decisions on what to sell away from sellers defeats the purpose of p2p. What the main challenge will be is maintaining the prices even at those levels they are today.
We would see but fact is that blockchain can reduce the administrative costs drastically. And if we contributors use that weapon before the angencies do that strongest our market position.
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« on: November 13, 2017, 03:57 »
at Fotolia you have to buy speculative currency (credits) too.
I think the main problem of Wiredstock is to currate the images. Only a double content protection is not enough. You need a good search engine that give buyers what rhey search and you have to sort out the garbage and keyword spam.
In 7 years though I don't think their "exchange rate" has changed so they have a similar risk profile to fiat currencies.....Cryptocurrencies are far more risky. I think the creative department would find it hard to persuade accounts to dabble in them...especially an un-proven one.
yes. WiredStock only have his own Credit called Stocken it is the same like Fotolia do. But you have to understand how a blockchain works. Wiredstock ist not mainly cryptocurrency ist is an content management system that can work alone for free. It almost controlls itself. Large parts of an agency would then be superfluous. That saves money as we know some agencies get 80%. If we save maybe 50% administrative costs that would be the USP of WiredStock. I think Blockchain can facilitate payment processes manage licenses, and the image libraries. It can sort out automatically duplicate content. BUT it can not: rate pictures by aesthetics for that you need humans. And if you dont currate the buyer will not find images he is looking for. Searchengine and currating will be the main challenge for WiredStock. Difficult but worth a try
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« on: November 13, 2017, 02:57 »
at Fotolia you have to buy speculative currency (credits) too.
I think the main problem of Wiredstock is to currate the images. Only a double content protection is not enough. You need a good search engine that give buyers what rhey search and you have to sort out the garbage and keyword spam.
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« on: November 12, 2017, 18:46 »
a blockchain can replace a agency thats good and i think WiredStock can be a gamechanger. If i save most of the agency costs i can invest more in my tax accounting... But it is a long way to explain the stock industry (buyers and contributors) why blockchain can save both of them much money.
Hopefully your blockchain will kill all this greedy agencies. I will give WiredStock a try.
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« on: November 03, 2017, 17:57 »
**** you 123rf.
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« on: October 29, 2017, 12:02 »
StockChain will act as a mediator and will charge 5-10% which will also be used to cover legal and accounting costs. However, we will not be involved in price setting. Contributors will set their on prices and charge buyers based on the terms they set, similar to ebay or other p2p platforms.
if you dont have a european VAT solution Stockchain is not interessting for 98% of the EU contributors. If i want to sell direct i only need a website, CMS, licensetext, and Paypal. For what do i need Stockchain? Do you make marketing?
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« on: October 29, 2017, 07:23 »
if there is no middleman there some VAT problems in the EU.
A marketplace with contracts direct between buyers and contributors will not work in the EU.
Plenty of people in the EU sell stuff on line peer to peer even photos on their own sites 
of course its possible. But you have to pay the VAT from buyers (with homeland inside the EU) in the buyers home country. That means you have to check everytime an image is sold where to pay the VAT. The administrative effort is high i dont think that is profitable with microstock prices. For example: If i sold my images from EU via an agency that is outside the EU i have to pay 0 VAT and no administrative effort.
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« on: October 28, 2017, 16:56 »
if there is no middleman there some VAT problems in the EU.
A marketplace with contracts direct between buyers and contributors will not work in the EU.
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« on: September 20, 2017, 07:18 »
me too hopefully they will die..... 
63
« on: September 08, 2017, 07:52 »
thx Semmick!
another option is a payoneer account and there credit card. But iam not sure that the credicard will work for example on expedia.com.
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« on: September 08, 2017, 05:42 »
iam from europe but most of my income is payed in us dollar.
To save some fees i would like to pay my flighttickets in $ and with Paypal.
Someone knows sites that are suitable (paypal/us dollar/foreign customer)?
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« on: June 12, 2017, 16:28 »
Ich werde das Gefhl nicht los das es bei der Bildkunst bis zum Himmel stinkt. In deren Verwaltungsrat findet man Lobbyisten und irgendwelche Juristen die dann z.B. den Brsenvetein des deutschen Buchhandels vertreten.
Die haben kein Interesse das wir Mitglieder whlen. Das Wahlverfahren ist kompliziert und die Fristen sind viel zu kurz. Ich befrchte die meisten werden gar nicht mitbekommen das sie online abstimmen knnen und damit den Auszahlungsstop sogar verhindern knnten....
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« on: June 09, 2017, 04:02 »
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« on: June 09, 2017, 02:29 »
With Britain outside the EU, we wish them good luck with negotiating a trade agreement. Why would we in Europe want to have a trade agreement with the British?
The British industry will find it difficult to sell goods in the EU. The automotive industry and other industries will move to the EU. The EU will have import duties on goods from non-EU countries. Unemployment and porness increases. Civil war is imminent.
Now, if Britain wants to re-enter the EU, it is a new negotiation. Two requirements that it will not be granted an exemption are:
- Introduction of right-hand traffic
- Introduction of the same time zone as France and most of Europe uses, i.e., CET, which is GMT + 1
The UK is the 5th biggest economy in the world and if we don't get a good deal, it will probably become the biggest tax haven. Any tariffs will have to be offset by lower taxes, I think that's a good incentive for the EU to come up with a beneficial deal for both sides. I do think some of the car industry will go but as the UK has some of the best robotics, it wont all go and it would be great if we started making our own cars again. I was against leaving the EU if it reformed but that hasn't happened and I'm not that disappointed to be leaving now. Going to be fun to see how it works out.
oh yes the fun ist starting. UK in chaos.
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« on: March 16, 2017, 16:31 »
So lets take action:
Inform there buyers.
Click Gettys Adsense advertisment away.
Start a social media shitstorm.
Flood there support with emails.
We are so many lets give them a 24/7 contributor support worldwide.
What great ideas. Too bad nobody tried them all before, many times. 
there was never a swarm that tried that. Only a few do that.
The contributor scene has no power that is the problem.
Remember the Fotolia/Dollarphotoclub action. It is possible to punish greedy Agencies.
But if you only post, crying and unmotivated you will change nothing.
Sometimes i think the contributors have lost all her creativity by producing new images.
Never is a big word for someone who has been at this for just about 3 years. I'm guessing you weren't here for istock D day (deactivation day). It was a big deal. All your suggestions were tried at once by a large organized group of contributors. Many thousands of images were deactivated and a lot of people closed their accounts altogether. Buyers were contacted, tweets went out, bloggers wrote articles about Getty mistreatment of contributors, the works.
Yet here we are a few years later Things are way worse on istock than ever. The only good to come from it is that the people who closed their accounts are free of the abuse.
You're welcome for the history lesson. 
Wow! Really d-day? crazy..... Tell me somthing new. I dont talk about a d-day or deleting accounts. And now? Crying about the good (or bad) old times? But yout right iam generation next. Fighting with subcriptions from the beginning and still survive. I dont need lessons from disillusioned SOD-veterans. This is my future that luckily not depend on your history.
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« on: March 16, 2017, 10:11 »
For what it's worth, I sympathise with Scottish Independence!
Yes Scottland come to the Union your welcome!
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« on: March 16, 2017, 10:00 »
I'm pretty happy, especially with the exchange rates (which will only get better) I'm making an extra 300-400 a month more just on the better exchange rates compared to this time last year.
yes and in the future you will pay higher taxes...
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« on: March 16, 2017, 01:10 »
So lets take action:
Inform there buyers.
Click Gettys Adsense advertisment away.
Start a social media shitstorm.
Flood there support with emails.
We are so many lets give them a 24/7 contributor support worldwide.
What great ideas. Too bad nobody tried them all before, many times.
there was never a swarm that tried that. Only a few do that. The contributor scene has no power that is the problem. Remember the Fotolia/Dollarphotoclub action. It is possible to punish greedy Agencies. But if you only post, crying and unmotivated you will change nothing. Sometimes i think the contributors have lost all her creativity by producing new images.
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« on: March 15, 2017, 13:14 »
So lets take action:
Inform there buyers.
Click Gettys Adsense advertisment away.
Start a social media shitstorm.
Flood there support with emails.
We are so many lets give them a 24/7 contributor support worldwide.
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« on: February 10, 2017, 13:35 »
Email but where is th f.u..ing link?
Unbelievable!!!
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« on: February 09, 2017, 16:05 »
no! But i locked in with my email and Istock pw.
me too
me too but im not sure if it is a good idea to upload images with the old pw/email.
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