There are rumors that for the addition of words, a specialist in blockchain technologies in a resume can raise the salary of an employee by 25%. Today there is a sharp increase in demand for professionals in the field of the crypto industry. The wave of technological start-ups and their accompanying ICO caused an inflow of capital into the industry, and also created a huge number of jobs. Required professionals in the field of marketing, programming, application developers and smart contracts and much much more. But there is a dilemma. Where to get the necessary staff if the industry is young, and in educational institutions do not train specialized specialists on these topics? I'll give you one of the answers...
On the blockhain for the blockchain.
BitDegree is world’s first blockchain-powered, smart-incentives based online education platform which will revolutionize global education and tech recruiting. The main purpose of the BitDegree platform is to let Students acquire skills that are currently required by the labor market. The way to do it is not to ask business what skills they need in the far future (3-5 years), but to respond to explicitly expressed skilled labor demand quickly. BitDegree will directly align the incentives of students and anyone who wants them to become knowledge workers in digital economy - like current or potential employers, digital service providers and sponsors. Smart-incentive is a smart contract on Ethereum network ensuring the exchange of tokens between a sponsor (the Incentive Creator) and a student (the Incentive Taker), who is committing to study a specific subject in order to receive tokens (the Incentive). The BitDegree platform will offer students online courses with a clear and transparent blockchain-based reward system and achievement tracking. Our use case for blockchain is not sensitive to prolonged waiting periods before transactions are committed, thus, overall platform overhead (as in expenses) of using Ethereum network for transactional and immutable data storage needs, will be low. To make the learning process as exciting as playing Minecraft we will use Octalysis framework of gamification design. Building quality, interactive, and engaging learning experience is essential to every successful education platform. There are attempts to solve the problem: i.e. Coursera and CodeCademy. Despite the fact that these frontrunners face abysmal course completion results, similar to the entire MOOCs industry – just 5%, these two companies together are worth more than $1 billion today. Our proposed 5 incentive alignment approach has not been attempted on any of educational platforms of which we are aware. A merit-based reward, currently practiced on existing platforms, does not provide the income needed to support a student while studying.
BitDegree: it is all about education.
We are proposing a digital incentivized studying platform as a new tool to grow the global tech talent pool. Companies in need oftech talent will provide financial incentives to students willing to participate in training courses and to develop their skills. Companies seeking to get people familiar with newly introduced technology or services, will provide financial incentives to students willing to spend time to learn and to try the company’s offerings. By providing incentives, any company explicitly signals the demand for certain qualifications, or informs about knowledge and skills needed to effectively use newly introduced technology/products/services.
Smart-incentive is an Ethereum blockchain based smart-contract ensuring exchange of value (tokens) between the incentive creator (sponsor) and the incentive taker (student). Incentive taker is committing to perform study effort in order to receive the incentive (tokens). The underwriter of this smart-incentive is the BitDegree platform, which will provide the proof of study effort verification. Any company (like a potential employer or a technology/service provider), government institution, (like a school, job centers or prisons) and even ordinary citizens can become an incentive creator. Smart-incentives will be created by Incentive Creators who will provide sponsorship amount and define maximum number of applicants, date and time of when students can begin enrollment to course, when enrollment becomes unavailable, and how long the incentives are left available to enrolled students. The Incentive Creator will be able to set prerequisites for candidates, availability and intensity of incentives for selected regions or even specific areas e.g. Tampa, Florida, US. Incentive Takers will be able to lookup what kind of Study courses are available to them in their locality with respect to their track records of achievements. All student engagement with smart-incentive will leave tamper proof trail in the blockchain. The smart contract will provide assurance of incentive payment. The use of Token enables us to serve the economic incentives to any student in the world, which is not possible with flat money due to high transaction costs.
Also, the platform developers emphasized that their platform will carry out the proof of study efforts., especially study effort enablers (Course authors and mentors), and also clearly classifies the types of smart incentives with the possibility of merging in chain.
Roadmap and a Bold vision for the BitDegree platform
We practice agile development and therefore carefully plan for the immediate goals and draw general plans for the future according to the vision that we want to achieve. We share the motto of Jeff Bezos – “We are stubborn on vision but flexible on details”. We see at least 3 essential stages of platform development. We have clear plans for v1, however, what will happen in v2 and v3 will depend on the lessons learned in v1. We follow core guiding principles for the platform design: 1. decentralization, 2. transparency, 3. inclusion, 4. sustainability, 5. growth, 6. disruption. We will use these principles when deciding on the strategic direction of the platform and new functionalities.
Bitdegree platform benefits
Also, the founders identify the main advantages of their product in relation to competitors in the market.
People behind BitDegree
The team is comprised of multi-skilled professionals that have worked with each other in various capacities and became friends. This joins the project that everyone in the team is highly passionate about. This is the time when everyone dreams big and goes big. Most of the team has already worked together scaling solutions that reached millions of users and stumbled upon the need to educate them, whereas some others have worked on the educational initiatives experience, which can be directly applied to BitDegree.
Andrius Putna, CEO, co-founder 11 years in software engineering. Blockchain advocate. Person behind the success of 000webhost - world’s first and biggest free cloud hosting platform designed for learning, testing and experimenting. Hostinger product architect
Danielius Stasiulis, CBO, co-founder Head of Startup Division at Civitta (7 years) - the leading management consulting firm in Eastern Europe. Advised 300+ startups and worked with many startup programs, including Berkeley Skydeck in Silicon Valley. He focuses on ICO and blockchain-based business models.
Ervinas Rimdeika, CLO, co-founder Ervinas is a FinTech fan and has extensive practice in related fields of corporate, intellectual property and business transaction law questions as well. He worked not only at a few well-known law firms, but also at one of the largest company’s group in Lithuania and Baltic States. In previous years Ervinas Rimdeika was a member of one of the top raising Baltics FinTech startups and reached impressive results, where Lithuanian Supreme Court changed case-law and formed new interpretation rules on financial lease and other matters. Clients and colleagues especially value Ervinas Rimdeika for deep 34 legal knowledge, critical and strategic thinking, in-depth analysis of the problems as well as rational approach.
Rio Asatiani, CMO, co-founder With more than 14 years of experience in effective customer acquisition, working with new brands and startup launches, Rio is a growth-hacking guru & Google Certified Partner who led 000webhost and Hostinger to an international success in more than 40 countries by attracting 29+ millions of new users. He joined the BitDegree project having a strong vision in innovative acquisition channels and solid experience in growth-hacking. Rio ensures the success of BitDegree on an international level.
Darius Rugevičius, Partner in Prime Block Capital Investment Fund Darius is experienced in building successful technology based businesses, having sold two of his previous start-ups inthepast 4 years alone. Usinghis skills toimplement effectivemarketing strategies, propel execution, and meet deadlines, he has assisted companies operating in the blockchain, fintech, robotics and biotech sectors. In the past year Darius has worked with numerous blockchain projects, helping them to develop successful strategies, networking, and outcomes.
Advisors
Jeff Burton, Serial Entrepreneur, co-founder of Electronic Arts Global technology executive, keynote speaker, and a Silicon Valley veteran, Jeff was a founding team member of Electronic Arts, where he oversaw the global expansion of its operations. Jeff has high-level connections in Silicon Valley and around the world that he is using to help startups like BitDegree. Jeff developed U C Berkeley’s Skydeck startup accelerator and is currently involved in helping startups around the world to grow and scale into the Silicon Valley. Jeff is an experienced, dedicated contributor who believes in BitDegree and wants to help.
Roberto Santana, Product and Strategy Advisor, Former Senior Manager at Coursera Entrepreneur and Former Product Management Growth Lead at Coursera. Roberto played a role in helping Coursera scale to a global level and acquire over 27 million learners worldwide. Roberto is Stanford MBA with 3 engineering degrees in computer science and design. His exceptional engineering and technical knowledge has led him to scale several startups by managing the project and business development, including San Francisco-based Zendesk, where he helped grow number of paying customers by 60%. Prior to his work in the Valley, Roberto was a Senior Engineer with Shell, where he led cross-functional team responsible for the delivery of products that accounted for $400M in refinery revenues.
Maurice De Hond, Steve JobsSchool Founder, Personalized Learning Advisor A successful entrepreneur and founder of Steve JobsSchool - a modern elementary school concept designed to see each child as an individual and nurture him based on his strengths and interests. This learning model quickly became successful and is already adopted in more than 35 schools in the Netherlands. Being the pioneer of innovative learning ensures the implementation of modern educational solutions on the Bitdegree platform on the long term that will establish a solid foundation for IT passionate people to reach their full potential.
James K. Scarborough, Stanford University PhD., Gamification Advisor Currently a candidate for PhD. at Stanford University, James main focus is to deeply engage players for the purpose of increasing workplace, classroom, and similar forms of individual and teambased productivity. He is currently involved in projects assessing the effects of real social interaction in virtual spaces concerning primarily energy efficiency behaviors, gender and culture specific responses, and the physiological impact of social interactions in goal-oriented game environments. Having a profound experience in gamification and working with companies that created such games as Tetris, Civilization, Falcon Flight Simulator, led him to joining the BitDegree team and assures a deeply engaging environment of the platform on the long term.
Arnas Stuopelis, COO, co-founder Arnas is the CEO of Hostinger. Prior to taking the role of the CEO, for 6 years Arnas was responsible for business development at Hostinger. He successfully expanded Hostinger on a global level as well as played an important role when creating one of the most successful web hosting brands in Indonesia - Niagahoster.co.id. With his profound entrepreneurship skills and a solid experience in business development, Arnas knows how to scale a project to global success.
Ričardas Pocius, Technical advisor Ricardas is a passionate distributed systems engineer who enjoys sharing his experience and knowledge with others. Determined to keep magic out of the systems. Organizer of Erlang workshop/ meetup in Vilnius,LT.
And now we turn to the description ICO.
TOKEN TYPE
Utility
TOKEN SYMBOL
BDG
EXCHANGE RATE
1 ETH = 10,000 BDG*
MAXIMUM GOAL
~30,000 ETH*
TOKENS IN TOTAL
660 million
ACCEPTED CURRENCIES
ETH (all other - via Tokenlot)
Education expands the boundaries of your opportunities. Join!
For more information, please visit Link:
· Web-site: https://www.bitdegree.org/en/token#top
· ANN bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2214321.0
· Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/bitdegree.org/
· Twitter:https://twitter.com/bitdegree_org
· Telegram: https://t.me/bitdegree
· WhitePaper: https://www.bitdegree.org/white-paper.pdf
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