Introducing the qntra

First, a little bit of history (from irc, of course, quoting in relevant part) :

September 30, around 5ami

mircea_popescu Cazalla listen, we need someone to make a proper bitcoin news venue. Instead of linking to a coindesk piece, just rewrite it so it's no longer FUCKTARDED, publish it and link that. Win-win.

cazalla I looked elsewhere but it seems he spoke to them about it.

mircea_popescu Only reason anyone's speaking to them is because of this false perception of "leadership", exactly same reason derps flock to tardstalk. It's a shithole of the first degree, and it only continues to exist because everyone's like... meh, whatever, ragazinesii. It wasn't so bad back when the Bitpay & co set of scammersiii that had stolen Bitcoin Magazineiv were still hoping that brand's not now dead, but meanwhile...v

cazalla Is that an endoresment to start one?

mircea_popescu Definitely. I'm sick of reading fucktarded goop because that's where people link for a story like that because apparently nobody else wrote it. It's like having all fruit glacee'd in shit. How about someone start a greengrocer already, we don't need any of this glacee business.

kakobrekla Mostly only people who already know the real story are interested in it, not your average reader.

mircea_popescu The average reader'd be interested in where his butthole is, if he could strain his brain enough to learn he even has one.

Vexual I'm thinkin paywall.

kakobrekla I think the question 'who are you writing for' is in place. For us - redundant.

mircea_popescu Hm. Problem is if you let this shit continue indefinitely you'll have an endless stream of idiots with firmly entrenched idiocies. "99% don't give a shit about gavin's latest stupidity, but this is not a signal to stfu and go home". Before that, "99% didn't give a shit about bitcoind 0.7 or .8 or .9, but CORE DEVS!!!" Well done, core devs for a project that massively ignores you.

kakobrekla Way too much stuff continues to continue and noone can do shit.

* BingoBoingo wonders where a managing editor might be found. Experience with this seems to be the scarce piece.

mircea_popescu The problem is the sort of drive. What's needed is someone willing and able to put 16 hour days into this for years. An Arringtonvi is what's needed in this space. And by god this is the chance for someone like that to become something like that.vii

dub What we really need is btc onion.

mircea_popescu Nah, SA got that covered.

BingoBoingo This is true.

cazalla I'll have a think about it, I don't want to say yes unless I'll actually commit to it and have a plan of attack.

mircea_popescu Ideally a team.

kakobrekla And lots of CSS.

mircea_popescu No CSS.

Vexual RSS?

dub Bootstrap?viii

kakobrekla HTML3 and CSS5

mircea_popescu And none of the fucktarded retardation of that guy what's his name, the wanna-be competition for coindesk and co. The guy that was here for five minutes but then concluded he has better things to do, with the same stupid head that then generated that entire "taking full responsibility" fiasco.

cazalla Coinfire?

mircea_popescu Right.

cazalla It became even stupider. coinfire.cf/lets-get-meta-site-ownership-via-token/

assbot Let's Get Meta with Site Ownership via Token - Coin Fire

mircea_popescu It's been going to shit ever since the guy ran out of his 6 months of timeix and "had to make revenue". His attempts are so naive and idiotic it pains. Definitely sunk the modicum of credibility he had amassed within two weeks. Which is what I mean. No movements like that. You run into management problems, come here and ask. And it's unfortunate, too, because all that was easily avoidable. But Tim gotta Tim all over the Tim.x

kakobrekla You defo need a few persons for this and compensated for.

mircea_popescu You can just exploit the current idiots. Read and rewrite Coindesk and co.

cazalla That would be enough to get it off the ground until it has traction.

Vexual That Huffington lady got richer with her news aggregator than she did maring into shipping.

mircea_popescu Exactly. And you'll know you got the traction cause they start bitching. And it'll be a fine thing too. Hurting stuff like Coindesk is worth it just on that basis alone.

BingoBoingo I dunno that Coindesk puts out enough material... Too many non-stories.

mircea_popescu To add salt to the cuts you can do a weekly roundup and mock their unpublishable shit.

kakobrekla Go ahead and try then.

mircea_popescu Cazalla see if danielpbarron feels like it. JuliaTourianski what are you doing these days ?

cazalla I would want to run something like that by myself at first and bring people in later, too many chefs and all that

Duffer1 What would be written about that isn't already covered by bit-ass?

BingoBoingo cazalla: I'd be up for some story authoring, contributing to the cause. The too many chefs problem isn't about having too many people so much as a shitty heirarchy.

mircea_popescu BingoBoingo has it I think. Just don't try and run "teams", you'll be fine.

BingoBoingo It's the editors/writers problem that among other shit killed Coinfire. Like the Chefs/Cooks problems that makes most people's restaurant dreams fail

thestringpuller What is Coinfire?

BingoBoingo Coinfire is this site that was promising for a week and a half then turned full derp.

cazalla Most importantly, do I name the site prefixcoin.com, coinsuffix.com or perhaps even bitsuffix.com

That was part one of the show. Then around half past six that same morning,

mircea_popescu thickasthieves> just make the b-a blogroll into a magazine and we can appoint an editor for choosing which stories are big on the homepage :)

Monday, 06 October, Year 6 d.Tr.