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Re: Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered by blockchain

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How do you handle fraud, feedback and dispute resolution?

At the moment - tasks are manually approved. This is bound to change as escrow system gets developed. You can find development roadmap found about.cryptotask.org Feedback is added with after a task is successfully completed, which over time would create high quality freelancers from ones who don't perform so well.

As for the dispute system - I'll copy previously provided answer taken from Forbes article: "With a review system like that of CryptoTask, reviewers are token holders that stake an amount equal to the task value that they are putting themselves forward for as a potential reviewer. It means that being a stakeholder, you already have a chance of being selected. That chance is directly proportional to that individual's stake, so this prevents sybil attacks.

If they do, however, get randomly selected to be a reviewer and the task goes into dispute, they are required to cast a vote on whether or not they think the task was actually completed. If a reviewer votes against the consensus or does not vote at all, they do not lose any certain percentage of their staked amount.

Some of the benefits of such a system include:

    Selection happens in secret to prevent reviewers from influencing the consensus through collusion.
    A two-stage voting process (secret commit and then reveal) means reviewers can’t wait to see how other reviewers voted and then just go with the consensus.
    Reviewers would generally be professionals with a relatively large token stake and therefore in a good position to escalate and vote on a dispute."
This would sum up dispute system with incentive for reviewers being 10% of the task value split among them.

Re: Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered by blockchain

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We are about to resolve content quality issues in future updates. CryptoTask platform would take 0% if you don't use escrow system, giving you 100% of completed task value. If you decide to use an escrow system, platform would take 3% from total task value. About 70% - There's affiliate system, which allows for freelancer who can't find a job themselves, rely on a headhunter type of users, who'd connect freelancer wi…

I still don't get how the platform would take only 3% but I only get 70% of the value.

You'd get 97% of the job value if you use an escrow system. If you are a freelancer, who can't find a job and you rely on a headhunter, in that case you'd get 70% (which is to be discussed). If you don't use either of those, you'd get 100% of the job value.

Re: Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered by blockchain

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Do you get most work through marketplaces like this or via people you wish have a connection with? I'm really interested in knowing if you could make a "good" living on these marketplaces if you want to sustain a middle class lifestyle as an adult with kids in Canada or the US (let's leave it the most expensive real estate regions). I briefly reviewed this space several years ago and didn't think it would pay enough…

In the meantime I stopped freelancing but I had 5 longer running gigs in total (+ a few shorter term gigs). All of these gigs I got through different channels. Only 1 was through a platform, but it was one of those higher playing platforms where you had to go through an application process which included building a project without being paid (I was living in the US while I was working through this platform) So in ess…

The platform you are talking about is probably Toptal https://www.toptal.com#connect-unmatched-coders-now ?

I work through them and am very satisfied. Though I do not live in the US, rates I can get through Toptal are much higher than local rates. And if you are from US you can set even higher rates. Also there are US only jobs. So I guess if you dont live in the expensive part of the US it is doable.

Re: Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered by blockchain

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We are about to resolve content quality issues in future updates. CryptoTask platform would take 0% if you don't use escrow system, giving you 100% of completed task value. If you decide to use an escrow system, platform would take 3% from total task value. About 70% - There's affiliate system, which allows for freelancer who can't find a job themselves, rely on a headhunter type of users, who'd connect freelancer wi…

I still don't get how the platform would take only 3% but I only get 70% of the value.

They're value-added features:

* You get 100% by default

* To get escrow services, you pay 3% of that

* If you want someone to find jobs for you, you pay 30% to them

Re: Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered by blockchain

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Gas prices are a given so generally aren't listed as a fee since it's intrinsic to the network.

Can you imagine if your bank charged you to write a check? I don't understand how people are okay with gas prices being a given.

Network fees for blockchain are the equivalence of taxes. People aren't okay with taxes, but they're the price you need to pay to participate in the financial system.

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In the meantime I stopped freelancing but I had 5 longer running gigs in total (+ a few shorter term gigs). All of these gigs I got through different channels. Only 1 was through a platform, but it was one of those higher playing platforms where you had to go through an application process which included building a project without being paid (I was living in the US while I was working through this platform) So in ess…

The platform you are talking about is probably Toptal https://www.toptal.com#connect-unmatched-coders-now ? I work through them and am very satisfied. Though I do not live in the US, rates I can get through Toptal are much higher than local rates. And if you are from US you can set even higher rates. Also there are US only jobs. So I guess if you dont live in the expensive part of the US it is doable.

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Re: Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered by blockchain

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How does that work from a tax point of view? I guess you have to pay income tax when you receive the tokens for the job, then capital gain tax when you convert to USD/EUR?

For this sort of contractual work they'll probably bill and pay in an algorithmic stablecoin which is intended to track the dollar.

Regardless of the taxable nature of such a thing (which may or may not be a security because it's designed not to change value based on the actions of others) it should simplify the issue by at least not changing wildly from day to day.

Re: Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered by blockchain

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There are a couple of medium posts describing technical background of the platform and token itself such as: https://cryptotask.medium.com/cryptotask-combines-defr-and-d... https://cryptotask.medium.com/technical-background-of-crypto... We are running on AEternity blockchain ( https://aeternity.com/ ), making gas fees sufficiently low. There have been 19.5k transactions https://www.aeknow.org/contract/detail/ct_X3szY…

Ooof, didn't know you were running on AEternity. That in itself would be a no for me. I would definitely love to participate if there was a decision to move to ETH when Optimism is released.

Why? The blockchain technologically, the UI difficulty of another chain, or the currency?

Re: Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered by blockchain

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Gas prices are a given so generally aren't listed as a fee since it's intrinsic to the network.

Can you imagine if your bank charged you to write a check? I don't understand how people are okay with gas prices being a given.

Because gas is like the cost of the paper. I wouldn't want my bank selling a fancier cheque just to charge more, but I do expect to cover the costs of the necessary anti-fraud features, etc. Similar to the cost of the code to verify the transaction.

But yes, it should be lower where possible. Both by code optimization and blockchain/architecture choices.

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