Bitcoin Classic is one of several forks of the Bitcoin reference implementation Bitcoin Core aiming to increase the transaction processing capacity of Bitcoin by increasing the block size limit. Blocks, which contain transaction data, form the basic structure of the immutable blockchain. Bitcoin Classic started out as similar to, though less aggressive than, the Bitcoin XT fork, which never managed to get the support it needed. Bitcoin Classic in its first 8 months promoted a single increase of the maximum block size from one megabyte to two megabytes. In November 2016 this changed and the project moved to a solution that moved the limit out of the software rules into the hands of the miners and nodes.
Bitcoin Classic is also an attempt to move the technical governance of this decentralized and independent Bitcoin project from the developers of the original Bitcoin to a voting process involving a larger community of miners, businesses, developers and users. There is no formal activation method for the software, but due to the nature of Bitcoin a supermajority needs to support it.
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Bulyanhulu Platinum Mine can be an underground silver mine in the Shinyanga Region of Tanzania, located 55 kilometres south of Lake Victoria. It really is one of three yellow metal mines Acacia Mining plc, an organization shown on the London STOCK MARKET, runs in Tanzania, the other two being Buzwagi and the North Mara Silver Mine.
7 Ways to Increase Your Conversion Rate NOW
1,000 prospects come to your site or sales page. 1% of them buy a $50 product. You’ve made $500.
You invest 2 days trying a few different ways to increase your conversions, and 3 are successful. You only increased your conversions by 1%, yet you’ve doubled your income, selling 2% of the prospects who come to your sales page.
Now for every 1,000 prospects, you make $1,000.
And you send 1,000 prospects a day, meaning…
Well, I’ll let you play with the numbers. The point is, even a 1% bump in conversions can mean a significant pay raise for you.
Yet so many marketers never bother to do any of the things I’m about to suggest.
Why? I suppose it’s one of those things they’ll “get around to” but they never do.
So here’s what I recommend: If you don’t want to do any of the following, then OUTSOURCE it.
Let’s get started on boosting your conversions:
1: Create a compelling and clear value proposition.
Your value proposition can be the #1 element that determines if people will bother to read more on your page.
And it’s also the main thing you need to test.
The less known your company is, the better your value proposition needs to be.
In a nutshell, your value proposition clearly states:
- How your product solves the customers’ problem or improves their situation (relevancy)
- Delivers specific benefits (quantified value)
Tell why they should buy from you instead of your competition (unique differentiation)
Here’s an example from Prey: https://www.preyproject.com/
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I could do an entire article on creating a compelling value proposition – and I’ll do exactly that next month for you.
2: Do A/B testing
You create two alternative versions of your page, each with a different headline / color scheme / call to action, etc.
You do a split test to see which one works better. When you find out what converts better, then you test something else.
Generally you only want to test one element at a time – otherwise, it just gets confusing.
The more elements you test, the higher you can boost your conversions.
Things to test: Headline, page layout and navigation, the offer itself, using different media (such as a video) and even a radical change if you think you might want to start over.
You can use Google Optimize if you’re looking for a free A/B tester, or Optimizely if you want more options.
3: Set up a Proper Sales Funnel
Sometimes your conversions are taking a hit because you’re asking for the signup or the sale too soon in the process.
If people are still in ‘browsing’ mode, they might not be psychologically ready to subscribe or buy.
The general rule is, the more expensive or complicated the product is, the more time people need before they are ready to commit.
If you’re looking to improve conversions on a squeeze page that only asks for their email address, your focus should be on improving the reason why they would want to sign up. Making your offer more compelling – something that will immediately spark their desire – should do it.
But if you’re selling a product, it’s possible that you need to do more to build trust, develop a relationship and prove your expertise.
Remember, the longer and deeper the relationship with the prospect, the more likely they are to buy from you.
4: Address Objections before They Arise
No matter what you’re selling or how much you’re selling it for, there will be objections.
If I tried to sell $100 bills for $1, there would be objections (and you know what they are.)
Of course, since you can’t hear prospects speak their objections, you’ve got to know in advance what can kill your sale so you can make what you might call, ‘preemptive strikes’ on the objections.
Make a list of all the possible concerns your prospects might have.
And then address each one of those in your presentation / webpage / sales funnel.
5: Build Trust
People won’t buy from you if they have no need for your product, if they have no money to buy your product, if they’re not in a hurry, and if they don’t trust you.
There’s not a lot you can do about the first 2 items on that list.
You can create urgency by limiting the number of products to be sold or the duration of your sale.
But trust is a big factor you can definitely use to increase conversions.
So what makes people trust your website?
Several things:
- You’ve got citations and testimonials clearly visible.
- You’re endorsed by well-known people in your niche.
- You’ve got a physical address and maybe even a photo of your office.
- If you or your business has relevant credentials, you’ve got them displayed.
- You’ve got clear, easy to find contact information that includes a phone number.
- Your site looks professional – not something a kid whipped up on his Intel 486 in the 1990’s.
- Your site contains plenty of useful information.
- You update your site’s content often. If your latest blogpost is from 2016, you’ve got a problem.
- You show restraint with hype, blinking banners (please don’t!) ads, popups and such.
- You have zero or nearly zero errors (when it comes to trustworthiness, one error is forgivable, two aren’t.)
6: Stop Trying to Sound Smart
If I were to give you a value proposition that reads like this…
“Revenue-focused sales automation and marketing effectiveness solutions unleash collaboration throughout the revenue cycle,”
…would you have a clue what I was talking about?
Because I sure don’t. It’s not useful to the person reading it, unless your goal is to chase them off of your page. Then I suspect it’s highly effective.
Don’t use fancy or complicated language – instead, write the way people speak.
Just remember, clarity if key. If they don’t understand exactly what you’re saying, they’re not going to convert.
7: Remove Distraction
Your goal is to get people to focus solely on the action you want them to take and nothing else.
Take a look at your page for anything that might divert the visitor away from what you want them to do.
Minimize distraction, unnecessary product options, links and extraneous information.
Get rid of sidebars and big headers if they’re not helping your prospect take the desired action.
Remove irrelevant images, or replace them with images that help you make the sale.
And ask yourself if there is anything else you can remove that is not contributing to the conversion.
Increasing your conversion rate isn’t hard, but it does take effort…
Effort that will be well-rewarded in increased sales and revenues long after you’re done making the necessary changes.
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Bitcoin faucets are a reward system, in the form of a website or app, that dispenses rewards in the form of a satoshi, which is a hundredth of a millionth BTC, for visitors to claim in exchange for completing a captcha or task as described by the website. There are also faucets that dispense alternative cryptocurrencies.
Bitcoin faucets were developed by Gavin Andresen in 2010.
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The Gem Exchange was a specialist wrestling firm led by Gem Dallas Web page in the North american Wrestling Connection from 1988 to 1989. Web page led a religious successor known as The Diamonds Mine in World Tournament Wrestling from 1991 to 1992.
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Bitcoin Core is the reference client of bitcoin. Initially, the software was published by Satoshi Nakamoto under the name Bitcoin, and later renamed to Bitcoin Core to distinguish it from the network. For this reason, it is also known as the Satoshi client. It is the reference implementation for bitcoin nodes, which form the bitcoin network. Through changes to Bitcoin Core, its developers make changes to the underlying bitcoin protocol. As of 2016, Bitcoin Core repositories are maintained by Wladimir J. van der Laan.
The MIT Digital Currency Initiative funds some of development of Bitcoin Core. The project also maintains the cryptography library libsecp256k1.
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Peer-to-peer lending, also abbreviated as P2P lending, is the practice of lending money to individuals or businesses through online services that match lenders with borrowers. Since peer-to-peer lending companies offering these services generally operate online, they can run with lower overhead and provide the service more cheaply than traditional financial institutions. As a result, lenders can earn higher returns compared to savings and investment products offered by banks, while borrowers can borrow money at lower interest rates, even after the P2P lending company has taken a fee for providing the match-making platform and credit checking the borrower. There is the risk of the borrower defaulting on the loans taken out from peer-lending websites.
Also known as crowdlending, many peer-to-peer loans are unsecured personal loans, though some of the largest amounts are lent to businesses. Secured loans are sometimes offered by using luxury assets such as jewelry, watches, vintage cars, fine art, buildings, aircraft and other business assets as collateral. They are made to an individual, company or charity. Other forms of peer-to-peer lending include student loans, commercial and real estate loans, payday loans, as well as secured business loans, leasing, and factoring.
The interest rates can be set by lenders who compete for the lowest rate on the reverse auction model or fixed by the intermediary company on the basis of an analysis of the borrower’s credit. The lender’s investment in the loan is not normally protected by any government guarantee. On some services, lenders mitigate the risk of bad debt by choosing which borrowers to lend to, and mitigate total risk by diversifying their investments among different borrowers. Other models involve the P2P lending company maintaining a separate, ringfenced fund, such as RateSetter’s Provision Fund, which pays lenders back in the event the borrower defaults, but the value of such provision funds for lenders is subject to debate.
The lending intermediaries are for-profit businesses; they generate revenue by collecting a one-time fee on funded loans from borrowers and by assessing a loan servicing fee to investors (tax-disadvantaged in the UK vs charging borrowers) or borrowers (either a fixed amount annually or a percentage of the loan amount). Compared to stock markets, peer-to-peer lending tends to have both less volatility and less liquidity.
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Gold mining is the resource extraction of gold by mining.
As of 2016, the world’s largest gold producer was China with 463.7 tonnes. The second-largest producer, Australia, mined 287.3 tonnes in the same year, followed by Russia with 274.4 tonnes.
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The following are software client forks of the digital currency bitcoin. All are derived from the reference client, Bitcoin Core.
Bitcoin XT (Blockchain transfer)
Bitcoin Classic (Blockchain transfer)
Bitcoin Unlimited (Blockchain transfer)
Bitcoin Cash (Blockchain transfer)
Bitcoin Gold (Blockchain transfer)
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A payday loan (also called a payday advance, salary loan, payroll loan, small dollar loan, short term, or cash advance loan) is a small, short-term unsecured loan, “regardless of whether repayment of loans is linked to a borrower’s payday.” The loans are also sometimes referred to as “cash advances,” though that term can also refer to cash provided against a prearranged line of credit such as a credit card. Payday advance loans rely on the consumer having previous payroll and employment records. Legislation regarding payday loans varies widely between different countries, and in federal systems, between different states or provinces.
To prevent usury (unreasonable and excessive rates of interest), some jurisdictions limit the annual percentage rate (APR) that any lender, including payday lenders, can charge. Some jurisdictions outlaw payday lending entirely, and some have very few restrictions on payday lenders. In the United States, the rates of these loans used to be restricted in most states by the Uniform Small Loan Laws (USLL), with 36–40% APR generally the norm.
There are many different ways to calculate annual percentage rate of a loan. Depending on which method is used, the rate calculated may differ dramatically; e.g., for a $15 charge on a $100 14-day payday loan, it could be (from the borrower’s perspective) anywhere from 391% to 3,733%.
Although some have noted that these loans appear to carry substantial risk to the lender, it has been shown that these loans carry no more long term risk for the lender than other forms of credit. These studies seem to be confirmed by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission filings of at least one lender, who notes a charge-off rate of 3.2%.
