Crazy things happen during last few days, when I have been mostly off-Steemit. Real Andreas on Steem? WOW! :)
First of all, I believe and I hope, that Andreas wasn't writing about my official and transparent project (more about it later), but about this guy: @aantonopoulos
Here is one of recent post published by some impersonator:
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source: https://steemit.com/steem/@aantonopoulos/dtqvk3j2
... so knowing that, it is actually great that we now know, that @aantonopoulos is fake, and that @aantonop actually belong to real Andreas :)
Now few things about my transparent @andreas-m-videos project.
The goal of @andreas-m-videos account was set from the very beginning, and was described in post:
From the very beginning it was my official initiative, "run by @noisy". I was never pretending to be an Andreas. Additionally, in the post linked above, there is my initial statement:
> - This account follow full non profit policy, what means that one of those thing will always happen:
> - post will decline payout, or
> - post will gather funds to pay for most requested transcriptions of video
Also lately I decide not only do transcription of Andreas videos, but actual translations of them to new languages (starting with my mother language, which is Polish - to test whole process).
I have already submitted 3 translations (which were accepted by Andreas on his YouTube channel)
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and
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Those translations of subtitles were prepared by professional translators, which so far were paid by me - from my private pocket. I wanted to first use my own money to help gather funds with first translation to gather funds for second translation, etc...
I decided to post some translation with my @noisy account and resteem them from @andreas-m-videos account, because of two reasons:
- because of my bigger follower base on @noisy account - which should help me gather more funds for future translations
- because I decided make those contribiutions through Utopian and by publishing those translations on Github: https://github.com/noisy/aantonop-subtitles, and current rules of Utopian are, that I should use a the same name on github and steem, so I decided to publish from @noisy Steem account, things which were pushed to repository from @noisy github account.
Also, whenever I published a translations, I always put an information, like this:
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I also have my second account - @noisy2, which I use to publish posts in Polish. I decided to use it, to publish fresh translations for Polish audience, like here: https://steemit.com/polish/@noisy2/zdecentralizowana-prawda-video-andreasa-antonopoulosa-z-przetlumaczonymi-na-jezyk-polski-napisami
Was I allowed to publish not my videos and earn rewards? According to information put on Andreas website and his YouTube channel, yes:
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source: https://antonopoulos.com/donate/
And I would like to emphasize, that all funds from those posts are regularly moved to non-profit @andreas-m-videos account:
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As was stated in first post:
> gather funds [would be spend] to pay for most requested transcriptions of video
From the very very beginning, over a year ago, I try to be as transparent as possible. I would like to continue this project, and start funding translation of subtitles to other languages, like Spanish, French, etc.
I truly believe, that from my site everything was ok so far. If I could improve somehow transparency of this initiative - please let me know. I would be happy to do so!
Having that said, today I also send additional email to Andreas to inform him about status of this project. My goal was and is to help Andreas. If he for whatever reason ask me to stop this project, then I would stop.
So far, my understanding is, that Andreas is ok with my actions:
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source: https://twitter.com/noisypl/status/958307237046472704
PS. self-upvoted for visability. All funds gathered by this comment (guess for what ;) ) ... will be moved to @andreas-m-videos account, and spent on funding next professional translation, to different languages, like Spanish, French, Chinese, etc.