The community of Decred will decide in the next few days the fate of a proposal to explain and disseminate the technology for the project through the graphic language of comics. This idea, presented by two young argentines, it is proposed to carry the largest amount of people possible, the information on Decred, using a visual narrative is simple and convincing.The proposal, called DCR Comic, is at the stage of voting through the system of governance of Decred, Politeia. The process opened last Thursday the 17th and will close within three days, at the height of the block 391.103. At the time of this note, the proposal has obtained the favourable vote of 1.691 participants of the network of Decred, a 51,86% of the quorum vote to be approved, you must obtain at least 60% of positive votes).The authors of the project, Paul and Nacho, from Argentina, explained to Breaking News that the objective of DCR Comic is to provide a visual guide of Decred. “Today the cryptocurrencies continue to be a complicated subject to explain, and the learning curve ends up excluding many people,” said Paul.In your opinion, but many people know Bitcoin, not the same happens with other projects as Decred. “With these comics seek to give greater visibility to the project and tell in a simple way the main features of Decred”, he added.To submit the proposal to the community of Decred, the young people developed the first three numbers of DCR Comic. Paul, who is a journalist by profession, with experience in the technological area at large argentine media, was in charge of the research and construction of the scripts. For his part, Nacho, designer from the 10 years ago, was in charge of the illustration.As they explained, the importance of the proposal lies in the fact that this model of communication can easily reach a young audience in any part of the world. Even, other members of the community of Decred they have been supported with translations of the texts, which are already available in English, Spanish, mandarin and Russian.The creators developed the first three numbers of DCR Comic. Source: Github Repository of the propuestaLos first three comics covering such topics as the proposals of Politeia, the houses of change decentralised (DEX), and the protocol of Proof of Work (PoW). As can be seen, the visual concept is framed in the current trend of the market in which you can find on the social networks, the main source of information for young people.As they explained, DCR Comic is a project to be fully open, which in fact is available in a Github repository. “We try to make all the pieces and resources that we generate are available for anyone,” said Paul.When you consult with them in what they were inspired to generate this content, Paul expressed that the main frame of reference comes from the area of the infographics, which explain the news in a simple way, as Pictoline. For his part, Nacho said that referrals come from many sources, including “video games, comics and everything related. Hold references from everywhere, from illustrations more “chibi”, as Spongebob and Adventure Time, to anime like Evangelion”.The creators of DCR Comics believe that their proposal is the best strategy to win the attention of the youth audience in chats or in networks such as Instagram, and in this way support the efforts from a year ago has been doing Decred in the area of Public Relations. However, do not rule out that the comic books can be used as basis, later, for the preparation of other pieces of communication, such as videos.The proposal appears to be cattle traction in the community of Decred, although it has some detractors, who basically seems to them a plan expensive. The investment for the community of Decred was calculated in USD 10.800, of which us $ 3.600 cover the cost of the comics already made. The remaining USD 7.200 would be used to meet deliveries bi-weekly for three months, for a total of 12 numbers. However, the proponents be willing to review the costs, if it is necesario.De be the proposal is approved, the content would be distributed on Twitter, Instagram, Medium, Reddit, messaging platforms such as Telegram and Matrix, and channels for a specific region as ChainNode (China).
