We’re getting serious now. In the last part of our walkthrough series we spent our time learning how to sync up your online accounts with the TARTLE data marketplace. As soon as you do that, data packets are getting created based on your activity in those accounts. However, we have other packets you can fill out manually and that is what we are going to delve into today. If you like the videos, you can check out TARTLEcast and watch Alex and Jason go through it, or if you are an audio person, just download that version of the show from Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Now, let’s get into it.
First, make sure you are on your dashboard. Once you’re there, look under the video and you will see a side scroll of a variety of different data packets that you can manually fill out. These are your bread and butter here, where you can make some money. These packets are full of questions that buyers specifically want the answers to. Or they are created by the community in order to attract buyers. Either way, they are specific and can be filled out with as much detail as you would like. That’s precisely what makes TARTLE data packets more valuable than auto-skimmed third party stuff that most people get from various media companies. You can find a large variety of packets including some on health, travel, operating systems, politics and more. You’ll be able to see the type of packet and how many questions there are. So if you have just a few minutes, you can do a quick five question packet, or you can do a 27 question packet if you have the time. Choose one and start answering questions.
Now, you might be wondering if someone would try to game the system at all. Could someone put in a bunch of random characters to fill out the field and have that count? Technically, it is possible but it isn’t a very good idea. If you fill out the packet with a bunch of nonsense and sell it to a buyer, that buyer can block you and never buy data from you again. Therefore it pays to put a little bit of effort in to put some real information in the answer fields. Not to mention, are you really here only to make money? Or are you here to help make the world a better place by sharing your data. If the latter, it makes sense to fill out your packets openly and honestly. Otherwise you are just submitting bad data. So, go through and fill it out honestly and save that thing. Now, you have officially created your first data packet in the TARTLE data marketplace.
You’ve also gotten a little bit of T-coin. What is that? We mentioned it last time but neglected to explain what we meant. What T-coin is, is a digital coin that gives you priority when a buyer comes looking for data. Basically, you get notified before everyone else. So, the more T-coin you have, the closer to the front of the line you get. That’s useful if a given buyer only wants a certain number of packets. So, with T-coin, your chances of making money selling your data goes up. You also get T-coin whenever you sell your packet, you even get a coin if you share the fact you just sold a packet. That makes it worth your while to set aside some time during your sign up process to go about filling out as many packets as you can and get yourself to the front of the line to sell more packets faster.
What’s your data worth?
We’re getting serious now. In the last part of our walkthrough series we spent our time learning how to sync up your online accounts with the TARTLE data marketplace. As soon as you do that, data packets are getting created based on your activity in those accounts.
Announcer (00:07):
Welcome to TARTLE Cast with your hosts, Alexander McCaig and Jason Rigby, where humanity steps into the future and source data defines the path.
Alexander McCaig (00:29):
Okay, we're back, unfortunately for you, but you have to listen to us because no one else is explaining this.
Jason Rigby (00:35):
There's no one better to listen to-
Alexander McCaig (00:37):
If you guys-
Jason Rigby (00:38):
... than us.
Alexander McCaig (00:38):
Yeah, if you guys took the initiative to make your own videos about TARTLE that'd be great.
Jason Rigby (00:43):
Yeah, we'd love that.
Alexander McCaig (00:44):
Then I don't have-
Jason Rigby (00:45):
Memes-
Alexander McCaig (00:45):
Then I can-
Jason Rigby (00:45):
Memes I really love.
Alexander McCaig (00:46):
I can sit here with my arms crossed-
Jason Rigby (00:47):
Memes-
Alexander McCaig (00:47):
... and do nothing-
Jason Rigby (00:47):
... are my favorite.
Alexander McCaig (00:48):
Memes make the world.
Jason Rigby (00:49):
I want somebody, they're going to get rewarded for this meme. I want somebody to take the Batman logo that goes in the sky and put the TARTLE logo there.
Alexander McCaig (00:57):
That would be great.
Jason Rigby (00:58):
And make it a meme.
Alexander McCaig (00:58):
I'd love a meme out of that. I will pay T-coin for memes.
Jason Rigby (01:02):
Yeah. Let's get some memes, some funny-
Alexander McCaig (01:04):
Yeah-
Jason Rigby (01:04):
... videos.
Alexander McCaig (01:05):
... we'll dish our T-coin out to whoever we-
Jason Rigby (01:06):
Send your-
Alexander McCaig (01:06):
... damn well-
Jason Rigby (01:06):
... your YouTube-
Alexander McCaig (01:07):
... please-
Jason Rigby (01:07):
... link where you put it on YouTube or whatever channel.
Alexander McCaig (01:10):
Oh, by the way, what's a T-coin do? It gives you priority for bids. If you want it before your neighbor gets it you better get all the T-coin you can get.
Jason Rigby (01:18):
Yeah, trust me, yeah. It's the most valuable thing that you can have. You think you want bitcoin, you think you want all these other things.
Alexander McCaig (01:27):
You want a T-coin-
Jason Rigby (01:28):
You think you want a U.S. dollar? You want a T-coin.
Alexander McCaig (01:31):
You want as much T-coin as you can get your paws on, as much as you-
Jason Rigby (01:35):
No-
Alexander McCaig (01:35):
... can-
Jason Rigby (01:35):
... pun intended, Dogey.
Alexander McCaig (01:36):
Yeah, no pun intended Dogecoin. All right, we're going to fill out a data packet. So you're here on your dashboard. You're underneath this initial video that tells you what you should be doing and we're also doing it here. Let's fill out a packet. Now, these packets are the things that earn you money. You have to fill them out completely and save them. Once you've done that, they go and they publish to the marketplace. That's like walking into a marketplace like this, and you're all excited and you're carrying your antique and the guy shows up on Antiques Roadshow and says, "Oh, this is how much it's worth," and then you get the chills.
Jason Rigby (02:15):
Then you start crying.
Alexander McCaig (02:15):
You start crying.
Jason Rigby (02:16):
That's what's going to happen when you fill out a data packet, you will start crying because it's so exciting.
Alexander McCaig (02:21):
Okay, let's go to-
Jason Rigby (02:23):
And it's worth more than anything that has ever been on Antiques Roadshow.
Alexander McCaig (02:28):
Antiques Roadshow, those things will rust.
Jason Rigby (02:30):
They're old.
Alexander McCaig (02:31):
Data evolves.
Jason Rigby (02:32):
This is new.
Alexander McCaig (02:33):
Yeah. Why would I want to have ownership of something that evolves?
Jason Rigby (02:37):
Yeah.
Alexander McCaig (02:38):
It's like a child, you want to watch it grow.
Jason Rigby (02:41):
What are you going to do with an Egyptian mummy, really?
Alexander McCaig (02:44):
Yeah, what?
Jason Rigby (02:44):
It's a dead person.
Alexander McCaig (02:46):
Put it in a glass case.
Jason Rigby (02:47):
It's been mummified by honey.
Alexander McCaig (02:50):
That sounds delicious.
Jason Rigby (02:52):
I don't know, bro. That's weird.
Alexander McCaig (02:55):
Okay, we-
Jason Rigby (02:58):
I wonder if you started slicing a mummy up if it would have the structure like honey, the honeycomb-
Alexander McCaig (03:04):
Oh, the honeycomb structure.
Jason Rigby (03:05):
And then it just oozes out honey.
Alexander McCaig (03:07):
What's that cereal we have here in the United States?
Jason Rigby (03:10):
Honey Snacks?
Alexander McCaig (03:11):
Honey what?
Jason Rigby (03:12):
Snacks.
Alexander McCaig (03:12):
That's not what I was thinking of. It's the one that looks like a honeycomb.
Jason Rigby (03:17):
Oh, honeycomb, yeah.
Alexander McCaig (03:18):
You know what I'm talking about?
Jason Rigby (03:19):
Yeah, there is a old commercial. I know what you're talking about. There's Honeycombs. There's so much honey ones. There's a lot of them, Honey and Oats or something like that. Costco has that granola. Which I turned you on to, shout out Dr. Moses honey from here in Albuquerque, locally-
Alexander McCaig (03:36):
Bomb, bomb-
Jason Rigby (03:36):
... bomb Honey. But I put honey onto the granola and then some oat milk. Not only-
Alexander McCaig (03:44):
Here we go-
Jason Rigby (03:45):
... are you going to be able to share data, earn money and change your world, I just changed your late night world with some healthy cereal.
Alexander McCaig (03:53):
You're not wrong.
Jason Rigby (03:55):
Your blueberry and oat milk is the bomb, too.
Alexander McCaig (03:56):
You better believe it.
Jason Rigby (03:57):
Blueberries and just oat milk, like cereal.
Alexander McCaig (03:59):
Yeah, don't have your ice cream, just blueberries and oat milk.
Jason Rigby (04:01):
Yeah.
Alexander McCaig (04:02):
Can you feel out a damn data packet?
Jason Rigby (04:04):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (04:04):
Okay. I'm choosing random on it, health packet six.
Jason Rigby (04:08):
Oh, you're so furious.
Alexander McCaig (04:11):
Okay, actually I don't want to do this one, it has nine questions.
Jason Rigby (04:15):
Yeah.
Alexander McCaig (04:16):
Health packet five.
Jason Rigby (04:17):
You have a spiritual one on there.
Alexander McCaig (04:18):
Yeah, there is a spiritual one. Hold on, let me see if it shows up. Political-
Jason Rigby (04:22):
Liquified-
Alexander McCaig (04:22):
That's six questions.
Jason Rigby (04:22):
That's a scary-
Alexander McCaig (04:22):
Shopping-
Jason Rigby (04:22):
... word, political.
Alexander McCaig (04:22):
All right, here we go. Computer operating systems, 27 questions-
Jason Rigby (04:31):
Wow.
Alexander McCaig (04:31):
I did not make that one. Shout out to our community that has suggested the data pack. We're doing health packet nine. I'm clicking on it.
Jason Rigby (04:38):
There we go.
Alexander McCaig (04:39):
Whoa, "Do you have allergies?" Okay, this-
Jason Rigby (04:41):
No. No, I don't, I do acupuncture.
Alexander McCaig (04:46):
Okay, so we are on health packet number nine. Let's explain what we're looking at here. This is where the money is made. This is the juice. These are your thoughts, behaviors, emotions. This is where it's captured. So, health packet nine, this is the name of the packet sitting in the category of health. So our data category is health. I am looking at health packet nine. Okay, verified here, do I have allergies?
Jason Rigby (05:14):
Okay, this is something really important.
Alexander McCaig (05:16):
Okay, tell me.
Jason Rigby (05:16):
I want you to talk about-
Alexander McCaig (05:18):
I couldn't even get into what was important-
Jason Rigby (05:19):
... truthfulness. This is more important.
Alexander McCaig (05:20):
Oh-
Jason Rigby (05:21):
I'm saying it.
Alexander McCaig (05:21):
You guys are going to enjoy this.
Jason Rigby (05:22):
And I'm truthful.
Alexander McCaig (05:23):
Okay. Most-
Jason Rigby (05:25):
Don't put A-B-C-D-Z-Z-Z-1-1, just fill out the packet.
Alexander McCaig (05:28):
Yeah, just filling out nonsense, let me tell you how that's going to harm you. I think it's going to economically harm you. All right, there are some questions in data packets that allow you to do open input like this where I get to type in whatever I want. So I say I put in just a random mash of numbers, and then I just put that in, and then I do the same thing for what am I allergic to? When did I become allergic? What are my allergic reactions? "Do you take allergy medication?" So say I put all that in there-
Jason Rigby (05:59):
Just to get it filled out so I can-
Alexander McCaig (06:00):
Just get it-
Jason Rigby (06:02):
... get some money-
Alexander McCaig (06:02):
... fill it out, I'm like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to get some money, this is great." Okay, I save and publish the packet, I get a bid, I sell it. If a buyer finds out on the other side that you're doing this, they can choose to block you. So every time you're untruthful, you try and scam the system ... There is balance in the marketplace, it's a free market, they can choose to never buy from you again. So it would behoove you, it would be to your benefit to the future annuities of your earnings to put in the most truthful and clear information possible into these data packets.
Jason Rigby (06:35):
Plus, this is truthful, I'm being truthful right now, TARTLE has worked out a deal with the Yeti Alliance, because in every country there's a Bigfoot or a Yeti, and we've worked a deal out with them. And they don't mind roughing people up.
Alexander McCaig (06:51):
We'll send Bigfoot.
Jason Rigby (06:54):
You're going to be doing this, A-B-C-D ... And then you're going to hear ... And you're going to hear ...
Alexander McCaig (06:59):
Yeah.
Jason Rigby (06:59):
And it is going to be a Yeti-
Alexander McCaig (07:01):
With it's big, red eyes.
Jason Rigby (07:02):
... staring you down.
Alexander McCaig (07:03):
It's going to throw you up against the wall.
Jason Rigby (07:04):
And it's going to be, "Share data truthfully."
Alexander McCaig (07:06):
Yeah. And it's going to tell you, "And if you don't, you're not going to earn, nobody's going to want to buy data from you."
Jason Rigby (07:13):
And if you don't believe me look up the Yeti Alliance.
Alexander McCaig (07:17):
I don't want to get roughed up by a Yeti. I heard they're 10, 12 feet tall.
Jason Rigby (07:19):
Yeah, they're big, you can see.
Alexander McCaig (07:21):
Yeah.
Jason Rigby (07:21):
Then they whoop, and it's-
Alexander McCaig (07:25):
An Abominable-
Jason Rigby (07:25):
... just scary.
Alexander McCaig (07:25):
Imagine an Abominable-
Jason Rigby (07:25):
You don't want-
Alexander McCaig (07:25):
... Snowman-
Jason Rigby (07:25):
... one of those guys coming to see you.
Alexander McCaig (07:25):
I don't need that. I don't need the whole thing.
Jason Rigby (07:27):
They're in every country.
Alexander McCaig (07:28):
Listen, if you want to get roughed up by a Yeti ... If you want to make sure you continue to earn in the marketplace, truth is such an important thing. It is a skill us as human beings lack, being truthful and honest. We need to reinforce that. And we will reinforce that with positive, economic incentivization. Every time I fill this out, do I have allergies? No. "What are you allergic to?" Nothing.
Jason Rigby (07:54):
Well, you're being honest. So this is good.
Alexander McCaig (07:56):
"When did you become allergic?" Never. "What are your allergic reactions?" None. "Do you take allergy meds?" No. Great, I've filled this out. I'm not going to get paid yet until I save and publish it.
Jason Rigby (08:08):
You can put, "No, but my father does."
Alexander McCaig (08:11):
Yeah.
Jason Rigby (08:12):
Or something like that, if you want to.
Alexander McCaig (08:13):
Oh, look at that, wow.
Jason Rigby (08:15):
Did you just fill a data packet out?
Alexander McCaig (08:16):
It was that easy, done, saved, bang. That's all you got to do.
Jason Rigby (08:19):
And I'm getting paid for that?
Alexander McCaig (08:20):
Yeah. Not only when you fill a data packet out do you get T-coin, when you sell it you get T-coin and money. And then if you share with people the fact that you've sold something on TARTLE, you get more T-coin. That means you get more priority for your next bid. Why wouldn't I do that?
Jason Rigby (08:37):
Yeah. So it's a win-win and that's what we want to do-
Alexander McCaig (08:40):
We like win-wins.
Jason Rigby (08:40):
We love win-wins.
Alexander McCaig (08:41):
We love reinforcing truthful, honest behavior. So don't be dishonest, don't get roughed up by the Yeti, and start filling out those data packets.
Announcer (08:58):
Thank you for listening to TARTLE Cast with your hosts, Alexander McCaig and Jason Rigby, where humanity steps into the future and source data defines the path. What's your data worth?
