Welcome to the @OriginalWorks sponsored writing contest!

Status: CLOSED.

Accepted Languages:

• English
• Japanese
• French

Start time: 6 PM ET, Thursday
End Time: 6 PM ET, Sunday

This is a call to all great Steemit writers! Telcoin has sponsored a writing contest!

Prizes: 150 STEEM

• 1st Place: 60 STEEM
• 2nd Place: 40 STEEM
• 3rd Place: 25 STEEM
• 4th Place: 15 STEEM
• 5th Place: 10 STEEM

Deadline: 72 Hours

All articles must be submitted within 72 hours of this post to be considered!

What is Telcoin?

Telcoin is a new cryptocurrency based on the Ethereum blockchain that will be distributed by your national telecom operator and made available to everyone, anytime, anywhere. This is the core of our business, and mobile network operators will be at the center of our strategy.

Telcoin will be a new way to transact in cryptocurrency, with your phone as the wallet. Telcoin will be distributed through your service provider, meaning that the user never needs to even know what the blockchain is to be on it!

Instead of having to use a long wallet address, users can send each other payments simply by knowing the phone number of the recipient.

This will also have a big impact on how tourists spend and manage their money. Telcoins are going to be an international mobile phone based payment method. Wherever a user travels, all they need is their phone, loaded with Telcoins.

Telcoin will bring banking to populations that have a developed mobile market, but are still under-served when it comes to banking. There are 2 billion people who currently do not have a bank account. The population of adults with telecom services is almost 5 billion. The overlapping portion of the population that has mobile services but does not have access to a bank account will be able to access banking services through their phones.

The Basics.

Telcoin will act as a partner with mobile operators. The operator would then, liquidity allowing, act as an exchange for Telcoins with its users. If the operator needs to increase their Telcoin balance, they would exchange with Telcoin! If the operator has a balanced amount of buy/sell orders, they can simply use their own liquidity to exchange with their user base.

More Information & Resources:

• Telcoin
• Telcoin WhitePaper
• Telcoin Twitter
• Telcoin BTCTalk

Rules & Submission

• Write an article about how Telcoin will change the mobile payment industry! How will Telcoin benefit consumers? How will it benefit businesses? How will Telcoin change tourism and international remittance. Can you think of a cool use-case scenario? Be creative! Original thinking and ideas make for great articles. As always, the contest is fairly open-ended!

• Feel free to use images and media from their website. You can even make your own video and have it in your submission!

• The article must be 200 to 600 words in length.

• To submit please do the following:

1. Add the word "telcoin2017" (without the quotes) at the very end of your article.
2. Link this post in your submission.
3. Post the link to your article as a reply to this post.
4. Resteem this contest post.

How the winners are decided

The submissions will be passed along to the team at Telcoin, and they will decide the best articles.

More information & recommendations:

• Pay attention to spelling and grammar!
• Feel free to use informal language such as "I would, etc"
• Use information and resources above to learn more about Telcoin!
• If you copy something, use quotes. This is an @OriginalWorks contest after all :)

After writing an article, within a few minutes you should get one of these as a response to your article post:

If you don't get one, let me know by adding a quick message after you submit your link as a reply here and I will look into it.

Early bird bonus!!! First 15 submissions get 2 STEEM each. The article must meet the contest conditions such as word length and a level of quality.

Disclaimer: @OriginalWorks makes no claims as to the legitimacy or operating procedures of contest topics. @OriginalWorks does guarantee prize payout.

Good luck to all the contestants!