Hey everyone! Good morning and welcome to another edition of Thursday Updates. This week is going to be a little different. I’m planning to post this on Medium, Facebook, Twitter, and DESO to get the word out. Feel free to do the same and help me out :)
The whole point of this post is to give you an update on this Flickapp Vault I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. I want to give some more details, and more importantly, I want to explain how you can get into the Vault for FREE!
First, if you don’t know what DESO is, then check out my post last week. I went over that in a little more detail.
We will now move on assuming you know what DESO is. A vague understanding will suffice too, haha! You don’t have to be on DESO yet, but we’ll get to that in a second.
Flickapp, as I explained, is a mobile app built on top of DESO. I explained in my article a couple of weeks back that they introduced a new feature called, Vaults.
A vault is a way for me, as a creator, to release premium content. The only way to read the premium content is to buy an NFT key. Don’t worry, it’s not as complicated as it might sound. You don’t really need to know anything about NFTs. Flickapp does a great job of making the whole process super simple.
Once you have the key, then you just open the app and boom! You have premium content.
I released a vault called Spatium. This is what it includes:
A monthly short story will be released to the vault
Every year 10 of those stories will be compiled into a book to sell. The Spatium vault will receive an e-copy. So, yes, 2 stories will remain in the vault forever.
Life or Death has already been released straight into the vault.
A weekly video update from me on new things happening with the vault.
Ok. So, you may be here because you just want to read Life or Death, my first book. The Spatium vault is actually a way you can do it for FREE. This is how...
If you sign up for DESO right now, you can get $25 for FREE. The price for a vault key just so happens to be $25, though you also get a discount off the Vault if you follow these instructions. Once you are in the Spatium Vault you can download Life or Death for free as a pdf.
Not only do you get a free copy of Life or Death (plus become a vault member for free), but this really really helps me out in my DESO journey too!
If this interests you, here are the directions, and feel free to contact me if you get stuck along the way:
Create a DESO Account
Follow this link: https://diamondapp.com?r=LxvYwLrB
It should look like this:
Woa, woa, woa...you said DESO, but now I see diamondapp.com? What gives?
Remember, DESO is the blockchain foundation. Diamondapp is a Twitter-like social media that runs on DESO. Flickapp is a mobile app that runs DESO. We’ll get into Flickapp soon.
Click the “Sign up with Seed”
This will get a bit confusing. With blockchain technology, we don’t use username/passwords anymore. We use what are called public keys and private keys. Another name for it is a Seed phrase. Essentially, this is your password, don’t lose it. Just write it down or copy it to a file somewhere. You also don’t need to use it every time you sign in so don’t worry.
After that click next and it will ask you to re-enter your seed phrase to make sure you copied it correctly.
After this, you should come to the main DESO page and see something about verifying your identity
You’ll put in a phone number, get a verification text, and input that
Then it should take you through a Jumio verification with your driver’s license
Some people get sketched out by this. Here is Jumio’s website if you want more info: https://www.jumio.com/
They are used by a lot of platforms to verify info and abide by some of the US regulations for KYC (Know Your Customer).
The reason DESO uses it is so scammers and thieves can’t just create a program to spawn infinite new users and collect $25 forever. This ensures you get the $25 only once.
Once that process is done, you can check out the tutorial to get an idea of how to use the Diamond app.
This should help you set your username and profile pic if you want. All the good stuff.
Then you should receive $25 in your DESO account!
Next, you can go follow me at @davidjwriter haha!
Purchase the Spatium Vault
Next, you are going to want to go ahead and purchase the vault.
To purchase the vault, go to this link: flickclout.page.link/ji3z
You can also see it in my bio on Diamondapp: @davidjwriter
It will ask you to log in:
This is where you might need that handy seed phrase you copied earlier
It should remember you, but have it ready just in case
Why does it now say BitClout? This is too confusing.
I know, I know. BitClout is yet another application built on top of DESO. Though, not too many use it anymore. It was kind of the first generation of Diamondapp. But most people use the name BitClout as a synonym.
Next, click the user that you created on Diamondapp
Like I would pick davidjwriter
Now you should see the vault for you to buy
Click the “Buy Vault Key” button
It will take you to another screen and show you the price in $CLOUT.
Again, before Diamondapp launched, it was called BitClout and the native currency was called $CLOUT. Today, it’s called $DESO, but the terms can be used interchangeably.
Click “Confirm Buy”
You should be all set up!
Now I’ll show you how to use Flickapp so you can view my premium content in the Spatium vault.
Download Flickapp
Download Flickapp on either Android or iOS
If you want more info on them and their project, here is their main website: https://www.flickapp.com/
Now that you have that downloaded, open the app and you’ll see this login screen
This is where you will probably need that handy seed phrase you copied earlier
Click the “Log in with BitClout Identity”
This will bring you here:
Paste that seed phrase in and hit “Load Account”
Now you should see your account loaded and just click your user
Now the app should open and you should see a few sections at the top that say Global, Following, Recent, and Premium.
Click the “Premium” tab and you should now see all my premium content in the Spatium vault!
Scroll down and you’ll see where I posted the Life or Death book for download!
In Conclusion
Ok. I know that was a bit much. For those that do it, I greatly appreciate it!
Another cool bonus is that for the month of November, I’m doing a promotion. If I can get 20 new Spatium vault members, then I’m giving away $500 in DESO prizes plus some of my book NFTs! So even if you aren’t interested, if you know someone that might be, let them know!
Also, be on the lookout, as the Spatium vault will soon be launched on Solana as well!
And if you want to stick to the old-school ways, I’m going to launch Spatium as a good old-fashioned subscription on Substack soon too! Stay tuned!