In preparation for the future when we have our own Dapp built, I’d like to go over the rules of how to properly format a submission to Slothicorn. (This is not for the art contest. This is for the generic creative commons crypto art submissions)

# STEP ONE

Choose an open source cryptocurrency (Steem, Bitcoin, Dash, Monero, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, EOS, NEO, etc.), crypto theme or other topic related to cryptocurrency (robots, AI, blockchain, cryptogames, crypto dramas: Bitcoin vs. Bitcoin Cash, etc. are ok, too).


# STEP TWO:

Make art. 

All art genres will be acceptable. Some possible art forms: drawing, painting, animation, video, film, cryptographic puzzles, macrame, sewing, fabric, environmental art, sculpture, street performance, graffiti, collage, food art, comics, puppetry, opera, comic video series. As long as you create it and it’s your original art, the genre is open. However, if we catch you plagiarizing someone else’s work, you’ll be banned from Slothicorn and you’ll never get another upvote from our account. Choose wisely. The founder of Slothicorn has a severe distaste for scammers of any kind. Your reputation is more important than anything. Don’t fuck it up.

# STEP THREE:

Use proper tags.

Your first tag must be: slothicorn. 
Let me repeat this in bold letters for all of you not paying attention:
## YOUR FIRST TAG MUST BE: SLOTHICORN.

Your second tag should be formatted like this: cc-(the name of cryptocurrency here). The ‘cc-‘ prefix of this tag stands for Creative Commons. 

# STEP FOUR

Add the Creative Commons Attribution License and blurb. It should be like this:

<a href="https://imgbb.com/"><img src="https://image.ibb.co/cLemum/cc.png" alt="cc" border="0"></a>
## This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

# STEP FIVE

At the very bottom of your post, after the Creative Commons license, you should put your crypto wallet address, for the coin your art relates to! The best wallet, for the desktop is Exodus.io: https://www.exodus.io/#
In that wallet, you can generate the different addresses for the different coins. 

Artists are encouraged to use this wallet because it contains lots of different coins like Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin, Dash, EOS, etc., and also they have the best customer support of any wallet. I've used their Slack support several times, and it was amazing. Plus, they hired a designer to create their UI, so artists will love this wallet (I don't work for Exodus, or get any kickbacks, etc.).

So, for example if I was making art that somehow related to Bitcoin Cash, I would put my Bitcoin Cash wallet address at the bottom of my post.

For example, my recent comic is about Bitcoin and Litecoin. So, here are the second and third tags: cc-bitcoin cc-litecoin. The reason that this is so critical is because when our block explorer is built, everyone needs to be able to quickly find Creative Commons art using this tagging protocol. There’s thousands of posts tagged “bitcoin”, so without a proper tagging protocol, it would be impossible to find Creative Commons crypto art for a specific cryptocurrency. This tagging method should create a frictionless, easy to use solution for people, both in Planet Steem, as well as outsiders who need Creative Commons cryptoart.

Because this step might confuse people, here are a list of possible tags that you could use. For each crypto coin, separate them into single tags. So if you draw a comic of “Bitcoin vs. Bitcoin Cash”, here are the proper tags for that:

# slothicorn cc-bitcoin cc-bitcoincash cryptoart creativecommons 


Now, let’s say you create some art that explores the theme of bots in Steemit. Here are the tags for this:

# slothicorn cc-steem creativecommons steemit bots

You might be wondering why I didn’t use the tag, cc-steemit. Steemit, Inc. is a company. Steemit has made it clear that its logo is covered by copyright. This is in direct conflict with the philosophy of Creative Commons, so please do not use the Steemit logo as part of the Creative Commons tagging protocol. Read the official post by Steemit, Inc. about their copyrighted logo: https://steemit.com/logo/@steemitblog/the-new-steemit-logo-is-here


However, you are free to use the Steem logo in any way you like, but the same does not apply to the Steemit, Inc logo. If Steemit, Inc. wants to clarify or amend this information, they may do so at any time. Slothicorn does not want to be embroiled in any legal troubles, so you have to follow these guidelines in order to be upvoted by our account. Regarding this, we definitely do need some guidance by @steemitblog, so I hope they will comment on this matter. It’s a grey area that we don’t want to spend excessive amounts of time on.

## Moving right along, here are more examples of tags to use:

cc-dash
cc-ethereum
cc-monero
cc-ripple
cc-pinkcoin
cc-eos
cc-bitshares
cc-smartcash
cc-bitcoincash
cc-neo
If you are not doing art for a certain coin, you can use the ‘cc-‘ prefix for things like”
cc-cryptodrama, etc. Remember, ‘cc-‘ just means Creative Commons.

**PRO TIP: Before you get started on that masterpiece, ask yourself this question: is this cryptocurrency coin open source? If it’s not open source, don’t proceed. Also, if your crypto coin is in the grey area of a scam coin, you probably should not submit it to Slothicorn. We will not accept anything that smacks of a scam.**

# AN EXAMPLE OF A PROPERLY FORMATTED POST FOR SLOTHICORN:

# title: BREAKING NEWS! Bitcoin Goes Mainstream on CNBC (Crypto NBC) Comic

![Enlight16.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmfEpRK3Nvc4YPrsAMR3ACG5b4xouevhKU4nQUJ4wj1xwd/Enlight16.JPG)

_Comic depicts Neha Narula, Director of MIT media lab when she appeared along with Charlie Lee on CNBC, now known as Crypto NBC. (notice the slothicorn climbing up a bridge)_

<a href="https://imgbb.com/"><img src="https://image.ibb.co/cLemum/cc.png" alt="cc" border="0"></a>
### This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

### MY BITCOIN AND LITECOIN WALLET ADDRESSES GO HERE: {this is where your addresses go}

tags: slothicorn cc-bitcoin cc-litecoin comics creativecommons

ps- I would really like to get @jesta involved in helping us create a dapp, or block explorer for Slothicorn. Main question: will our tagging protocol (using the cc- before each coin work? Any advice or feedback from programmers at this stage is welcome. We want to design this project in the easiest, most frictionless way possible. @personz, what do you think?)

Also, we will be launching this on Utopian after our community is thriving, and our rules and off-white paper are in a very solid state. At that point we will be looking for programmers to build our Dapp, and website. I've bought the domain, slothicorn.com, so that will need to be developed.