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I am looking for Crypto people to get involved around the the crypto aspect as I want to focus more on new use cases along with the Telecoms and Travel business services.

www.drachmae.org

Could be an option? but would it be a currency from scratch or colored coin? what would the benefits be?

So it's more realistic to leave everything open debate and get views and feedback.

If you can put some real services with real hotels and real plane tickets with competitive prices then this can be interesting business idea.
However if you planning to build some sort of timeshare trading mlm stuff, then I'd consider it as a scam.

Not sure where you get MLM or time share from..

It's straight forward to get the member discounts you need to be a member, hence the privileges and benefits.

Principles are based on the membership being trade able incase you no longer want the membership you can sell it on to somebody that wants it.

The benefits are as listed in description. (can be paid in Fiat or crypto) Hotel or flights etc

I did not understand what is your competitive advantage against traditional travel service ? ;D

Discounts and Benefits alongside being able to pay in Digital currency.

Is it not possible to apply the same discount without the use of the blockchain?

Sorry, in my previous experience travel clubs with tradeable membership quite often turned out to be such things. I do apologize if your site isn't one of those businesses.

So, is your site a crypto gateway to existing travel services (like travelsupermarket in fiat) or you have your own contracts with providers?

Service already exists in the marketplace via different channels for fiat, Therefore the addition of accepting digital currency is added value, Also by doing VIP memberships that can be traded over the blockchain making it limited and transparent adds a benefit value.

Also by looking at doing rewards in the format of Tokens to members enables the slow process of on boarding and educating no crypto user into crypto.

Hence why the Topic is for research if there is a demand to such a service in the crypto world and is there anything that be done via such a service to expand the user base in the crypto world to non crypto users.

Example to be used is how much does Ethereum spend on Travel to all the events etc that it attends??? would it be beneficial for Ether to be accepted as Payment mechanism? would Ethereum Smart contracts be viable for the traded memberships???

Opposed to just launching something it's better to let the open market provide insight to it?

Agreements are on the table via several channel partners, but the market demand and value has to be there.

Channel partners key interest is tapping into the benefits of the crypto world and blockchain services within the industry.

Hence why the following questions:

Which currencies should be accepted as method of payment?
Which blockchain, smart contract or Token based should be used for the VIP Membership?

No offence taken Snail2, But this is why Blockchain based membership could be viable for transparency and limited supply.
Which to the member provides benefits within itself.

I totally agree with you, I was just being curious because of my lack of understanding about your project. From what I have understood until now, I do not get the benefits to trade VIP place through a blockchain because:
-as far as I know, it is not a limited supply, thus everyone wealthy enought can be VIP if he wants to.
-I really do not see most of the travel institutions limiting the possibility to be VIP to customers, since it means less income.
-For the few that could limit VIP supply (for differenciation matters), why would they decentralize it? It means less income again from being able to sell VIP membership again if a previous customer cancelled is subscription.

As for the example you gave concerning ETH, it may be possible that in a potential future where cryptocurrencies have been more accepted by the general public that it can be used for travel. But why would we need a specific cryptocurrency for travel and not simply use bitcoin as example ?

Thanks for the interesting debate ;D.

Ethereum I was using as an Example as they Travel everywhere at every event going from Fintech to bitcoin to meetups so they spend a lot on travel as a Budget. ( It can be any currency and that's the objective to explore) Market feedback

There is 2 ways to look at it for the membership:
Standard membership where you dont renew it and lose all the benefits which already exists in the marketplace
OR
VIP blockchain based that is traded so if you do not wish to renew it you can trade it to somebody else therefore you have a form of financial gain.

You could look at it like GYM and Golf Club membership you have to wait for somebody to leave the club before you can enter the membership. But by using the blockchain your limiting the amount of memberships and being transparent therefore provides a value interest to members.

Yes I understand that but while using the blockchain and enabling users to transact directly amongst them, the "club" will lose money as not being the seller of the membership anymore, so where does it benefits from this situation?

Let's say the club is no longer the seller the new applicant would have to pay a small setup fee.

He has purchased the position of the membership from another user to gain access to the club only now if he wants to use the benefits he does his account setup.

This is how Gyms and Golf Clubs also work

But there are variable ways to do this which could be token based or smart contract based

therefore if smart contract based it can be done in multisig so the club attach a transfer fee between users.

Again this is why I created the topic to see what the market says and suggests to do something innovative in the Travel industry as the all the discounts and benefits are there to be taken but in what format would work for the marketplace.

Example there is many types of smartcontracts: Eris industries, Ethereum and more out there so my view is to open this up to the potential end users for there feedback

If blockchain hits mainstream use, they these clubs will propably have to go with it. But in the meantine, It will be harder for you to sell the project, even if us, user benefits from it (only speaking about limited club membership, not other possibilities).

But it is a great idea, I do like it. ;D

Memberships is only one item, user cases are in the multiples which can be explored and to on board mainstream users.

I have come across clubs that have 500,000 users

But what alternatives can be pushed out also as buffer services using Digital currency and blockchain??

According to stats and figures there's is approx 1.133 billion international tourist arrivals worldwide per year, alongside this approx four Trillion USD per day traded in the following categories:
$1.490 trillion in spot transactions
$475 billion in outright forwards
$1.765 trillion in foreign exchange swaps
$43 billion currency swaps
$207 billion in options and other products

There is definitevely a big market here. The point of my negative question about your project was to see if you could come with positive/constructive answer, as if you already asked yourselves these questions (which looks like so). The biggest difficulty you will have to face may be with the business and not the end customer, you will have to give incentives to the business to use the blockchain. If you manage to do so, the adoption of your project could be much more easier.

As mentioned above it can Go for Fiat anytime, What my objective is to see what would add value to both sides Users and Crypto.

Can the crypto be used as incentive to non crypto users and can crypto user benefit from the services that are already available to the fiat market.

Also scouting ideas to further expand on the travel sector as it's really not touched by crypto.

Apart from BTC you might want to use only some more established altcoins from the top 10. Alternatively you can take a look at some already existing btc/altcoin payment gateways or ripple.


Maybe using ETH is a bit too early in its current state. E.g. Counterparty is more mature and established.

Ideally the club should support various currencies as it supports USD, GBP and Euro so a few Digital currencies makes a bit of sense also BTC obviously as it has the trading volumes but also Ether has volume too so looking at half a dozen digital currencies makes more sense  but which ones is the what needs to be reviewed for various reason as its also about integration  and so on as well.

Received a few PM's about launching a currency for the platform ICO, Not sure that would be viable to do unless it could be used also as rewards in the format of cashback on bookings made in the same way as Airmiles work.

Any opinions????

If the EKT in EU will adopt a cryptocurrency and finally a closed blockchain then this project may take flesh and bones. Until this happen we just talking if situations.
And this idea will be very intersest if you are an owner of a travel agency and you look it from the future prospective. How the people will react if you only offer them the crypto possibility ?
The cause we use cryptos is not to keep them exchanged at $ or € or another fiat. This is wrong way looking the finance. Also if you wanna use contracts between customer and the travel agency, then is better to import rules through smart contracts. But then you face also other problems, how a lawyer could create smart contacts for the situation above if he could not understand the cryptos ? Too many paqrameters needs to be defined. As an idea is spledding. ;D

If I hold BTC and want to pay with it, What difference does the EKT and what they do change to me if I am using BTC all it means is a new market opening and new service to BTC holders.

Memberships with Smart contract has no relations to Lawyers as its Digital signature to the T and C agreements provided by the Club.

If you can roll this out with real backers I think you have a really great and original use case coin and a huge niche market. 

I'm interested to see where this goes.

And BTW, if you're gonna be accepting multiple coins, why not one of the most secure ones, iXcoin?  :)

Good luck, man!

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Looking to expand the horizons further of the project and offer out tasks.

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Graphics web designer
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PR & Marketing

I am looking for Crypto people to get involved around the the crypto aspect as I want to focus more on new use cases along with the Telecoms and Travel business services.

www.drachmae.org

www.drachmae.org (Project Website)
www.drachmaeconnect.com (Community Platform)
www.drachmae.money (Bank & Marketplace)
www.drachmaetravel.gr (Travel Bookings Portal Greece)
www.drachmae.club (Travel Club Portal)
www.drachmae.info (Wiki & Blog portal)

www.drachmae.exchange (Tradeable Club Memberships exchange)
www.drachmaetravel.com (USA Club Membership portal)
www.drachmaetravel.co.uk (UK Club Membership portal)



Drachmae Project started out in April 2015 as paper concept to establish the various use cases that could potentially be used or if they could be debunked, The project went on to become a REAL LIVE use case and Greece was chosen as an exploratory geographical market..

Drachmae project acts as an incubator for use cases to discover potential opportunities in real life scenarios that are not paper based. This is achieved by working with channel partners running parallel services to their existing infrastructures. The core objective is to provide viable hybrid solutions, from SME up to Large Enterprise level business models that onboard businesses to blockchain technology. This may, in turn, roll out to consumers in a practical way.

The small Island of Agistri, Greece was selected and with local people on the 26th September 2015 was initiated with a BBQ Party and distribution of participating Digital currency Nautiluscoin, The use case was to establish if local people who have never heard of Bitcoin could use Nautiluscoin as Payment method in Day to Day operations.

Use case for 2016 is based on the Telecommunication sector from Data protection, Corporate Identity and Secured communications. Core focus is Nodes and Private keys built into the Simcards enabling verifications of transaction and enabling payments via the SIM alongside a Global Roaming Network over 206 Mobile networks.
Drachmae Travel is members only platform, including a multi-portal booking engine for discounted and exclusive global travel packages. Initially payments for membership fees can be made using digital currency. At a later stage digital currency will also be accepted for bookings on hotels, flights etc…
Memberships are tradeable assets, and there will be a measure of value appreciation since there is a limit on the numbers of memberships. These memberships are not required to pay the monthly subscription if the holders do not require access to the active members area and booking services. Users may own more than one membership.





Opportunity will be available for various currencies to become resellers under their own currency brand to their communities Drachmae Club portal acts as a B2B provider.

Example:

Your Community currency can have its own landing pages for subscriptions accepting X Currency for the Monthly  registrations etc…

If the volumes are high we can then look at adding that currency as payment method for Bookings etc.

Current services available

• 800,000 Hotels/destinations
• Discount of upto 75% on Top end hotel bookings
• 600 airlines
• 100 low cost airlines
• Over 850 Airline lounges
• Built in travel coverage to the membership
• Car rental upto 20% discount
• Private jet medical evacuation coverage
• Members only cruise deals
• 24/7 concierge service
• Dining and entertainment discounts
• Built in digital currency bank for rewards and cashback
• Many more benefits and services to be rolled out

• Supporting on going use cases of Drachmae Project.
• When purchasing services from any Drachmae issued service DT-Token is rewarded.
• Pay using DT-Token and receive discounts on selected services.
• Access to specific promotions or services only available to DT-Token holders.

According to stats and figures there's is approx 1.133 billion international tourist arrivals worldwide per year, alongside this approx four Trillion USD per day traded in the following categories:

• $1.490 trillion in spot transactions
• $475 billion in outright forwards
• $1.765 trillion in foreign exchange swaps
• $43 billion currency swaps
• $207 billion in options and other products

We need to look at consumer behaviour as this also plays the largest role if the consumer is able to get Air miles when using there credit card and goes to the fuel station purchases fuel they get double rewarded and then goes shopping and pays with the card he gets double rewarded this automatically fits into the consumer's daily life and is automatically done to his account, In Holland alone with a 16 million population you have 3.8 million people collecting Air Miles.

Why do Air miles play a hidden role in the Travel sector that bitcoin cannot compete in:

It’s estimated 14 Trillion Air miles (60% of Air miles issued) have never been redeemed and when we consider that travellers can buy Avio Air Miles for 0.031£ (0.045$) that then creates a market depth and market cap of over 600 Billion USD, you can buy and sell Airmiles even exchange them everything bitcoin can do supported and promoted by large companies with direct access to end consumers.

Even with large companies and benefits alongside widespread adoption Air Miles are heavily criticised over 70% of frequent flyers complain they want to use Air miles on something different than flights and 60% of people do not redeem the Air Miles as they feel they need to collect too many to see any real benefits.




Distribution Figures

• Loyalty & Rewards   80,000,000
• Bounties 4,000,000
• IMO Pre-Sale 2,150,000
• Distribution 702,630
• Marketing 1,036,258
• Development 1,000,000

• First Release of 5000 @ 50$ Each Membership purchased receives 250 DT Token
• Second Release of 3000 @ 60$ Each Membership purchased receives 200 DT Token
• Third Release of 2000 @ 70$ Each Membership purchased receives 150 DT Token

Tokenized memberships are not required to pay the monthly subscription if the holders do not require access to the active members area and booking services.

Users may own more than one membership.

Due to the nature of the membership being tokenized and decentralized the Membership can be traded on the secondary market like any other Digital Currency.

If the holder wishes to use the Drachmae Travel Club Benefits they would need to visit Drachmae Exchange Portal and deposit the token into an escrow account and Enable their Subscription via Smart Contract.

Normal Monthly subscription is 50$ Per month, With the Tokenized membership the user receive 50% Discount making it 25$ per month and if Paying in DT Token a further 10% discount is added making it 20$ a month



The blockchain platform upon which Drachmae is built relies on the definition of trust roles enforced by cryptographically verifiable identities, secured in hardware modules.

All nodes – servers upon which the blockchain runs – are therefore permissioned and immune to network manipulation. Performance is exceptional and the platform scales in a near linear fashion as nodes are added.

Transaction speed and settlement of under a second, and throughput of millions of transactions per second can be achieved.

There are no blocksize limits as experienced by slower, public blockchains, and the accumulation of vast data volume does not affect performance.

DT Chain also interoperates with other blockchains like NXT, Ethereum or Bitcoin.

Permission based VS Public:

Public (non-permissioned) blockchains are open to participation by anyone with the computing power to drive the computationally intensive Proof of Work (PoW), or the capital intensive Proof of Stake (PoS) consensus mechanisms.

In a Permissioned Blockchain there is no need for complex computations or financial gambles. Each node is a known participant, subject to legal agreements and/or regulations, issued with a cryptographically verifiable identity (private key) secured within a hardware device attached to the node. Any aberrant behavior has consequences agreed to by participants, and this may also result in the invalidation of permissions.

There are 2 formats of nodes available:

Master Nodes to support the Global Network and Sub Nodes for a Private Network

Standard Nodes to Support the private network

Master Nodes are for organizations that wish to participate globally in decentralized manner with other organizations. Private networks are generally for internal purposes.

DT Chain is able to leverage functions and core elements of other Blockchains such as Smart Contracts on Ethereum, or the Token Authentication of NXT, along with messaging anchoring. DT Chain therefore enablesdecentralized computing to cross over Permissionless and Permissoned Blockchains, enhancing regulatory compliance and jurisdictional control.

• Jurisdictional or Private Internal use cases for the Sub Nodes.
• Standardized Internal & External Data Management
• Data Normalization and Silo Deconstruction
• Data Encryptionat rest and in motion
• Comprehensive, data record & field level access control
• Simplified reporting within and outside the enterprise
• Reducing storage infrastructure costs
• 100% Up time
• Improved Business Continuity of Data

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Drachmae project acts as an incubator for use cases to discover potential opportunities in real life scenarios that are not paper based. This is achieved by working with channel partners running parallel services to their existing infrastructures. The core objective is to provide viable hybrid solutions, from SME up to Large Enterprise level business models that onboard businesses to blockchain technology. This may, in turn, roll out to consumers in a practical way.

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