You know what I think would be awesome Qi? For a dynamic woman like yourself to own the DNotes Pinterest presence.

Here's a cool social meida infographic I found:

68% of users there are female, and it's a site built around discovery. A crypto developing any kind of awareness on a place like that would do wonders towards building the female friendly ethic that we are all hoping to see.

What do you think?

I'm glad to donate a couple block rewards on a dry faucet to keep spreading the NOTE love...

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I actually like that better, tbh. The static content means there is no chance for me as a speaker to foul it up by fumbling over words, haha.

To save you some time, I can do the accompanying verbiage, no problem. Just thought your writing "voice" was more apropos for that.

Arg, just checked my mining pool and my miner is offline. I'm at my office so I can't fix until I get home. Blah

Thanks for the kind words Qi.

I also did a How-to for the wallet. But I did that in screencap form. About 40 in all, with my pointing out every single nook and cranny of the DNotes wallet. Though it's not in video form, so not sure how or if it'll be pushed out. Glad you like the overview though. My technology is all about giving a sense of personal presence when you are presenting or collaborating when remote. By putting you "in the room" it forces folks to pay attention. Because when you see a smile, a gesture, etc, I'm speaking to you the way we are socially programmed to communicate...face to face. It's like the weatherman, but just with a simple Kinect camera.

It's innovative tech, and I thought it would be perfect for helping in my small way for DNotes. Keep up your work, too. It's much appreciated!

OP, just as an fyi...

http://note.validerrorpool.com

Is down, never to return (there was a note last night saying it was a great ride, they are shutting down, please withdraw coins by 10p est). I just checked, and the site is indeed down for the count. Can you get rid of that pool in the OP.

Beyond that, how does everyone feel about the launch of the second phase of DNotes? I would like to see a little bit more activity and publicity still going, overall. But as a miner, I have been surprised. There is still a pretty solid set of core miners going at the coin. Mining activity certainly dropped off a bit, but not nearly as much as I thought might happen. Which is a great sign, imo.

Thanks for the sentiments. And please do pass it on!!!!

When this coin goes mainstream, be ready to be famous :-)

Your story resonates soooo strongly with me. I almost want to see the coin succeed to help you and your son, and to enable your dreams, moreso than pretty much any other reason.

Well, that's one way of looking at it.

To me, it's just beginning.

That's a great blog post.

Is there anything special we have to do in order to get on this list?

https://www.cryptsy.com/coinvotes/

Nah,

Slow, methodical, steady....those are the operative terms. We don't want to see crazy volatility, 1000% rises followed by 90% falls, etc. The coin was built for the long term. We don't want to be an overnight success. Those don't last.

Like Steve Jobs said, "'Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."

Oh wow, that really sux man. I am sorry.

For everyone else, backup backup backup! After any deposit into your wallet, backup. And then copy the file to multiple places. The process takes 15 seconds. And can save you a bazillion.

But Hoodoo, do you have any old backup files from the last week or three? If do, then just load that up to a new wallet, and the blockchain should update your wallet to the right amount, yeah?

Me neither. But from what I remember this morning, the story is the same as we are seeing on allcoin. Allcoin seems to be a bit more jittery, but the NOTEs has been around like 70 satoshi there, and now is well over 100. Same with cryptorush, in that there is increasing volume, but increasing price too.

Going to unload the few litecoin I have and set a few buy orders when I get home tongiht.

Unfortunately for the overall mining community, I think you are right. Awful launches and shoddily constructed foundations are the rule. I've not been mining for all that long, but I don't think I've seen a single coin launch flawlessly. Except DNotes. That is huge, because it speaks volume about the Devs ability to execute.

I work for a pretty innovative company with an amazing future technology. And I've got a grad degree in Technology Management. So I can most certainly tell you that the parallels to bringing new tech into the world are striking. There are graveyards full of great ideas that never had any impact because the ideators didn't have the ability to execute on them.

In the altcoin world, lets look at Heavycoin. Just launched, and has some super innovative ideas (particularly the bit about crowdsourcing block rewards). But their launch was bullshit, and the insiders were able to instamine like 8 million of a total of 65m coins. It would basically be like our devs just keeping the premine, rather than giving it up in the form of giveaways and miner rewards.

Execution is always the key. Execution itself equates to massive competitive advantage. When you couple that with  a long term vision, you've got a winner.

This is why I believe strongly in DNotes. And I'm not just saying that. I'm voting with my dollars, and my mining time. I'm buying up what people are selling on exchanges. I'm mining NOTE exclusively. And will continue to do so for the foreseeable future (thank you Kimoto Gravity Well for making it feasible for the small guy to mine long term!!!).

I'm excited to see how the next few days play out.

Yeah, I would love to see this thing on Cryptsy....

You folks bring up a good point around something I have been wondering the last few days. I mean, I'm all in on this coin. So I'll keep mining when the reward is over. But it would be interesting to hear the dev's thoughts on plans/ideas/stratagems for keeping the mining robust when the reward blocks are over. I feel like there is the potential for an exodus of miners once the block reward drops.

Awesome post. This is the exactly the kind of differentiation a coin like this needs.

Because the lack of woman in cryptos is part of a broader symptom of a lack of woman in tech in general. If someone like qiwoman were to be able to provide supplemental support for herself through cryptos, generally, and NOTE specifically....that is an awesome story that will resonate and mushroom outwards.

This is a fantastic idea. Too bad it didn't come out a day or two ago. Since today is International Women's Day. Google even has a sweet doodle on their homepage. I feel like this would have been a perfect awareness opportunity!!

One thing that I think has been beneficial for DNotes is there is no other good altcoin super new altcoin at the moment. QuarkBar, GPUCoin, EduCoin SwitchCoin, PerfectCoin, SuckCoin, Titanium, Major Piece, SnoopCoin, FairCoin, and loads of others either on the release calendar, or just recently released.....they are all just plain awful. Shoddily designed, poorly executed, scammy, based on dumb ideas, etc.

The only one that I've been impressed with of late is PenguinCoin and Zeitcoin. I think PENG has had a nice run since it's launch or month or so ago, but like Doge, I think it has little to no long term staying power. Zeit is one I really, really like. It's got a pretty massive inbuilt community because of the Zeit movement. It launched two days ago, and its [ANN] thread is already triple as long as this one.

But I am a miner, and only have one (solid) rig. So DNotes is a by far a better choice for me to put my time and mining effort into. DNotes has already pwned in the sense that its had a super successful, flawless launch, and is gaining notice, with a growing community.

But the challenge to really make it, among others, is to compete against other coin communities like Zeit or Doge that have such a powerful base of people to start from (in Doge's case, we are talking Reddit, which took to the coin like a pig in the muck).

I've been in personal contact with the Dev, and tho I don't know much, I do know that DNotes has some very exciting and innovative plans for the future of NOTE.