Thank you, Ken. That's very helpful.

Welcome to DNotes, CO2 and thank you for investing in us. If I were in your situation, as described, I would be quite disappointed too. I hope it’s meant to be a long-term investment. What I can tell you is that there is no bad new or any unfavorable rumors that we know of. If anything, DNotes should be worth more today than it did a week or a month ago. Our commitment is to consistently build stakeholder value and leave the free-market forces alone.

We are making great progress with DNotes 2.0 development and on track for its launch in September 2017. As we continued to make progress we are ever more confident that we made the right choice to code in C# with plans for 100% conversation one day; as soon as practical.
Personally, I believe, that DNotes is significantly under-valued relative to its industry peers. Of course, not everyone would agree with me or it would have been reflected in its price. Perhaps DNotes, being uniquely different in strategies and substance, is harder to understand and value. I am wondering if anyone else has a better explanation.    

Thank you for reminding us, sarabanda. I just went and bought some as a show of support. I like C-cex but have been so busy these days. The volume has always been very low at C-cex. Perhaps it will get better after DNotes 2.0 is launched.

DNotes is a decentralized digital currency like Bitcoin. The relentless efforts behind the scene to bridge the gap to the centralized world is what sets it apart from the herd. As a group DNotes is searchable, re-searchable, and verifiable.

Joe, thanks for up-dating this video.

I like to encourage all DNotes supporters to watch and share my videos. You will get to know my background and understand why I am totally dedicated to our missions in the fulfillment of DNotes' vision. I have invested a significant amount of time and money to get the book written and published. I greatly appreciate the encouragement and editing help from our community. DNotes Global, Inc. has been granted 100% royalty free rights to all sales proceeds from this book. I believe that this book will be one of the major contributors to DNotes' success; hopefully to many business owners as well.

I will be spending a lot of time in writing articles and producing videos for the book website. I am very passionate about helping new start-ups and current business owners, and trust that I can make a difference because of my wide-ranging experience of over forty years in different industries.

These mean a lot to me. Your feed-back will be well appreciated. Please share my videos, as you wish, of course. Thank you.

Tim, you are amazing. I like your thought process. Some of your suggestions are very much in line with our vision. I wouldn't go into any details, but five years from now, hopefully earlier, some mobile phone manufacturers will want to be our partners because of our globe reach, scale, and technologies. We have some very innovative ideas that will be added to our strategic road-map at the right time.

That is really cool, MiningHabit. Imagine that one day we all go to a DNotes convention wearing a DNotes T-Shit and all going shopping with a DNotes Multi-currency card. That will be awesome. The world is changing rapidly but the process of change is challenging and can be quite complex, especially, when money, regulatory constraints, "old-school", the establishment, etc are involved.

DNotes is much more than just a decentralized digital currency. Unfortunately, on the surface, we are just like any other digital currency - an open-sourced copy of Bitcoin - the pioneer. Launching a digital currency or a "digital asset" is the easiest part. With a few thousand dollars it can easily be dressed up to look like a $10, $20 $100 million (bill) (ICO). It has been done with much more to come. Frankly, our industry is getting overwhelmed and becoming quite confused. It is becoming nearly impossible to find the "rough diamond".
Invest with caution.

I am spending a lot of time getting ready to officially launch the book web site -  https://fourpillarsofbusinesssuccess.com/ This is one of DNotes Global, Inc's assets. Although I have personally spent a whole year writing the book as well as spending a significant amount to get it published, 100% of the sale proceeds are going to the company. Perhaps, just as important Chapter 15 of the book is about the DNotes' story. Don't under-estimate the enormous long-term value the book can bring to the party - contributing some real intrinsic value. Check it out from time to time as new contents are added. This is one of our strategic building blocks and they are all linked to give us powerful synergistic impact.  

Thank you everyone for supporting this forum. Your best efforts in trying to make sense of the correlation between BTC and altcoin value adjustment is as good as mine; in this case, better than mine could have been. What I can tell you is that, for all practical purposes, DNotes is worth a little more each day. We are working very hard ever day and investing serious money in taking DNotes to the next level with DNotes 2.0 and beyond. I have no doubt that DNotes will be a significant leader in our industry in a year or two. How much would DNotes be worth one day? You got it. Your guess is as good as mine. But don't make the same mistake I made with Startis. I bought a chunk when it was trading below $10 million and sold it at a nice profit after it doubled and then watch it went to $500 + million and to $1 + billion. Startis is developing in C# - so is DNotes. Just some food for thought.

It has been another long day. I started at 5:30 am in Chicago, drove 3.5 hours (240 miles), put in a full day in Coldwater, MI where DNotes core group is at this time. It's now 1:00 am. I have never been with a more committed and talented team. We are very passionate about what we are doing. It takes an amazing team with a clear vision to accomplish amazing results.

Thanks, RJF. It is the cumulative positive impact of everything that DNotes is doing that makes us different, separating us from an increasingly crowded and confused industry. Making things simple and convenient for all our long-term stakeholders to participate and be fairly rewarded will make DNotes 2.0 uniquely different than others. This is made possible because of DNotesValut and other projects that are a part of our total solution.  Yes, “compound interest” is “magical” over the long-term.  Together with anticipated appreciation, a small CRISP retirement account with a disciplined regular monthly contribution could be worth an eye-popping amount 20 years from now. 

I have personally met many struggling business owners who gave up everything they got just to keep their doors opened - hoping that if they stay in business long enough they will somehow get a lucky break. That seldom happened. I can't be happier if I turned out to be their lucky break. I intent to produce a series of hard-fitting videos along with a good number of articles that are quite eye-opening. By signing up at the website members will be notified when something new is added. I have already spent hundreds of hours in preparation for an official launch. Many people can benefit from this project. Be sure to visit our website and sign up: https://fourpillarsofbusinesssuccess.com/subscription/

Wow! Interesting.

Cornell Professor: $150 Million Bancor is Flawed

By:Joseph Young on 24/06/2017

In a blog post, Cornell professor Emin Gun Sirer explained how Bancor, the most successful ICO in the history of the cryptocurrency market that raised $150 million in a matter of hours, is flawed in 29 different ways from its core vision to its technical aspects.

Sirer’s blog post comes after the criticisms of some of the industry’s most prominent security and bitcoin experts such as Andreas Antonopoulos and Augur co-founder Joey Krug. In early June, Antonopoulos and Krug both expressed their concerns over the massive amount of investment raised by the Bancor development team for untested code and project.

Krug, in particular, went as far to describe Bancor as a project concept which was proved to be inefficient in one of Augur’s previous beta tests.

“Dear god the free market just gave $150M to something we found out didn’t work in practice in the Augur beta,” said Krug.

Bancor initially gained popularity amongst investors within the cryptocurrency community after the endorsement of billionaire investor Tim Draper. The development team behind Bancor aimed to create a standardized platform that would grant an increased level of liquidity for ICO tokens and altcoins. The team described Bancor as the “standard for a new generation of smart tokens.”

On June 12, Draper officially announced his involvement in the Bancor network as an investor, stating:

“We’d like for this to be a Smart Token, so it can benefit from continuous liquidity from day 1. We look forward to a long collaboration with the Bancor team on this project, and are excited for what BNT has in store.”

Conceptually, the Bancor network serves as an intermediary between smart tokens or ICO tokens and direct traders. Instead of traders getting access to and purchasing ICO tokens in a direct peer to peer manner, Bancor sets a standard and a platform which in concept is supposed to provide increased liquidity for traders and ICO operators.

However, Sirer explained that the utilization of the network as a standard for ICO tokens is “like stepping into a kid’s swimming pool, placed in an ocean,” which is a fair assessment of the project’s fundamental concept. More importantly, before delving into the controversial technical components of Bancor, Sirer noted that there already exists a currency peg between ICO tokens and traders which is Ethereum’s Ether.

Like Bancor, the vast majority of ICOs are launched on top of the Ethereum protocol, which means that their tokens are fully compatible with Ethereum’s native token Ether. Hence, the necessity of Bancor tokens comes into question when there already exists a currency peg or an interoperable native token in Ether.

“There already exists a common currency through which we can trade. It’s called ether, and we can use it no matter which token pairs we want to trade, because those very tokens are, by definition, implemented on top of Ethereum and were purchased with ether in the first place,” said Sirer.

However, a more important criticism offered by both Sirer and Antonopoulos is how the Bancor development team raised $150 million for 40 lines of untested code.

“It’s only 40 lines of code. Now, there is nothing wrong with raising $3.5M per line of code, if indeed there is a certain technical advantage that those lines of code possess,” said Sirer.

Furthermore, Sirer revealed that the reimplemented math of Bancor had no direct test to cover critical functions executed by the Bancor codebase. He also described Bancor’s codebase as a “mess,” explaining that the Bancor codebase has a distinct javascript quality.

“Well-written code looks like a work of art. It doesn’t matter if it’s C or Go or Ruby or Prolog; in fact, it looks especially like a work of art if it’s well-written C code. But it does matter if it’s Javascript, because well-written Javascript code is like the mythical Yeti: often discussed, with snippets of evidence for its existence, but no one has seen it in its full, corporeal form. This has been the hallmark of badly written smart contracts: they have messy code paths, don’t follow best practices, and happen to work by the skin of their teeth,” criticized Sirer.

Bitcoin pioneer and COO of popular cryptocurrency wallet platform Jaxx Charlie Shrem also commented on the weak security measures of Bancor and whether if it is in need of a blockchain-based network to accomplish its tasks.

Charlie Shrem
✔@CharlieShrem
So the BANCOR can freeze accounts, create new tokens and block transfers. Why do they need a Blockchain again? https://twitter.com/MarcoDeMeireles/status/878218699219517442 …
10:39 AM - 23 Jun 2017

Source: https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/cornell-professor-150-million-bancor-flawed/

DNotes is different in many ways. We are always willing to go the extra mile for DNotes' stakeholders based on a simple philosophy: we will do things others wouldn't for the benefits and success of our stakeholders so that one day we are in the position to do things others can't do.

Smokeys Gardens https://smokeysgardens.com/ is a prime case in point. With an initial investment of $500 we became the largest daylily grower in the world in ten years. With the economy of scale we now have the land (70 acres), equipment, process, man-power, and other resources to plant, harvest, and ship more daylilies in a few days than our competitors could in the entire season. Success in business does not happen by accident. It starts with a clear vision and a great deal more ....... DNotes follows the same business model.

"It's too bad he didn't look a little farther and see what DNotes is up to. " No doubt he will.

I had never counted on good fortune or wishful speculation but the vision to take the right path with a relentless commitment to always finish what I started and delivering what I promised. It is hard work and demands a ton of patience but it has always paid off for me. That is why I wrote a book on what it takes to succeed in business - "Improve Your Odds - The Four Pillars of Business Success." https://fourpillarsofbusinesssuccess.com/

P.S. DNotes and Smokeys Gardens follow the same business model and discipline. Stay tuned for more.

Thank you, TeeGee. This is a difficult subject for most people to understand. It is important to note that something, by definition, that has "no intrinsic value" does not mean that it is worthless. For all practical purposes it is worth what the next person is willing to pay for it. Especially in our industry, that value is highly speculative and only good as the game is "hot." We have often seen the traded price jumps 600% in a day and collapses by 60% the following day. The fundamental value of the coin, if any, could not have changed by that much in 24 hours. It is a pure speculation and most likely artificially manipulated. It is reasonable to assume that in the interest of consumer protection SEC must find this troubling - including the growing list of ICOs.             

We are clearly gaining significantly more media coverage worldwide. That is a very good sign. We avoided following the crowd in taking the path of least resistance. We instead picked the path consistent with our long-term vision to ensure that DNotes will have the best chances gaining mass acceptance and meeting the full functions of money backed by tangible fundamental or intrinsic value using a for profit company - DNotes Global Inc. It seems to be paying off.

Tim, thank you for your confidence and support. We appreciate that very much. We are working hard everyday to make sure that DNotes's success will benefit a lot of people around the world. It is inspiring to have someone like you to recognize that what we are doing could help to make a difference. And most of all, you are trying to help our mission in some ways.

I appreciate the efforts your team invested in the T-Shirt design. We literally went through hundreds iterations and many graphic designers at a significant cost. But I am extremely pleased with the final selection. It is simple with elegance.

Impressive, especially in consideration of the fact that there is a lot more to know about DNotes. His call that DNotes is worth watching as it may go very far is a good call.

Of course few people know that there is serious development going on behind the scene. DNotes 2.0 marks the beginning of a substantial development program that will take DNotes to the forefront of technologies utilizing C#. We are committed to take it all the way and likely become one of the innovative technology leaders in the blockchain and smart contract arenas. The only other coin with serious development in C# is Startis. We certainly appreciate their contributions.

Anyway, great job and thank you, tripjammer.

Excellent. We encourage everyone interested to earn some DNotes by contributing to the success of DNotes to contact us. DNotes is well positioned to grow rapidly. We can use a lot of help to get the word out. Earn all the DNotes you can at this early stage. It will become quite valuable. I am totally committed to make DNotes a big success - one that will truly benefit millions of people around the world. 

Let's bring back the "Buffet Rule" I posted on June 21, 2017:

In investing, in life, and in business there are many reasons why some are more successful than others. Many of the contributors to success are obvious and grounded on common sense. But when we are over-powered by greed and fear, most people tend to be reactive and just follow the crowd.

Investing in digital currencies and blockchain related situations today is challenging, and at times nerve-racking. There is no fundamental value or instinct value. It is nearly impossible to verify the “impressive road-map” beautifully represented in stunning graphics, or the people behind it. When you can, do extensive research or due diligence before investing. Knowledge will give you better judgement to pick more winners than losers.  And follow the “Buffet Rule.”

“A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.” Warren Buffet.

Where To Get Greedy Now That Others Are Fearful
Forbes
FEB 4, 2014
Bryan Rich, Contributor

Warren Buffett wrote a famous op-ed piece in the New York Times in October 2008 in which he that said the following:

“A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful." And most certainly, fear is now widespread, gripping even seasoned investors. To be sure, investors are right to be wary of highly leveraged entities or businesses in weak competitive positions. But fears regarding the long-term prosperity of the nation’s many sound companies make no sense. These businesses will indeed suffer earnings hiccups, as they always have. But most major companies will be setting new profit records 5, 10 and 20 years from now.”
Everyone should read this, because it shows you the mindset of a great investor and how great investors react when the stock market falls.  Instead of running in fear, great investors welcome market corrections as opportunities to buy on the cheap.

Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2014/02/04/where-to-get-greedy-now-that-others-are-fearful/#98166c82d460

Thanks, Chase. That is great. One is already approved. Do a search on "DNotes". We are getting better and there will be a lot more coming.