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Another year of great progression for DNotes 2.0. Happy 4th Birthday to all who have contributed in the past, to those who are contributing and those who will be in the coming months and years. Success is inevitable with the great work that has been put in to make DNotes 2.0 the complete package. Again.... Happy 4th Birthday!!
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Excellent work everyone, DNotes is stronger than ever and has done a good job flying under the radar while building the necessary infrastructure to bring a completed product to market.
It looks as though 2017 is the year Alan's vision and careful planning will become a reality, and DNotes will differentiate itself from the competition in a way nobody else can replicate. He has seen the process of innovation occur first hand, and has a far deeper understanding than anyone in our industry on how/why innovation happens, as well as how to deploy innovation from a business perspective. There are many hands working behind the scenes, DNotes has the hardest working and one of the most talented developers in the industry. No other cryptocurrency can come close to matching "star players" like these. I remember early in DNotes' history, people were trying to lecture Alan on how to create a cryptocurrency (they thought any deviation from their ideals was blasphemy), not knowing that he has 40 years of business experience and has been involved in the technology sector since before most of them were born. But he was polite enough to let them voice their opinion.
So here's to the kindest, most skilled, and hardest working cryptocurrency team, DNotes. Happy birthday.
Wow. Kind words, but there are many hands involved in this adventure we are on, including yours! Alan would not have taken on this challenge without the full support from the team at Smokeys Gardens, and our DNotes team could not have made the strides we made without the support of a much wider group, you and many others included. DNotes is the product of many people, from diverse backgrounds, coming together for the good of the world. I am proud to be associated with this fine group. Happy Birthday, DNotes!! Many more to come. Smokey And a very Happy 3rd Birthday to the entire team who work very hard to make this all happen. The efforts that are put in to educating others about cryptocurrency and the industry have been outstanding. Congrats and Happy Birthday! |
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Thought I already wrote a B'day message... but it seems I must have forgotten to post it yesterday.
Happy birthday DNotes! Been great working with you all, it's a pretty full on, and happening project over here. DNotes is everything that other crypto are not - a happening project with multiple strategic properties that are not directly related to the cryptocurrency itself, but are well integrated to build up an ecosystem that will be very successful in the future. For example, a news website like DCEBrief has nothing to do with DNotes as an instrument, yet it invaluable in terms of the exposure it can provide DNotes and better quality information that it provides those who need it. Too many other crypto are focussed on their financial instrument, and what it can do - when really, the world obviously doesn't care about the instrument at the moment so much as it does the idea. Those focussing on improving their financial instrument have all failed thus far, for the instrument, and technical features are all it has. An overall ecosystem is much more valuable and viable long term - a strategic master-stroke that will soon be realized.
Well done team.
Thanks for the excellent post TeeGee, it has been great working with you as well! Your contributions are greatly appreciated. And a Happy Happy Birthday, DNotes!!!! |
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This is the best article I came across why a serious debt meltdown may already be in the making. China Is Headed for a Debt Meltdown Like the U.S. in 2008 -- But WorsePosted: 01/08/2016 6:55 pm EST World attention has focused in recent months on an acute refugee crisis occasioned by the mass migration to Europe of hundreds of thousands now fleeing the Syrian civil war. Less noticed has been another refugee crisis at least as ominous as that underway in the Middle East and Europe -- the fleeing of money from China. What's going on, and why is it ominous?To understand what is happening, we must first remind ourselves what happened in the U.S. and global economies in 2008 -- and how China responded to it. In 2008, the U.S. experienced the precipitous crash of what had been a highly overvalued real estate and associated bond market. Those markets' prices had been driven by cheap credit used by investors to speculate in residential real estate and mortgage-related financial instruments. Because these investments had been financed by private debt, post-crash investors found themselves suddenly owing much more than they owned -- their assets had plummeted, but the debts that they had incurred to buy them had not. What China ultimately did was essentially, and ironically, to repeat what the U.S. had done in the first place -- it engineered two domestic asset price bubbles of its own. When investors, post-crash, find themselves suddenly "underwater" like this, they tend to stop spending on goods and services in the "real" economy. After all, they now have negative net worth, and must accordingly spend larger portions of their incomes paying down debt rather than buying things. When millions act pursuant to this dynamic, it slows or reverses macroeconomic growth -- it brings recession or all-out depression. The worst such episodes are called "debt-deflations," precisely because the falling prices and contraction experienced by an afflicted macroeconomy are driven by high ratios of private debt to income. Back now to China. The U.S. debt-deflation that began in late 2008 infected the wider world economy. This was partly because foreign investors had also participated in the U.S. bubble, but it was also because U.S. consumers are primary sources of demand for other nations' products. China, in particular, depended on U.S. consumers to buy its products and thus fuel its growth. China, then, was especially vulnerable to the contagion effects of America's post-2008 debt deflation. But China's government, as is well known, depends on delivering high domestic growth for its very legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry. What, then, was China to do? Chinese investors now find themselves faced with a post-bubble negative net worth problem, just like that faced by Americans after 1929 and 2008. What China ultimately did was essentially, and ironically, to repeat what the U.S. had done in the first place -- it engineered two domestic asset price bubbles of its own. First it targeted real estate, directing state-owned banks to extend credit on cheap terms for speculative residential and commercial real estate investments. Then it targeted stocks and other financial instruments, allowing and then encouraging lenders to facilitate purchases of speculative assets on margin. For five or six years, China's strategy worked. Steadily rising stock and real estate prices underwrote a "wealth effect," making China's wealthier and middle classes feel prosperous and thereby encouraging domestic spending. That in turn substituted for dwindling American and global demand for Chinese exports, keeping China's growth engine running -- for a time. Things were just as they'd been in the U.S. during the late Clinton and Bush years -- private debt fueled ephemeral macroeconomic growth. In the end, though, the same thing happened to this bubble as happens to all bubbles -- it reached an outer limit, then began to deflate. The deflationary pressure in turn became self-accelerating, just as occurred in the U.S. in 1929 and 2008, and just as occurs in all "runs" on banks or assets. Chinese investors now find themselves faced with a post-bubble negative net worth problem, just like that faced by Americans after 1929 and 2008. Exodus of Currency That takes us to China's new "refugee problem" -- the exodus of currency from its markets. What is now happening is that people are selling off Chinese assets and investing instead in (primarily) American assets -- including stocks but especially real estate. As momentum in these flows builds up, China faces the prospect of full-on meltdowns in its stock and real estate markets, just as occurred here in the U.S. in the late 1920s and post-2008 -- only worse. Worse? Yes, and that takes us on to why China's travails are so ominous. So, to begin, China's aggregate private debt-to-GDP ratios during its recent peak bubble years are much higher than in the U.S. -- both in 1928 and 2007 If its stock and real estate markets completely melt down, then, China's negative net worth problem and associated debt-deflation -- its "great depression" -- could well make our own look like festive occasions. That is, of course, ominous enough, but there is more. Note first what I said earlier about where Chinese money is going -- to U.S. real estate and other asset markets. This, too, is worrisome, in at least two ways. Read More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-hockett-/china-debt-meltdown-_b_8940382.htmlJust read an article a couple weeks ago where China is dumping, at cheap rates, there excess steel into the American market. US steel companies are beginning to suffer, which will have a trickle down effect from this and this is only one segment yet large enough of an impact to be written about solely in the news. Scrap prices are very low, softening that market as well. I wonder if this will be another fiasco like the "Sheetrock" when China dumped a bunch of crap Sheetrock into the US market that made so many people sick and cost tons of money to replace?! You all remember the FEMA houses? Rows and rows of inhabitable homes because of China Sheetrock?? Sickened me to think "we" our government would not even use "in house", American made products which would have met the safety standards. One has to wonder when structural materials roll in off the boats if they comply with any safety standards, but we seem to gobble inferior products up each and every day without batting an eye. And, as Alan has stated many time, this is just one more segment. I believe there will be so many more cards to fall and we are just seeing the beginning. China's growth rate has, I believe, come to an unsustainable point in time, which economists have been predicting. So not only is it the cash flow that Alan talked about it is directly impacting their manufacturing which goes right hand in had with the cash flow. " Scrap prices are very low, softening that market as well". This may not mean much to the average people but that has been a multi-billion $ industry in the US alone. Many recycling companies, including many small businesses with revenue up to $50 million are shutting down, with tens of thousands jobs lost. It is all these little troubling signs that I am quite concerned about. Going back a little farther China came in and purchased tons and tons of scrap at high rates and made it go up, which was great as we were getting high dollar for scrap. But now that they are unloading it at cheap prices this means they are losing money. But, they have to unload to get cash back, thus falls into a shortfall to where they are more than likely below break even point selling off the steel. Alan is correct this is a huge industry when you put all the pieces together. |
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This is the best article I came across why a serious debt meltdown may already be in the making. China Is Headed for a Debt Meltdown Like the U.S. in 2008 -- But WorsePosted: 01/08/2016 6:55 pm EST World attention has focused in recent months on an acute refugee crisis occasioned by the mass migration to Europe of hundreds of thousands now fleeing the Syrian civil war. Less noticed has been another refugee crisis at least as ominous as that underway in the Middle East and Europe -- the fleeing of money from China. What's going on, and why is it ominous?To understand what is happening, we must first remind ourselves what happened in the U.S. and global economies in 2008 -- and how China responded to it. In 2008, the U.S. experienced the precipitous crash of what had been a highly overvalued real estate and associated bond market. Those markets' prices had been driven by cheap credit used by investors to speculate in residential real estate and mortgage-related financial instruments. Because these investments had been financed by private debt, post-crash investors found themselves suddenly owing much more than they owned -- their assets had plummeted, but the debts that they had incurred to buy them had not. What China ultimately did was essentially, and ironically, to repeat what the U.S. had done in the first place -- it engineered two domestic asset price bubbles of its own. When investors, post-crash, find themselves suddenly "underwater" like this, they tend to stop spending on goods and services in the "real" economy. After all, they now have negative net worth, and must accordingly spend larger portions of their incomes paying down debt rather than buying things. When millions act pursuant to this dynamic, it slows or reverses macroeconomic growth -- it brings recession or all-out depression. The worst such episodes are called "debt-deflations," precisely because the falling prices and contraction experienced by an afflicted macroeconomy are driven by high ratios of private debt to income. Back now to China. The U.S. debt-deflation that began in late 2008 infected the wider world economy. This was partly because foreign investors had also participated in the U.S. bubble, but it was also because U.S. consumers are primary sources of demand for other nations' products. China, in particular, depended on U.S. consumers to buy its products and thus fuel its growth. China, then, was especially vulnerable to the contagion effects of America's post-2008 debt deflation. But China's government, as is well known, depends on delivering high domestic growth for its very legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry. What, then, was China to do? Chinese investors now find themselves faced with a post-bubble negative net worth problem, just like that faced by Americans after 1929 and 2008. What China ultimately did was essentially, and ironically, to repeat what the U.S. had done in the first place -- it engineered two domestic asset price bubbles of its own. First it targeted real estate, directing state-owned banks to extend credit on cheap terms for speculative residential and commercial real estate investments. Then it targeted stocks and other financial instruments, allowing and then encouraging lenders to facilitate purchases of speculative assets on margin. For five or six years, China's strategy worked. Steadily rising stock and real estate prices underwrote a "wealth effect," making China's wealthier and middle classes feel prosperous and thereby encouraging domestic spending. That in turn substituted for dwindling American and global demand for Chinese exports, keeping China's growth engine running -- for a time. Things were just as they'd been in the U.S. during the late Clinton and Bush years -- private debt fueled ephemeral macroeconomic growth. In the end, though, the same thing happened to this bubble as happens to all bubbles -- it reached an outer limit, then began to deflate. The deflationary pressure in turn became self-accelerating, just as occurred in the U.S. in 1929 and 2008, and just as occurs in all "runs" on banks or assets. Chinese investors now find themselves faced with a post-bubble negative net worth problem, just like that faced by Americans after 1929 and 2008. Exodus of Currency That takes us to China's new "refugee problem" -- the exodus of currency from its markets. What is now happening is that people are selling off Chinese assets and investing instead in (primarily) American assets -- including stocks but especially real estate. As momentum in these flows builds up, China faces the prospect of full-on meltdowns in its stock and real estate markets, just as occurred here in the U.S. in the late 1920s and post-2008 -- only worse. Worse? Yes, and that takes us on to why China's travails are so ominous. So, to begin, China's aggregate private debt-to-GDP ratios during its recent peak bubble years are much higher than in the U.S. -- both in 1928 and 2007 If its stock and real estate markets completely melt down, then, China's negative net worth problem and associated debt-deflation -- its "great depression" -- could well make our own look like festive occasions. That is, of course, ominous enough, but there is more. Note first what I said earlier about where Chinese money is going -- to U.S. real estate and other asset markets. This, too, is worrisome, in at least two ways. Read More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-hockett-/china-debt-meltdown-_b_8940382.htmlJust read an article a couple weeks ago where China is dumping, at cheap rates, there excess steel into the American market. US steel companies are beginning to suffer, which will have a trickle down effect from this and this is only one segment yet large enough of an impact to be written about solely in the news. Scrap prices are very low, softening that market as well. I wonder if this will be another fiasco like the "Sheetrock" when China dumped a bunch of crap Sheetrock into the US market that made so many people sick and cost tons of money to replace?! You all remember the FEMA houses? Rows and rows of inhabitable homes because of China Sheetrock?? Sickened me to think "we" our government would not even use "in house", American made products which would have met the safety standards. One has to wonder when structural materials roll in off the boats if they comply with any safety standards, but we seem to gobble inferior products up each and every day without batting an eye. And, as Alan has stated many time, this is just one more segment. I believe there will be so many more cards to fall and we are just seeing the beginning. China's growth rate has, I believe, come to an unsustainable point in time, which economists have been predicting. So not only is it the cash flow that Alan talked about it is directly impacting their manufacturing which goes right hand in had with the cash flow. |
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What has been going on at Cryptsy is quite unfortunate. It is hard enough to build a successful business. Letting it go down through neglect, after being quite successful for a while, is hard to understand. DNotes' volume on Cryptsy is still quite high. I suspect that a lot of DNotes from multi-pools are still being sold through Cryptsy. It still amazes me. As a lifelong business owner and entrepreneur, I simply do not understand this industry. 90% of them seen to be either scams or so poorly run it is laughable. Smokey Probably people thinking they can make a quick buck easily, then they find out they actually have to work for their money. I would suspect it is the younger generation thinking they will start something up without doing the research and time spent actually working on the project. Even my own kids say people of the younger generation don't want to work for what they have. Not saying all are like this but when it comes to internet I feel they think they can make a quick buck with little effort. I hear my grandson (11) telling me he is going to start simply posting videos of himself because someone else has done it with silly stuff and makes a ton of money. I told him not everyone can be successful in doing this. Correct me if I am wrong.. Just sayin' |
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I think you should make more of these videos, you are very easy on the eyes there young man!! Oh my did I say that outloud? Good content and the young lady is also a nice asset in reaching younger people. You look like peers to those you are trying to reach. Nice job to both of you. |
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I didn't want to post the entire article, but it's worth a read. Pretty incredible. JPMorgan's 2014 Hack Tied to Largest Cyber Breach EverThe U.S. described a vast, multi-year criminal enterprise centering on hacks of at least nine big financial and publishing firms and the theft of information on 100 million of their customers that fueled a web of stock manipulation, credit-card fraud and illegal online casinos. Two indictments, unsealed Tuesday, tied three of four suspects to previously reported hacks of JPMorgan Chase & Co., E*Trade Financial Corp., Scottrade Financial Services Inc. and Dow Jones & Co., a unit of News Corp. Hackers and conspirators in more than a dozen countries generated hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit proceeds on pump-and-dump stock schemes and particularly lucrative online gambling, prosecutors said. From 2012 to mid-2015, the suspects and their co-conspirators successfully manipulated dozens of publicly traded stocks, sent misleading pitches to clients of banks and brokerages whose e-mail addresses they’d stolen, and profited by using trading accounts set up under fake names, prosecutors said. [...] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-10/hackers-accused-by-u-s-of-targeting-top-banks-mutual-fundsAll this makes me wonder how many corrupt individuals are working inside these "victim" banks. And once again how is it no one was held accountable for these obvious criminal actions? This is why elderly people tend to want to place their money under the matress as they have seen a run on the banks before or were children sitting in the room listening to mom and dad talk about how they were going to make it financially and have little trust in financial institutions. |
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Are international shipments a thing for daylilies? I figure it would come down to the country they're being sent to, but I have a strange thought that customs here would consider a plant a 'biohazard'? - like what if it had a spider on it or... something...snake? (we don't have any snakes or dangerous spiders or anything in NZ).
We used to do international shipping, if the customer would pay the additional fees for inspection and customs. We would still have issues where it would get delayed so long they would be dead by the time they reached their destination, or even in some cases destroyed. As a whole, it turned into a losing proposition. The regulations for shipping plant material are very strict. A member of the state regulations must be present when shipping any international shipment. He must count and look at each and every plant for which all dirt and debris must be removed. Some countries require they be dusted and your counts must be exact for each box as each box has paperwork that must match what is in the box. Very very time consuming for us and the state inspector. So no there is no way that spiders, snakes, bugs etc can go through as the state inspector looked for all of that. |
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I don't know about everyone else, but something that really interests me is the future of cryptocurrency in space. Imagine being able to make secure payments to the furthest reaches of our solar system, utilizing satellite nodes orbiting every planet. We'll be able to extract rare resources, and send them back to earth. Seamlessly exchanging them for Digital currency, which workers on other planets can either save or spend. They would likely purchase goods collectively, to save money on shipping and handling. Right now it takes 130 days for a high speed transport vessel to reach Mars, but the time will obviously decrease as our technology improves; Making a solar system wide economy completely possible. I know this sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, but it isn't as far off as you may think... https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoins-space-bitsat-protect-bitcoins-future-orbit/You're among open minded friends here CryptoBroker. What I found interesting is having nodes in space on the Bitsat system, and the potential benefits and security. Digital currency has no borders or boundaries, if we can go there, so can digital currency, and it might even go places we cannot one day. Very interesting share. Interesting! I just edited my book to reflect that possibility: “ Your business, on the other hand, is an open system. It is dynamic, constantly interacting with other systems, or sub-systems; both internally and externally anywhere worldwide and perhaps even with our settlers on Mars one day!” Ha, ha. That was just a joke. I am getting bored trying to work on my book all day. It is finally shaping up nicely. Why the Book? This is an inspirational book for small business owners, including women small business owners. For the first time I am sharing, in a book format, my winning strategies on how to be the best in class and why everything matters. “ It is not so much the end result that you are able to accomplish but your very best efforts in doing everything possible to accomplish the best level of achievement within your reach. If you missed the target, you would have at least aimed your shot at the right direction and ended up close in the neighborhood. Unless you give up prematurely, you will continue to horn in your skill, improving your chances of hitting your target or ending up closer to it eventually. ………
Everything is inter-related. A poor performance in one function is not isolated to that function. It degrades performance everywhere else. Thus weakness in certain areas not only keeps the individual score on that function down, it brings down the final score in other areas. Thus, overall business performance suffers due to the confounding of two effects. Each part of the system helps or hurts other systems………………” Our 2016 roadmap includes aggressively promoting a total package of CRISP for Retirement, CRISP For Employee Incentive Benefits and the book to small business owners, including women small business owners. This will be a major campaign involving third party support and other partnership. Expect a big push to develop our own e-commerce site and global payment networks and other ventures to be launched at the later part of 2016. Developing the right technologies and launching them at the right time are all winning strategies. That is our pathway to deploy DNotes as the medium of exchange. I'm eagerly awaiting the release of your book. I trust you'll be accepting DNotes? Thanks, that is the plan. I also plan to have a chapter using DNotes as a use case on a number of strategies and business philosophies discussed in the book and a chapter on using digital currency as a competitive edge. I am passionately committed to help as many people as I can. Small business formation has dropped from almost 600,000 to about 400,000 per year today with 470,000 closing down at current annual rate. It is a sad fact that many business owners are struggling to keep their business alive while being in poverty themselves. As a small business consultant for a number of years I was often amazed that majority of struggling small business owners pay a huge amount in using high interest credit cards on top of high merchant fees and charge backs. DNotes could make a significant difference. Taking our time to build a trusted brand and a solid foundation are essential before executing our next phase. Small businesses pay higher merchant fees because of lower volumn. The larger the company the better the rate... that is a fact. Ever wonder why when they are quoting a price as to the annual volumn that you will do as a small business? It is because they make sure you are paying a higher rate when they quote you for low volumn. The more you run through their system the better the rate. Now how is that fair to the small business? Answer: It is not! |
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Started reaching out to potential influential guest posters for DCEBrief, for the mutual benefit of promoting DCEBrief as well as the individual. if you have anyone in mind that you would like to hear from or feel like would be a good fit, let me know.
Also, plan to have a section dedicated to guest authors, much like the existing list of authors.
Starting tomorrow, Bitcoin.com is having the largest "Ask Me Anything" all-star event ever, on their new forum. They have a very impressive list of guests, some of which may be great guest posters for DCEBrief. There is a new guest everyday and it looks like it may go till Christmas. "all star cast of players in the Bitcoin ecosystem to do Q&A sessions on forum.bitcoin.com" - https://forum.bitcoin.com/announces/bitcoin-com-ama-event-full-schedule-t1665.htmlThe Bitcoin.com Forum’s All-Star AMA Event - https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-com-forums-star-ama-event/Thoughts on this anyone?? Impressive guest list and a great idea, especially when a lot of Bitcoin ventures are rebranding, away from "Bitcoin" to Blockchain or Cryptocurrency by association. VC funding for "Bitcoin" seems to be drying up too. Our industry is still at its infancy. Any market development is good for all of us. Oops, unable to connect to the site. Sounds like a great idea though. That is indeed a great thing. Nice to be able to get dialog like this happening. |
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Can I be honest here?
I read a lot about how DNOTES could theoretically do xyz in some idealized future when crypto runs the world. But nothing about what the technology development of DNOTES is realistically doing right now. What is the development roadmap? What will DNOTES aim to technically achieve in the next 3-6-12 months to make this future a possibility?
I'm talking actual code and releases and shipping solutions, not making press releases, going to expos and having one lily garden center accepting it.
I feel like this thread is 99% smooth talking the talk (of which 75% is either about the DCEBrief website or some random news articles about Bitcoin) and 1% walking any kind of progress walk for the currency itself.
Resassure me here that we're not just stumbling around in some blind circlejerk, posting empty news articles about vague economics and an imaginary future to distract ourselves from the apparent lack of any genuine productized technical direction and progress.
Tell me something real that's going on with DNOTES the cryptocurrency as a technology platform, not just journalism and fluff.
Hi Mochilles, appreciate the honesty and in a way I'm glad you posted, though it could have been more polite. We are working very hard on what we have built and proud of it. Our core mission right now is to build the infrastructure required for this company and the currency, and we are not working on leading edge technology at this time. What we have built is practical for the purposes of growing a global supplemental digital currency, and is not theoretical. We have put a lot of time, effort, and money into what we have built. Alan has clearly stated the "three distinct components of this cryptocurrency revolution" in our latest press release and we have made it very clear we are focusing on the currency and the business that will drive that currency. http://dcebrief.com/bitcoin-alternative-dnotes-announces-new-company-launch-in-2016-to-integrate-the-currency-payment-system-and-blockchain/The discussions that happen on here spark ideas. Agreeing or disagreeing here or behind the scenes are where ideas are born and things happen. I have always been taught you need to walk before you run. I would much rather the team walk through this than to run blindly hoping they are running in the right direction. Please stay the course and walk through this like you should walk through life. When you start running is when I look for who or what is chasing you and why. It is like putting a puzzle together, you do it one piece at a time. It is like getting dressed you put your undies on before your pants. It is like baking you have to have all the ingredients before you can bake a cake. You get the picture. |
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Started reaching out to potential influential guest posters for DCEBrief, for the mutual benefit of promoting DCEBrief as well as the individual. if you have anyone in mind that you would like to hear from or feel like would be a good fit, let me know.
Also, plan to have a section dedicated to guest authors, much like the existing list of authors.
Excellent idea. "Guest authors" could be a very popular segment of DCEBrief, providing mutual benefits to both parties. That is a good idea as well. Give new perspectives and will indeed provide mutual benefits to all involved. DCEBrief is another one of those things that is gaining attention with more and more people coming into contact with the information. |
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This may be too late for Halloween this year, but with so many children coming right to your door, it would be cool to hand them a little DNotes "treat" with a brief description. I'm pretty sure a paper wallet would get tossed, but a promo code to claim the DNotes when they registered at the Vault should work. A brief explantaion of what a CRISP is may get the parent's attention. Attaching a couple of candies to it should get the kid's attention.  Next year?? Note: If you put it in a bag with the candy, you can tell the kids there is digital money in the bag! I love this idea!! Remember those genesis coins a while back. Now that would be cool to give people. Could preload 100 DNotes onto them. Hopefully they wouldn't get tossed, but having something hard and physical other than a paper wallet would be an excellent way for people to become aware. This could be a good idea even if we just send out a few coins to selected individuals that could help us promote DNotes. I know I have 3 of the coins and they are very nice!!! Fun idea, I would give them out, but make sure you include the treats as well  That is a great idea. As the young are normally those to teach on the up and coming new stuff. They will be the ones to carry it on in the future. |
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25,000 DNotes DCEBrief Social Contest. 10 DNotes for each social action up to 10,000 DNotes total payout. Each social action also counts as an entry toward the following prizes: - 1 5,000 DNotes randomly selected winner.
- 5 1,000 DNotes prizes for the top 5 sharers.
- 5 1,000 DNotes randomly selected winners.
Rules: - Email contest@dcebrief.com with your entries including a link to your social profiles and DNotes address by 11/20/2015. - You may send all of your entries in one email or send an email as you each time you share an article. - You may only share each article once per social media account. - Creating additional social media accounts to gain more entries into the contest is strictly prohibited. - Posting entries here in the forum will disqualify your entries from the contest, and is against the rules of this forum, please be sure to email your entries to contest@dcebrief.com. Note: You may share any number of our articles, each share counts for the DNotes award and the prizes. Lots more submissions this week. For those waiting for the next payment, I will get them sent out tomorrow. Sounds like the sharing is catching on, which is a good thing to get the word out there. Great job to all. |
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Yes, I don't take any of those stories seriously until real proof is shown and I am glad they posted a response. I certainly hope they take action against the person or entity who wrote this scathing article. False actions, false reporting, false anything is something which should not be tolerated. This kind of thing is a total waste of time, energy and money. I hope whoever wrote this is held accountable for their ill actions. |
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In the last 30 days DCEBrief has received over 33,000 unique visitors accoridng to cloudflare's statistics and the majority of the traffic comes from the US. About half of the traffic has come from direct hits, 35% from social media, and 15% from search.
That number is certain to grow as people talk about it at the water cooler. Nice to see some stats on this. |
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STANFORD UNIVERSITY COURSE COULD GROW BITCOIN COMMUNITY, SAYS PROFESSOR https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/stanford-university-course-grow-bitcoin-community/Omg! This is great!!! "If we can start turning out 100 students a year who are experts on Bitcoin, this will really start growing the community quickly which should lead to exciting new technical advances in the future." -Professor Joseph Bonneau So when will high schools, better yet, middle schools start to teach on the subject?? Yes, this is good news! Speaking of school, I have three currently in elementary school and they watch me when I go on exchanges and do buys/trades. I am already getting them started down the path of digital currency. I show them their CRISP for Kids savings and they see how it grows. They truly are very interested in it and how money is sent "through the air" as they say. You can never start them too early. Educating the next generations about digital currency is one of the most important things we can do. They build upon what our industry has created. The financial world will be forced to offer programs and classes on digital currency. Just as schools were forced to offer computer classes. Unfortunately the first computers hit my high school the year after I graduated. The computers came in at the end of my Senior year and were sitting in the business classes I was taking for the next school year. All we could do was look at them. Yes folks, I learned on a typewriter, thankfully it was electric and not manual. I remember getting our first puter for the office, a 386SX, and thinking we would never need more than one PC in the office. That was about the very early 1990's or so. Then we got FOUR puters, 486SX. Everyone in the office had one, including me. I said "we will never need the internet at work". What would we need internet at work for? Then we got internet, BUT only on ONE puter, and that puter was not connected to the company network. I just did not trust the damn thing (the internet). Took a few years of being stubborn, but I finally relented and allowed the internet on the company puters. That was two decades ago. Seems like a lifetime. Still remember our first "Mobile phone", a bag phone........ Smokey It is absolutely amazing how quickly technology evolves. Today you can't run most businesses without the internet, at least a dozen computers, and mobile phones. Fond memories of dragging around the 30 pound mobile phone, and finding a good place to suction the antenna. The bag phone was hooked up to the vehicle horn so when it rang and you were not right next to it you knew it was ringing. When you think of the technology and actually how quickly it progressed to what we have today it really was not that long ago. And to think with the technology available now how much more quickly things can change. I will probably always be asking my grandkids "hey can you fix this for me" then hand them my phone or computer. Sad when a 9 year old can fix it but I cannot... and it is mine. I believe the yonger the person the more they will understand the crypto world, as they are more tech minded. They start out as babies in the tech world. |
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STANFORD UNIVERSITY COURSE COULD GROW BITCOIN COMMUNITY, SAYS PROFESSOR https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/stanford-university-course-grow-bitcoin-community/Omg! This is great!!! "If we can start turning out 100 students a year who are experts on Bitcoin, this will really start growing the community quickly which should lead to exciting new technical advances in the future." -Professor Joseph Bonneau So when will high schools, better yet, middle schools start to teach on the subject?? Yes, this is good news! Speaking of school, I have three currently in elementary school and they watch me when I go on exchanges and do buys/trades. I am already getting them started down the path of digital currency. I show them their CRISP for Kids savings and they see how it grows. They truly are very interested in it and how money is sent "through the air" as they say. You can never start them too early. Educating the next generations about digital currency is one of the most important things we can do. They build upon what our industry has created. The financial world will be forced to offer programs and classes on digital currency. Just as schools were forced to offer computer classes. Unfortunately the first computers hit my high school the year after I graduated. The computers came in at the end of my Senior year and were sitting in the business classes I was taking for the next school year. All we could do was look at them. Yes folks, I learned on a typewriter, thankfully it was electric and not manual. |
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http://dcebrief.com/taiwan-could-be-seeing-a-digital-currency-boom/This article makes me question whether it would be possible for PayPal to accept digital currency? What would the pros and cons be? I can immediately knowledge that one downfall would be the involvement of a third party, and fees for those transactions. The positive thing would be that by accepting Bitcoin and DNotes, PayPal would encourage consumers to accept digital currency as a real currency. It's absolutely possible for PayPal to accept digital currency, every vendor or money services company has all the tools needed to do so. PayPal would likely charge fees, but it would be up to the user whether they want the ease of use PayPal might provide or feel comfortable managing their own digital wallet. However, if PayPal does accept digital currency, and doesn't compete by lowering fees for digital currency transactions and making it easier to use, other companies will jump at the chance to acquire those customers PayPal would lose. I appreciate that DNotes doesn't take an adversarial approach to big business. Most of the world will prefer the easiest options, even if it does cost some fee. They need crypto to stay in the game and relevant, and crypto needs them to reach the masses. Thanks, Bergman. That is the correct observation. We are committed to being respectful to everyone. That may be one of the trade secrets why DNotes and its communities have been able to accomplish so much in such a short period of time. We are very focused in problem solving and "mind our own business", avoiding the destructive consequences of dramas that have ruined so many other cryptocurrencies. Paypal, banks, debit and credit card companies are here to stay for a long time. They will be the gateways and conduits in many of our future financial services. We will compete fiercely based on our strengths in certain areas but must cooperate where we can find common grounds and mutual benefits in other areas. Constructive business philosophy is important to business success. We are sincerely committed to represent our industry in the best of light, helping to build much need trust and respect. What is good for our industry will be good for everyone. There has never been a better opportunity for common people with little means to join force in working together for the better good of mankind. Bergman - I did not think about the fact that companies like PayPal need crypto to stay relevant. What an eye-opening statement Kris, Bitcoin, DNotes or digital currency in general, and the Blockchain technology collectively will be causing a paradigm shift of seismic proportion that will be difficult to ignore. Free market forces always weed out those who are too slow to response and adapt. The Internet technology revolution should an eye-opener for those who are not so sure what a disruptive technology could do. I trust that Paypal is well aware of that. Like many major banks, they will not just stay on the sideline and watch. They will participate in ways that serve their interest best. Paypal will be forced to lower fees or they will be squished out by someone or some company that is willing to charge less. Companies who take credit cards, paypal, debit cards etc are tired of huge monthly fees just for accepting these are methods of payment. This is a HUGE cost for companies and specifically a huge cost to small businesses when the business volumn may not be large enough to get the "big company" volumn discounts. Larger companies who can negociate large discounts because of volumn are at an advantage over small businesses who pay a higher price for accepting credit cards, simply because they do not have the volumn. When a credit card processor approaches a business they ask "What is your volumn of sales per year?". I ask what does that matter? If you don't do enough and are too small you are accessed a higher rate. Which in turn penalizes small business. Who employs the most workers.... small business. That is why I have stated before the credit card companies and banks are making out like fat rats and they are doing it electronically, which is basically all automatic. And yes I know a person has to take care of the electronic portion of this. The credit card companies employ "customer service people" not people to transfer money around from the consumers account to the businesses account when a purchase is made. We all have had the customer service rep that we cannot understand as well. They are paying them peanuts. As you can tell this is something that is personal as I see money snatched from my account each month for providing a service to "their" client. Isn't that something, they sell the service to the consumer, the use of a credit card, then sell the service to me to accept that card, then charge my business for their customer using their service and if the consumer does not pay on time they charge them interest and a late fee. They have got it made and have sold each of us on the idea. Just think if crypto currency takes off... oh how I look forward to that day. By the way my business accepts Bitcoin and DNotes as method of payment and for any small business out there I suggest they get with it and begin accepting it as well. Just think if even at the beginning it is 5 to 10 percent who utilize digital currency and it grows from there. The credit card thieves would feel the pinch. Another problem is the consumer does not have any idea (most generally) that the business gets charged for them to use that card. To the consumer it is free. Cannot wait until the day that most pay with digital currency. |
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