I can answer this in a very limited sense, only considering the content itself.

A lot of times, in my experience, decision makers of various kinds at least initially want to know the bottom line. That would be the idea, recommendation, or request diffused to its most simple form. It would be one or two sentences which just "tell it like it is." The bottom line does not get bogged down with explanations, proofs, and details.

If the bottom line is all a decision maker needs to know (i.e., he has full confidence in the information he's getting from this source), then anything more is burdensome.

But if he wants to know more, then the source has to be prepared with those explanations, proofs, details, reasons, etc.

So let's say we have a website that's going to be informative to politicians (decision makers).

I would have the website set up in several layers. The first layer (the top layer) that they will see the most readily is going to be that bottom line. One or two simple and well crafted sentences which tell it like it is.

At the bottom of the page containing the bottom line, there is a link for more information. If the decision maker needs that info, he will click on it. This will take him to another page that provides a bit more information. It would not be complete information, more like the bottom line more fleshed out. Maybe there are five or six sentences that give an initial explanation of the why.

That page too will have a link for more info or more details, and that will lead to a page containing a longer version.

I'm not sure how many layers you need, but the very last layer would have all the citations, proofs, plus the most detailed explanation possible--the whitepaper as it were. There may be occasions when reading all that would be necessary but I suspect with politicians that would be pretty rare. However, that info does have to be there because they might want their staff to read it and summarize it for them (we, of course, already have, but they trust their staff, not us).

So... for example...

your bottom line statement might say something like this: DNotes is the digital currency that is best positioned for global adoption.

If a politician is already convinced that such a thing is needed that may be all he needs to know. He's coming to the site with one question: "which is the best digital currency positioned for global adoption?" He learns that it's DNotes, and voila, he's informed.

But most likely he's going to have some questions, so he'll click on the more details tab. So the next page would say something like this (in the form of bullet points): Dnotes is the most stable digital currency. DNotes has consistently appreciated in value over time. DNotes owns valuable assets (CryptoMoms, Vault, CRISPs). DNotes is easy to use.

The next layer below that would expound a bit on each of these bullet points, perhaps by showing a chart or two of how DNotes' value compares to other leading digital currencies. You would provide direct links to those assets (proof that they indeed exist and aren't just a figment of our imagination).

Below that, you might include details about the strategic plan DNotes has followed to date and a time line which would also include as much info on future plans as you're comfortable sharing. You do need some, though.

Below that, you include your detailed whitepaper complete with technical specs and citations. For example, you've mentioned how you've observed unhealthy and destructive patterns in crypto projects. Here is where you link to actual forum postings (as well as links to postings on DNotes forum which handle a similar issue in a more positive non-destructive way). But anyway, this is where all your proof is. For a lot of people, just knowing the proof exists and is available for their perusal is enough. Some will want to pore through it to make sure it actually does lead to the conclusions you say it does.

The goal of all these layers is to easily inform decision makers at exactly the level at which they want to be informed and not burdening them with more details but at the same time assuring them that those details are very accessible should they ever be needed.

I'm quoting what I wrote earlier on the subject of recommendations for regulation. The very brief summary is that I would recommend a regulatory licensing system where the main goal is to inform consumers of potential risks but to not prevent them from taking those risks. To put it even more bluntly, the goal should be to as far as possible assure the customer that what he is buying is what he thinks he is buying. Again, all I need to do is reference the GAW fiasco for people inside the industry to know what I mean, as theirs was a situation in which this customer thought she was buying one thing but she actually bought a different thing altogether, and then that different thing changed twice before it finally died.

EDIT: Yet another way to summarize my recommendation is that the hand of regulation should be heavy when it comes to preventing outright fraud or even "misleading with the best of intentions." However, as long as a level of truth (transparency) is established, then consumers need to be free to make their own choices concerning what levels of risk they are willing to take on. For example, I believe there is a rule that in order to be a venture capitalist you have to already own a certain amount of money/assets, something like over a million dollars. Why? There is no reason why I as a person of moderate means shouldn't be allowed to be an angel for my neighbor's cake decorating venture (which may only require a thousand or two in start up costs). But I would be very disappointed if I fronted the money for it and then found out later it was actually a basket weaving business (even a very good basket weaving business). Bottom line: I want the government to help people not lie to me and then I want it to leave me alone to make my financial choices.

I agree with you there is a major knowledge vacuum among people who have the power to influence. I'm small potatoes and I know more than most, which can be scary.

I've been busy but I'm happy to write content for the educational site that's developed. That can be my contribution. But yes, we have to take the lead in educating, for sure.

Gotta run pick up my kiddos from camp!

I have no doubt regulation is going to be a challenge to navigate. In my feature dream list I'm assuming regulation is not an issue... but I realize that is not reality.

I'm curious, Dyna. Were any of the people you met at Silicon Dragon in any way involved in the financial regulatory process? If not, did they know anyone who was?

It seems to me that one proactive thing that could be done starting now (OK, I'm sure you've already been doing this for months) is engaging in friendly dialog with regulators and regulation decision makers about the subject. I figure the more that can be openly discussed before it becomes an issue the better. And those discussions just might shape relevant regulatory policy in a positive way.

A feature I thought of earlier today was to have a way that a user could lock up funds in his or her vault, either vault-wide or address specific. There could be several lockdown periods, such as two weeks, 30, 60, and 90 days. There should be a way to initiate a lockdown without having to log into the account, for example, by texting "lockdown" followed by user's vault email address to a specific number. This would allow a user to halt any withdrawals if he or she suspects the account has been compromised (and the user's email address has also been compromised)--as could happen if a user's laptop computer were lost or stolen (let's face it, most of us do not adequately encrypt our computers!). I would think a user who is planning to deposit and hold might also trip the lockdown period on any "savings" accounts so as to remove temptation to spend funds which are intended to be saved. There would be some kind of procedure in place for lifting the lockdown (and allowing withdrawals) that would involve among other things, waiting out the lockdown period, changing the password, and communicating in some way that all is well.

I'm also all for making it easy to accept online payments from others, so having plugins that integrate DNotes vault with existing ecommerce plugins would be great.

If I ever run a successful online retail operation which takes payments in DNotes, one feature I would love to see is for payments I receive to be automatically divided and sent to different addresses within the vault. For example, I might want to take 10% of each payment I receive and put it in my retirement CRISP (you know, pay myself first), then the rest I might divide up between an expense account (to cover costs), my spending money, my CRISP for kids accounts, my employee benefits account (if I had employees), and my favorite charity. Basically, it would be the beginnings of automating the accounting and bookkeeping.

I'm not sure what DNotes has planned for an exchange or trading platform, but one thing I would love to see is the equivalent of Cryptsy or Poloniex with one major variation: The base currency that all altcoins trade to or from is DNotes, not Bitcoin. Besides that, one feature Cryptsy has that I love is autosell. You can program your account to automatically sell any coin upon deposit. One feature Poloniex has that I really love is the ability for users to lend funds to margin traders. I'm doing very well lending out Bitcoin at 0.06% daily interest rate.

And can't forget something like Coinbase which would link DNotes directly to fiat and a fiat bank account. I'm not selling DNotes right now, but when I do, it would be so nice if I didn't have to first convert to Bitcoin in order to convert to fiat.

I would go for that. If I were selling something online, I would want to be able to accept as many different ways to pay as possible, including being able to take payment in as many people's favorite cryptocoins.

The mining pool Multipool.us has a similar feature and it integrates with Cryptsy. So let's say you point your mining rig to their multiport, you would be mining a number of different Scrypt coins based on their formulas for determining the most profitable coin to mine. You can then set your account to automatically pay out each coin to your Cryptsy address for that coin. Then when you're logged into Cryptsy, you can set each coin to autosell. Of course the autosell converts your altcoin into Bitcoin based on the parameters you set (you have four to choose from). In the end what you end up with is a fairly seamless conversion from your rig's hashing power to the various altcoins your rig mines to Bitcoin. You then could make a manual trade from Bitcoin to DNotes (Cryptsy doesn't support DNotes yet but I'm sure that will change soon enough). Of course, your source of altcoins could also come from selling merchandise and taking payments in the various cryptocoins.

I mention this as an existing system that approaches the crypto to crypto conversion. Ways that this system could be improved on are that the conversion goes from altcoin directly to DNotes (without having to first convert to Bitcoin), and that it can all happen within the DNotes Vault (no need to send to a secondary website and then back again). I imagine conversion from altcoin to DNotes could be based on an aggregate of the going rate for that altcoin across several exchanges along with a Bitcoin/DNotes price index. I personally wouldn't have a problem if there was a small percentage fee involved especially if the process could be automated and it was all handled within DNotes Vault and it was very secure.

I agree with you. I was just giving you a hard time

A bit OT, but for those who might want to read the book I posted about earlier, Return to Order, they are giving out free copies for the next 36 hours or so. Feel free to use this link to get your copy sent to you. I am not sure if that link is good for only one free copy (first come first served) or if multiple people can use it, but anyway, try it if interested.

That's an awesome set of talking points. What you posted here is a great summary to give to people who might be interested. It could be good material for a brochure, possibly.

I only have one beef with it: I remember buying my first DNotes at 61 satoshis (not 200). Of course, I didn't hang onto them, but sold them at 300. I suspect we'll never see those prices again

Congratulations on a job well done!

I personally like the idea of bootstrapping far better, though I realize that can be more intimidating and sometimes things have to go slower that way. I know there is a place for outside support, in which case I'd recommend either crowdfunding, or putting up a Bitcoin asset on Havelock Investments and promoting it (that could potentially be appropriate once you set up the corporation that would own some of the DNotes assets--mentioned about ten pages back). If you ever decide to go the Havelock route, PM me and I'll put you in touch with the owner of Rental Starter, which is as far as I know the most solid asset on Havelock.

Once I did log into CoinZen, I remembered why I'd stayed away for so long before. It was the overwhelming number of spam posts. It was hard to find any useful information there.

I do have a good workaround for that, though. I can simply go to "show posts" for various admins who I would want to know what they are saying, such as yourself or HunterBunter.

Would you mind posting the link again to where all the current admins are listed? I'll bookmark it. Thanks.


I would recommend some kind of email list or email group--just something that is very good about sending communication to an inbox that we already check. Some of us are involved in multiple projects and there's a limit to how many separate places we remember to log in regularly--at least that's true for me

That's a great way to put it. What I've started telling people I know about DNotes is that it is the only cryptocurrency I know about that if you buy it today, you can have a reasonable expectation that next year it will be worth at least the same amount as it's worth today, and possibly even more.

I second that! I hope everything with NASDAQ goes exceedingly well tomorrow

Yes!

I think we're going to see more of this, and when all the "smaller" currencies have devalued due to loss of confidence, the Dollar may also become vulnerable. It tends to be the way of fiat currencies which have gotten inflated. It may take years or centuries, but at some point, unbacked fiat currencies do eventually hit a point where they lose value more quickly than people's ability to earn them.

Since I know many people on this thread own a lot of DNotes... and DNotes is actually going somewhere...

I recently read this amazingly thought provoking book called Return to Order by John Horvat. It gets really philosophical about how society is and should be fundamentally ordered to bring the most good to people. Many might disagree with the premises and conclusions but it is very well researched and thought out and for that reason, well worth the read. I promise that despite the subtitle it is not preachy, just heartfelt.

Just thought I'd share a treasure that I've been pondering since I read it a month or so ago. DNotes book club, anyone?

At the top and bottom of each thread page, by where the list of hot linked thread pages is, there is a hotlink that says "reply." If you click on it, it will give you a blank message template.

To start a new topic, you have to find the appropriate board (for example, this thread is in the Announcements (Altcoins) board). Once you're in the right board, there should be a button somewhere that says "New Topic" or something similar.

Personally, as a woman having to deal with the world, what I actually want is not so much recognition, but power. And what I mean by power isn't the "I want to take over the world" kind of power. I mean the power to do what needs to get done in my sphere of influence, whether it be with my family, my work, or my community. To the extent that recognition helps me do what needs to be done, it is welcome. Recognition for its own sake, though, without accompanying power, is actually kind of annoying.

I don't want to claim to speak for all women here, but I'm curious if recognition doesn't mean something different to men in general than it does to women--recognition with or without accompanying power/authority. Men and women, I'd be curious about what recognition means to you personally. If this is too OT, I could open up a thread on CryptoMoms.

I hope for the best. I've been noticing over the past few weeks that it was getting more and more challenging to request withdrawals from Allcoin. That's never a good sign. I'm hoping it's something that can easily be fixed and that they're working on it.

Well, we all know that the "D" in DNotes does not stand for Drama

That's a policy I can get wholeheartedly behind. It actually applies to a lot of things in life--church community, family relationships, career, etc. With crypto, though, because of how quickly things move, you can see the devastating impact of not adhering to this principle much sooner than you might notice it in real life. Having come from a background where drama was the norm, I will say that I am glad to have been given the opportunity to learn the truth about drama through the crypto fast track, even if I did learn it the hard way.