Agreed MiningHabit, it is indeed disappointing. What it boils down to is we can't afford to take shortcuts and there is a cost to doing things the right way with a long term vision in mind. There were of course opportunities to take shortcuts and speed up the development timeline, but with a much greater risk to future of DNotes. We feel it is our duty to DNotes stakeholders to do it the right way, even if it involves great personal sacrifice.

Appreciate it Brandon, DNotes is about working together for the benefit of everyone involved. Ultimately the impact in doing so can only be far greater than we can achieve as individuals working against each other, which has unfortunately become far too common practice. There is no doubt in my mind, DNotes will make an impact on the world as more and more individuals begin to see how working together even greater accomplishments can be achieved. We have a great deal of respect and appreciation for those, like you, who have joined us in this mission through their investment in DNotes and their contributions to DNotes.

Welcome BitcoinDood, thank you for your support! Agreed, this will be just another bump in the road that we have to overcome. We have reached to PoloniEx to see if there is any specific reason and will let the community know if they respond.

Hi sl-avik, I can appreciate what you are after. We too would like to see DNotes relisted on Polo as well as added to a few other exchanges. DNotes 2.0 will be significantly different and we will be looking to build on the name and brand we have already established. I don't believe the name alone would stop us from being listed or relisted. I realize it is a despairing time for DNotes, but we are more motivated than ever, despite all of the challenges, to push DNotes to become successful.

Hi YouaresoWonk, thank you for your comment and we share your enthusiasm for a decentralized currency. We are not after centralized control of the cryptocurrency but instead adding intrinsic value to cryptocurrency by backing it with a real world for-profit company. That company is a centralized entity, not to be confused with a centralized cryptocurrency, where the company founders have gifted 25% of the company to DNotes the cryptocurrency. That relationship between the company and the currency becomes symbiotic in such a way where success is codependent, and the company becomes the bridge between the centralized world and the decentralized world in a number of ways. Without links between the centralized and decentralized worlds, you wouldn't be able to use a decentralized cryptocurrency effectively in your everyday life.

We are differentiating DNotes from Bitcoin in a number of significant ways, and are not seeking to replicate what bitcoin has established.

Hi erv, yes cryptopia is one of the exchanges you can place your DNotes as well as C-Cex and a few others. By the way, you do not have to sync to send DNotes to your private wallet, just to send them. We also recommend utilizing DNotesVault.com as much as possible for long term savings.

This is to say the least, very disappointing to see the message that DNotes will be delisted from PoloniEx. I'm sure our supporters are just as disappointed as we are. At a very unfortunate time when we are getting close to releasing our next upgrade of DNotes. However, this will not impede or deter our progress with DNotes. We will reach out to PoloniEx to attempt to get a better understanding of what is happening and why DNotes is being delisted.

It looks like the focus of the article is surrounding the implications for miners, block times, price and profitability. The bigger issue to me is what will emerge as the new bitcoin and how will people keep everything straight.

For the sake of clarification, let's call what we know as bitcoin / BTC today as B1X and Segwit 2mb as B2X.

At block 494784, if B2X is supported by more than 80% network it will be activated. Estimated Nov 15. If it does, and all signs point to it being activated, from there as long as people are mining both chains with enough hashing power for it not to be abandoned before the next difficulty retarget, which is again highly likely, and we will have 2 again versions of bitcoin.

So what the article was addressing mostly is how the difficulty mining either chain will be higher. B1X cannot adjust itself quickly to a massive change in miners, so until the next difficulty retarget, it will likely take a lot longer for new blocks to be mined, if 10% of miners are still mining B1X, it will take them 10 times longer to solve a block. B2X will start with the same difficulty as Bitcoin, so if it maintains the majority of the hashrate it will have much faster blocks, but not 10 minute blocks, if they have 90% of the network it will take roughly 11 minutes to find the next block.

Now, onto the bigger issue to me topic...

What is the new bitcoin / BTC? If you owned an exchange, you would have to make a decision. You could call B2X bitcoin / BTC, and relabel B1X. Or you could call B1X bitcoin / BTC, and call B2X something else, like B2X.

How will the regular people be able to keep track of all this, what exchanges are calling what BTC / bitcoin, and are all exchanges on the same page.

Disclaimer: There are many possibilities and no one can predict what will happen exactly, this is only my best estimation of the information I have available to me.

Hey RJF, as you know we greatly appreciate your continued support! All indications are that we should be in testing for deployment shortly after the holidays. We wouldn't recommend counting on being able to mine DNotes for an extended period.

Looks like there is a 502 error on the site. Let us know if this is able to be resolved and we can add you to our list. Thanks!

Thank you bitfawkes! i will add this to our list of pools and services later today. Please let us know if we can help.

Our initial thoughts are to employ a giveaway system that can uniquely identify users, while preventing abuse of the system. Coupled with a referral / affiliate type system to allow users to earn even more. We have a few ideas on how to accomplish that, however we are reaching out to get everyone's opinions to reach a large amount of people effectively. A signature campaign is certainly an option to spread the word about the promotion and get more people interested, and it makes sense as people would be able to utilize their affiliate link to promote in their signature.

Hi kevmon, Alan and I will be going. Anyone who will be in the LA area that would like to meet up, please let us know!

All, we need some suggestions and comments on how to get DNotes into the hands of many people after the launch of DNotes 2.0. What kind of promotions would you suggest and how would we execute them?

Welcome warnlewdster, thank you for joining us on the DNotes forum! We don't have an active token sale, however we do plan to create a platform for NextGen VC - "A division of DNotes Global inc, with focus on turn-key participation to take selected companies to their next level of success. This may include crowd funding under the jobs act, issuance of digital asset tokens, and a full array of consulting services including many innovative blockchain applications and smart contracts using the DNotes blockchain, and other cutting edge technologies. "

Hi Crypto-capitalist, this is not an easy question to answer in a short post, but I will do my best to briefly explain. The purpose of having DNotes would be if you share our vision of what money should be and believe in our ultimate success and would like to participate at this early stage. We believe in a shared stake concept where everyone can benefit from and participate in the currency and it's growth / success. Our unique approach includes but not limited to:
-A company dedicated to driving the success of DNotes without control, where the success of either is linked in symbiotic relationship, and the users can ultimately decide what is best for DNotes.
-25% of the parent company DNotes Global Inc has been gifted to the currency itself, providing intrinsic value to the currency and benefits the currency holders and users.
-This company is comprised of many profit generating components and future profit generating entities. This currently includes DCEBrief, The Four Pillars of Business Success book and website and overall program, DNotesVault and it's future expansion into financial and exchange services, CryptoMoms which we plan to roll into new platform with a wide variety of initiatives dedicated to participation of cryptocurrency and targeted outreach.
-Our model for cryptocurrency technology designed to aid DNotes to become a mass accepted, beneficial to everyone invested, as well as meet the full functions of money in a strategic and apparent manner.

Ultimately we believe that individuals that all want to see the success of DNotes, can participate in it's success, and ultimately benefit from it's success. At a minimum, all it takes to participate is to own some DNotes.

You can also see our roadmap here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1924858.0

I hope you have found this explanation helpful. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask, we have a very helpful community.

Doesn't seem all that unreasonable, as it continues to get more attention the more the price rises and the more people are paying attention. It would be catastrophic is another price crash occurs though.

"The longtime researcher has been bullish on Bitcoin in recent months, and this is not the first time that he has revised his price target for the coin. In August, he raised that forecast from $5,000 to $7,500, and told clients that he expected that Bitcoin’s price could rise to $50,000 over the next ten years. "

Hi darksidejungle, thanks! We are always looking for people who are interested in joining our team and doing work for DNotes to contribute to its success.

Welcome to the DNotes forum popeye95! The various bitcoin forks may create a lot of confusion and excitement at the same time. Time will tell.

Hi sl-avik, yep, Ken has been working on it but he is currently out of the country due to a family emergency, so it is a bit more difficult to upload. I will see if he can push an update.