Hi byter.sky. The exact process for swapping the coins hasn't been announced yet. I would make the same suggestion to you as I did to Hardniola, and that is to sign up to receive the DNotes Newsletter so you don't miss any important swap details and deadlines.  

http://dnotescoin.com/newsletter-signup/  

Alan Yong supposed to be appearing at a gathering where he is speaking, anyone has an idea of the date? Thank you

thanks for invitation link . Now i can be folow all news about dnotes . And why are trying to swap it to dnote 2.0 ?

Transaction Fees and Savings Plans

I just read an article about another project to buy bitcoin with the small change left over from fiat transactions. My first thought was that it would never work because the transaction fees in bitcoin haven't been small change since May 2016. But after reading the article, I knew that they were proposing to add up the small change in the background until its value totalled $10, and then buy bitcoin with that.

https://qz.com/1095292/dust-lets-you-buy-bitcoin-with-spare-change-with-monzo/

Totalling it up to $10 and then taking out a chunk sort of defeats the purpose of squirrelling away the little bits when they aren't noticed. But the real concern here is that even in $10 chunks, bitcoin is not a good investment option. In 2017 bitcoin transaction fees averaged around $3 according to:
https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees.html

So before you even start to make a profit on your investment, your $7 worth of bitcoin must increase to $10 worth of value just to make back the transaction fee. So with bitcoin currently at $4,400, the investor would have to wait for bitcoin to be worth $6,285 before they are back to where they were if they had left that change in their pocket. 

From what I could tell by looking at the DNotes blockchain, there is no fee charged with a transaction. This means that you're not taking two steps backwards when trying to take a step forwards. I'm sure the idea of putting away small change into DNotes will get even more attractive once DNotes2.0 enables the investment and staking rewards.

How will be swap . It will be 1:1 or you are going to change amount of dnote . What blockchain are going to use then ?

Great. I will start working on the changes. I also wanted to know if I should do the same for the DNotes Twitter designs or should I leave that one as is?

Hi Chase, thank you for the quick response. I am waiting for the response from the DNotes team. Will keep you posted on the progress. Thanks again,

Great job BTCWise!

I really like the looks of the DCEBrief header. As much as I like the design for DNotesCoin, I was wondering if it shouldn't be a simpler, instant DNotes brand recognition type of header for social media? Just my thoughts.

Hi MAFTRADER, and welcome to the DNotes forum. There is a roadmap in the opening post - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1924858.0. The launch of DNotes 2.0 has been delayed a few months (taking the time necessary to build a superior product), as stated in Dyna's post:


We have an excellent selection of videos explaining all of DNotes properties, and how they will benefit stakeholders going forward. https://www.youtube.com/user/dnotescoin

Let us know if you have any other questions. 

Don't worry, Millibetting. You did not miss the swap. The launch of DNotes 2.0 has been delayed.

The cleaning up of fraudulent activities is a good thing for our industry. Being ignorant or failure to do sufficient due diligent and consequently being cheated because of the swindler’s false claims and misrepresentations is not a crime. The same applies to our inherent greed and fear. Unfortunately, the laws of the land must seek to protect consumers irrespective of their sophistication or ignorance.

So, I would expect that the crack down on fraudulent activities to continue and that it would lead to more regulations and better legal guidance. I just hope that this will not lead to regulatory over-reach or so burdensome that it stifles innovations. The potential good our industry can bring about to mankind will out-weight any growing pains.

For our part, DNotes must continue to help in educating the general public and lead as a role model in doing the right things that benefit others as we strive for our own success. There is nothing wrong for being successful, including wealth accumulation. I just don't like it done at the expense of others.

You might be interested in what BABB is proposing in terms of reducing economic inclusion? It's a story of why we no longer need to rely on banks, and how BABB is going to make it happen, from its founder Rushd Averroes.

Thank you very much, mrbum805. We are honored to have stakeholders like you.

We live in a very challenging world where many people are taken advantage of than being given an opportunity to get ahead. It is even more pronounced in our industry - very few promises are kept and misrepresentations are the norm.

Our commitment since day one is to be different and take a different path. Building a trusted brand has been among our top priorities. As an entrepreneur for over forty years my experience to help manage DNotes as a business, but not controlled as one, comes natural. I am proud to serve and looking forward to great success for DNotes so that many can get ahead. 

I am doing some research on coins I have been holding for a while, and I just wanted to say it is incredibly refreshing to see a dev team so active on the forum. Thanks for the updates and reminding me why I believe in this project

Wow - fantastic post on Steemit. Thank you cryptospooge, you made my day!


Discovering DNotes - Under the Radar? Probably Not For Long

Earlier this year, while researching a curious experiment to fund a retirement with earnings from cryptocoin faucets, I came across a coin that has grabbed my attention. I didn't know it at the time, but DNotes would quickly become my second largest crypto holding after BTC. (Should I say hodling? In this case, definitely!)

Let me tell you what I saw that got me interested.

The first thing I noticed was that they had additional separate websites dedicated to educating people about cryptos. Ok, nice.

They also had an online wallet with a bit of a twist. The DNotesVault, where you can store your coins if you don't want to manage a wallet yourself, actually has a guarantee fund. Yes, they actually have a separate fund, offline in cold storage for security and all that, just to guarantee the funds you store in the Vault.

That's something they don't have to do, and I hadn't seen anyone else doing that. But they thought about that and implemented it for the safety and security of their community. Banks only do that with your dollars and euros because it's a government mandate. These guys do it because it's the right thing to do. Ok, very nice.

What really caught my eye were CRISPs. Cryptocurrency Investment Savings Plans.

You deposit funds in a specific type of account in the Vault and agree not to withdraw the funds (although you could, with a penalty - seems fair) and they provide you with interest. Just like a bank, only the interest is actually much better than anything you could get in a bank today.

These guys were providing something I hadn't seen any other coin provide. They were building stability right into their coin ecosystem. They were thinking about the needs of the consumer. This idea really stuck with me.

So I wondered why this coin wasn't better known and I started looking around. It was very quiet in the forums and social media. It was more or less dead.

When coin developers and their communities go quiet, it usually means the coin is dead. But this one wasn't. It was still there after three years, maintaining very good gains since its inception. And doing it without some of the volatility that other currencies had.

I soon discovered that it wasn't dark because it was dead - they just went radio silent for a while. But they weren't sitting still. They were actually very busy.

Planning.

There was a lot going on behind the scenes.

I learned that I was right about what I had thought they were doing - thinking about the needs of their community and their ecosystem. They actually had a philosophy. And they were planning further based on that philosophy.

I think it was within days of me opening a CRISP and hilariously (to me anyway) beginning to fund it with tiny bits of coins from faucets, that they started announcing the things they had been working on.

Such as:

Re-releasing the coin as DNotes 2.0. They are going to allow owners of DNotes to swap out the coins with the new version. Other coins have done this and it's a rather bold thing to do. But seeing what else they are doing, it makes good sense.

They had rewritten the code so the coin was going from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake to be more in line with their overall philosophy. PoS coins are getting a lot more traction now. This is a smart move.

They have also rewritten the code in a different programming language - C#. According to the developers (and lots of unrelated outside sources), it will allow the coin to be used for a lot more applications to be built on top of it and add a lot of functionality. I know next to nothing about these technicalities, but I'll take the techies at their word on this. This also seems like a great move.

There's going to be Lots of PR associated with this Dnotes 2.0 rollout. That includes lots of press with co-founder Alan Yong's book and all the videos they are producing to support it and promote DNotes.

There's more, including projects further down the road such as banking-like services, multicurrency credit/debit cards, and a full cryptocurrency exchange.

Ok, now it's not just a matter of 'I like their philosophy.' It just got real. There are a lot of reasons to think DNotes 2.0 will not be undervalued like DNotes 1.0 had been. DNotes 2.0 is very likely to take a place among the top 50 coins in the near future.

So, at the time I was opening my account, the price was going up and I was hoping I wasn't too late.

I don't think the sharp rise in price earlier this year had too much to do with what the DNotes team was doing. I think it had much more to do with the general crypto market forces. There was a huge influx of capital into altcoins in the months prior, and I think there were many examples of huge gains by altcoins that were being played out, and DNotes, which was very much under the radar, just became the next victim of that wave.

But, it already had my attention. And to a certain extent, I was panic buying before it went up too much. The wave played out and the price came back down. Too much if you ask me, but many close to DNotes would say that it is undervalued anyway. I was actually ok with the price coming back down. That just gave me an opportunity to keep buying little chunks of DNotes at a better price.

So here we are. Probably a few weeks away from the swap to DNotes 2.0.

I'm a little too cautious to make a specific price prediction for after the release of 2.0. I think there are just too many variables.

But, I look at the market caps of some of the top 100 or even top 50 coins, and I just can't justify many of them. And I look at the plans the DNotes team has, the approach they have taken, and their general philosophy, and I can't help but think that DNotes belongs up there.

I do the math and I shake my head. That would mean a huge gain in the price.

Discovering DNotes reminded me how I felt when I first found and researched Bitcoin 4 years ago. I just have a gut feeling about this one again. I was right about Bitcoin. I hope I'm right again.

Full disclosure - yeah, I own some DNotes. Duh! My hodlings of DNotes represents less than 10% of my crypto stash. I own less than 10 different coins. I didn't write this post to pump DNotes and I don't work for them. I just believe in it and have some faith in the team and would like them to succeed.

https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@cryptospooge/discovering-dnotes-under-the-radar-probably-not-for-long