I love dash, it has the basic necessities of what people need from money i.e. anonymity and instant transactions. But it seems to me, to achieve mass adoption, dash requires a new string to it's bow. Getting dash into people's hands with a killer application is more important than it's price. With this in mind, I make the following proposal. I made this proposal before but I suspect I under sold it and I want to elaborate more. Unfortunately, I don't have the experience or time to put this through for vote, so I'm hoping someone here will take this on.
My basic idea is to turn the masternodes into a broadcast system that is both functional and profitable. Look at the success, for example, of twitter or StartChat (which combines bitcoin and chat for super easy transfer). People love social media and, more importantly, twitter has been a platform for free speech. However, twitter is centralised and has been subject to political influence and interference. Twitter developers are also hindered
by API restrictions.
Benefits:
- An anonymous broadcast system would compliment dash's darksend, becoming a platform for uncensorable free speech.
- It would open up the possibility of automation e.g. broadcasting a message and triggering an event (vending machines etc). And can you imagine integrating this with android's intents? (dash and tasker anyone?)
- Finally, of course, the ease of money transfer within a chat (possibly to multiple people) without having to copy and paste long strings of text.
This would be profitable because we would use micro-payments based on data size and lifespan. A tiered system with the following recommendations:
Available lifespans:
- 2 hour; ideal fit for tv viewing / near real-time events (standard service)
- 48 hours
- 180 days*
Available data sizes:
- text / data < 1K (standard service)
- data 1K - 2M
- data 2M - 1G*
- files 1G - 100G*
* Due to space requirements, only carried by masternodes wanting to offer this service.
In other words, a standard service would be for small files for short periods, thus keeping space requirements to a minimum yet remaining very useful.
A standard broadcast might cost, say, 2 cents. Larger data, longer lifespans, obviously cost more. Pricing could also be dynamic, possibly based on volume and resources available. Full API access with similar costs.
Facilitate; channels, groups and hashtags.
My basic idea is to turn the masternodes into a broadcast system that is both functional and profitable. Look at the success, for example, of twitter or StartChat (which combines bitcoin and chat for super easy transfer). People love social media and, more importantly, twitter has been a platform for free speech. However, twitter is centralised and has been subject to political influence and interference. Twitter developers are also hindered
by API restrictions.
Benefits:
- An anonymous broadcast system would compliment dash's darksend, becoming a platform for uncensorable free speech.
- It would open up the possibility of automation e.g. broadcasting a message and triggering an event (vending machines etc). And can you imagine integrating this with android's intents? (dash and tasker anyone?)
- Finally, of course, the ease of money transfer within a chat (possibly to multiple people) without having to copy and paste long strings of text.
This would be profitable because we would use micro-payments based on data size and lifespan. A tiered system with the following recommendations:
Available lifespans:
- 2 hour; ideal fit for tv viewing / near real-time events (standard service)
- 48 hours
- 180 days*
Available data sizes:
- text / data < 1K (standard service)
- data 1K - 2M
- data 2M - 1G*
- files 1G - 100G*
* Due to space requirements, only carried by masternodes wanting to offer this service.
In other words, a standard service would be for small files for short periods, thus keeping space requirements to a minimum yet remaining very useful.
A standard broadcast might cost, say, 2 cents. Larger data, longer lifespans, obviously cost more. Pricing could also be dynamic, possibly based on volume and resources available. Full API access with similar costs.
Facilitate; channels, groups and hashtags.