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We need Merchants USING Dash!

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Tee hee -- I'm gonna go out on a limb, and assume that there's some link between Masternode adoption in any given area, and the number of general DASH users in that nation; then assume there's a link between why those DASH-ers have already adopted, and how we can encourage others in that region to adopt.

In some nations, remittance is a primary reason for crypto adoption. In others, it's de-monetisation. In others, it's fin-tech development. In some places, there are more libertarians in the community. In others, more regulation-compliant folks.

In the Ukraine, it was flat-out the government shut-down of the banking system.

BGCaffe coin has a use-case that clearly flags whom you'd be talking to to further its adoption.

In Australia, 'Tomcar' was an early adopter of Bitcoin specifically because it facilitated low-cost-international funds transfers between their international suppliers and Australia itself.

And check the vicinity of R.M.I.T. in Melbourne. There's a group of fairly recent small-business adopters like nightclubs and cafes. It's a no-brainer that the computer geeks at R.M.I.T. are responsible for that!

In Iceland, Aurora's airdrop was (supposed to be) the pivot of adoption.

In Washington, D.C., the dev of Franko had the Franko accepted by a chain of pawnshops.

In Hull in England, 'Hullcoin' was launched as a social initiative.

In Indonesia, dissatisfaction with the existing banking system is deep and well-founded. We had no luck with an Indonesia-focussed project in 2013 . . . but now: https://news.bitcoin.com/here-are-bitcoins-8-fastest-growing-markets/

I think anyone interested in facilitating crypto-currency adoption would like to know why any crypto had already been adopted in any given area.
 
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V. quiet here!

Got some more 'mini-bullion' in the mail: 1966 Australian 50-cent pieces. They're 0.34 oz. silver each. Out little OTC project is slowly progressing.

Gotta put DASH volume on Living Room of Satoshi

And Happy New Year to all.
 
Received another lot of 'mini bullion' today. Of course, you guys gotta get to Perth -- or The Faraway Farmhouse -- but we're moving towards physical-meetup DASH-silver trades, and also sizing up a tiny merchant project. Details to follow.
 
What? I'm not following?

It's great to see woocommerce getting completed and I'm really happy to see the "Dash POS" proposal clearing so well! I think with these two we are covering the basics well. I'm feeling good about everything! So Camo, come tell me what we're still missing that we can do now? :D I'm feeling too good and need to be brought back down to earth! LOL.

With Evolution and the API, I figure the "top level" is being covered by the core team, but that the lower level wasn't being covered at all. But the community stepped up and now we're on our way! Now we have to start figuring out how to get people to use it :) Just need to wait a wee bit for the POS to be usable at a basic level :D
 
I'm patiently reading here every day. IndiaMikeZulu's little projects are choofing along. We're following GFC developments closely. Patiently accruing silver bullion to trade for cryptos.
 
Cryptopia is one Unobtanium's exchanges, and offers about 200 trading-pairs, with all manner of cryptos -- but not DASH. If you wanna trade Uno for DASH, contact me. It is the only pair I want on Cryptopia; the only one it doesn't have!
 
mixing 2000 dash 8 rounds went about 10% in 24 hours... multisession enabled Dash Core version v0.12.1.0-2a43d23 (64-bit

I see it says timed out, will retry.

Since I see that, it could be my internet went down again last night..? Hummm I seem to be stuck on block 139823 which could be the result of losing connection. Should the wallet catch up again on it's own? I have 19 connections, why don't I sync back up again?

Restarting the client got it going again, but kinda wish it would automatically keep itself updated, especially since I had 19 connections :p (maybe something for next time?)


NIX the above, I'm actually stuck on that block and have to reindex :) But still have 8 connections, so I'm not the only one, LOL My MNs are doing fine (they don't lose connection I guess :p)
 
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Showed a couple of crypto geeks the video of the DASH-powered bottled-water machine. It seemed extra impressive to us because my Bitcoin transfer to Polo that day took 7 hours.

Mark
 
Any Australians out there?

Gotta set up an Independent Reserve account so I can buy my own Bitcoin (long story: was piggybacking on another account . . . ). Then I can really get a roll on with my project of paying bills with Living Room of Satoshi -- https://www.livingroomofsatoshi.com/

And we gonna keep scoring these, for our Oz Dash-silver P2P thang: http://www.australian-coins.com/collecting-coins/round-50c-piece-value/

These sweeties are almost exactly 0.3 oz. silver, and widely recognised in Oz.
 
I'm still here! Pleased as punch with DASH's price. Gonna buy cryptos when the price dips next. Reformatting our wallet system -- Ledger!! Got a delivery of 'mini bullion' for our P2P.

Mark
 
Well done team Dash for getting to 3rd spot on cmc, we are happy to have Dash accepted at MUEX with a 7 day promotional rate
 
In some nations, remittance is a primary reason for crypto adoption. In others, it's de-monetisation. In others, it's fin-tech development. In some places, there are more libertarians in the community. In others, more regulation-compliant folks.

That would make for an interesting map.


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indeed, that would! maybe we can make a survey and automatically update a map showing what the people think is the primary reason to adopt/not adopt cryptos :D
 
indeed, that would! maybe we can make a survey and automatically update a map showing what the people think is the primary reason to adopt/not adopt cryptos :D

Upon reading this, three merchants strike me immediately!
You should know that with crypto you should be targeting younger users; Those whom are online & very active.

1)Steam the gaming platform accepts bitcoin; Dash could be there too if you have the budget to propose in person to Valve (the multi-billion dollar company)
2)OPskins, the largest counterstrike offensive marketplace accepts bitcoin & allows bitcoin withdrawals. This here is a game changer as they are not a billion dollar company but do over $50,000 in transactions of virtual in game goods every day!
3) The dark web (unfortunately)
 
Good to see this thread has sprung back to life. IndiaMikeZulu is puddling along here in Western Australia. I'm going to meet some folks in Perth in a couple of weeks.

And I gotta tell you about an odd experience I had recently: several of the members of a tiny crypto community argued that the difficulty of setting up the crypto's wallet, and the unhelpful attitude of the community towards those who had trouble with the wallets, was a good thing. They are 'diehards,' and if you aren't a talented enough techie to figure it all out, tough. And how is this crypto going? Tee hee -- yup. You guessed right.
 
Good to see this thread has sprung back to life. IndiaMikeZulu is puddling along here in Western Australia. I'm going to meet some folks in Perth in a couple of weeks.

And I gotta tell you about an odd experience I had recently: several of the members of a tiny crypto community argued that the difficulty of setting up the crypto's wallet, and the unhelpful attitude of the community towards those who had trouble with the wallets, was a good thing. They are 'diehards,' and if you aren't a talented enough techie to figure it all out, tough. And how is this crypto going? Tee hee -- yup. You guessed right.

Cash is not hard to use is it? Roman coins were not; They were manipulable & minted by a central authority creating some mega inflation; But being difficult is the exact opposite of what you want. Treat these untouched markets as customers and you will see growth; Make it as easy as possible. Thats how it is done; Making things easier is value. That is why I hope evolution will get the right dev's working and that the team will cut costs on silly expenditures in the focus of getting to the goal of mass adoption.
 
Cash is not hard to use is it? Roman coins were not; They were manipulable & minted by a central authority creating some mega inflation; But being difficult is the exact opposite of what you want. Treat these untouched markets as customers and you will see growth; Make it as easy as possible. Thats how it is done; Making things easier is value. That is why I hope evolution will get the right dev's working and that the team will cut costs on silly expenditures in the focus of getting to the goal of mass adoption.
Are you kidding? Cash is very hard to use. You ever been short by not having the right bill or coin? Have you ever been confused by the change not adding up. Have you ever wonder when did you spent a larger bill on your wallet.
Change is very messy, you get a bunch of coins in change and becomes annoying and want to get rid of them. You constantly needs to be counted. Now multiply that for a business, a casino, people wasting hours counting bills. Cashier's having to pause to count bills, stack then, wrap them and leaving the line waiting.

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indeed, that would! maybe we can make a survey and automatically update a map showing what the people think is the primary reason to adopt/not adopt cryptos :D
I own a business and the reason we don't accept cryptos is because we require transactions in realtime like visa/mc. We can't wait for confirmations. InstantSend is nice, but it will be useless for us and other merchants if there is no way to require our customers to use it.
 
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