One problem that has come up recently in BTC circles is that merchants who accept a coin but then immediately exchange it, are actually creating sell pressure rather than helping the coin price. Any ideas on how mint could work around this?
Merchants have accountancy. Multiple currencies is hard to track, let alone non legally-recognized currencies! So it is expected that merchant don't keep BTC - they just cannot.
Solution: develop a parallel economy (yeah I know, scary word) for products that do not need an accountancy. C-to-C economy (local economy) is a possibility. NGO might be another one. Basically, we have to think in term of accountancy, not in term of "they are afraid". Sure they are afraid, but I believe if accountancy is not a problem anymore, it would be much easier.
Another possibility is to develop services which do not allow buying in fiat (even if the suppliers themselves are paid in fiat). One final option is to give a discount for buying in mintcoin. A nice way to implement this:
T-shirt: 500,000 MINT (21 euros) or 30 euros*
* the prices are different before we want to encourage people to use an energy-efficient, secure, decentralized money giving the money back to people (with a 20% interest rate as an icing on the cake). We are ready to cut on our margin to fulfill our dream. If you want to get mintcoins (and cheaper products!) go to https://www.litebit.eu/coin/mint/en/ and exchange some euros for mintcoins (shipping and handling also will be in mintcoins). For more information about mintcoin, visit http://mintcoin.cc.
Posting official documentation on the mintcoin.cc page as well as photos of the devs would make it look more professional imho.
The dev wishes to remain anonymous (that's why he won't be a board member of Mintcoin Fund). As for me, google my name and will know (almost) everything you want to. I will probably post something about me on the Mintcoin Fund website once it will be ready.
there is already a raspberry pi wallet for NXT which runs on solar energy. it is a nice gimmick but i don't think it will be used by a lot of people. it takes some time to get it to work properly and most people will not invest that amount of time. further isn't there already a linux wallet for MINT? isn't it possible to put this on a raspberry pi? maybe someone can try?
Short version: dependencies
Long version:Linux, as you probably know, is not, like Windows or Mac, a single OS. For the same reason that BTC has many fork (mintcoin being one), Linux has many variants (distribution, technically different than forks but this subtlity doesn't matter much here).
There are already several Linux version running on Raspberry. But the distributions for Raspberry must be less ressource-hungry than the one for desktops. Ubuntu, the most common Linux distro, is clearly too big and demanding for Raspberry. And distros small enough to fit in a 'berry will probably not have the required tool (technical term is "dependancy") to run a mintcoin wallet. This possible to get around this, but it will require some major reworking, thus time (and maybe money).
Get paid every 20 days
For people outside of Northern America (where you get paid every 15 days, if my memory serves me well), this is called a salary
But most people on here are just looking to make quick buck rather than a slow fortune.
What matters is who is buying these mintcoins? If this is newcomers, this is a good thing. I plan to release a Gini comparisons of various coins, to check how fair we are widespread. I am also planning a "spread mint" campaign. Mintcoin holders pledge to send a part of their minting (and only minting, no touching of your base) to a specific address devoted to newcomers. I don't know yet how to avoid giving it to large holders, so if you have an idea, please tell me.
