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That number is certain to grow as people talk about it at the water cooler. Nice to see some stats on this. 

From CryptoMoms:

Quote from: indiamikezulu on Today at 12:38:34 AM
But here's why I popped in. This is what I been waiting for:

"If Glencore loses its investment grade rating as now seems likely, its access to cheap capital will evaporate and it will fail. This matters for several reasons, the most important of which is the company’s unspecified but certainly huge derivatives book which, like AIG’s in 2008, is a serious threat to the leveraged speculating community."

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article52462.html

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Mark, that is a "Scary Note". Watch for ripple effects in the coming days. I hope there is none, but that might be a little too wishful when there are "over-stressed" signs all over the world.

Great article Chris, academics provide the ammo to the media, and the studies themselves are often problematic with many hypotheses not considered, or the hypotheses being used to push political agenda at an unhelpful ring on the causal chain. To me, this leads to an 'post-ante' means of fixing things or 'after the fact', rather than actually finding the root causes of problems. The media are just culpable as academia when it comes to bias, but this is slightly less important when they are getting fed the same spaghetti information. The inputs in academia nigh always yield the same policy recommendation.


Wonderful to see 33 thousand!!! unique visitors on DCEBrief in its first month, that is widely read indeed.

     Meeting you for the first time is forever etched into my memory banks. It was about the year 2000, and you had this funny little puter.......at least I thought it was funny, until I learned the backstory on it. It was the beginning of a relationship that will change the world. Someday there will be books written about our humble beginnings.

     Man-Hugs, you old fart!!!!

     Smokey

Thanks for this well-written article. The question is... What can be done to increase awareness in the news world? I wonder if actually contacting smaller newspapers across the nation would make a difference? Would submitting a few articles from dcebrief.com convince them?

http://dcebrief.com/no-news-is-good-news-the-role-of-the-media-in-promoting-cryptocurrency-acceptance/

Excellent stats! It will only continue to climb as more people awaken to DNotes and cryptocurrency.

In the last 30 days DCEBrief has received over 33,000 unique visitors accoridng to cloudflare's statistics and the majority of the traffic comes from the US. About half of the traffic has come from direct hits, 35% from social media, and 15% from search.

Pretty good ideas.

Maybe a side by side comparison, if I can find the information, comparing: investment, users, and other landmarks?

That was one of our reasons for launching CRISP For Kids. My 7 year old grandson spent a day with me yesterday. When I asked him if he knew what DNotes is. He said, "It's money, Grandpa. You already showed me my savings account. It will be cool if I can use it to buy games at Apple store." I have the feeling that the next generation would ask why do we need cash. With digital currency and a smart phone you are your own bank.

The first laptop computer we designed and manufactured was an Intel 286 with a built power supply, considered cutting edge at that time. All it needed was an external standard power cord. Oh, that was a 16 pound machine with a 4 pounds lead acid battery, in 1989. Kevin, we could a sold you an 8 lb 386SX in 1990 with built-in modem.

We were always ahead of technologies of our time; hardware, software, and material science. Dauphin DTR 2 1/2 lbs 386SX and 486SX windows tablets with removable 80 megabyte hard drive was clearly state of the art of the time.

Technology always evolves. So will digital currency like DNotes. That is the future of money. Don't sell yourself short. The big banks that practically despised the technology a year ago are now committing large sum of money to come up with their version of centralized currency.  

The bag phone was hooked up to the vehicle horn so when it rang and you were not right next to it you knew it was ringing.  When you think of the technology and actually how quickly it progressed to what we have today it really was not that long ago. And to think with the technology available now how much more quickly things can change.  I will probably always be asking my grandkids "hey can you fix this for me" then hand them my phone or computer. Sad when a 9 year old can fix it but I cannot... and it is mine.  I believe the yonger the person the more they will understand the crypto world, as they are more tech minded. They start out as babies in the tech world.

It is absolutely amazing how quickly technology evolves. Today you can't run most businesses without the internet, at least a dozen computers, and mobile phones.

Fond memories of dragging around the 30 pound mobile phone, and finding a good place to suction the antenna.

     I remember getting our first puter for the office, a 386SX, and thinking we would never need more than one PC in the office. That was about the very early 1990's or so. Then we got FOUR puters, 486SX. Everyone in the office had one, including me. I said "we will never need the internet at work". What would we need internet at work for? Then we got internet, BUT only on ONE puter, and that puter was not connected to the company network. I just did not trust the damn thing (the internet). Took a few years of being stubborn, but I finally relented and allowed the internet on the company puters. That was two decades ago. Seems like a lifetime.

     Still remember our first "Mobile phone", a bag phone........

       Smokey

The financial world will be forced to offer programs and classes on digital currency.  Just as schools were forced to offer computer classes.  Unfortunately the first computers hit my high school the year after I graduated. The computers came in at the end of my Senior year and were sitting in the business classes I was taking for the next school year. All we could do was look at them. Yes folks, I learned on a typewriter, thankfully it was electric and not manual.

An easy to understand blockchain diagram might be a good idea. Or at least I would be interested.

Recently read the dcebrief article that compared crypto to the internet, something along those lines could be interesting as well.

Just wanted to add, it doesn't matter if it's bitcoin related, or even blockchain related, that may even be preferable for the intended purpose. Anything digital currency related will work.

All, one way I was thinking of to promote DCEBrief on social media is infographics. They typically get a lot of traction on social media. It could be based on statistics surrounding an article, or even independent of an article on DCEBrief, or an explanation of an idea or system. If you have ideas, please let me know.

It is cool that we can now quote our own DCEBrief as the link source. However, it is the statement below that caught my attention. Purchase DNotes Over The Counter, has always been on our wish list. Obviously, someone already beat us to it.

There will come a day, when every cash register or point of sales is also a DNotes ATM where DNotes can be purchased. Imagine, how convenient it is when someone paying at the gas station can say “I like $10 worth of DNotes sent to my retirement account.” Under funded retirement, or no retirement at all is a massive global problem. We all need to rethink how we can help ourselves and others by taking little steps on a disciplined and regular bases. Our political leaders should join force with us to encourage creative savings habits.

One would ask why can't we do it now? The answer involves very costly and complicated compliance, reporting, and licensing issues, and every state has different requirements (48 out of 50 states). Just as bad, there is a serious lack of legal guidance.

 

“Taiwan is actually one of the few places in the world Bitcoin can be purchased over the counter.”



Taiwan Could be Seeing a Digital Currency Boom

Executive Brief

The law of unintended consequence could be about to strike the Taiwanese government. At the end of September PayPal, the popular payment service, will prevent Taiwanese residents from sending or receiving funds from other Taiwanese PayPal users, due to recently introduced legislation. The legislation was brought in to better control virtual money flow, and the PayPal situation was just one result of the wording.

However, while most Asian countries including Taiwan continue to warn consumers of the danger of digital currency, Taiwan is actually one of the few places in the world Bitcoin can be purchased over the counter. This, combined with the legislation affecting the traditional fiat based payment services, could result in a rise in digital currency use in the near future.

Read the full story below.

Governments around the world never seem to lose their desire to control the financial system and how people use and move their money. That might not be so problematic if they were at least careful about the implementation of their ideas, but that is not always the case. Recent legislation in Taiwan designed to facilitate digital money transfers through the existing networks between citizens specifically excludes the use of third party processors. Why that exclusion was implemented is not clear; however, the result of that action is very clear indeed: beginning at the end of September, PayPal users in Taiwan will not be able to send money to other Taiwanese PayPal users.

This is so that PayPal itself, the popular payment service, remains compliant with local laws. Taiwanese will still be able to use their PayPal accounts to send money abroad or make international payments, but not to people in their own country. Yes, that does sound like something went horribly wrong during the crafting of that legislation if that is the outcome. Sadly, that is indeed the outcome.

However, while the government of Taiwan – like most governments in Asia - is anything but friendly towards digital currency, focusing on the potential weak links in exchange and wallet providers, Taiwan does remain one of the few places in the world where Bitcoin can be purchased over the counter. In that regard, Taiwanese are better prepared than people in most nations for a potential shift to digital currency. More restrictions on financial movement (PayPal is built within the traditional fiat system after all) may have the unintended consequence of speeding Taiwanese popular acceptance of cryptocurrency.

This seemingly never ending desire to control all aspects of financial movement could very well be the driving force for the widespread adoption of digital currencies as we move forward. While privacy and other benefits have attracted many so far, the need to keep control of our own money is a much more powerful driving force for most people. Could this be the start of the widespread adoption of digital currency many have hoped for?

Source: DCEBrief - http://dcebrief.com/taiwan-could-be-seeing-a-digital-currency-boom/
Sept. 25, 2015

"The Story You Aren't Being Told; How Fiat Money Causes Inequality" - I really like this title as is, and it is a good subject to cover.  I think this is an issue that most people are totally unaware of and in order to adopt digital currency, they need to learn why it is a better choice than fiat.  But I wouldn't use the word counterfeit if we are trying to make nice with these people. lol 

"Fix Inequality Causes Not Symptoms; The Lack of Diversity Among The Academic Elite"  This article will be awesome!  I hate when bandaid solutions are applied to anything, especially because it is usually broken beyond repair.  How will cryptocurrency fix this inequality, where fiat (and the old fix-it bandaids) failed?  Looking forward to it!!

A couple of suggestions for the title:

Inequality Needs To Be Addressed At It's Foundation; The Lack of Diversity Among The Academic Elite

Fix Inequality At It's Foundation (or Source?); The Lack of Diversity Among The Academic Elite