Topic: [ANN][NOTE]DNotes - Celebrating DNotes 3rd Birthday - Forum Now Open - page 166. (Read 814541 times)

Thanks for all the welcoming messages, guys. In almost all societies throughout history, men have had the upper hand, and for some reason, we are still teaching our daughters not to take care of themselves, but to find a "good man" to do that for her. Time for us ladies to grab that bull by HIS horns and give 'em a shake.

I AM a holder of DNotes, although not quite sure what that means. All I know is that I want my little Seraphina to grow up to be just as successful as her male peers, and this looks like it's a good start.

Agreed. You are with the right team, Kris. We have some of the most helpful and knowledgeable people here.

You'll be fine, it really comes naturally, nothing contrived or fake here. Welcome to the community!

Thanks, I'm gonna need it!

This is remarkable for one of what I would have thought to be 'old-school' banks to be early participants.  Barclays is a 325 year old bank that operates in 50 different countries!!

Barclays to Begin Offering Bitcoin Payments for Customers, Beginning with Charities
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/21791/barclays-begin-offering-bitcoin-payments-customers-beginning-charities/

Barclays is about to become the first mainstream bank to openly and directly support bitcoin transactions, The Sunday Times reports. The Daily Mail echoed the news for its huge readership.

Barclays has been experimenting with Bitcoin and working with digital currency start-ups for some time.  Speaking at the Morgan Stanley European Financials Conference in London, Barclays’ CEO Antony Jenkins warned the “banking sector has not yet felt the ‘full disruptive force’ of technology – but it will.” He elaborated on the growing concern among financial institutions that faster, cheaper payment systems will start to seduce their consumer and business customers in the coming years. In June, Barclays signed a deal with Bitcoin company Safello to explore financial applications of the blockchain technology that powers Bitcoin.

Barclays is not the only bank to express interest in Bitcoin’s technology and launch internal experiments and pilot projects. In fact, as recently reported by Bitcoin Magazine, major banks including Citi, UBS, Santander, BNP Paribas, and BBVA are taking serious note of Jenkins’ warning and committing resources to preliminary blockchain studies.

Now, as reported by The Sunday Times, Barclays plans to test the virtual currency, allowing people to make donations to charities in bitcoin. The bank has gone into partnership with a bitcoin exchange and aims to begin the experiment by the end of the year. Derek White, chief design and digital officer at Barclays, said: “Barclays is enabling the bitcoin exchange to help charities accept bitcoin.”

Barclays has two sites in Notting Hill and Old Street, London, dedicated to researching Bitcoin and blockchain technology, with a combined capacity of 75 staff, and is also operating a blockchain workspace in a revamped warehouse in Whitechapel, east London.  The bank “is inviting start-ups, academics, and the government to work at the space to connect with others that are interested in the Bitcoin and blockchain community,” said White.

With this move, Barclays will be the first major bank to help selected customers to receive bitcoin payments directly in their bank accounts, establishing an important precedent. Focusing on charities first seems a very smart decision, which can shield Barclays from the potential regulatory and image problems, giving it time to prove the value of Bitcoin in a context that can’t be easily criticized. It can be expected that, after this first initiative focused on charities, Barclays could consider gradually allowing ordinary business and residential customers to receive bitcoin payments.

The Sunday Times mentions that a Bitcoin company was included in the trade mission to southeast Asia led by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron a few weeks ago, which underlines the rising status of Bitcoin in Great Britain. On the trade show, Cameron enthusiastically praised the Innovate Finance Manifesto: 2020, issued by Innovate Finance, which aims to advance Great Britain’s standing as a leader in financial technology (fintech) innovation both domestically and abroad and create 100,000 jobs in U.K. fintech.

The manifesto is focused on generic fintech innovation and doesn’t mention Bitcoin- and blockchain-based digital currencies explicitly. However, Great Britain is on its way to becoming a global hub for bitcoin and other digital currencies, with both the government and Bank of England having made recent moves designed to stimulate the development of digital fintech.

This sounds great RJF!  

I just want to mention a couple of things for anyone that is checking out DNotes and the CRISP For Retirement for the first time:

Now, more than ever, people need to do their research when planning for retirement.  

Dumping money into a crumbling pension system, no matter who's money it is, is just throwing good money after bad.  These pension funds are heavily invested in banks stocks and other financial products, as well as other equities.  The banks and all the spin-off financial products have been walking a tight-rope since 2008.  The equity markets are in a tail-spin and all this is reflected in the performance of pension plans around the world.  Pensions still need to be paid, so despite having little or no income this year (for example), the pension plan will simply pay out from the premiums of contributing members instead of saving that money for the member that actually contributed it.  You can see where this is headed and at some point that pension plan will have to pay the piper, meaning of course the employee will lose their pension.

It is a well known fact that most people will not reach their long term financial goals without some exposure to alternative investments.  Cryptocurrency falls into this category.  Even a small committment of $5 or $10 a paycheque at this early stage has the potential to outperform the rest of your retirement portfolio.  That is, of course, if you are fortunate enough to have a portfolio at all.

There is a lot of reading here in order to figure out why DNotes is strategically different from every other cryptocurrency.  The successful ones will never be followers, they will always lead.  They will see and do things differently.  They plan and plan some more, but it is always with the top in mind.

Good insight but I am puzzled why we have been getting the same form letter response to every support inquiry.

It is a long and costly process to be in full compliance. However, I am getting the impression that they  are currenly focusing their attention to be in compliance with AML at federal level with no mention of consumer protection licensing at state level. Their customer verification is quite intrusive; among others, the requirement of a photograph of the customer holding a photo ID with date and “Cryptsy” written on a white page. I understanding that PayServices is planning to take it to another level to include all that and a recorded video and voice statement which will eventually become a part of the security identity verification – image and voice verification +.

With Quantum Crypto and Blockchain in the near future, there will come a time when it is safer to carry digital currency in your pocket, via your smart phone, than carrying cash. Ironic? That is the future as I see it. I also envision that your smart phone is also you multi-currency card loaded with a preset amount of DNotes. As long as you have more DNotes available at the DNotesVault you can keep reloading it. If your phone is stolen, a kill switch will automatically empty your phone wallet and send it back to your DNotesVault account for safe keeping. Yes, DNotes will be the digital currency with the capabilities to be far superior to fiat currency. We just need our political leaders and regulators to be on the same page with us. Hence we are investing all that time and resources in DCEBrief.

I'm impressed already!


Welcome Kristina to the DNotes / CryptoMoms family!  You may be new to the forums, but I suspect you have been a DNotes holder since the beginning... am I right? 

It appears our views are well aligned. Hopefully it's just a matter of time.

On the subject of Cryptsy inclusion:

http://www.coindesk.com/cryptsy-founder-paul-vernon-worthy-altcoins-pre-mining-compliance/

Some insight here, but, reads like we should have been included by now or, would be on the "short list" at least.

« Last post by KristinaHD on Today at 01:50:39 PM »

Thanks, Smokey! This is coffee?? I thought it was mud, but didn't want to be rude....

« Last post by KristinaHD on Today at 01:48:47 PM »

Thank you!! I'm excited to learn more about CryptoMoms! Can't wait to become the expert! 

CryptoMoms.com / Re: Welcoming Kris

« Last post by KristinaHD on Today at 01:54:47 PM »

Thank you all for letting me join your band of pioneers. I'm excited to be a part of something so IMPORTANT. Doing a lot of research - With your help, I'll be an expert before you know it!

With the launch of DCEBrief and Kris joining our team we can consider this as the beginning of a new chapter. Now that we have established a fairly solid foundation and good awareness, we are going to pick up speed in reaching out to potential strategic partners who may have common grounds to start working with us.

We fully believe that for DNotes to be the trusted global digital currency, with mass acceptance ultimately, we must make it easily available for everyone worldwide to participate even if we have to continue to hand out some free DNotes to promote our shared stake concept, especially for  a good cause.

We have no doubt that digital currency like DNotes has the built-in capabilities to be far superior to money or fiat currency. However, harnessing its superiority is an enormously costly and time consuming task few would want to undertake. Unfortunately, if the valuation of DNotes is an indicator, I must add that many investors may not quite understand why DNotes has invested so much time and resources in a diverse list of projects. The short answer is that they are all strategically linked as vital building blocks as we strive for mass acceptance of DNotes in a global scale. Investment in DNotes is best suited for long term investors and ideal for our family of CRISPs. DNotes is much more than just another digital currency. It is a currency with a purpose coupled with multiple missions to reflect the best of humanity.

Great work RJF, and welcome to the team Kris.

CRISP for Retirement is a very exciting plan, because it holds the most lengthy saving terms that could realise the largest investment gains out of all the CRISPS due to the deposit terms!

Now it appears the team are beginning for round 2 of Cryptomom's development, the further expansions of the program could be used as a model for the CRISP plans to follow.

Watching / participating attentively. I heard CRISP for students video is likely to be ready end of this week.

Thank you RJF, no worries at all. I'm going to shoot you an email, so we can setup your DCEBrief profile.

Glad to hear it Kris, welcome to the team! Hope to see you on the forum here as well soon.

Right you are Alan, most of the world doesn't even know what retirement means, they will be working till they drop with little hope of changing that destiny. This is where crypto such as DNote can help. A small purchase every now and then can add up to a real fund after years of appreciation and growth. And, since the plans are self directed, you buy and save as and when, you can, there's nothing being deducted from your paycheck that you might need this month to make another payment or, buy necessities.