Topic: [ANN][NOTE]DNotes - Celebrating DNotes 3rd Birthday - Forum Now Open - page 196. (Read 814541 times)

That's a great idea. I think I am going to change the quote only on page change/refresh. It moves all the content below the quote, so it can get a bit annoying.

Very ingenious, I like that!

RJF I have run into this before and I have come up with a simple, but useful way to determine time on things like this. I read the statement/quote backwards word-for-word and time it. This definitely gives a better hang time estimation.

Excellent, I love the hover links idea!!!

Agree wholeheartedly RJF.

Quote rotation should not present the same quote to any single reader more than once during an average stay if possible. When someone sees a quote they saw when first opening the site, it tends to make them aware of the time they have spent already and prompts them to move on.

Also make sure your hang time is long enough for the average reader, most of these quotes are long. You, the developer, have already read the quote so its easy for coders to make the reading time too short. This frustrates readers and prompts them to move on.

Quotes are important, they help to set the overall tone of the site and give some insight to what the Webmaster had in mind when creating the site in the first place. Give it some development time and it will be worth you while...

Not a bad idea. What we may be able to do so it does take up a lot of space is have hover links, where if you hold your mouse over a word it shows an explanation.

I can envision that this site will become a "Goto" resource site for information and inspiration. We will make an attempt to define its mission next week to give us a better sense of directions. As technology evolves, mission statement also evolves over time. We just have to be very clear with our core mission. It is okay to keep adding resources and contents. However, we must be exceptionally careful not to "over clutter" the core messages we intend convey.

However, at this point we are collecting a shoe-box of ideas, and we can use a lot more. Keep them coming.

Imagine that we have a trusted global digital currency today that is available to everyone any where in the world and it represents 5% of the transaction in global commerce. Can you come up with a use case that may not be possible today, . ....................

Now what are the constraints we need to overcome to make the above possible. That will be a very important part of DCEBrief's core mission. That by the way, has been DNotes' goal from day one.

I think we need to include a glossary page defining some of the technical jargon on DCEBrief website. Most people will know this, however, for those just becoming interested having this glossary alongside all the other information will make the webpage more complete. Maybe we can set up a Google Document and have everyone's input? After all additions we can then edit for relevance.

Thoughts??

Thanks, Chase. Yes, we can use some "more powerful people quote". I will be devoting more time on this project starting next week. We also need to develop a list of the most important subject matters that should be included.

From CryptoMoms' Forum:

Quote from: Chase on July 16, 2015, 05:39:54 PM

The former Greek finance minister speaks out:


How Greece Was Lost: ‘We Were Set Up’ – Yanis Varoufakis

“[The Troika’s proposals were] absolutely impossible, totally non-viable and toxic … [they were] the kind of proposals you present to another side when you don’t want an agreement. This country must stop extending and pretending, we must stop taking on new loans pretending that we’ve solved the problem, when we haven’t; when we have made our debt even less sustainable on condition of further austerity that even further shrinks the economy; and shifts the burden further onto the have-nots, creating a humanitarian crisis.”

http://cointelegraph.com/news/114843/how-greece-was-lost-we-were-set-up-yanis-varoufakis

Quote From Shepherd Today:

It is a sad day in history. Position and power are relative as to whom does one has to measure up against. Essentially, it is about self-interest and the golden rule. (He who holds the gold, makes the rule.) Following is another interesting quote:

"FORCED TO ACCEPT"

Prime Minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras, “ told lawmakers he had accepted a package he did not believe in and which would harm Greece, but the alternative was a disorderly bankruptcy that would be catastrophic.

"I acknowledge the fiscal measures are harsh, that they won't benefit the Greek economy, but I'm forced to accept them," he said before the vote.

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/16/us-eurozone-greece-idUSKCN0PQ0GZ20150716

Those words coming from the Prime Minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras are disturbing. There had never been a viable option. Those who hold the gold are clearly making the rules.

This is what I said earlier, “This is a very sad and tragic situation. The rich may end up losing a vacation home in a foreign country but many of the less fortunate are at risk of losing their entire life savings, while being too old to rebuild their nest egg. It is even more depressing when no viable political solutions exist to give Greece’s citizens any hope of rebuilding their financial future”.

There is only one quote I don't like and a couple that need tweeking.


I love all the quotes of Melanie Shapiro except this one:

"It does worry me that bitcoin won't succeed, that something will stand in our way and we'll never see it live up to it's promise and this is sad because there are a lot of people who really need this to work."

It sounds a little desperate and too much like a lack of confidence in bitcoin.

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This one sounds incomplete - I don't know what problem they are trying to solve:

"Bitcoin, crypto currencies, solved this problem of coming to a consensus globally where you don't trust anybody else"
Richard Brown - Executive Architect for IBM UK

Edit: (I watched the video - http://www.finextra.com/Video/Video.aspx?videoid=513) - The full quote is: "The core technology, had you asked me 5 years ago, I would have said was impossible.  Bitcoin, crypto currencies, solved this problem of coming to a consensus globally where you don't trust anybody else"

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I really like the example the Canadian Senate is setting for other countries to hopefully follow in their footsteps of NOT over-regulating.  This quote is a little unclear since the recommendations are not numbered here.  It could end after the 'light touch' premise or after 'Recommendation 1'.

"The federal government, on an active and ongoing basis, work with other countries to formulate global guidelines for digital currencies while respecting the 'light touch' premise outlined in Recommendation 1 above."
Canadian Senate Recommendations

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I think all the other quotes are great, but I have no idea how many should be in a rotation.  Would it be a new or shuffled rotation everyday??

Do you want any more powerful people quotes?

These are my selections. I would suggest 10 quotes in rotation at a time. Also you have Ben's quote in your list twice (kind of).


The math and technology behind the blockchain is difficult for most to understand, but the beauty is - you don't have to get it to use it. Do you really get how the internet works? TLS/SSL? DNS? HTTPS?
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet


I think the real success of bitcoin will be when it's the foundational layer on top of which applications and processes are built without people having to understand what that means.
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet


While we can attribute a lot of our early attention to stories of bitcoin scandal, Mt Gox, and high-profile arrests, the stories being told now are of how the technology could have the potential to bring efficiency to the financial industry.
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet


To truly understand the impact (of Bitcoin), consider what the cellphone did for telecom. There are places in the world that completely skipped over traditional landline phones, mostly because it's a resource-intensive advancement, and went straight to cellphones. Bitcoin will be the technology that leaps over traditional banking in these same parts of the world.
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet


You'll hear the word 'decentralized' thrown around a lot when talking about bitcoin. The reason for this is that bitcoin is a decentralized asset that no one entity has control over. This might not seem important, but think about the people who live in places where that central entity that controls your currency is corrupt or unstable.
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet


It's not that we're trying to replace the current banking system or government; we're trying to work along side them to rethink current processes that are both inefficient and costly.  Neither side is going to get anywhere without working together. Ultimately, I think we're at a place now where goals are aligned on both sides.
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet


It is hard-earned money no matter what you call it; commodity, property, or virtual currency of no intrinsic value.
Alan Yong - Entrepreneur & DNotes Co-Founder


DNotes decided since day one that, to be successful, it must create a new culture. That new culture must be built with trust and integrity, promoting mutual respect and cooperation, collaborating in a highly productive environment, focusing on the accomplishment of long-term mutual benefits.
Alan Yong - Entrepreneur & DNotes Co-Founder


A small amount invested has the potential to make a big difference. Whereas, using fiat currency as a savings, the true impact is likely to be negative.
Alan Yong - Entrepreneur & DNotes Co-Founder


Our industry absolutely needs a drastic increase in women's participation to gain mass acceptance.
Alan Yong - Entrepreneur & DNotes Co-Founder


With two simple cell phones, or computers with an Internet connection, one can be set up to send and receive funds and conduct global commerce, thereby solving the problems of the unbanked.
Alan Yong - Entrepreneur & DNotes Co-Founder


Bitcoin will most likely go down in history as one of the greatest technology revolutions in history.
Alan Yong - Entrepreneur & DNotes Co-Founder


Once I started really digging into it, I came to realize that there are three aspects to Bitcoin that are interwoven and Bitcoin is most interesting because of them. They are: One, it's an asset, like digital gold 2.0. Two, it's a currency in as much as currency is like the digital app that allows you to begin to transact and trade. And, three, it's also a platform where you can build financial and other products on top of it. These attributes all bound together are what convinced me that there's a certainty that there will be at least one global cryptocurrency and that there's a good argument that it's Bitcoin, or that Bitcoin is one of them, if not THE one. And, if Bitcoin isn't that global cryptocurrency, then something else will be.
Reid Hoffman - co-founder of LinkedIn, entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author.


It is a much more efficient way of moving money around the world
Tim Draper - Venture Capitalist


Bitcoin, and the ideas behind it, will be a disrupter to the traditional notions of currency. In the end, currency will be better for it.
Edmund Moy - 38th Director of the United States Mint


Bitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement The ability to create something which is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value.
Eric Schmidt - Executive Chairman of Google


Bitcoin may hold long-term promise, particularly if the innovations promote a faster, more secure and more efficient payment system.
Ben Bernanke - Former Chairman of the US Federal Reserve


EVERY informed person needs to know about Bitcoin because it might be one of the world's most important developments.
Leon Louw - two time Nobel Peace Prize nominee


Bitcoin may be the TCP/IP of money
Paul Buchheit - Creator of Google's Gmail Service


I think the fact that within the Bitcoin universe an algorithm replaces the functions of [the government]  is actually pretty cool
Al Gore - Former US Vice President


Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative
Nassim Taleb - Author and Risk Analyst


It will be everywhere and the world will have to readjust. World governments will have to readjust.
John McAfee - renowned information security pioneer and founder of McAfee


I think it is working. There will be other currencies like it that may be even better, but in the meantime there's a big industry around bitcoin.
Sir Richard Branson

How many quotes should we have in rotation? Which are your favorites? Did I miss any good ones?

Here is my current list.

Accounts at a money service business or financial institution can certainly be linked to identity, but the individual coins (or coin subunits) themselves cannot be.
Jon Matonis - e-money researcher and crypto economist

The math and technology behind the blockchain is difficult for most to understand, but the beauty is - you don't have to get it to use it. Do you really get how the internet works? TLS/SSL? DNS? HTTPS?
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet

There's a lot of misconception about what bitcoin actually is due to media narratives. The most popular reference I hear mentioned is Silk Road, but Silk Road wasn't enabled by bitcoin. People forget or don't realize that Silk Road was enabled by Tor, an 'anonymizing' proxy network. Bitcoin isn't actually an anonymous currency it's pseudo-anonymous. Want to know what's anonymous? Cash.
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet

I think the real success of bitcoin will be when it's the foundational layer on top of which applications and processes are built without people having to understand what that means.
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet

While we can attribute a lot of our early attention to stories of bitcoin scandal, Mt Gox, and high-profile arrests, the stories being told now are of how the technology could have the potential to bring efficiency to the financial industry.
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet

The reason you should care about bitcoin's success is not just because it can help reorganize how the financial industry is run, but because it can bring freedom and empowerment to the people who really need it
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet

To truly understand the impact (of Bitcoin), consider what the cellphone did for telecom. There are places in the world that completely skipped over traditional landline phones, mostly because it's a resource-intensive advancement, and went straight to cellphones. Bitcoin will be the technology that leaps over traditional banking in these same parts of the world.
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet

To me, bitcoin is just the denomination used to pay the toll to put stuff on the world's first completely transparent and immutable decentralized ledger - the blockchain.
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet

You'll hear the word 'decentralized' thrown around a lot when talking about bitcoin. The reason for this is that bitcoin is a decentralized asset that no one entity has control over. This might not seem important, but think about the people who live in places where that central entity that controls your currency is corrupt or unstable.
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet

If it was as simple as just giving people another way to buy a cup of coffee, I can promise you that no one in our ecosystem would be working this hard.
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet

It's not that we're trying to replace the current banking system or government; we're trying to work along side them to rethink current processes that are both inefficient and costly.  Neither side is going to get anywhere without working together. Ultimately, I think we're at a place now where goals are aligned on both sides.
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet

Regulation is a great thing for bitcoin. It gives me, and the rest of us principles by which we have to run our businesses. However, it's important that we are being regulated by people who understand the technology and can give us guidance without hindering innovation.
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet

It does worry me that bitcoin won't succeed, that something will stand in our way and we'll never see it live up to it's promise and this is sad because there are a lot of people who really need this to work.
Melanie Shapiro - Founder/CEO of CaseWallet

No one has sufficient self-interest to promote and protect Bitcoin, with an over-emphasis that it is a trustless system.
Alan Yong - Entrepreneur & DNotes Co-Founder

It is hard-earned money no matter what you call it; commodity, property, or virtual currency of no intrinsic value.
Alan Yong - Entrepreneur & DNotes Co-Founder

DNotes decided since day one that, to be successful, it must create a new culture. That new culture must be built with trust and integrity, promoting mutual respect and cooperation, collaborating in a highly productive environment, focusing on the accomplishment of long-term mutual benefits.
Alan Yong - Entrepreneur & DNotes Co-Founder

A small amount invested has the potential to make a big difference. Whereas, using fiat currency as a savings, the true impact is likely to be negative.
Alan Yong - Entrepreneur & DNotes Co-Founder

Our industry absolutely needs a drastic increase in women's participation to gain mass acceptance.
Alan Yong - Entrepreneur & DNotes Co-Founder

With two simple cell phones, or computers with an Internet connection, one can be set up to send and receive funds and conduct global commerce, thereby solving the problems of the unbanked.
Alan Yong - Entrepreneur & DNotes Co-Founder

The main innovation stemming from Bitcoin is trustless transactions, meaning transactions are fully decentralized and do not rely on a central bank or government. Bitcoin also introduced the primary innovation of blockchain technology; a public ledger where all Bitcoin transactions are recorded indefinitely together with all Bitcoin 'blocks' that have been mined to secure the network.
Alan Yong - Entrepreneur & DNotes Co-Founder

Bitcoin will most likely go down in history as one of the greatest technology revolutions in history.
Alan Yong - Entrepreneur & DNotes Co-Founder

Once I started really digging into it, I came to realize that there are three aspects to Bitcoin that are interwoven and Bitcoin is most interesting because of them. They are: One, it's an asset, like digital gold 2.0. Two, it's a currency in as much as currency is like the digital app that allows you to begin to transact and trade. And, three, it's also a platform where you can build financial and other products on top of it. These attributes all bound together are what convinced me that there's a certainty that there will be at least one global cryptocurrency and that there's a good argument that it's Bitcoin, or that Bitcoin is one of them, if not THE one. And, if Bitcoin isn't that global cryptocurrency, then something else will be.
Reid Hoffman - co-founder of LinkedIn, entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author.

It is a much more efficient way of moving money around the world
Tim Draper - Venture Capitalist

Bitcoin, and the ideas behind it, will be a disrupter to the traditional notions of currency. In the end, currency will be better for it.
Edmund Moy - 38th Director of the United States Mint

Three eras of currency: Commodity based, e.g. Gold. Politically based, e.g. Dollar. Math based, e.g. Bitcoin.
Chris Dixon - Investor and Entrepreneur

Bitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement The ability to create something which is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value.
Eric Schmidt - Executive Chairman of Google

It's a store of value, a distributed ledger. It's a great place to put assets, especially in places like Argentina with 40 percent inflation, where $1 today is worth 60 cents in a year, and a government's currency does not hold value.
David Marcus - Former President of PayPal

Bitcoin may hold long-term promise, particularly if the innovations promote a faster, more secure and more efficient payment system.
Ben Bernanke - Former Chairman of the US Federal Reserve

EVERY informed person needs to know about Bitcoin because it might be one of the world's most important developments.
Leon Louw - two time Nobel Peace Prize nominee

Bitcoin, crypto currencies, solved this problem of coming to a consensus globally where you don't trust anybody else
Richard Brown - Executive Architect for IBM UK

Bitcoin may be the TCP/IP of money
Paul Buchheit - Creator of Google's Gmail Service

I think the fact that within the Bitcoin universe an algorithm replaces the functions of [the government]  is actually pretty cool
Al Gore - Former US Vice President

Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative
Nassim Taleb - Author and Risk Analyst

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that's missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash
Milton Friedman - Nobel-Prize Winning Economist

I do not take a position on Bitcoin and other proposed currencies in a technical fashion, but I understand the political ramifications of them and I think that government should stay out of them and they should be perfectly legal, even though I don't endorse (technically) one over another.
Ron Paul - Former Republican congressman, two-time Republican presidential candidate

The federal government, in considering any legislation, regulation and policies, create an environment that fosters innovation for digital currencies and their associated technologies. As such, the government should exercise a regulatory 'clight touch'd that minimizes actions that might stifle the development of these new technologies.
Canadian Senate Recommendations

The federal government consider the use of blockchain technology when advantageous to deliver government services and to enhance the security of private information.
Canadian Senate Recommendations

The federal government, on an active and ongoing basis, work with other countries to formulate global guidelines for digital currencies while respecting the 'clight touch'd premise outlined in Recommendation 1 above.
Canadian Senate Recommendations

[Digital Currencies] they may hold long-term promise, particularly if the innovations promote a faster, more secure and more efficient payment system.
Ben Bernanke - Former Chairman of the US Federal Reserve

It will be everywhere and the world will have to readjust. World governments will have to readjust.
John McAfee - renowned information security pioneer and founder of McAfee

I think it is working. There will be other currencies like it that may be even better, but in the meantime there's a big industry around bitcoin.
Sir Richard Branson

Thank you all! It will be beneficial to DNotes to be listed on Cryptsy, and nice to be listed by the launch of DCEBrief. Being the top votes is not a guarantee of being listed, however it can only help, and we need to do what we can to make that happen.

No problem!  So, the actual cost in USD would be around $400.00 to put us on top..  That figure is reachable in the short term.

You're right!  You get around 7 votes paying with points compared to 1 with bitcoin.  Here's a big duh on my part - I just bought 100 votes with bitcoin.

I haven't really been watching which coins are getting listed on Cryptsy.  Do they have a set schedule for adding them such as one a week or month?  I haven't even heard of a lot of them in the top 20 or 30 so we may not have to get all the way to 40,000 if some of them are dead or dying.  I'm assuming some of them will get chosen before we get there.

Should we do a community push to get listed?  I will commit to buy some every week until we get there. 

Each vote is less than a penny if you use Cryptsy Points - Thanks RJF!!

Cool! I just did the math on using Cryptsy Points instead of Bitcoin directly and works out to much less.

1 Cryptsy Point costs: .00015000 Bitcoin (at time of posting) You get 5 votes per Cryptsy Point therefore, to reach 40000 votes, you need 8000 Cryptsy Points. Buying 8000 Cryptsy Points at .00015 costs 1.2 Bitcoin.

So, you should be able to get 40000 votes for 1.2 Bitcoin worth of Cryptsy Points. If I'm correct (please someone check the math before you spend any Bitcoin) we should be able to reach #1 for 1.2 Bitcoin. We then need to maintain #1 position until the count is taken.

From Cryptsy:

"Using the buttons below, each Cryptsy user is allowed 1 free vote per coin. We are also accepting paid votes, which have no limit on the number of votes you can cast. Adding new markets requires a significant development investment for each new coin, so your paid votes will help offset the costs and accelerate the development time.

Paid votes can be submitted using either BTC or CryptsyPoints. To vote with BTC, simply send BTC to the deposit address listed next to the coin(s) you wish to support. Every 0.0002 BTC sent to the respective address received will count for 1 vote. You can click on the address link next to any coin to view payment votes cast using BTC, which are posted after getting 2 or more confirmations.

Alternatively, we are also accepting CryptsyPoints as part of our paid vote program (5 votes per CryptsyPoint). After you cast your free vote, you will then have the option to vote again with your CryptsyPoints as often as you like."

I'm away from my computers for a few days, but have a couple old SHA 256 ASICS that I'll devote to buying votes until DNotes is on Cryptsy.

.0002 Bitcoin per vote X 40,000 votes needed to be number one (at the time this was written, with some overhead) = 8 Bitcoin.

If anyone out there with deep pockets would like to get DNotes on Cryptsy right away, all you have to do is send 8 or more Bitcoin to:

14AGjtup6T6k4kB1bmbMUVmePNUXEYuqmQ  (Cryptsy's paid voting address for DNotes)