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Excellent first pass. Keep adding and refining the list  with DNotes solutions. May be Wiser can write up the final version to be a DCEBrief.

Just to name a few:

-Volatility
-Long term saving incentive
-Negetive forum behavior
-Gender gap
-Ease of use
-Too many conflicting interests
-Attempting to reach out to everyday people

Melanie Shapiro is founder and CEO of the Case company. I'm not sure if I posted it previously, but case is a handheld bitcoin device that uses multi signature (user and third party have to sign the transaction) with built in mobile communication. I was pretty impressed with the device, take a look into it. Anyway, found this excellent write up based on a pseudo interview with Melanie Shapiro. It is really worth a read, covers most of the issues and benefits of digital currency. Here is a snippet, but I recommend reading the article.

Having My Mind Changed About Bitcoin: How Dr. Shapiro Did It

Melanie Shapiro worked me over with a series of soft/hard-edged quotes that shifted my opinion about Bitcoin dramatically.

I don't know about you, but I find quotations to be one of the finest learning tools around. My two favorite quotesters are Winston Churchill and Mark Twain. So I decided to use Melanie's quotes here to try and convert you if you're not a Bitcoin supporter and even if you are, Melanie's quotes will provide you with more ammunition.

"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."

"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?"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/billrobinson/having-my-mind-changed-on_b_7613676.html

Thanks, Kevin. DCBrief.com will become a huge contribution to our industry and a real valuable asset to the DNotes' ecosystem. We are consistently identifying industry problems and develop viable solutions to overcome those problems which otherwise will continue be obstacles to mass acceptance of digital currency.

Here is a good exercise for our community. What are the different industry problems DNotes has identified and the solutions it has introduced? You can name one or all. As a group I am certain that we can complete the exercise.

     As usual, with events like this, the people you meet, and the ideas gained is very benificial. In my opinion, DCEBrief.com may be the single most important concept to come away with. It is brilliant. It helps overcome the some of biggest the problems with crypto-currency: Ignorance. Lack of knowledge on how it works. Mis-Information. Again, brilliant idea, Alan. Kudos.
     With that said, the moderator could have done a MUCH better job, taking up way too much of the panelists' precious time.

Smokey

It would have been better if we were given more time. I did have the opportunity to meet with a lot of people in smaller groups and stayed way beyond closing time. I have been kept very busy since the presentation. Our proposed new site DCEBrief.com is partly the result of this event. I came to the realization that many high level executives, including regulators and political leaders lack the time to learn about real issues confronting our industry. There is a serious "knowledge vacuum", causing significant confusion and loss of opportunities.

TeeGee is in the process of producing a number of Youtube videos. Let us know if you have any other suggestions. 

Little disappointed that DNotes was not mentioned and actually explained... especially the CRISP programs and the vault.  Guess there was not enough time for 4 people to explain indepth about all aspects of what they are doing. 

Silicon Dragon NY 2015: Spotlight - Digital Currencies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlgQ4xKqjwg

Happy Canada day to our friends in Canada, including the Canadian senate

Happy Canada Day to my family, friends, the DNotes and CryptoMoms communities, everyone in cryptocurrency, and even the Canadian Senate!

Thanks, we can use more suggestions. DCEBrief will be a very exciting project and of great value to our industry. Part of our success is to be able to address industry problems objectively and provide viable solutions.

Agreed. The Grexit is very concerning. It will be nice if DNotes can be of some help.

I'm sure many did, invested in digital currency and commodities and possibly even foreign currency, but generally people tend to be complacent. The working class, with minimal savings, are likely suffering the most.

Thanks CryptoBroker79, those are great suggestions.

The Grexit issue is very concerning, I'm not entirely sure how anybody didn't see this possibility coming!!! Like, if you were Greek, wouldn't it have made sense to move your savings away from a Greek bank years ago to mitigate the risk of a total loss? It proves that Government backed Currencies are no safer than the new Digital Currencies.

Here are my suggestions, someone may have already mentioned a few of these in passing.
-Steady value appreciation
-Lasting growth potential
-Resilient uptrend
-Stable price ascension

As for the website, DCEBrief.com looks great and your reasoning for the choice makes sense.

We've registered DCEBrief.com for the new website. Short for Digital Currency Executive Brief. With the following criteria: Short and descriptive and/or not easy to come to a false conclusion about the content without further inquiry, and easy enough to say. Sounded out D C E Brief.

Still open to suggestions if anyone would like to make any better suggestions.

It is a great point, I personally have always viewed DNotes as a growth model, in terms of price, advancements, and user base. Much like companies such as Amazon, the goal is it to continue growing.

Neither volatile nor stable may not be the appropriate term to use, something like growth maybe more in line.

Blog Post From LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-we-characterize-bitcoin-extremely-important-alan-yong

Marcie D. Terman 1st
Chief Executive, DATAFORT LTD, Comm Director First Global Credit Ltd.

"Though history does not repeat exactly it can give a point of reference. Therefore, I would suggest looking at the American dollar's early history and where it stands right now. Five year's is nothing in terms of such a step change as bitcoin. And in terms of volatility (im not saying there won't be more to come,) but look at the last 4 months. I think Mr. Young has amazing courage to launch D-notes but once dominance is established by something like XBT it will be incredibly hard for other coins to take the lead. Regulation will also settle and normalize in the fullness of time. Finally there can be no doubt that we are at a pivotal point in history. How lucky we are. I have always said I would want to live in the time of the prequel to Star trek and not after the Federation is formed and the lines drawn!"

Quote From Alan:

Thank you for your comments, Marcie. Five years is not a long time. Just surviving the test of time over a five year period in the digital currency space is a huge undertaking, which cannot be taken lightly. I am very passionate about helping DNotes to be a global digital currency that is available for everyone worldwide through our family of CRISPs (Cryptocurrency Investment Savings Plan).

Doing the right things and taking our time to build a trusted brand with a solid foundation is what we have fully committed to do. Whether DNotes will be able to match up with Bitcoin dominance one day, only history can tell. In the mean time, I have no doubt that the immensely innovative digital currency and blockchain technologies will have far reaching and world changing implications leading to a quantum shift in the ways global commerce will be conducted.

Thank you for bringing up this important issue, CryptoBroker79. The comment regarding our common characterization of DNotes as the most “stable” digital currency is a comment in response to my blog post “How we characterize Bitcoin is very Important” on LinkedIn (6-28-2015) as follows:

Zennon Kapron 1st
Asia Financial Services Market Research / Author of Chomping at the Bitcoin

“Good commentary, but just to clarify, "appreciating 30 times" is not stable even in the crypto industry”.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-we-characterize-bitcoin-extremely-important-alan-yong

Alan's Response:

Mr. Kapron point that “appreciating 30 times" is not stable even in the crypto industry”
is totally valid.

Technically “stable” means remains the same,  solid, strong, steady, firm, sure, steadfast. In our case, for the lack of a better word, “stable” has been used as a part of our PR efforts to compare and contrast against the word “volatile” with a suggestive message that being stable is better than being volatile.  Let us know if you can think of a better word or a better way to describe DNotes favorable uptrend. I have attempted to associate it with “reliable long term appreciation with higher highs and high lows”, a factually correct trend-line (http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dnotes/#charts).