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Looks good. To the point with good introduction explaining what it is.

Also, as I understand it, the title is misleading, Braintree merchants can accept Bitcoin, not PayPal merchants directly. You have to join Braintree (a PayPal subsidiary). Just another layer of complexity we don't want or need.

Welcome correhidor and thank you.

They are using it as most companies do, a third party exchanges it into fiat and they treat the rest of the transaction like fiat. It may be an important stepping stone in the growth of digital currency, leading to it's own ecosystem where digital currency is used and traded without being converted to fiat.

Great insights. We aren't quite that close yet, but we are certainly on our way.

"Must be legit.." Being legit .. is a rare breed in the cryptocurrency world. Be careful. That video is sick and sad but it does convey a strong message. Few successes in business come by easy. It takes a great deal of hard work, patience and tenacity. DNotes does not believe in quick and easy money. We are firmly committed to the long term. It does get loney and frustrating sometime. But that is why we will be successful while so many are failing. Keep up with the good work.

Good read:

http://americasmarkets.usatoday.com/2015/04/09/jp-morgan-warns-silicon-valley-is-coming/

Yes Mr Dimon, we are at your door....  The next move is yours.

Well, that's nice and all but, they are trying to bend and fold Bitcoin into a system they understand and support. It won't work that way, too high a bar to entry. And, I'm a PayPal merchant, have been since they opened their doors and, I can't find the process for taking payments in Bitcoin. As I understand it, I will need to join Braintree which means more complication, more exposure and more time spent "minding the store" in a world where 24hrs in day is not enough already.

In conclusion, I would rather put a Bitcoin address on my auctions than go through PayPal. It's much easier and less BS. The buyer sends Bitcoin, it gets confirmed in my wallet, I ship the product. 1-2-3 done. Of course this method does not fit into ebay or PayPal's structure directly so, there are no real protections for me or the customer but, anything I sell no matter how it's paid for falls under ebay's money back guarantee.

The only difference here would be ebay and PayPal can't take the money out of my accounts and send it the customer. Yea!

NOTE: I sell specialized electronics, high value items that customers know and understand. Never had a problem. Not like selling widgets or cell phones, not much chance of scam or money back request.

 

Centralized and regulated coin
Retro site design
"World Group" with a gmail address as contact
MLM style network
Promises guaranteed profit

Must be legit...

In exchange for your vids here's an other one  :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIasr2AiyZ0

just quote of any brother, not like to waste my time. less my bitcoins.

Already now on Ebay too I have been seeing people accept also UTOKENS, another up and coming digital currency sp yes it is already happening, maybe we will see Dnotes being accepted there too soon..

This Breaking News is worth noting. This is another piece of solid evidence that within another 3 to 5 years digital currency will be accepted by the mainstream. Typical of early adoption; it is not perfect or pretty. But someone got to get it going. The way it is done through the Paypal system is neither efficient nor cost effective.

For the love of Bitcoin or to those who are fortunate enough to be in the position where money is no object, it is certainly cool. Go for it. But that should not be the ultimate goal in making digital currency to be truly superior to fiat currency. We believe that for it to happen, there must be a stable trustworthy digital currency that can truly be spent as a medium of exchange between two parties without the necessary cost burden of an intermediary. That is what DNotes is striving for. It is a long lonely journey, but that is the best pathway to be true to our mission. Otherwise we might as well stay in the same old camp and be contented with the outdated costly credit/debit card system. It has been useful and convenient. Change is never easy. Most people rather remain in their comfort zone, despite having the cost of having to endure the some pain and suffering.



 Justin OConnell  10/04/2015  Announcements, Bitcoin Business, News 4 Comments


In a long SEC filing from today, PayPal states that its merchants can now begin accepting Bitcoin. As the original text to the filing reads:

A merchant can typically open a standard PayPal account and begin accepting payments through PayPal within a few minutes. Most online or mobile merchants can onboard quickly and are not required to invest in new or specialized hardware. Our Payments Platform supports growth with a variety of value-added services designed to help businesses of all sizes manage their cash flow, invoice clients, pay bills, and reduce the need for merchants to receive and store sensitive customer financial information. For our standard service, we do not charge merchants setup or recurring fees. A merchant can also integrate with Braintree to begin accepting payments with credit or debit cards, PayPal, Venmo, digital currencies such as Bitcoin, or other payment solutions with a single integration.

In September 2014, PayPal announced it would accept Bitcoin via integration with Braintree, and the same month announced partnerships with Coinbase, BitPay and GoCoin. Via the PayPal Payment’s Hub merchants could use customizable APIs to integrate Bitcoin into their shops for digital goods. At the time, it released a video hinting at Bitcoin integration.


eBay CEO John Donahoe said in 2014 that Bitcoin would play an “important role” in eBay’s plans before the two companies agreed to a split due to a changing digital payment’s landscape.

 
“PayPal is playing the role of the intermediary, but the cost will be left up to the merchant and the payment processor,” said Scott Ellison, PayPal’s senior director of competitive intelligence and corporate strategy, at the time of the original announcement.

The digital payments firm will split from its former parent company, eBay, Inc., effective at the end of 2015. As eBay writes of the split in the filing:

…The commerce and payments landscape is rapidly changing, and each business faces different competitive opportunities and challenges. Consequently, in September 2014 the board decided to separate the businesses. As independent companies, we expect eBay and PayPal will be sharper and stronger, and more focused and competitive as leading, standalone companies in their respective markets. eBay and PayPal also will benefit from additional flexibility and agility to pursue new market and partnership opportunities.

Whether or not PayPal will pursue a more aggressive Bitcoin policy has yet to be seen.  In 2014, weighing in already on Bitcoin currency regulations, the company told the Australian Senate:

“While the currency itself should not be regulated, and transactions by individual users without the assistance of the intermediaries should not be regulated, companies that provide a financial service for digital currency transmission, for issuance or sale of digital currency, or for exchange with other currencies such as the Australian Dollar, should be regulated in a manner similar to the existing regulations that apply to other payment services… Those regulations, however, should be adapted to recognize the specific details of how different digital currencies work, particularly ‘decentralized’ digital currencies that are not controlled by a specific issuer.”

Updated: April 10, 2015 at 8:22 am CET.

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/breaking-paypal-merchants-can-now-accept-bitcoin/

This is a good point to make to students. Marketing that demographic should emphasize that DNotes Student CRISP needs no ongoing maintenance once it has been funded other then then adding additional funds if and when desired. We wont market to you, we wont send you useless snail mail and we won't sell your information to anyone. That seems like extra value at least to me.

I have often tried to describe Bitcoin as the next greatest technology revolution since the Internet and that it will bring about massive wealth and job creation. Unfortunately, most people do not have a cue as to what it means; neither do they know that the Internet has indeed been a engine of massive job and wealth creation. How massive? Try hundreds of million of jobs and hundreds of billions of new wealth. Here is one I have not heard of  and it is being acquired for $1.5 Billion. Like most startups, it began with a humble mission: “Initially the site started in 1995 as a way for founder Lynda Weinman to teach web publishing to students at an art college in Ojai, Calif. Now the Carpinteria, Calif.-based company teaches over 6,800 online courses to over 5.4 million individual and business customers, and made $140 million in revenue in 2014”.  

It has taken twenty years to be worth $1.5 Billion and their mission is limited in a fairly confined area. In contrast, DNotes is positioned to be the Digital Currency of the Future on a global scale with missions to solve multiple global problems and turn them into global opportunities. We do know that DNotes is worth $1.2 million today or 1.2 cents per DNotes according to CoinmarketCap. How much could it be worth in 20 years?

We do not know. What I do know is that to fully exploit this rare opportunity, we must position DNotes with a solid foundation and be uniquely different than our industry peers. It is not how fast we get to accomplish our missions but how certain that we will accomplish them. Could DNotes be worth $1.5 billion one day?



Karis Hustad - Staff writer
04/09/15 @3:59pm in Tech


Need to learn Spanish, HTML code, or InDesign? Soon, you can take a course on LinkedIn.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company announced it is acquiring lynda.com, an educational website that produces instructional videos on business, technology, and creative skills. The deal, worth $1.5 billion, indicates a growing financial interest in edtech, and marks a step by LinkedIn to be a source for more than just professional social networking.

lynda.com is a subscription-based service that offers customers online courses and video tutorials. Starting at $25 per month for full access to the site's library, users can learn everything from building a Wordpress website to learning Italian.

Initially the site started in 1995 as a way for founder Lynda Weinman to teach web publishing to students at an art college in Ojai, Calif. Now the Carpinteria, Calif.-based company teaches over 6,800 online courses to over 5.4 million individual and business customers, and made $140 million in revenue in 2014. In January, the company announced it raised over $186 million from venture capitalists and investors-- the biggest round of edtech financing to date.

What's even better than $186 million in funding? A $1.5 billion acquisition. The deal, which will be finalized by next quarter and is LinkedIn's biggest acquisitions to date, is 52 percent cash and 48 percent stock, with "most" lynda.com employees transferred over to LinkedIn, according to a release. No word yet on whether it will affect offices in Chicago, where LinkedIn has over 280 mostly sales and marketing employees.

Weinman said she sees the move to LinkedIn as opening up a new range of customers to the benefits self-motivated learning.

"LinkedIn has nearly 350 million members, all of whom potentially benefit from self-paced study of new skills," she wrote in a LinkedIn post announcing the acquisition. "Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn, and I both believe that the skills gap is one of the leading social issues of our time — technology changes fast and people need to keep their skills up to date."

What does this mean for LinkedIn? A step beyond the traditional social network. Ryan Rolansky, head of content products at LinkedIn, points out in a blog post that future job seekers could check what skills are needed in a job description, or most desired in a geographic area, and immediately take a course through lynda.com's video library on LinkedIn to gain that skill. Weiner sees skill-building as a natural partner to networking.

"When I look at lynda.com’s platform, I see a best-in-class collection of high-quality, premium content that is focused on professional skills — hundreds of thousands of videos, comprising thousands of full courses — that make it possible for anybody to easily and effectively acquire a skill needed to get their first job, get a promotion, land a business deal or advance their career," he wrote in a post on LinkedIn.

http://chicagoinno.streetwise.co/2015/04/09/linkedin-lynda-social-networking-site-buys-education-platform/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=dd&utm_campaign=2015_04_10&ak=60b850f382f9ac6e30f0340f72814830ed072b65

Time to buy *moar* DNotes  , good sales prices for students recently join CRISP. Just buying a few milions satoshis in localbitcoins hope catch a bag in time. I have 1 high school near my house maybe sunday go and post a flyer for monday students see it, maybe someone join CRISP. This days is raining hope spring give us sun for next week.

Thanks, Grandmama. We have a great team here. It is a little easier to work hard when it is rewarding to know that we are providing opportunities that are beneficial to others.

Nice job on all fronts here!

And.. just like not taking time for themselves to be on top of their own health and well being, from stats on saving to have money to retire with, they are not taking care of themselves for their future finances.  That is where Crytomoms comes in at.  Women in general need to take care of themselves in all aspects, career, health and finance.

Hi Mark. Thanks for your continued support. Among various projects that have been keeping me busy, I have been spending some time studing various exchanges. Do you happen to know Igot exchange located in Australia? You can PM me if that is more appropriate. Thanks.

Quietly reading.

Mark

Developers Worldwide Compete in Second Coinbase Bitcoin Hackathon
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/19943/developers-worldwide-compete-second-coinbase-bitcoin-hackathon/

This could be a fun project for DNotes one day to promote the creation of DNotes apps.