Topic: [ANN][NOTE]DNotes - Celebrating DNotes 3rd Birthday - Forum Now Open - page 308. (Read 814544 times)

I think at some point very soon (3-7 days?) a critical mass will be reached and like it or not, NOTE will inevitably rocket through it's first pump. Once that growth starts going parabolic and people start jumping on the wagon, there's nothing you can do but hold on to the rollercoaster and get ready for the spike. Happens to all coins, even the ones trying to remain hidden. DNOtes is a blistering investment right now, and pretty soon the rest of cryptoville is going to be knocking at the door. Take your positions gentlemen - we're going uuuuup!

Thanks, RJF.

I'm a member there and have suggested DNotes inclusion. I'm not sure of their procedure but should hear back shortly. Will advise...

Thanks for bringing Bleutrade to our attention. I know of them as a startup in Brazil serving the Latin America market. I am quite impressed by their PR/social media efforts. We have not made any attempts to have DNotes listed on their exchange but will support it if someone from our community is willing to take the lead. Eventually we expect that most exchanges will want to list DNotes. However, since CRISP for Students is meant to serve a worldwide market right from the beginning, it does make sense to expand our international exposure. We are interested to have feedback and comments from our community.

Tried to get listed on Bleutrade?

Buying support for DNotes remained very strong. What a difference a week makes. I remember just a couple of weeks ago I felt quite frustrated, on a number of occasions, watching DNotes being sold below 4000 sat. despite good press coverage and new projects launched.  Historically, DNotes has consistently been creating higher highs and higher lows. When a good opportunity is missed, it gone and not likely to come back. Over the long term DNotes has significant potential for further appreciation, based on its strategic growth path. 6,000 sat seems to be the current line of resistance. We have never seen such strong support before. The odds are that it will break that and make 6,250 to 6,750 the new trading range. Of course, that is just my personal opinion.

It is an excellent idea, RJF. I am glad you have it well defined and now on record. It can certainly be a future charity project. At this point, our plate is full. We will be best served focusing on what we have on hand and other projects we have committed to for the balance of 2015. Following the launch of CRISP For Students we will be rolling CRISP For Employee Incentive Benefits scheduled to be launched during the week of May 18, 2015. The last one, CRISP For Charities, will follow sometime in late June or July, 2015.

good ideas ! a CRISP for travel to Aruba LOL  maybe mix such concepts

Hey looks like price finish 50% uptrend wanna be stabiliced between 5 -6 k each Dnotes if broken again go easy to 7k or 9k each Dnotes , Lots of miners heard the Dnotes uptrend sound, difficult go up arround 150,, (ballbreaking for little miners) let see if new ones are holders or dumpers.

A thought for the future,

I'm sitting here at my desk in the museum this morning watching the freezing rain and ice thinking about closing for the day when it hit me that there is a whole class of projects that DNotes my want to be involved with in the not so distant future. Aside from our paid staff, we have a very large volunteer workforce that provides manpower for special events and functions. In reality, we would be hard pressed to present most of the programs and learning events without them. At first I thought it would be nice to have a CR.I.S.P. for these volunteers but, I think something new and more encompassing would be in order, but a CR.I.S.P. would be a start.

These people, on average, put in hundreds of hours or more a year supporting the facility. While we provide food and accolades for their hard work, there is no real fund to support THEIR causes. Perhaps some sort of Volunteer Appreciation Fund that could be setup by individual agencies that use volunteer help to offset the cost of providing perks, food, get togethers, and assistance to these groups. I haven't thought it out fully yet but, there are hundreds of things that could be provided to these folks if money were available without endangering their volunteer status. And, it would expose more mature people to digital currency.

Something to think about in the future, volunteers are a huge group of people not really serviced by anyone other than the agencies they volunteer for. While this includes Fire, EMS, ALS, and Emergency Management, it would really be for those not often thought about such as hospitals, schools, museums, and just about every public agency and many private companies as well.

Just wanted to get it out there before my mind moved on to something else...    (Like a nice vacation in Aruba)

We have a couple of options. If we reach out to professors and teachers, verify them through manual review, and give them the ability to distribute voucher codes. Eventually teachers and professors will reach out to us as I'm sure anyone teaching about cryptocurrency wants their students to be able to have cryptocurrency they can 'mess around with'.

If a student reaches out to us, they could as you said, scan their student ID for manual review. Or we can request they reach out to an appropriate facilitator in their schools administration to contact us.

Using an automated system is far too susceptible to abuse and requires round the clock monitoring, a semi-manual process will be far more effective and much less time consuming.

Great post TeeGee! 

1: Best way to mitigate cunning students from scamming the system by registering more than once with separate e-mails (let's be honest... who doesn't want more DNotes?  ).

It's actually not the students that worry me as far as taking advantage of this.  Is there any reason why the student can't provide verification that they are who they say they are?  Perhaps a reference (researchable if necessary), in the form of a contactable email, from a teacher, professor, or other school staff.  It might encourage the student to get together with a few others and get the reference for all of them.  It may also help make school staff aware of such a program.  If a student absolutely does not want to approach a teacher or professor about this, a scan of their student card could do the trick.

Students applying for any kind of financial aid, are required to provide a ridiculous amount of personal and financial information about not only themselves, but their parents as well.  I don't think this is too much to ask of them.

I know it's a lot of extra work, but it would help to ensure we are getting real students into this amazing program.

Thanks TeeGee and RJF, very impressive, the possibilities are endless. CR.I.S.P. for Students is potentially the most important CR.I.S.P. program for the future of DNotes. It will be a launching pad for a large scale initiative.

Those are excellent suggestions. You just got ahead of my post which answered some of your comments.
We like K through 8 to sign up using CRISP for Kids through CryptoMoms. We plan to start an awareness campaign for CryptoMoms soon. I strongly encourage our lady stakeholders to message me if they like to help out CryptoMoms. We have a lot going on. Community support and participation is becoming increasingly important.

Thanks, TeeGee.  Excellent post. I strongly encourage our student shakeholders to participate and help out in any way possible. Others who have family members or friends who are students may want help introduce this program to those students. Although our initial targets are university and college students, all students are welcome to sign up for this program. As always, we roll out our projects in controlled small scale so that they can be fine tuned and improved before we launch a major campaign. Your participation, comments, and suggestions are invaluable and well appreciated. Thank you.

All excellent ideas! I think the emphasis should shift slightly to High School and that age group as well as college and graduate school. Good saving practices start while we are young. Perhaps even design a program for parents to setup plans while kids are in K through 8. I know how hard it is to save if you don't start early. I worked my way through school and it wasn't easy. So how about targeting the following:

1. K through 8 parent directed plan, get kids used to saving money the new way

2. High School specific plan, student and/or parent directed

3. College/Grad School plan self directed with parent option.

Also, a concerted, professional effort should be developed and aimed directly at colleges, universities and graduate schools. Perhaps they could somehow be involved at a level that provides matching funds or donations. Schools should make this info available to prospective entrants and assist them as they do now with traditional loans and and other financial instruments.

And, perhaps unique or a first for this plan, get some charities involved! Gates and others like him talk a good game about how digital currency is a good thing, lets see if they will put some money where they mouths are. A envision a "matching funds" type of engagement. Especially for those students taking a technology track. Kinda like a crypto scholarship for tech with DNotes.

Just some thoughts...

I was going to post this sooner, but ended up spending the whole day several hours drive away from home! But here we are... This will be the first post of many.


Hello fellow DNotes community members! As you may be aware, the DNote's team plan on rolling out CRISP for students the week beginning march the 30th. I would like to ask the community for feedback and ideas about what you think would make a great program that provides incentives for young students to enter the cryptosphere, and save their DNotes with the goal that they will provide an escape from rising student loan debt. The first objective is to give interested students the ownership/user experience of DNotes without having to purchase them. The second objective is to provide a large variety of bounty offerings to students where they may participate in projects that will further the DNotes strategic vision (like marketing etc).

The original offering will be a registration page where Students can enter their email address, DNotes address, university, and courses of study with the option to leave personalised messages for the DNotes team. After the initial 200 accounts paying 500 DNotes are used up, separate universities and other groups will be provided with unique codes that they will be able to distribute to their attending members, who will then register with their individual details listed above to be gifted DNotes (100 initially), with each unique user being able to use the code once.

In this initial posting, I am interested in community ideas that meet the two primary objectives outlined above for:

1: Best way to mitigate cunning students from scamming the system by registering more than once with separate e-mails (let's be honest... who doesn't want more DNotes?  ).
2: Future ideas that could be improve or complement the student CRISP in future.
3: The most effective mediums to promote CRISP for students and its launch - Facebook groups, bitcointalk, twitter, student forums, infographics etc?
4: The best way to communicate value of cryptocurrency, and DNotes to students. For example: "Heard of Bitcoin...? yeah? Well, this coin is more stable and appropriate to be used as money, and one day in the future your 100 DNotes could be worth $x, if you look at the DNotes price chart, you will see there is every possibility that DNotes will be even better than Bitcoin over the long term!"
5: Any modifications I should make to this list for the community to consider? (1.30am so I might have missed something, but will edit and maybe re-post tomorrow after reading all of your replies!).


I'd like to thank this awesome community for its great work and many posts on this forum, I track the forum views so thought I'd show this (keep in mind it is NZ date/time):

24/02/2015 8:34pm - 191065
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Sadly I missed recording 27th and 28th due to working, but you can see the 3 day average is nearly 900 views per day (when the prices and forum activity increased significantly), versus the ~400 - 500 page views before that. Keep up the good work and post for DNotes! Best community in crypto by a long shot.

I will contact those of you who have shown an interest in helping promote the student CRISP via PM tomorrow. If there are more of you who would like to participate, please feel free to message me.

This paints a very scary and realistic picture. The thing about the interest rates is the US government will never increase them because the interest payments will be crippling. Despite the FED being privately owned, it is run by the state and can be counted as an arm of Government. The only thing that will make the US begin to lift the interest rates is when the true crash is about to occur. When nobody is willing to loan money to the US government to continue its frivolous spending, it will be forced to lift the interest rate offered on Government bonds to attract more people to purchase Government debt (see Japan). When this occurs, the state is between such a large rock and hard place because it needs to draw down more loans to continue functioning, which means raising the interest rate, but ALSO can't afford to pay the increased interest on the debt once the interest rate is raised.

Just have a look at Japan... textbook crash on the way... I think there is a reason why they have gone through 5 finance ministers in the last 2 years (three in the last year - lost one to suicide).

Interesting indeed but USD may not be such a good safe haven. An increase in US interest rate could have serious ramifications

There are reasons for concern and here is why a diversified investment portfolio should include 10% high risk investment with high potential returns. There are no assurances that Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency is the right choice for the high risk component but more professional investors are taking a serious look.

“It gets scarier. National debt interest rates are historically low at the moment – around 2.5 percent.  When they rise, interest payments will rise exponentially thanks to the wonders of compounding rates. Say interest rates rise to 5 percent – still low by historical standards. That means we will owe nearly $1 trillion a year in interest alone. That’s about two-thirds of what the federal government brings in each year in total income tax revenue!”

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KITCHEN TABLE ECONOMICS


DECEMBER 5, 2014

Last week, the national debt surpassed $18 trillion. That’s $124,000 for each American household or $56,378 per individual. It took the country 205 years to accumulate its first trillion dollars of debt in 1981, but has only taken us 403 days to accumulate our most recent trillion. It’s hard to even think about numbers that big; if you were to count to a million it would take one week; if you wanted to count to a trillion it would take 31 thousand years.

Like with our personal debt, there may actually be some advantages to taking on debt. The flatscreen TV and Christmas presents we purchase with debt likely increase our standard of living and wellbeing. But this short term gain is often paid for with long term pain. And the currency of this pain is interest.

Interest is the price of debt. So, when we buy a TV on a payment plan, we are actually buying two things: the TV and the debt that goes with it. While a few extra dollars spent on interest each month may be worth it to see our favorite football players in HD, too much of our income spent interest can seriously reduce our quality of life because we must forgo other purchases to pay for it.

This is the point that the country has reached with its interest on the national debt.
Last year, the U.S. spent $430 billion on interest payments alone. This means that every year, tax payers are spending $3,500 just on interest payments. This is money that isn’t going to pay for roads, bridges, education, medical research or defense.

It gets scarier. National debt interest rates are historically low at the moment – around 2.5 percent.  When they rise, interest payments will rise exponentially thanks to the wonders of compounding rates. Say interest rates rise to 5 percent – still low by historical standards. That means we will owe nearly $1 trillion a year in interest alone. That’s about two-thirds of what the federal government brings in each year in total income tax revenue!

Fewer services and higher taxes – Uncle Sam’s spendthrift ways could end up hurting us all.

https://www.informationstation.org/kitchen_table_econ/the-u-s-is-now-18-trillion-in-debt/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=googlegrants2015&gclid=CjwKEAiA68WnBRCJxZr5qoaL3iMSJAAXIrr3JOtLKeAkI9GcdiyIkgiyYdVc1KaZBvZd8MkiyVtjoBoCm3Hw_wcB

Interesting article on European Q.E. strategies and why they are failing:

http://cointelegraph.com/news/113576/why-the-european-central-bank-is-paving-the-way-for-cryptocurrencies-op-ed

Of course! Always glad help out!