Rather than tie yourself up with all the headaches fiat brings to the table, why not focus on integrating some sort of decentralized method of exchanging bitcredits for BTC and vice-versa right from the wallet? If anyone needs fiat, they can take their BTC to an existing exchange that has already done all that legwork. Wouldn't a three-way multi-sig transaction effectively allow the banks to act as escrow?
A decentralized exchange is feasible, but i'd like to give current implementations a few more months so that they can be reviewed by professionals. They are definitely an improvement and headed in the right direction and would solve a lot of issues for us. One most immediate advantage i'd like to use is the ability to trade ANY crypto directly to BCR without risk of a middle man or exchange rate manipulation.
I fully see what you are saying, I am focused on a fiat platform for the the following reasons:-
Easy fiat-BCR conversion opens up a line of investment, the strongest.
Major investment comes from fiat, not bitcoin. If we truly want to be a serious venture, then within 6 months we need to open an avenue for fiat investments to come in. Try to think of it this way, if you could go online, pay your $100 dollar utility bills and just as easily purchase $6 worth of BCR to hold/trade or use, would it not encourage more investment due to ease?
Fiat investment also allows us to offset the effects of the pump and dump gangs who usually leave fledgling currencies in tatters. This happens because the sudden jump in price that can be caused by 10 BTC would send the market reeling, then as users jump in the fray at high prices, the 10 BTC buyer who bought the bulk at below 1000 satoshi, proceeds to dump. Immediate effects are a backlash (misdirected) at the project leaders, and later a lack of trust. Direct fiat investment offsets these effects because instead of relying on the ultra hard to get BTC, people can buy small bits and pieces with as little as $5 and the currency will gain tangible real support.
I always lament how difficult it is to turn my euros into BTC then proceed to trade that for BCR or any other alt, or the reverse. Because if i could, everytime i go online to trade, i would buy maybe $5 worth. It's a insignificant amount, but if you consider a month that is $150, money that most hesitate to just throw in, in one go. And if there are a hundred people investing an average of $2 a day, there would be a constant buy pressure of $200 a day, $ 6000 a month. if we plug in those numbers into the current market, you can see the huge difference it would have, and the biggest boon of this would be that it is actual support, conscious support in small amounts that accumulates and forms a strong base. This is fiat numbers at these low prices, can you imagine the actual support that would stem from people discovering this?
If we today tried to raise the required $1000 dollars for our mobile wallet in BTC, it is highly unlikely we would ever reach that amount in any meaningful time frame, however if we had fiat facilities, and 100 users who love their mobiles each gave $10 to the cause, we'd have the wallet by next monday.
The BTC funding scene is so full of scams, weirdness and dead promises, allowing ourselves to fall into that cesspit will result in failure. We need direct fluid migration of value between BCR and world currencies in order to attract users/investors. This is the very first step in expanding our user base. If we can prove this ease, then we can push real merchant and payment processor adoption. The moment it becomes easy to conduct business in BCR and to trade between it and any currency, be it digital crypto or fiat we will see immense gains.
If i had a reliable partner, we could approach this issue from both fronts because like you said a decentralized crypto-crypto exchange is ideal. i will keep thinking on this and maybe we can have a situation where we can satisfy both plans in the next two months.