This roadmap was sent to Vern at Cryptsy to continue showing why DGB should be added and it's long term vision.
DigiRoadMap 2014
Mission Statement
DigiByte is a professional decentralized crypto currency designed to become a worldwide payment system for merchants and consumers to easily and quickly buy and sell goods and services over the internet, in store or person to person.
Vision Statement
DigiByte is to become a billion dollar world-wide payment system that will change the way people of all races, nationalities and backgrounds purchase or sell every day goods and services. Within the next twelve to twenty-four months you will be able to walk into a store and with the press of a button on a smart phone purchase your coffee, groceries or rent a movie.
The Four Phases of Crypto Currency Technology & DigiByte
Phase 1 (2009-2012): Initial creation & Development of crypto technology that laid out the foundation for DigiByte to be built upon.
Phase 2 (2013-Present): Adoption within small “theme” based tech communities on the internet. We believe we are now approaching the end of this phase and the current production of “meme” theme based coins will begin to dwindle or be pushed to the side. DigiByte was conceptualized & launched during this phase.
Phase 3 (Late 2013 – Mid 2014): Sophisticated & Institutional Investors come on board. This is the phase we are excited for and are currently working to market ourselves toward. DigiByte will excel here as investors look to a promising coin with long term potential.
Phase 4 (Mid 2014-2015): Main stream adoption by the average consumer to purchase goods & services. DigiByte will rise to dominance.
Major DigiByte Goals Next 6-12 Months
1) Develop Digi-Pay & Merchant API tools. We want to make DigiByte a very simple & cost effective payment method for merchants to adopt. Think of Digi-Pay as a hybrid cross between CoinBase and BitPay.
2) To become a bridge for the average consumer into crypto technology. We want to make DigiByte as simple and as easy to understand as possible. We want to provide people with all the materials they need to quickly adopt and understand the crypto technology underlying DigiByte.
3) Reach out to lawmakers, regulators, financial industry leaders and become a vocal cooperative voice to further crypto technology and DigiByte.
Upcoming DigiByte Milestones Next 3 Months
• Promote and explain DigiShield in much better detail.
• Develop an easy to understand DigiByte promo video.
• Develop easy to understand marketing materials for the average consumer.
• Get added to Cryptsy.
• Promote and participate in AGX.io launch.
• Attend the Crypto Convention in New York. This will be a huge boost for us and we look forward to cementing many face to face relationships with other crypto leaders and investors.
• Approach Bitpay & Coinbase about adding DigiByte as a payment system.
• Approach/Pitch DigiByte to Overstock.com, TigerDirect.com and a few other large retailers.
• Begin sending informative, easy to understand informational packets to politicians, regulators and financial industry leaders describing how DigiByte and crypto technology is beneficial.
Code Development Goals Next 3 Months
• Update DigiByte to latest Bitcoin client code.
• Develop light version of wallet for speed.
• Consider a coin mixing service or tor network addition.
• Reasearch btcd, a full node bitcoin implementation in the Go language, by conformal systems (
https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/btcd ) and investigate migrating btcd into the DigiByte ecosystem.
Community Reward Bounties
• Promotional Video – 1 Million DigiByte Reward
• Digiman Marketing Images – Take the existing DigiMan and put him in several other poses. 500,000 DGB
• How To Guides – Short concise professional guides explaining how to do various tasks related to DigiByte. 25,000 DGB per guide.
People We are Looking to Add to the Team:
• Outside investor(s) to help with Digi-Pay, money transmitter Licenses, FinCEN regulations etc. This needs to be the right person or group of people that we can cement a professional long term relationship with.
• Chinese liaison /consultant who understands the Chinese culture, crypto technology, the western business world and what we are trying to achieve with DigiByte.
