Topic: DNotes 2.0 - Staking, CRISP Interest, DNotes Pay - page 334. (Read 148866 times)

Delighted to see you, Brandon. Despite a sharp correction, it has been a great week for DNotes. There are good indications that DNotes has been getting a noticeable increased level of interest from professional investors. Although DNotes is still significantly under-valued, it is good to see that all the hard work we put in over the last three years is beginning to payoff. We appreciate your continued support very much. Looking forward to seeing you again at the Smokeys Gardens' open house next month when tens of thousands of daylilies will be in full bloom.

RJF, we are always very happy to see you. Kevin (Smokey) is doing very well. He is an amazing guy and an inspiration to all of us.

The farm (Smokeys Gardens: https://smokeysgardens.com/) has grown a lot since your last visit. We expanded from 38 to 70 acres with many more gorgeous daylilies. We are now by far the largest daylily grower in the world. As you may remember from our earlier conversation, we started 10 years ago with $500 with a commitment to be equal to and subsequently better than any of our competitors. It has been a long journey with relentless dedication to do whatever it takes to be the best in class. We did it and I am very proud and appreciative of our team.

DNotes is following the same business model. Our commitment is to be equal to our best competitor one day. We are totally dedicated to our vision of DNotes meeting the full functions of money and ultimately be superior to fiat currency. It is a Big Bold idea of global scale and scope but that is what it must take for digital currency to gain mass acceptance worldwide. It's a massive undertaking and that is why I spent a whole year to write a book "Improve Your Odds - The Four Pillars of Business Success" https://fourpillarsofbusinesssuccess.com/ with a chapter each dedicated to Smokeys Gardens and DNotes. We will soon have a daylily officially registered and named "DNotes"

We are doing amazing things at DNotes with a lot happening at the farm. For the last few months, continuing through much of this summer, we have been using the farm as our training, conference, strategic planning, and video production center. You are always welcome to visit us if you happen to be in the area.  


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PS: All caught up, wow, things are looking very good. I applaud your decision to go POS, gives you much better control of the coin and everyone gets to share in the pie, not just the miners. Nice move. I'm especially interested in the smart contract inclusion as I'm following similar efforts elsewhere. I have always felt this tech has great promise and will be very interested in DNotes implementation. How do you intend to guarantee the transactions? Escrow? If so, single or double? Will the contracts be revocable by any single party?

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Good to note that you like our decision to go POS. I rather not get ahead ourselves on technical details at this time. I can say that we will be a significant player in the blockchain and smart contract arena.

There are two words that I don't mind if I never read or hear again: "pump" and "dump"!  Anyway, DNotes future looks very bright indeed. I'm so glad to see everyone is still here, Hi Alan!, hows Smokey and the farm?

Welcome back RJF! Great to see more old faces returning to the forum to say hello. I am in agreement with you that intellectually stimulating discourse beyond the "price" of a coin by its adherents is difficult to come by. The signature contest is now over, but we may look into a similar contest in the future. Please post again when you've caught up with all the content in this thread.

Finally! Something intellectually stimulating to read on BCT again!    Great to see Dnote's new forum and talk to the crew! I have missed the old forum quite a bit. It was easy to keep up with everything on a daily basis for someone with limited time. Great to see everyone here again!

PS: Did I miss the signature contest? Haven't had time to read all the new posts as of yet...

That is a good point Tim, we have setup several programs to help get people easily started in DNotes and begin learning about it. It would be great to come up with a way to get a small amount of DNotes into the hands of people that are interested in getting started and learning more. The challenge is being able to do with in such a way that cannot be exploited and also does not require a lot of manual intervention.

You put that so well felixir. And dipping that toe in the water to be part of something so fundamental to the future can be really cheap. Maybe not if they're not aware or wanting to have a fraction of a BTC. But if you want a few DNotes, you can get them cheaper than almost any other form of entertainment.

Well Teegee, i remember how enthusiastic you were about the project back at the start of 2015, and can see from the various videos / interviews online staring yourself, how your input has spread the word to so many people. I'm really glad to say "Hey, i know that guy", as its clear that hard work by yourself and the rest of your team is paying off.

I have used a the "Introduction to DNotes - an Unfolding Big Bold Idea of Global Scale" video as a Digital currency 101 to show friends and family who are interested but haven't quite grasped the background, potential and future capabilities of digital currency. The videos you have are clear, concise and are presented in a really digestable format.

If you guys ever need any new online services or require any beta testers for anything (Dnotes 2.0 website etc.) i am more than happy to help, and can also circulate amongst my group of friends who work by day and trade by night. Keep up the good work!

For some of them, it wasn't even about money to begin with and still isn't, it's about being an early adopter and learning something new, something that isn't written in any history book but will change the course of the future for many generations.

You sir, are a smart, smart man. Allow me a little leeway and meandering a bit to explain exactly why.

Sadly, many (almost all) friends and acquaintances of mine have not heeded my pleas for them to "get some skin in the game." But I can understand why. Our national impulses are towards stasis. We literally hate losses WAY more than equivalent gains. Losing hurts way more than similar winning. I was a shitty hedge fund trader because I get too emotional about my investments. Most people do, which is why probabilistically structured zero-sum games like day-trading and poker are profitable in the long-term for only 5% of people.

I was tutored by a luminary in the poker game back in the day on how to apply the Nash Equilibrium to single table tournament poker (and with a little finesse, multi-table tourneys). That's great. But lots of people (relatively speaking) can understand that stuff. That didn't make a player special, or especially profitable.

Here's why, by way of example: I was the chipleader going into the final table of a 22,000 person tournament with life-changing top three money, and had just outplayed and eliminated the #1 ranked online player in the world a few moments back to amass a lot of chips. I was locked in and playing some of the best cards of my life. And then I outplayed players in 2 different hands right after the final table started, to get them to commit all their chips to the middle when 80-90% underdogs. I got horribly horribly unlucky in both spots and crashed out in 9th for ok money. That's poker. There is a certain class of people who are rare, who can literally play their next hand with completely optimal rationality. Me? I went on tilt and played like a tool at large stake cash games and lost the lion's share of my profit.

The point? I am not slating my friends for not being fast followers of my altcoin strategies. But I wish more would. Because they would, right now, be able to pay off their mortgages with altcoin gains if they listened to me. But they didn't. And most won't until all of this is mainstream.

So coming back around to my first statement: good on you for taking the leap. And I deeply, existentially mean that.

I'm big into philosophy. I actually named by firstborn son, Soren, after my hero Kierkegaard. He once wrote in the Concluding Unscientific Postscript:“What if, rather than speaking or dreaming of an absolute beginning, we speak of a leap?”

At some point in the human experience, all the reason in the world doesn't matter. Because we aren't reasonable beings. In fact the entire field of economics is based off of creating this idealized version of man, the "homo economicus" who makes totally rational decisions all of the time. (side note: this harvard white paper is one of the best things I've ever read about the upcoming AI revolution. AI literally perfects extant economic theory: https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/25622971/_aiEcon.pdf

We use reason as a fundamental tool, and far, far better than any other species, to be sure. But as Einstein said “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”

And so, given all of modernity weighing itself upon you: to truly, intuitively take on board a given point of view back before it had much rational merit in terms of popularity.....you deserve an absurd amount of credit.

Hey felixir!

Great to have you visit our forum. It has indeed been a long time since I saw you and got you to sign up to our "CRISP for Students program". The funny thing about the program, is that the 500 DNotes you received were probably worth some 2-3 dollars max at the time. Now those same 500 are worth more than one 100 US dollars. Not bad for just signing up an email account online huh! Back at that time, it wasn't common at all for people to hold Bitcoin, and I was surprised to hear you had some.

Do continue to drop us a line time to time!

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Come the beginning of 2014, I purchased a high end computer that I could play games on if I so desired. I equipped it with an R9 280x. A few days after purchasing, I saw a friend posting about mining "dogecoin", and the hash that he was pulling using his GPU. It interested me to know what mine could do, because I have a strange desire to know things about things I don't even care about. So I went and downloaded CGMiner, aimed it at a pool, and began mining dogecoin. I quickly decided doge was a joke, and aimed my miner at Litecoin for a few weeks. I got particularly excited when I realized I was mining 5 or so dollars worth of Litecoin daily on my machine, running it 24 hours, that I could actually trade for 'modern money'. It had a value.

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Soon after, I found myself doing research and other various tid bits to help out however I could, and I officially joined the project not long later at the end of 2014. Today I have foregone an unwanted career in doing whatever my study of economics, biotechnology, and information systems (business strategy and datasystem software development life cycle) would have led me to, and am instead in the USA working with the team personally, doing exactly what I wanted to do, and creating the kind of world I want to live in, while making money as I do it.

It's amazing what change can happen in just 3 and a half years in your life! It's something that everybody here has made possible.

"The essential principle of business, of occupation in the world is this: figure out a way to get paid for playing." -Alan Watts

I recall reading a pop-psychology book called "blink", some ~10-12 years ago at my best guess, when I was 18 that was centered around the concepts you have outlined, or the ability for experts to "thin-slice" situations intuitively. Evolution has honed our social intelligence, allowing us to read people accurately on first impressions (some are better than others). For example, an art expert can 'thin-slice' a 2000 year old painting, and in the blink of an eye know whether it is a fake. This means speed-dating may not be such a bad idea - if you trust your first impression. It also brings to the front of the mind the reason that the first impression of your business is so crucial, and why DNotes has taken the approach that it has, rather than trying to drum up meaningless excitement that only lasts the short-term. Potential stakeholders will decide very quickly if they trust you, so what have you done to earn their trust?

Excellent advice, Warren Buffet is an extremely rational and conservative investor, only willing to take chances when he knows the probability of gain is significantly greater than chances of loss. The proof that this simple, highly prudent method works is reflected in his net worth and the long term success of his company. Speaking of Berkshire Hathaway, the future DNotes VC platform will slightly resemble the basic business model they use, but with some revolutionary upgrades that will make that business model more viable for the ever growing digital economy.

In investing, in life, and in business there many reasons why some are more successful than others. Many of the contributors to success are obvious and grounded on common sense. But when we are over-powered by greed and fear most people tend to be reactive and just follow the crowd.

Investing in digital currencies and blockchain related situations today is challenging, and at times nerve-racking. There is no fundamental value or instinct value. It is nearly impossible to verify the “impressive road-map” beautifully represented in stunning graphics, or the people behind it. When you can, do extensive research or due diligence before investing. Knowledge will give you better judgement to pick more winners than losers.  And follow the “Buffet Rule.”

“A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.” Warren Buffet.

Where To Get Greedy Now That Others Are Fearful
Forbes
FEB 4, 2014
Bryan Rich, Contributor

Warren Buffett wrote a famous op-ed piece in the New York Times in October 2008 in which he that said the following:
“A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. And most certainly, fear is now widespread, gripping even seasoned investors. To be sure, investors are right to be wary of highly leveraged entities or businesses in weak competitive positions. But fears regarding the long-term prosperity of the nation’s many sound companies make no sense. These businesses will indeed suffer earnings hiccups, as they always have. But most major companies will be setting new profit records 5, 10 and 20 years from now.”
Everyone should read this, because it shows you the mindset of a great investor and how great investors react when the stock market falls.  Instead of running in fear, great investors welcome market corrections as opportunities to buy on the cheap.

Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2014/02/04/where-to-get-greedy-now-that-others-are-fearful/#98166c82d460

Hi suziebirds, I would recommend using DNotesVault. All DNotes stored on the vault are kept in offline cold storage and are fully backed by a guarantee fund, making it the safest place by far to store your DNotes. DNotesVault will also help make the transition to DNotes 2.0 and proof of stake much easier. Instead of swapping your DNotes 1.0 for DNotes 2.0 manually, the process will be taken care of for you and you can go on using DNotes as usual.

www.dnotesvault.com is the place to store your DNotes

Hi! I hold my Dnotes in c-cex exchange,that is safe? Where is the best place to holding my notes?