An end note from a reformed former political junkie: if you can sell Monero to big corporations on that basis, you will have influential "friends in court" to fend off any Drug-War-style crackdown on anonymous currencies by TPTB. Of course, that means you gotta schmooze them - perhaps through hitting it off with their kids...
Its easier than you might think. They want it already and are just waiting for the solution.
Multinational Corporations have come to me looking to answer this problem. Some are already doing it.
Monero is still too immature, not enough liquidity yet, and the MNC decision cycles are not short, but if CryptoNote continues on the current path, it is the best contender yet for new entrants from that constituency.
Most likely it's easier than I think because I'm stuck in my parents' basement.
But thanks for your dispatch from the outside world: we need more of them. There's so much 'FckBks' lingo around here, and so easy to get sucked into it, we-all need first-person heads-up reports like yours from time to time. Again, thanks for it.
If you don't mind me asking, how did you get around the PR-unfriendly cloud that's hanging over Bitcoin right now?
There's no getting around the PR-cloud. That's part of why the users of the first CryptoNote coin kept it quiet.
The MNCs have departments that do exploratory work with disruptive technologies. Monero is still too immature for use, and likely will be for a good while yet, but the questions are being asked.
When disruption occurs, they all want to be on the side of the disruption that wins.
The banks are a different story though, many are under the thumb of a central bank that is not fond of decentralization, only talked to a couple of those and the people in the disruptive research group are not optimistic about and real involvement, but most multinationals aren't banks. Manufacturing, shipping, communication, distribution companies, franchises.
There were a couple banks that have made appearances at Bitcoin events for exploratory research purposes. The 500startups bitcoin gathering in SF a few months back had a few from UK even.
