Shapeshift is awesome, but we also need a fiat -> SDC exchange for ease of use for beginners. That's why bitcoin has been able to attract so many new people because of coinbase, circle, etc.
You are welcome to become a reseller of prypto cards at prypto.com and start selling them on ebay or wherever else for cash if you are so inclined. You can customise the cards in your own way too. The business is legit and has all the resource and contacts for the job. All under one umbrella. There are plenty of ways, i believe the market is just not there yet. So i also feel that regurgitating the same crap over and over in this thread is getting really old ( "we need, this needs, devs need to") as though owning a bit entitles you to be like that.
I tell you it dosn't, not in that way. I believe it EMPOWERS you as a proactive community member to take these things you come up with by your own initiative and run with them. That is the core spirit of all of this open source CRYPTO. Lets call them "Have A Go Projects."
I believe it is what Satoshi was aiming for and is what we should all still be trying to encourage... always. Because if we leave it up someone else we will inevitably end up right back where we started with government etc etc.
I agree with that mentality, and the prypto thing is a good idea. But do realize there are multiple types of people in the world, some that come up with ideas, some that implement them, and some that organize groups in order to accomplish those ideas. It's ok if people want to chip in and contribute ideas or suggests, I implore those that have the skills to execute on them to do so, and if they don't, then they should seek to find those that can. If I see something that should be done, and have the skill set to do it, then I attempt to do so. I personally can't set up a fiat exchange, but I would certainly do what I could to spread the word and seek to attain mass adoption for someone if they laid the groundwork. I know some of the programmers in the slack discussion have begun collaborating on how it can be done and who can do what -- this is what we need.
Everyone can be a spoke in the wheel, it's just a matter if figuring out where one's skills can be applied.
It takes the natural evolution of free markets, and that takes
time. We've all seen dozens of projects that tried to shortcut this process (e.g., Paycoin) and they all turn out to be scams or indistinguishable from scams. It probably took thousands of years before humans noticed that shiny heavy yellow stuff they saw in river beds had unique properties and could be used for trade.
People with skills
will show up when there is money to be made, but that has to be done at the right time and in the right order too. It would be kind of silly for someone other than the SDC devs to go to work on a marketplace right now, knowing theirs will be coming out and distributed on the official website any day.
I'm advertising my own local fiat exchange, haven't had any business yet and I probably won't until we have the marketplace and phone wallets, but at least it will be there when needed. That might end up being the way to go with SDC/SDT, being the traditional exchanges might have a technical problem with SDT and a lot of the users aren't going to want any link to those large outfits at all, or to banks, mail, money transfers, and all that comes with it.
I was about to ask WTF is happening on Trex… 
