Hi Mitras,
Question:
Did you ever purchase a wallpaper? I would never pay for something like that, sorry.
If you have a brand (like Coke), you can sell merchandise articles - but we are far away from anything like that.
When 20 people decided to buy a coffee cup or a shirt with a zeitcoin logo, they did it for zeitcoin.
Let's open up our eyes for the bitter reality:
We need something that is real smart and usable - not for us - for everyone.
A genius product or idea brings the customer to ZEIT, not vice versa.
Zeit is nothing special in this pool of 1000 coins and upcoming things in question - like the supernet.
Let's all ask ourself one question: Why should we use ZEIT? No answer?
That's the problem. There is no need for ZEIT.
We don't need any shop, where ZEIT is listed between 200 other currencies, between FIAT and credit cards.
We need a shop where you can simply pay with ZEIT - The coin that stands for technology and progress.
I like the idea of purchasing 3D-Models for printers or game developers.
Another idea could be a picture shop like
http://www.dreamstime.com/ - where Webdevs are able to buy commercial pictures for ZEIT.
If we wanna help the needy, we need organizations accepting ZEIT.
Another idea could be our own organization:
A big page with different charity projects (validated by the counsel). People can donate in ZEIT, we will change to fu.... FIAT to help.
Cowdfunding:
A big page with different crowdfunding projects (validated by the counsel). People can pay in ZEIT, we will change to fu.... FIAT to fund.
just my 100 cents.
Cheers,
Ray
I really think we need to follow the path that bitcoin followed on its eventual rise, and that's by opening up gambling sites that deal exclusively in zeit, featuring games like texas holdem. Games where paying zeit to save on time or buy digital items, like in-app purchases on iphone or on facebook games, is another route.
But we need people who can develop these sorts of things, and then sufficiently promote them. We could even sell the zeit for much higher than they normally go for, using the leftover cash to further grow the venture. While users can always get small amounts of zeit for free for the small-stakes tables, you will ultimately get users who'll pay $5 for millions of zeit.
We don't even HAVE to develop the system ourselves, we merely have to get other gambling sites who are ALREADY successful with this to simply add other coins (ours) to the mix. Since they are crypto like us, I'm sure they would be happy to assist (esp since we don't directly compete with them).
My recommendation: Contact the people who run the sites promoted in these links, tell them who we are, and ask them if they could assist us with setting up a similar operation for our coin.
http://bitcoinpokersites.net/https://poker.betcoin.ag/http://www.bigcoinpoker.com/Ideally, we would try to diversify this into facebook and tablet/smartphone apps in order to maximize users.
The best part is, the users don't even NEED to know anything about crypto. They'd simply buy the zeit DIRECTLY from the website using their US/EU credit cards (albeit at inflated prices to pay operating costs).
As a result, this website, and others like it, would result in continuous demand for Zeit, and purchasing zeit would be treated as part of the costs of doing business. At no point would we treat it as a "currency", but rather the same way zynga treats its poker chips, except that there is an actual scarcity that exists for these "chips".
In fact, if anyone knows any places where I can get a quote from a web developer to create this site for me, I might even take this up as a business to promote zeit and make a bit extra to pay the bills. I'm sure there would be plenty of volunteers from this community to help with admin duties once things are set up.