You must have missed my reasoning build-up. I say nothing of the sorts.

 I only say that, IMHO, this proposal in particular is too big a balloon to fill. Plus, it's not needed at this moment. Plus, when it is needed, dedicated companies will jump to develop these products very very very quickly.

 The DGbB is meant to help develop the ecosystem, absolutely. This is sort of half-funding a start-up of sorts, a business in itself. Sure it benefits Dash, but as a secondary effect of it's use. They are trying to re-invent the vending machine system and operation, which is absolutely doable, but a huge endeavour, and outside the scope of the Dash project. You guys can (should!!) definitely make a very cool sales pitch to present to already established companies and I'm sure they'd fall over their knees and fund you handsomely!

 Here is a counter proposal for Solarminer and Camosoul. Develop an open-source vending retrofit system kit. That's it. To the point, simple and straight forward.

 Simple, do-able, and scalable. Very low risk. With a flick of a finger you can industrialize it and be at the forefront of millions of already produced machines all over the world, that are already deployed and maintained.  This work will also be valid for hotel doors. Same thing, different machine. Same for subway tickets. Rinse and repeat infinitely. Other can pick up on the code and concept and diverse from it.

 The overhead is dramatically lower and the sales potential exponentially higher. Dash gains with this, so do you.

 Also, about the gas pump, I though the use of cellphones was prohibited in gas station in the US. I know it's a myth, but it is the law isn't it?

 Please Solarminer and Camo, don't take this personally. You guys kicked ass with Dash n Drink!