Quote from: GhostPlayer on January 29, 2016, 06:57:46 PM

Quote from: noah tall on January 29, 2016, 05:47:37 PM

Quote from: GhostPlayer on January 29, 2016, 04:59:33 PM

...When numbers get critical, demand will force supply to offer Dash in the form of first and second necessity goods.

So why bother to develop anything at all. Let's just wait till Joe Consumer decides that he wants a DASH gateway and voila, it magically appears.

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. You 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.

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!

http://www.mattwhitlock.com/vendingpi/