That is the point entirely Sol ... I absolutely LOVE your idea, and I absolutely would LOVE to see it happen. But the truth is that these type of proposals are not what DGbB was created for. Again, you are attempting to redesign an industry from the ground up, which is absolutely brilliant! There is no doubt this can only do good to us all, but this is not for the direct benefit of Dash development. Plus, it's simply too much overhead involved and a high risk of non-delivery.

 In the future, other porposals will surface, and it will be natural that old ones be downvoted. Your project simply cannot survive a funding blackout.

   I know this sucks to read, and I hate saying this, but I feel I must express my thoughts.

 I have been brewing an (obvious) idea to achieve the same result. Propose the funding of an mk1 non-FIAT WP payment processor plugin for Dash. Still researching and debating with some team members so I can structure a proposal better. The idea is the same at its core as yours, just a different target merchant. This will be software only, outsourced, very low cost and highly deployable throughout thousands of online stores worldwide. The idea came because I'm opening a little web-shop later this year for a very specific target audience and I plan on offering serious discount if payed with Dash, so I incentivise people to go and get Dash because the discount alone will be a huge incentive.

 I pay the raw material out of my FIAT pocket and earn Dash, people are happy they get stuff much cheaper, Dash wins as it starts gaining adoption. win-win-win.

 Even still, I think this plugin will have very low traction. But it will be there, instantly deployable, in the WP plugin "repo", for anyone to use.

 Point being, I'm not asking funding to develop my website, but a plugin that thousands can download and use. See the difference here?

 Again, don't take it the wrong way guys. Propose a Dash 'n Drink exposition at the Vendors Of America World Expo, and I'm all over it. That would do more good to Dash, than the development of a fully blown vending machine and stock management system that is deployed somewhere and nobody uses it, getting the odd count view on a youtube video.

 You've got to realise that great changes to established industries do not penetrate easy. Even world changing ones. There are compliances that need to met, there are standards that are forced to be maintained, there are huge associated industries that lobby together to maintain status-quo, taxation etc etc... this is a huge can of worm.

 And I'm all for breaking all this sh!t up! But not through the DGbB

  

 Anyway, I think I've said enough on this topic and expressed my thoughts. I shall leave it at this.