How are customers going to obtain the DASH? The vending machine proof of concept included giving people dash via a paper wallet. Selling (converting) currency from fiat to DASH adds significant complexity. Converting crypto to fiat is easy. We NEED the other way around to be easy as well. That is the most glaring deficiency we have right now as a currency.
Exactly this!
The problems is when FIAT is involved, government is involved.
So I would suggest thinking about merchants, absolutely. Make it easy for people that manually produce things, or intellectually produce things, to attain Dash by selling goods and services that do not rely on a huge chain of transfer of capital.
Time is money, but you don't buy time, you can only sell it. When you have to pay suppliers, to be able to transform and sell your goods, at this moment in time you have to fall back on FIAT.
Service and boutique/connoisseur grade markets is the way to go, IMHO
This way, distribution actually happens to a larger scale into the populous. When numbers get critical, demand will force supply to offer Dash in the form of first and second necessity goods.
That is the only reason I am voting no on this proposal.
If you just sell Dash, it's not complex. You have to do the KYC stuff when you exchange dash for fiat. Otherwise it's just an item for sale, like a credit.