Re: [ANN][DASH] Dash | First Anonymous Coin | Inventor of X11, DGW, Darksend and InstantX
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.
Well, I think your effort to make a Dash plugin is great. And that may gain some adoption. I don't see web purchasing as a clear advantage for Dash. Bitcoin or any other bitclone can do this. The 10+ block time isn't a big deal, since you only ship once a day. If you did this and required InstantX for movies or something that people want for instant download, then you have something. Micropayments would also be a huge win for dash with the low fees.
I already approached a software company to design a payment terminal that would accept Dash for a gas station. They couldn't do it. They had no place to start. InstantX? what is that? I detect it by what now? dashd - huh? Even if I could give them the Dash 101 and Dash 201 class, they still couldn't do it. Even someone working in the Bitcoin space couldn't do InstantX detection. This is cutting edge technology that isn't even possible without the developers in Dash helping us. Once we build out the tools then other parties can deploy.
Now think about your payment plugin. What if that could be used on a wifi portal that is in a retail store? Now you can deploy to any store with just wifi and our smart box. Using your phone you would scan each item and it adds it to your web portal shopping cart page and when done hit pay with your plugin. The advantage with point of sale is huge!
I just needed to bump this, because i feel this project is extremely important and ask you all out there to please understand, this is something that needs to be done by the core team, not a for profit entity. Whomever the merchant wants to work with to exchange their Dash to Fiat, if they want to do that, is separate, what we want to build is a point of sale system that works seamlessly for merchants of all types so that Dash's most unique and useful ability, instant transactions, can be put to real world use. What Evan et al are doing right now will be great for online / daily and even possibly face to face transactions by making it easier, but for face to face transactions, it will make VERY little difference. And that is where Dash is unique.
We have an opportunity to fund a third pillar, the merchant services pillar (as opposed to the core development and marketing pillars) so that we can stay ahead of the competition. Competition is always on our tail. We have a group of talented people who deeply understand this need and have many great ideas on how to get over this adoption hurdle. Please vote YES to this proposal. It's that important.
I can think of no project more in line with what the budget system was intended to fund. What could be more central, more important than to create merchant adoption with open sourced product design and software? As well as support? Seriously?
With open sourced product design and software, anyone can step up and start a little company - like a handy man- and for no research or development, begin building these things and installing them in local stores. With hundreds of such people all around the country willing to install these, and provide service and support, they would vault adoption into the stratosphere. Not only that, there would be hundreds of small companies thriving, and merchants would get excellent service and products for a very cheap price. No fancy "Hewlett Packard" logo on the equipment that needs to be paid for, instead, maybe the service provider "handy man" can put his own logo on it. There would be no resistance to adoption, add exchange support of your choice until Dash stabilizes and you no longer care about purchasing fiat, and you're done. Those exchanges already exist, all we need is the hardware and software to install.
Again, please vote yes! dash-cli mnbudget vote-many 1cfc2525f33d8dee81640f6860fc85751acea552724ec58d6619f7fcee694ea1 yes