Quote from: Blockchain.Ventures on March 30, 2016, 01:58:39 AM

Quote from: ziftrCOIN on March 29, 2016, 08:04:44 PM

Hey folks!

My name is Jon Holmquist. I was recently brought onboard to work for GoCoin.

I have worked across the board with Bitcoin and altcoin companies providing marketing services and community management. I worked with early Bitcoin companies, when Bitcoin was growing. I worked with the early Dogecoin community, when Dogecoin was growing, and I worked with Ripple Labs, when XRP was growing.
For GoCoin, Ill be focusing a lot of my efforts on revitalizing ZiftrCOIN.

Ill dive right into the changes that will be happening with ZiftrCOIN. First of all, a brand name change from calling the coins itself, ZiftrCOIN, instead to GoCoin. Its shorter, more memorable, and will make the company merger more seamless.

Next, well be integrating GoCoins as an opt-in payment method for all existing GoCoin merchants. Future merchants will also have the option of using GoCoins as a reward option for their customers.
We are also going to be aiming for a much wider merchant base by adding credit card acceptance.

We are currently in what were calling Phase 1 of the merger process. The goals of Phase 1 are to bring credit card acceptance online. We have currently finished more than half of the legwork to make GoCoin compliant for credit card acceptance. Once it is ready to integrate, I will push out another update as we roll it out to a couple test merchants.

Phase 2 will be the full integration of GoCoins across the GoCoin merchant network. During the end of this phase well be using the 300 million pre-mined coins for giveaways and promotions with our merchants. At this point the Redemption Guarantee ($1 or 5%) will be active with participating merchants.

While were finishing up integration, Ill be working to recruit more GoCoin merchants and looking for ways to grow the newly named GoCoin community. If anyone is interested in getting involved please shoot me a PM. Im also interested in hearing your guys ideas on how we can best help this community grow and flourish.

From this point on, expect more frequent (and probably shorter!) updates on what is going on.

Great news that Ziftr will actually be put to use soon.
Is there any estimate on when phase 1 will be complete?
Here is a suggestion: consider a switch to PoW/PoS.
The PoS aspect will be one more reason to accept/use ziftr.
The interest from PoS would create an incentive to also hold ziftr (while strengthening network) and not just acquire ziftr for spending alone.
How are you planning on using the 300 million? Promotions and giveaways is very vague answer.

I'll throw out a ballpark of 2 weeks to finish phase 1.

I don't think we'll be looking into a network change anytime soon, maybe once we've gotten the merchant network using the coin.

I'm still laying out a concrete plan on what types of promotions we want to run. If you have any suggestions feel free to shoot me a PM or discuss it here! The goal will be to tie every 'giveaway' to an actual purchase that will help our participating merchants out as well.