Quote from: TeeGee on March 18, 2018, 03:02:05 PM

Quote from: Amadeus82 on March 18, 2018, 09:59:14 AM

Quote from: Denver Dan on March 15, 2018, 03:41:01 PM

Quote from: Amadeus82 on March 15, 2018, 09:30:28 AM

Dear DNotes team. For some time now I'm watching your progress and have high hopes for your success, because you seem to put a lot of effort on it and make everything by the rules and are not rushing things and also have some great ideas.

But, my concern is that overthinking and going forward by small steps can be double edged sword. In the mean time the competition is not resting and can overtake from left and right. Then all great ideas will be obsolete if another similar solution will already take place instead of DNotes.

Did you consider expanding your team and by that speed up process a little? Also I think that you should relly put more focus on advertising at least at release DNotes 2.0 if not before. It does not help if you have good...even great product if not a lot people know about it and advantages it offer. I think that for example we can look little back in history what happened with Betamax in competition with VHS. Today good marketing and social media activity is unfortunately essential for product to succeed and gain mass acceptance.

When, for example today I take a look on Coinmarketcap trading volume in last 24 hours it had been less than 3.000 USD. That means that practically no one is buying/trading with DNotes. I think that main reason could be that many people in the community are not even aware of DNotes and that worries me a little.
Also it wold be essential to get DNotes on more exchanges. if you would be able to get to some of more popular ones like Bittrex that would be great step ahead I think.

In any case this are just my thoughts and I wish you all the best, especially because I am also holding some of DNotes and if you succeed so do I Cool

Hi Amedeus82. Thank you for the support in DNotes as well. We are real close to that point where we can show the world what we have been developing the past few years. Social media will be a big part of getting our message out. We have been building and adding multiple social media platforms that will help us reach a wide audience when we launch DNotes 2.0. Any specific ideas you have, please share, and we'll incorporate them into our strategy. As a decentralized currency, the community has a important roll with ideas, and spreading the message of DNotes. Stay active in this forum, and we'll work together to bring attention to what we've built. The tools (white paper, website, new wallet, etc.) will be available shortly, that will help us share the whole picture of what makes our project worth being excited about. I encourage anyone who is new to this forum, or just a lurker for a while, to come on and say hi and introduce yourself. Share your thoughts with us. This is your project too.

Dear Denver Dan. Thank you for your response and explanation. Among other thing that makes me believe in the DNotes and the team behind it is absolutely your level of communication here. I'm watching this thread every day and I can see that you always try to answer all question and always give relevant answers. That is example of excellent communication. Even in many other threads about coins, which are by marketcap way above DNotes you cannot see such great support in term of the answers from developer team.

And that leads me to another point which I have been thinking of these days. Namely there seems to be a lot of FUD this day concerning crypto in general. And because of that investors now seems o be more careful. This at the same time I think can be a challenge and opportunity. Challenge in a way that somehow we all must overcome that FUD and opportunity for DNOtes to point out that you are doing thing differently and take that as an advantage. In the posts I can already see that you are emphasizing a lot that you want to stay in the legal framework as much as possible, which can be I think great advantage point when compared to other solutions/coins..and we all know that investors make comparisons all the time, when you invest you first (at least most of us) do as much research as you can and compare similar coins and their weak/strong points.

Also when speaking od DNotes gaining mass acceptance and momentum. I do not know exactly what your plans for the future are in detail in that area. But maybe participation in soem crypto events would also be good idea. One thing is social networks which is good for reaching many people, but also it would be beneficial to present the team and work at some crypto events. Maybe even organize some by yourself. There investors and supporters would be able to meet the people behind DNotes and get some more in-depth information from the first hand.

Well...just my thoughts

If I will come by something else or get any other ideas I will share them here when they pop out. Btw. sorry for my grammar mistakes but English is not my native language, so I know that my grammar is not exactly perfect Embarrassed

Amedeus82, we appreciate your very thoughtful insights and comments. We understand you very well, your english is excellent for a non-native speaker.

We do make the point of living up to our name as an "inclusive digital currency for everyone", which entails fostering a polite and active community where no question goes unanswered and everyone is treated equally irrespective of their industry knowledge. We are looking very forward to sharing many more exciting things over the next year and beyond as we progress further with the development of DNotes 2.0.

You are correct about the amount of FUD in the crypto industry, which is leading to investors gradually leaning towards 'quality' projects. We have from the beginning been mindful of how regulators and will react to the fast growth and various problems seen throughout the industry, and counted on these responses when formulating our winning strategies that will make us different to the rest of the pack, and in our view make us more likely to succeed in making the first truly mass-adopted cryptocurrency. We have seen this inevitable outcome as a major opportunity from day one, but one that could take time until industry circumstances began to change, and then for everyone else to see the wisdom behind our approach when it becomes clear that DNotes may be one of the few projects of its time able to progress and operate unhindered by regulators and other authorities.

We will soon release our whitepaper which will have a lot more details in regards to how we plan to achieve mass acceptance. I will look into making a few short videos to accompany the whitepaper release for YouTube, which will definitely help our social media presence. We definitely plan to be involved with crypto events going forward, especially once we begin to get a lot more attention. Alan has already spoken at several conferences, including at NASDAQ and the World Funding Summit back in November - http://worldfundingsummit.com/alan-yong. Our approach so far, with but a small team of volunteers, has been to focus on individual parts of our overall strategy, and then moving onto the next focal point upon its completion. We are very deep into development at the moment, and near launch, and now that the first module of DNotes 2.0 is completed and ready for testing, we can begin the marketing phase of our plan. This is perhaps quite different than what a lot of projects in our industry do, where it is not uncommon for a project to raise money during their ICO, when they haven't even begun development. People pay a lot of money to push the prices of these projects up even into the top 10 on coinmarketcap, when the projects sometimes haven't even begun development or at the least have no working product (just an ERC20 token used to crowdfund), and on the look of it won't offer anything new even once they have finished their production cycle.

Meeting people in our industry at conferences would be incredible for both our supporters, and for us to meet those who have been so loyal and believed in us over the last 4 years. Given where we plan to take this project, it wouldn't surprise me if we one day hosted a DNotes conference, or sponsor an event one day.

Dear TeeGee, yet again I thank you for your quick and comprehensive answer. That is really what I like and respect about the DNotes team.

Please do let me know if I can contribute in any way to help the growth of the DNotes. Geographically I'm located in small country in Europe. Unfortunately I do not have programming skills, but if you need some testing or feedback on user experience or some other non highly technical programming thing maybe I can contribute some little piece of DNotes success puzzle

I am really looking forward to see the whitepaper and other updates you have prepared or/and are preparing currently.