Like most projects, we have occasionally made reference to short-term investors and long-term investors. The reality is that we need to get away from this way of thinking. When a project's team distinguishes between investors in this manner, it tends to result in one group of investors, either directly or indirectly, being given less attention when making internal team decisions. The result is usually that one group of investors gets burned and only those that remain profit.

When we do implement 'Spend Privately as Bitcoin', we don't want to do so leaving behind a group of investors who were unable to HODL and, as a result, have formed an extremely negative opinion of DRIP. If we are to achieve our end-goal of mass adoption, we must attempt to bring everyone along on the journey by removing the distinction between long-term investors and short-term investors. To do this, we must give DRIP coin value in the near-term because, until 'Spend Privately as Bitcoin' is implemented, we are no different to hundreds of other coins.

With the above in mind, we have been brainstorming ideas in recent weeks to come up with some additional goals that will drive up near-term demand for DRIP and introduce more people to the DRIP ecosystem. We haven't spoke of this yet for competitive reasons. However, the work has already been substantially completed for one of these ideas and you should expect an announcement in the near future - hopefully, by next week.

As a result of this temporary divergence from the roadmap to introduce more immediate features, we should be able to expand our community much faster and drive up demand for DRIP coins. The end result is that DRIP will have the volume necessary on exchanges to support 'Spend Privately as Bitcoin' when released.