speaking with the coinpayments new owner there will be a cool new idea to use a ripple gateway to settle alt coins in IOUs which will eliminate any liquidity issues vendors like me have with coins with no market depth. This will allow me to exchange dvc to usd or btc without affecting thr exchange rate...
I would love to hear more about this as more information comes to light. This is a big issue I've had with accepting Devcoin: it's too risky at the moment because if I have to source items, I have to convert to USD at some point. This means either speculating on price or overcharging for items to create a cushion.