Quote from: dCom on June 13, 2014, 02:40:29 AM

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
06/13/2014

DIGITAL COMMERCE (DCM) AND BITCOINPLUS (XBC)
JOIN FORCES IN VENDOR ADOPTION PROGRAM

Digital Commerce (DCM) and BitcoinPlus (XBC) are two young altcoins who have each faced a successful launch and ICD (Initial Coin Distribution), followed by a distinct set of hardships. It is a credit to both coins that they prevailed during bleak times and that their development teams and communities took the situation as a challenge to move their respective projects forward.

Digital Commerce has prevailed over the irresponsible behavior of one of it's former developers but the resulting negative attention has overshadowed the successful completion of it's ICD and the positive spirit which prevailed after this successful launch. The result was that many initial investors sold their coins which resulted in a sharp drop of the coin price, pushing it well below the ICD level.

BitcoinPlus was left in dire straits when the original developer abandoned the project without a fully working wallet and took the bulk of the ICD funds with him. From the excited community which had already gathered around the coin, a new team was formed and managed to produce a new PoS wallet and website while organizing the community into action on many fronts so that the coin's standing could be improved while not having access to any ICD funds.

Both coins have mastered their respective crises and are determined to move forward but now face a more difficult market position than was initially anticipated. While these coins are on many levels very similar, the difference in the number of coins available for each coin suggest that they will be aimed at and used in different market segments. It is the similar but complementary nature of these coins which suggests that they can coexist next to each other without competing against one another.

It is against this background that the development teams of both coins have decided to join forces on their vendor adoption program as a method of leveraging each others strength. After careful deliberation, both teams came to the conclusion that such a collaboration will create a win-win situation for both coins.

Specifically, both coins vendor recruitment programs will continue to exist as separate entities but vendors will be encouraged to accept both coins rather than just one. In addition to this, both coins will make use of the vendor portal which is to be developed, helping each other to attract consumers and to provide a broad range of products for sale.

The respective support communities will remain separate in an effort to allow them to develop and maintain their separate identities.

Under this agreement, Digital Commerce gains the following benefits:

Access to preliminary source code for the vendor portal which has been developed by the XBC team so far
Access to translations and other wallet improvements as implemented by the XBC team
Access to XBC's strong community for use in the vendor recruitment programs

while BitcoinPlus gains the following benefits:

Access to the final vendor portal which will be developed under direction of the DCM team
Access to the payment gateway integration which has been negotiated by the DCM team
Access to a seasoned marketing and public relations officer.

Both teams strongly believe that this agreement allows each coin to build on it's respective strengths while leveraging the strengths and advantages of the other coin and it's team. We feel that such an approach to the market will be more successful than keeping the respective vendor recruitment programs projects separated.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
― Isaac Newton

- The Digital Commerce and BitcoinPlus teams

Please join the #xbc IRC as well as the #dcom IRC to keep tabs on everything, and grow the community.

Good news. Welcome to our new brothers. I hope we can grow together.