Quote from: GroinCoinGuy on August 03, 2014, 07:01:12 PM

Quote from: W.Weller on August 03, 2014, 04:16:05 PM

Quote from: GroinCoinGuy on July 31, 2014, 07:04:14 PM

I cannot imagine walking into a gun store in East Texas and trying to explain to them why they should accept GUN instead of USD - getting over that hurdle would be a LOT easier if you could hand them a book or white paper that tells them all about it and how to use it - Just my 3 cents worth. I can supply the info on the guy who did our manual and can cut you a deal before he gets flooded with orders.....Good luck guys!

I tend to agree with this sentiment. We have already discussed how the algo would help bring attention from the crypto side, but a supplying information to merchants is a different front that may prove to be a larger success.

Typically a white paper would explain the technology behind coin and its "new" algo and how it will revolutionize the crypto-world...However, Guncoin's whitepaper should/could be wrote with a more specific purpose. From the beginning this coin was generated to specifically help with gun auction sites; however there is no clear sequence of operations for a merchant to follow on how to implement it into their current sales system or anything that clearly describes the benefits of using it.

1.) How does it help current small businesses and merchants?
2.) If I use it what more do I have to do?
3.) Do I have to change my payment process to reflect current GUN prices.

These to me are the simple questions that a gun auction website is going to ask...Similar to what was said previously walking into a gun shop and trying to explain this to a clerk or asking them to hit up our website won't be enough. It just plainly will be too confusing for them and frankly they will lose interest less then minute into it. We need to sell it more upfront with the benefits and keep them interested. Force them to ask a questions...

Well. all good points. One thing for sure, the gun merchant community is most likely NOT going to come to GUN, unless you have everything laid out for them - Whether in a detailed white paper or a users guide like these.....

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=720523.msg8164999#msg8164999

There are links to two user guides there and I am told they have one for Fluttercoin and one other in the works.

I think creating some GUN banners and running them on sites like Gunbroker.com or GunAuction.com would at least generate some interest and traffic to the main site. After all, the vast majority of potential end-users and merchants have no clue what GUN or crypto currency is. A lot of them would download a white paper or users guide just to see what GUN was and how they could use it. Guides and banners are cheap and well worth the increased visibility they would bring. I think expanding the potential market to include international gun enthusiasts and hunters, etc. would be a good thing too - but can save that for another discussion.

To add to that, getting a store to accept something like guncoin will require having some sort of a point of sale (POS) system in place, as well as a wallet for online transactions that does not require editing of a config file, as most business owners are not interested in having to take time away from their main business to do so.

Other issues to consider:
-with the volitility of coin pricing, the wallet and POS system should have current conversion pricing, so they can quickly convert values to accept the proper amount of coin for the amount of cash they want..
-there needs to be the method for the store owners to be able to get rid of the coin, until it's widely enough accepted to be used farther up the food chain. No store owner is going to want to sell thousands of dollars worth of product by guncoin, then not be able to convert it to cash, and stuck with it.
-many store owners (particularly the non tech-saavy) won't be interested in converting guncoin to bitcoin, then bitcoin to cash. They will want direct conversion of coin to USD and deposited into their bank account so they can pay their employees and bills.

I mentioned long ago in this thread, about the development of a system to allow store owners to accept coin. There was a large premine and IPCO, was any reserved for this purpose? Or is it all on we that burn our electricity to mine the coin, to do that as well?