This is a wise decision. I would be looking forward to it. Thanks for your updates!

If this would be openly discussed on bitcointalk you might find support for the trademark. It would make PinkCoin more valuable.

Thanks for your quick reply. 

Did you think about protecting our PinkCoin community coin as a trademark?

https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2016/01/19/802921/0/en/5-Million-of-Coloured-Diamonds-Launched-Under-PinkCoin-World-s-First-Diamond-Backed-Crypto-Currency.html

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/crowdsale-set-jan-18-pinkcoin-first-diamond-backed-cryptocurrency/

Do you have any evidence for this? Last time I checked there was barely any discussion on the slack channel. What happened to the developers? Who is still coding on the project?

A marketing strategy would be to ask shop owners directly if they are willing to provide a small discount for Pinkcoin customers.

It might be out of the comfort zone of a programmer to call vendors but this would be an ideal task for a marketing student who tries to gain some experience. Does anybody here in the forum know some Marketing students?

There was some indication of the developers to integrate pay-with-pink for a little fee or even for free into an existing website if the shop provides a a small discount for Pinkcoin customers.

In my opinion the most important question to solve is: "What incentive does the customer have to use PINK and not just buy the product with BTC or fiat?".
 
 When compared to credit card payments the Pinkcoin advantage is obvious. The credit card company charges significant fees for example swipe fee, transaction fee, statement fee, monthly minimum fee and so on. The most risky one being the chargeback fee which would not occur when paying with Pinkcoin. These fees usually are hidden from the customer but the customer pays it because it's priced into the goods.
 
 If we could get some arrangement with the shop owner to give some percentage, let's say 2%, back to the customer it is a win situation for the shop and it is a win situation for the customer. It would be possible to introduce a structure to determine how much of it goes into charity for a good cause, how much is the advantage for the customer and how much is incentive for the merchant. If the customer consistently get's a 2% (this is just an example figure) discount on all purchases it would be a strong customer incentive to use Pinkcoin.

The answer was that the main developer team already experimented with the pay-with-pink idea but pay-with-pink got thrown to the backburner for 2 reasons:
- the fiat conversion seems to be a challenge
- vendors are required who actively participate in pay-with-pink.

Basically, pay-with-pink means that the customer pays with Pinkcoin to make a purchase. There are two main transitions:
1. Fiat ---> Pink (customer needs Pink)
2. Pink ---> Shopping (customer uses Pink for shopping)

Interestingly, the main developers are about to complete a conversion tool (there was a screenshot on slack, it looks intuitive and easy to use) that allows to convert Pinkcoin to a multitude of cryptocoins. Let's say, if a vendor accepts Bitcoin for payment he or she already can accept payments in Pinkcoin.

For me this looks like for transition 2 (=shopping with Pink) Pinkcoin should already be in a good position once the tool for automatic conversion into BTC is fully up and running. This will allow any shop who accepts Bitcoin to accept Pinkcoin as well.

Thanks to all who replied to my previous post!

I previously asked the question: "Where can I find here information on pay-with-pink or any serious discussion in support of the coin? "
Then I received a few answers, for example:
"There's not really anywhere to read up on it all as we just build stuff and update people as questions come up.

My thoughts to this were:

Pink has a great name and one of the better communities compared to other altcoins.

There are though things, if we look from a realistic perspective, that should be improved:

1. A coin needs a purpose.
- I like the charity idea but a coin is unlikely to run on charity alone.
- A bot doesn't give a coin a purpose, the bot can only work as price support (if it works).
- The anonymity feature of Pinkcoin relies on a centralized server and is therefore not strong enough to compete with other anonymity coins.
- What is left is the "pay-with-pink" for which I do not find information on the slack channel or on bitcointalk.  "Pay-with-pink" is the single most interesting project that bears the most potential for Pinkcoin. Why is there so little focus / information?

2. A coin needs marketing.
...
- Is there any approach of the Pinkcoin development team to actively reach out to businesses to promote pay-with-pink? What incentives do businesses have to use pay-with-pink?

I'm trying to provide a recap of some of the ideas that were discussed in the Pinkcoin slack channel. Apologies if you've already read the discussion on slack. I will put some of the ideas onto the bitcointalk thread since here is potentially a larger audience for discussion.

The following considerations about Pinkcoin are my opinion and not a trading advice (e.g. to sell or buy Pinkcoin). I do not represent the developer team. According to fayoling Pinkcoin is an open community coin where many people can contribute.

Thanks fayoling for sending the invitation!

Asked about the invite two weeks ago, still haven't received a reply.

Bittrex announcement:

"This market is in danger of de-listing due to low trade volume and lack of user interest. It may be removed on July 17th unless the average daily trade volume for the last 7 days exceeds 0.2 BTC."

What is the purpose of Pinkcoin?

Can somebody send me the invite for the slack channel?