tracking the commodity , say vanilla , is there an app available that can interrogate the blockchain and produce info on prices and locations so farmers know the prices at different buyers ?

will the tracking be done for cloves also ? lychees ?  these are all produced in Madagascar mainly by poor rural farmers

a good article on DCR

https://btcmanager.com/beginners-guide-decred/

Lightning will be incorporated in block 189567 - in the next few days

it may be one of the reasons for the rising price

though listing on upbit korean exchange might also be helping

I would suggest you keep current with the news on the blog - https://thedecreddigest.com/

and then discuss on the DeCRed reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/decred/ or this firum

I decided to go ahead and pre order an obelisk machine - decentralising PoW for now can only be a good thing - though with most of the PoW hashing power being from the dual mining now , I supposed it will be a contraction really - but if the price rises then more people will invest in asics

and I would expect that the majority of the coins mined will be staked as people hold

any progress for DCR to become used in transactions will only help the price - I hope the devs are interacting with openbazaar

what sort of fork would be required to make the proposed ASICs useless ? how radical would the change have to be ?

I am thinking about purchasing an ASIC but the idea that it could be easily rendered useless makes me unsure

there is no mobile wallet for DCR yet

at the moment the best move is to accumulate and once you have enough to purchase a ticket , join a stakepool and stake

using a stakepool means you do not need to have a computer online as the stakepool takes care of this

the upgrade you are referring to was upgrading paymetheus

if you switch to the new windows version of decrediton , which is available via the link , you will have to enter your seed phrase

this will be a turning point - I suspect when it is first integrated to be used as payment

people can understand this - whereas lightning network and governance are not easy for them to grok now

I understand that webstore integration is being worked on and when the first places start to accept DCR then we should see a lot more attention focused on DCR's other great attributes

from all I have read DCR is a very sound project with very good underlying fundamentals and a good schedule for improvements

so what it really needs is the exposure - marketing etc

probably the best exposure is when it is listed on exchanges because then people notice it and start to research it.

I also think a DCR/USD cross on an exchange will allow it to expand

a great series of posts by insette on reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/decred/comments/6wxueo/your_best_pitch_for_decred/dmcer4d/

Exittus gives a good rundown on the process to stake here

https://www.reddit.com/r/decred/comments/6vljah/how_do_i_stake_decred_and_what_profits_can_you/

I am using exodus and so far I quite like it

if it had PoS , would that require you to have it on a computer connected all the time ?

that does not make sense to me ? what should you value it in ?

do you think you will be able to settle debts with BTC and never have to convert to fiat ? I think this idea may be a long way out - I have only paid once for something outside of computer services via cryptocoin and that was a fail as the vendor used an intermediary whose percentage made the transaction more expensive than just conversion to fiat .

but in the meantime as BTC devalues , then DCR devalues as far as I can see

I have been buying my DCR on polinex with BTC which I purchase with fiat elsewhere - I am buying to hold

as the price on polinex is tied to BTC what is likely to be the result if the current issue with BTC turns into a clusterfcuk

will DCR drop in line with BTC or is it actually disengaged directly so unlikely to suffer the same percentage of correction ?

your app syntax needs .....

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