Quote from: ghobson on July 09, 2017, 08:17:55 AM

Quote from: wisebc on July 07, 2017, 09:11:37 PM

As I, and others, have said before, we need to find and accumulate uses for this coin. Specifically we need to find merchants willing to accept it. Whether this is someone selling online guitar lessons or alpaca wool socks or trained ferrets or whatever we need to get commerce going. We need to do this before we start chasing more exchanges. Adding more exchanges (if it's even possible) is only going to encourage more mining and dumping activity that I see people complain about because it will be more convenient for the dumpers to list their coins. People do not need more ways to get this coin, they need a reason to get it and something to do with it. Otherwise we're all just standing in a circle holding our nuts....I mean, uh, ACORNS! There's a logo for you, a bunch of squirrels standing in a circle holding their acorns, cause that's where we are right now.

So, if your favorite online or brick and mortar store accepts crypto, contact them and see if they would be willing to accept HODL, even on a trial basis. If we get a good base of merchants going, THEN you can take that list to exchanges and show them that the coin is desirable. Chasing exchanges now is simply hoping for a false frenzy on a new exchange to temporarily boost the price. We don't need a pump and dump, we need this coin project to grow for real.

perhaps its time to start a bounty program for a payment gateway or a way to integrate with existing ones and add our coin to it.

I think a bounty for that would be beneficial and imho trying to integrate with an existing payment gateway would be our best option as it could allow merchants who already accept other cryptos using said gateway to seamlessly accept HOdl. In regards to finding and accumulating uses for HOdlcoin I don't really think we are in need of a bunch of fancy bells and whistles. It would be great but adding additional functionality to the code requires lots of time, bounty money, and more forks to implement which I don't think is wise to do in the near future. HOdlcoin is intended and coded to be a store of value that incentivizes you to choose it as your go-to crypto by rewarding interest for HOdling. The biggest roadblocks I see for it to be accepted as such are,

1) Liquidity: It doesn't make sense for many people to HOdl a coin and collect interest if they cannot easily turn it into spendable funds or desired goods when needed.

-This can be solved both a healthy combination of marketing to increase demand, re-branding in some way to attempt listing on larger exchanges that bring higher volume, and your suggestion of reaching out to attempt at getting merchants to accept it as payment for goods. I think the latter is the most desirable because it allows users to skip the annoying step of exchanging their acorns for a more widely acceptable form of currency, but ultimately all are useful and help achieve the same goal.

2)Ease of use: If it is not painfully easy to use the most basic functions of this coin it will be an uphill climb to gain adoption.

-This aspect already has a lot going for it imo. We have a lightning fast network, an almost perfect integrated and optimized miner in our wallet, and a great group of community members both here and in the slack channel to help newcomers get up and HOdling. That being said there is still a lot we can do. The first thing that comes to mind is a light wallet that does not require a full blockchain to be synced. On that same train of thought a mobile wallet implementation with QR code scanning capabilities would be amazing. Of course both of those require either a skilled community member to contribute their time to do some coding or bounties to hire an outside hand.

Those are my thoughts on HOdl right now and I would be surprised if i wasn't wrong about something or if I didn't miss an important detail to consider so what are your guys' thoughts on the topic? I'm sure if we can get a well articulated proposition of actions to take and put it on nutocracy for a vote we can get some exciting new work done to help move HOdl forward!

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