Gosh, I love this. One of the things that I really despise about the regulatory environment around VC is that the government wildly favors the rich. In order to invest in a company like Snapchat back in the day before it was public, you have to be an accredited investor. And the SEC has 8 different definitions of how one might qualify to be one. 7 of the 8 are related to being an institutionally accredited investor (you run a hedge fund with a certain amount of assets under management, for example). The one related to people is absurd. You have to make $250,000 a year the last few years, and a reasonable expectation of the same income in the current year AND you need at least a million dollars in net worth (not including illiquid assets like your house).

Doesn't matter what I think I might know about investing, about money, about risk, about statistics....I am NOT to be trusted like the rich trust fund kid. I'm not wealthy, therefore I'm too dumb to understand investments with higher volatility and risk of ruin.

I found a loophole (if you are an executive at the company in which you are investing, you can be accredited for that single investment). But still, I'm not allowed to put money into Snapchat. There have been relaxed rules around this and crowdfunding, but they still make it impossible to investment at meaningful levels.

And this is a reason why I am, and have been for years, an acolyte in the dark proselytizing about the benefits of crypto.

I'm tired of rich gatekeepers telling me what I am and can't do. I'm tired of the government using banking as a bludgeoning tool of foreign policy. There are 2 billion unbanked people in the world. Now they can benefit without needing all the expensive infrastructure of the western economic system.

Decentralization of money is just about the biggest idea going right now (second, imo to augmented reality as controlled by networks of AI). And the idea I quoted above is just one of the myriad reasons that it's so powerful with so much potential for growth.

We should have the first video in the series available today. May need some community feedback on what the video branding should look like. Leaning towards something along the lines of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLMOvfHV54g&feature=youtu.be

DNotes Path to Mass Adoption - Ease of Use

Tim Goggin from the DNotes team describes the DNotes ecosystem and the Cornerstones of Mass Adoption:
-Equitable Distribution.
-Secure Storage Consumer Protection
-Global Payment Network
-Ease of Use

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkf1174xltQ&feature=youtu.be

For most people, the process of change is always uncomfortable and challenging. It is hard to commit or bet our hard-earned dollars in investment we don’t understand. Many have missed opportunities investing in Amazon, Google, and Facebook of the likes at the initial stages because of this tendency.

For over three years, since we founded DNotes, we have been positioning DNotes differently in recognition that education and trust building are crucial to have more people understand and participate in the new investment phenomena going on today. Bitcoin, blockchain, smart contract, FinTech, ITO, and the future of money are beginning to dominate the new world of fast and furious high-risk investment today.

Thousands of man-hours have been invested in DNotes – the digital currency and its ecosystem with strong emphasis in educating investors and influencers of our industry. This is one among many videos being created. Help us to promote our cause. Please share and like at your pleasure.

What I can say is that DNotes is at the very early stage of executing its roadmap. Relative to its industry peers DNotes is significantly under-valued. However, it should be a personal decision to buy, sell, or hold. No one can predict with certainty what the price of DNotes will be at any point in the future.

Welcome to DNotes, gres91. We are doing our best to reward all our stakeholders – large or small if they keep their DNotes in a wallet or in DNoteVault for thirty days or more. This earns an annual return of 2% paid every 30 days. The second 2% (on average) is paid to those who participate in staking to support the DNotes’ network, individually, using staking pool, or through DNotesVault. Again, we are working hard to make it as simple as possible, including the support of off-line wallets.

Most exchanges do not view DNotes as a high volume trading crypto because of our conservative philosophy. We believe in taking our time to build a solid infrastructure with stability. However, I have personally approached them and others without success, though we never mounted an aggressive campaign. It is not a high priority to us at this time.