camosoul said: Bingo. Make it basically a credit card terminal, but it uses DASH and pumps Dollars into the bank account. Anything less is Dead On Arrival. No silly POS system integration. A simple stand-alone terminal. Any old android phone with a bluetooth thermal printer will do. Skip all the fancy NFC stuff, stick to the lowest common denominator. Click to expand...

camosoul said: You need a skeletal end-to-end solution to which you can then feature-add. The one step at a time thing can easily die because the steps don't actually go anywhere.



Start at the hardest point so that you don't invest a lot of effort and then hit a brick wall. You end up with everything "except that one thing." So figure out what that one thing is likely to be and attack it first. That way you don't fight up to it and run out of steam. Attack that hardest point first, and it's all downhill from there. Start with the Compliance and creating a DASH to USD arrangement with an exchange that has appropriate APIs. The app and the technicals of the service are actually the easy part.



Many have tried to go down the path you are setting upon, they all did it backwards and gave up; and I see you trying to do the same thing. This isn't even criticism; this is guidance from experience. Click to expand...

camosoul said: Why wait? This is the part you should be doing first. Click to expand...

camosoul said: Every State is different in regards to it's Money Transmitter laws. Lots of nonsense paper. The main sticking points are usually bonding and presenting a net worth of a certain value, which varies from state to state. Ignore California and New York initially. Too burdensome. Deal with them after you get established. One of the up sides is that they generally don't have any hard and fast rules about any particular type of asset being worth $XXX,XXX. Most are between $100,000 and $300,000. If your crypto is worth that much, you're set for the biggest hurdle. All you have to do is organize silly papers. Every state has a department for doing just this, and they're usually pretty helpful.



FinCEN actually had me confused for a while... There really is no cost. You just have to perform an electronic registration of your MSB every 2 years. That's it. No fees. I know. I didn't believe it either. Click to expand...

camosoul said: Only that I see you taking this from the same wrong angle that every other failed venture in this vein has taken... I'd like it to win. Don't keep doing the same thing expecting a different result...



Software Developers always think the solution to everything is to write code. When all you know is hammer, everything looks like a nail. This is not a nail, and everyone who treated it like one has failed. Click to expand...

camosoul said:



There is a reason you can count the number of women involved in Crypto on one hand... It's a bunch of nerds who just plain don't get it. You can't just walk up to a girl, whip out your ding dong, and explain how advanced, shiny, and easy to use it is... Doesn't work. Well, some girls are like that. But, not most... DASH itself is a perfect example. You can polish the user interface all you want, if there's nothing to back it up, it doesn't matter. I like to use women as an example... You can make your "interface" really easy for them to use, but if there's no reason...There is a reason you can count the number of women involved in Crypto on one hand... It's a bunch of nerds who just plain don't get it. You can't just walk up to a girl, whip out your ding dong, and explain how advanced, shiny, and easy to use it is... Doesn't work. Well, some girls are like that. But, not most... Click to expand...

camosoul said: As for consumer demand: no up front costs. If it collects dust and gets used once a month, so what, it doesn't cost anything so no big deal. All they pay is a percentage of the transaction, just like a credit card terminal. It's familiar and simple.



Customer scans QR code. Money shows up in bank account.



No Identity theft or fraud problems. No chargebacks. No contracts. No privacy concerns. No PCI compliance. No employee theft. Very literally, nothing but money in the bank. Click to expand...

This is exactly what I'm going for - integrating NFC is trivial, honestly and the way the NFC will work is that it will be active in the background on phones/tablet/terminals that have NFC chips. If the phone does not have an NFC chip then it will not affect the normal operation of the terminal.In our system design, there is not any integration with existing solutions. It will be a standalone terminal. All a merchant has to do is put the amount charged in the 'other' category on their POS (supported by almost all existing POS) and they will still get all the accounting, inventory management, etc. that they are already used to.Asking a merchant to "switch to 'such and such' POS system because it supports cryptocurrencies" will fall on deaf ears.Skeletal and modular is what we intend to design here. I understand exactly what you're saying here, and this has definitely been thought out.The DASH to USD is a different proposal entirely, and one that I know is possible to accomplish.One thing that is important to remember is: I'm new to this community - I will need to do a few projects (like this one) to prove that I am competent and capable of accomplishing what I'm setting out to do here.I can understand what you mean here, and you are probably right. I am also a firm believer in 'more than one way to skin a cat'. I think this project alone will at least add value to the community and give us time to work on the more complicated issues of actually creating the DASH/USD business.Like I've said before, the DASH/USD is a different proposal entirely (and one I intend to make). In itself, the instant fiat conversion service will be terminal-agnostic. I don't care how they accept their DASH - if it comes to the service, it's getting converted (less service fee) and deposited. Unfortunately it's not what I'm working on at this moment, but Ithinking about it's integration with every move.This is good info, thank you for thisTo be clear, I am a software developerbut I haven't always been. In real life I'm actually a machinist (not sure how that helps here lol). I learned to code with the goal in mind of offering something to the cryptocurrency community because I believe in the idea, and for reasons you mention below.^^ This...cryptofull of a bunch of nerds that just plain don't get it (I still love em though!). I could dredge up some past posts in different communities where I am saying almost identical things as you (and I still am). I was making those posts when I didn't know how to code and other software developers were not responding or saying, "code it yourself"...so now I am! Lol.Exactly the experience I want to see. I honestly think we are coloring within the same lines here - I'm just coloring a leg and you're coloring an arm lol.One day the whole picture will be clear as long as you're dedicated to coloring the whole thing.