Actually we still have forking issue present, and still missing builds for some distros. The schedule for Monday is a best effort try to speed things up. Whenever we detect forking, payments and exchanges will not be allowed, the same way gridcoinstats work.

Even if the forking issue does not get resolved on time, there are 3 projects (this being one of them) only from me that waits to get launched once forking is solved. If few other guys have projects that waits for forking issue to get's solved, we could get in situation to launch multiple projects at the same time which will definitely boost GRC as investors will see many things happening at once.

Thank You, for ongoing support, and being the best community on steemit in every possible way! Even if we have few "haters" on slack :), they are good guys willing to help :) That's what makes GRC great. The whole community is just something special.

There was many tries with similar approach. The problem is the amount of chargebacks, as hackers use stollen cards / pp accounts to perform buying. However, good payment processor gives ability to enable 3D Secure cards only, that are not eligible for chargebacks, as additional password is considered as "slip signature". It could be very easy that this approach should do the job.

It is going to be problematic. As for CC, the plan is to allow only 3D Secure cards (these with additional password confirmation). This way we are protected from chargebacks, but not all the cards will work. For PayPal, we will need a sort of additional verification and limits that will increase for each account over time.
Basically we are about to create a model similar to VirWox platform. As longs as chargebacks are bellow standard (of about 3%) we should be good to go.

As for the spreading news widely, such as Reddit and other places, I think we can do that, but it could be very early. We could easy get into situation of not having enough to sell / buy, so my idea is to keep it low at the time and make it work, then go out and publish it everywhere.

Thanks @nuad01 I will consider that, taking in account you are absolutely right about the market reach. At this early stage I am more concentrated on measures in place to protect from chargebacks, as this would be crucial for this to keep running. If it shows up that we can perform good enough without issues, I am definitely going to try to introduce as many payment methods as possible.

Thanks @xlm567 We are all in contact with each other on Slack, but the situation is a bit chaotic as always is. Basically everyone push their best. There's no need for larger echo at the moment as this is the very early stage, we could easily get disabled by the payment processor / bank. This is the primary concern, while forking is another one.

In the beginning, the amounts allowed to buy are going to be small. I will be selling my own GRC as the starting buffer, then buy more on exchanger. The price is to be calculated based on amount of GRC out -> Amount of GRC in. In the second stage, i'll try to automate this process.

These are some issues we need to address before we can spread this wide. I am also on few other projects that are already a bit late, so don't expect miracles here at least in the first month.

Hopefully, if this get's to a level of self sustainability we would find someone dedicated to this project only to take-over, so I can move forward with other projects.

As for security, threat everything as no security until I remove "early alpha" tag. While I put reasonable efforts to protect everything, I am not going to remove "early alpha absolute no warranty" unless it get's some stability and time proves it will be a good model. 

The another reason for lack of echo, which is a good one, is that if we put much efforts into marketing this, and then got blocked by payment processor, it would be negative marketing. We don't need that at the moment.