RE: Making It Work: The Steem Ecosystem. "THINKING OUT OF THE BOX"!
I believe you have the right idea as far as the general step by step process goes. Although I don't see why the business aspect would have to be limited one merchant (your store), maybe as a starting point, but definitely leave it open to the market.
As for the code, you already have 99% of what you described in the Steem code, which is open source.
The only thing I couldn't figure out is "Why restrict the transfer of points?"
I fail to see any benefits to it, especially considering the fact that no matter what we do, "black market practices" shall always exist.
People are most productive when it comes to finding ways to beat the system, so called "loop holes".
So, rather than "outlaw it", let it be legit and let people send them to each other freely, that would be my stand on that.
Thanks for the comments. Why restirct the transfer of the points?
The idea was, to have a many incentives as possible to join the cryptoworld. A big one would be to have the possbility of points-transfer. We don't really care about people beating the system. It'll probably be a minor part.
Concerning the market you are completely right. Somehow I must have explained it badly: we plan to open up a marketplace open to vendors, since our business will be the platform and not a store.
Great information of yours, that 99% of the code already exists. Thus, we can concentrate on UX/UI and marketing.