OK, here it is:
"When will it be useful for large retailers
to accept e-gold?"
Comments: the meaning here is conventional bricks and mortar
retailers; large retailers means chains (Walmart, specific
supermarket chains, specific department store chains ... analysts
will wish to choose their own examples, or may have another
viewpoint). 'accept' e-gold would mean presumably using a POS device.
A line of enquiry could proceed like this: retailer R has a number of
different customers N spending S (all of those quantities being
difficult to know); of the set of humans N a percentage P (currently
trivial, presumably) use e-gold; that percentage is presumably (?)
rising. 'useful' may (or may not) mean that that pecentage P reaches
some critical size (perhaps an arbitrary size - 5 or 10% say - or a
size found in comparison to historical precedents for new payment
systems).
As always the contest is absolutely free-form and proceeds in the
nature of scientific enquiry. . .all premises, methods, theories are
yours to decide (you may completely reject the approach mentioned in
the paragraph above, or have another more-clever approach to the
problem). A startling single sentence of insight may easily win, or,
a careful collection of as-is relevant facts may win; a entry may win
purely for style and presentation or it may win only for content.
Entries may be a simple text email, papers, feature-length movies,
talks, a/v presentations, or of any format or concept at all.
The prize for this contest is FOUR (4) grams of gold, and yes, the
prize is doubling every time.
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