Maybe Dogecoin could copy Monero's dynamic block sizes so that it could scale better than other altcoins and get attraction from the cryptosphere again. I think it was smooth or smoothie who mentioned that because of dogecoin's inflationary nature or what he called a "tail emission", dogecoin is a good coin to implement dynamic block sizes. He also said that it is not advisable to use for bitcoin because of the 21 million coin maximum cap. But he did not give a reason why.

Can someone explain why a maximum coin cap is bad for dynamic block sizes?

"You think" it will get its moment in fame. Of course it will because it will be hyped by the marketing team and the NXT community. It will also be pumped at the same time of the hype and then the traders who know what is going on will also join in. When the ordinary people get in because they think this will be the next big thing, the dump will happen. This has happened before many times. Please tell me. What will make Ardor different?

There will always be price attacks the problem is when will it stop? Everytime the price is showing that it will start to reach 50k satoshis the whale will set up a big sell wall at 45k satoshis. But maybe another whale is now ready to snap buy that wall when he sets it up again next time. We will see.

This is funny. When the price goes up everyone starts wondering why and what is making it go up. If you are a real supporter of Monero the price does not matter. If you are a speculator of XMR the only thing that will matter is how high the price will go up and how much you will make in the trade. The people asking why and what is making it go up are maybe the ones who have not bought yet or is not sure if he did the right thing.

Yes but what is the real world use case of NXT and who are using it now? Sometimes it is very frustrating for some supporters because they are given hope that one day it will be adopted by big businesses and the platfrom will have billions and billions in marketcap. Now that the dream was not achieved what now? How will Ardor change everything when the people behind NXT cannot even make people use their platform? Well there are users and I saw the asset exchange. Most of the assets are junk, if not all of them. There is no volume in them and the ones saying that you buy are only the holders. I am sorry but nothing is happening with NXT.

Nice post but it does not reflect on the price. There is no buyer confidence in LSK now that there is a whale who put big sell walls discouraging the buyers. If this keeps up for months then expect to see more dumping and price falls. Also no one really knows who the whale is or what his motives are and that makes him really dangerous.

I worry about ETC. It is like the miners are ready to right away dump everything they earn and when the price is now very low, they are also ready to leave and point all their power on ETH. Is there any update from Charles Hoskinson? What are they planning?

I used to have faith and confidence in him but now it is slowly going away. I do not think he is capable of running a project like this. I wish I have made thorough research about Sasha before making an investment in Waves. It shows that the biggest ICO can be failures too. Ethereum is one big ICO that has failed for me.

What projects was Sasha involved in before Waves?

Please keep in mind that I do not see pumping and dumping as a strategy used by day traders as bad. It is just a natural occurrence in the market that came from a trading strategy that is done for profit. The people who frown down upon it are the ones who are the victims of this. In fact the losers are at fault here because they were stupid enough to fall for the ruse.

What network effect? There is almost no merchant willing to accept LTC as money. So it does not really matter if LTC was first out there. It is not in the same situation of BTC where being the first really matters because a whole economy was developed and built around it. If LTC was a person he is the guy late to arrive in the party and even if he was early he is the guy that no one paid attention to because LTC is not bringing something new to the table.

What are you saying? That this is nothing but an empty pump? I disagree. The news of the darknet market accepting XMR is very big. Surely this is not just because of that news. XMR has the properties to be a good alternative to BTC and even a complement because it can be used as a second layer to make BTC more fungible and somehow anonymous too.

I am now speculating that it is not just the bloggers that are dumping Steem. Also I do not think the founders will run away with the money like Decentralized said. But the question is why is it going down? Is someone gaming the system? We have seen this happen before where click farms are hired by a group to create accounts in a site. Maybe it is happening now on Steemit. Is there someone with the data that shows where an account was made and the Steem was immediately sold?

What if bitcoin users use Monero as a layer to make their BTC fungible. Or maybe develop a sidechain that uses ring signatures. Would that be a good idea? The development team of bitcoin should surely be taking Monero seriously now that there is a real and big market that is already to accept it.

In the real world if you are not popular or if you have no influence no one will pay attention to you. It is the same online. Maybe in facebook and twitter you thought that you are popular and make smart posts because you have a lot friends and followers. You thought that they are all paying attention to you. But when that same person joins Steem he will realize that no person will waste upvotes on his posts because they represent real money. So do not expect to make money just by using Steem.

I am not saying they are involved but think about it. This market is not regulated, no one will go to prison, there is money to be made and there are insiders who know about the news before it is released. I would be naive to think nobody was buying XMR before the big news. That is the way of the trading market regulated and unregulated, there is nothing wrong with making money. It will only be wrong for someone if he is left holding at high prices and it suddenly went down. But that is the game we have to accept it.

This is very true. LTC is not dead but it is dead in the market and the price is not moving almost. If LTC really wanted to become something more it should have slowly developed the use of ring signatures in its code. The founder and the development team lacks the foresight to make such a move and take risks that is why it is trailing behind other coins. Or maybe they are just lazy and uninspired.

LTC is a very good example of an uninspired coin. Do not follow their example if you are a developer.

I am afraid that is true. There are many traders who are very happy to take advantage and trade in and out of XMR now because the upside volatility is very high. This is what I said in another thread and I did not mean anything bad with it. I was only saying it in a factual way because that is how markets are. But I was told by smoothie that I was envious because he thought I was saying that XMR is being pumped and dumped. Which it actually is happening now because the traders buy in and then dump higher.

Yes. There are some believers who want to take cryptocoins to another level and take it to the mainstream. But as I said some of those believers are willing to take too much risk just to see BTC get there quick. One example is the support of some of the believers for Gavin's XT. This is a major step with risks. The Ethereum fork is a good example of how a hard fork can go wrong.

I have lost faith and confidence with Roger Ver as a believer because it was looking like he sacrificed his idealism by supporting a version that he thinks would take it mainstream even though there repercussions. Now he is joining the bandwagon with XMR. Why? Because there is a good possibility he bought XMR at low prices. He is in it to make money and it is showing now.

I put all the required DLL, simplewallet.exe and lightwallet.exe in one directory and started it from there. Is there something wrong if I do that?

Kraken? Like the exchange? If they add this to their coin offerings that would make XMR look more legitimate. Maybe a better exchange for this is BTCe. They do not collect documents and it would be best to use them or Shapeshift if you want to keep your anonymity online.