I do wish people would stop calling any price rise at all a bubble.

A bubble is a totally different beast that takes your breath away. This was a rally/rise.

But yes, 7-800 is eminently achievable. I don't think it'll be down to a fork because the likelihood of one is remote, but if there was one most of us would be dreaming nostalgically of 7-800.

I can't reason with someone who can't understand what I'm typing.


Here is the through line of all those comments.

Original stakeholders do not deserve any more money.

If money is released from the silver fund it should be used to develop NEM further.

I haven't said anything else throughout. If you can't understand that then have a nap and reread it.

Feel free to farm my comments out for peer review.

Um, isn't that exactly what I'm saying?

Some choice quotes from a few cm above.

Eh? Check the rich list.

I am not salty. I don't think the original stakeholders deserve any more XEM than they already received. It achieves nothing.

97% of fiat is digital already. Cash is a quaint layer on top.

I can't think of many places that would willingly hand over total control of expenditure via implanted chips but no doubt someone's going to try.

I wonder what the sentiment on the day will be. Will there be mass wailing? Barely a comment? Will there be a dead sexy alternative? Will the majority have forged something new together?

That's looking like a guaranteed non activation then. If Litecoin can't manage it then there's no chance its daddy can either.

Looks like I'll be switching to Groessselllcoin or whatever then for my Segwit fix.

Incorrect, we can influence nothing unless we're on the team proper. There is no formal voting mechanism.

I do not want to receive extra funds from the silver coin thing anyway. It should be for the greater good.

I am one.

Isn't that just bog standard variance? The same way that BU was over 40% for a day or two. It would need to continue for a string of blocks to be able to get full sense out of it.

I think it's a little like 9/11. It's the type of spectacular you can only pull off once before the whole world adjusts its behaviour and locks out the possibility of it ever happening again.

It has forced almost everyone who's anyone in this space to clarify how they would treat it in this scenario and it's not looking too promising for any type of contentious fork now.

The way forward for fork fans is to come up with something that is 100% unassailably so much better in every way that it becomes irresistible to everyone. That could be a little tricky but no one got anywhere by aiming for the low hanging fruit.

Was there ever an actual statement about plans for this?

Anyway, my position hasn't changed. Initial stakeholders did very well. I don't think they need any more money. What's left over should be going towards benefiting NEM as a whole.

I don't think that's ever going to go anywhere so people should make peace with the premiums reducing unless collector interest surges alongside the price.

I have a few coins. I've never bothered to include any premium above face value in my mind.

Even if it's still twitching with signs of life, it's an astonishingly shitty idea that deserves to be stabbed until it doesn't move any more.

Lending an irreversible currency to strangers on the internet? Hmm. I think I can see a problem with that in there somewhere.

There will always be something out to 'get' us. That's the nature of being in on something during its nascent days.

The $1 buyers faced the very real prospect of it returning to nothing. The $1000 buyers have a whole buffet of scariness to choose from. The $1 people did rather well in the end despite the uncertainty. The $1000 people may do as well but they won't unless there's some skin left in the game.

Their actions certainly show they care a great deal about exchanges. Miners are easily found, are making huge amounts and can't exactly go anywhere in a hurry. If they don't turn their gaze towards them now, they will in the future.

If nothing else, they'll want to know where the money is going and coming from.

Are you feeling alright? Don't you think you'd really feel so much better if you changed the node you're operating?

Before I was listless at night and was incontinent. Once I transitioned men want to be me and women want to be with me. And I can empty my bladder where I want and when I want.

That sounds like a grind to me.

Don't listen to that nincompoop.

Paper wallets created in the right manner are safe. You have your private keys and you can choose what to do with them.

Hardware wallet transactions require provider servers so you'd be waiting for them to make up their mind. You can of course take the hardware wallet private keys or seed and use them elsewhere too so it's much of a muchness.

I don't get the Bitcoin relation.

I also don't get why any terrorist, who'll no doubt be revealed to be mentally ill and helplessly radicalised, chooses one of the most guarded buildings in one of the most surveilled cities on the planet.

There's a whole country beyond where you could wreak havoc for an hour or more before anyone turned up to shoot you.