All the coins were created at birth. There is no inflation.

As for sinister people holding millions, the process for weeding out initial stakeholders was extremely intensive, perhaps too intensive in the view of a few people, so the initial distribution is nothing like as bad as NXT was.

The distribution was spread between a couple of thousand or so people and there were opportunities to cash in before the coin even launched. It's been around for a good while so quite a few will have dumped and spread them.

No idea about the pump, but my guess it was ETH/DAO money looking for a new toy so it may not last. Having said that it's on a lot more radars now so perhaps they'll become enamoured of it.

I think I did harvest a block once but never received the XEM, or they're in limbo somewhere. The network is effectively unused at present so fees will be infinitesimal compared to future potential.

As for the market movements, it's hard to know what's going to happen now. Volume has arrived with a bang. It's exciting.

 

Yes. Now get your tight buns to the nearest church, lay face down in the crucifix position and hope for the best.

Everyone knows deep down they'll get dumped on eventually. I cannae believe this ICO bollocks is still a thing.

This sounds about right to me give or take a few centuries. The ones who'll continue the human story probably won't be technically human within a shockingly small number of generations.

I'm not so sure about roaming the galaxy. We'll probably stay put and disappear into artificial realities but they may need to be installed beyond Earth just for some latency.

There'll be a small minority who do go out and physically explore but they'll probably be regarded as as weird as non social media users are becoming.

People won't care if it's a scam or not if it's an increasing number on an exchange.

http://nem.io/ is a great resource with a lot of information. There's a lot going on behind the scenes and their style is the anti hype. They quietly let slip their revelations rather than screaming about it. Most the discussion regarding it takes place on slack and telegram as far as I can tell.

I think there's a lot of future potential but the pump it just underwent was truly gargantuan. Who knows whether it'll sustain? I'd be happy to throw money at it if I was thinking five years ahead. In the short term absolutely anything could happen.

The pump brought in a new breed of extremely twitchy selling and buying fingers and I'm not so sure most of them have the slightest clue what they bought into.

Doesn't look like it offers any flights from cheapo European carriers though. Probably good for super international and transatlantic stuff, even then it's missing Wowair and Norwegian, but not much use if you want to drift around Europe for pennies. I can't find anything for my normal routes reasonably priced.

It's officially out of the shadows. You can tell by the quality of the discourse there, or lack thereof.

I am a sprightly 41. Luckily my main boyfriend is 16. We're planning on having ourselves surgically melded in North Korea next year which will officially bring my age down to 28 as we'll legally become one entity known as 'Ourself'.

Yes, Mr. Chop. But he himself hasn't commented or tweeted about this ergo it's still piffle.

Circle, Itbit, Gemini. You're going to come up against the exact same issues if names and accounts don't match though.

They really should've held a pretend referendum first to teach a few people a few lessons. It's a quite stunning balls up from whatever angle you possible look from. Still, it's all kind of exciting at the same time.

I think this vote was a protest about globalisation at its heart and that isn't going anywhere no matter who or what you vote for.

It's a very twitchy API. I was part of a sig campaign that had constant failures with it. You'd be far better off shopping elsewhere.

Utter bilge. Who is the person posting this and why haven't we seen a sudden uptake of Classic? I can't believe this tale has taken off on the basis of one post by some nobody.

Doesn't matter what Bitcoin's up to in the wider world, for the sake of a few minutes to an hours' wait there's no reason to keep anything on an exchange any time ever. Even the exchange itself would agree with that if they're reputable.

What are you using your Coinbase account for? Is it buying BTC, selling or storing it? As you're in the US there are better options for all three.

And if I were a mail order bride I'd be using my manfriend's account if there was any doubt about my status. All of these companies are hyper prickly about question marks when it comes to banking.

Three years really isn't that long. If I remember rightly the first gold ETF took a lot longer than that to approve and I believe that many people in the SEC know what gold is.

Every day is doom day if you're a genetic bear. Even if the BTC price is rising, instead a bear can take his daughter's nest egg and lose it on penny stocks. Gotta keep that bear fitness up.

I thought there'd been some major security holes from accessing it via TOR? Have they been cleared up?

And if the OP is that worried about being uncovered then use a clean machine or boot linux at a different location to access the regular site. Considering what can go wrong with online wallets I wouldn't be leaving more than pocket money on there.