harhar, i guess your hackles lining up atm if you read all this crypto/meta nonsense and you are right.
IOTA has promising capabilities, i recommend to shift your app/usage ideas a little into the commercial,
mass market direction, ofc only if you intend to reach out for this segment.

i think also that storage related apps and e-governing/prediction market as tobo mentioned are great areas
but this needs more informations about IOTAs storage handling/strategies.

no aliens needed here. but it is always good we have at least 'something' we can rely on even if it's just a snapshot i guess.
meanwhile quantum eraser experiments tells us we shouldn't rely to much on this so i will put this phrase into the 'hope dies last' box.

disagree, you can't exclude an alien/meta-math come in existence anytime, able to break even your 'current here and now knowledge level'.
even with close to zero probability you can't give a serious 100% this happen never guarantee. here you have your 100% again.

100% is an illusion, nothing is 100% if your resolution is high enough.
an asymptotically nearing, granted but mother nature shows us every day,
that 'good enough to work' is sufficient and probably also the optimum
to run everything.

however, would be nice to see something like the com-wallet hybrid
i mentioned before.

a service like this isn't designed for confidential communication, same as e.g whatsapp. it just need todo the job for what it is designed for.
if you need quantum resistant communication create a tool, doing exactly this. different pairs of shoes.

Added:
just some mental gym, would IOTA benefit if e.g. whatsapp would decide tomorrow to include an IOTA payment gateway for microservices?
would this spread the usage of IOTA and increase outside awareness? what would be the disadvantage?

so it's better to skip very usefull things due to 0.1% uncertainty?
nonsens, this argument is very crypto centric and economical also unwise.

ethereum for instance is great and i have to admit that these guys are very good in reaching the external
market but for real nano payments ethereum fees are to expensive. iota could shine here but for this it is
necessary to throw the 100% claim on everything over board.

it's much more simple. things has to work for it's usage scenario. they don't have to be perfect.
this 100% claim is a weak point within the whole cryptosphere and prevents mass market adaption.

quantum resistance isn't needed for a service like this. the goal here is a different one.

from my POV it's all about nano payments, IOTA is perfect for this.
merge a client with a communication component (e.g. tox) to enable people to 'earn' money e.g.
for advices, supports, facts, translations and so on. a free android hybrid like this, including
a global micro service directory with nice categories would be great. payment could be calculated
per word, if chat advise is used or per minute/seconds for calls. every micro service entry in
the directory contains the type of service (categorized) a rating from users already used this
resource, weighted by total service usage and the word/second/minute pricing.

people like to communicate and the more if they can earn something with this. big potential to
reach the external market with high usage numbers if done right.

without my current workload i would built an app like this immediatly, success guaranteed.

Added:
i also predict that the money earning wouldn't be the main motivation to use
such a service. the fun factor, sharing knowledge and conneting to people
around the world, enveloped with a monetary symbol of appreciation (IOTAs) is it.

heck, seems i have to leave my coding cave more often. this device is perfect for my needs.
currently i am running an arm cluster (odroid) for the math and looked into the parallella* board
for cpu expansion but compared to this device it is a slow combo (parallella delivers max. 20GFlops).

the specs are impressive and the best is the native torch support which is the core ML framework for FH.
will definitly buy a stack as soon as available in europe.

* http://www.adapteva.com/parallella-board/

thx for the link tolstoy, very usefull.

Gute, leicht verständliche und vor allem sachliche Artikel hast du da in deinem Blog WorldCoiner, wirklich lesenswert.

seems it is necessary to use a babel fish now to extract something meaningfull out of your unordered stammering.
(really what you are talking about?)

not much as usual, icy is just on her weekly entertainment tour.

@TPTB_need_war
yes, agree. datasinks like mysql etc. doesn't provide predictable query performance under real world conditions.
there are reasons ssd optimized stuff liḱe this exists: http://www.aerospike.com/performance/

reagrding threading and trade offs, just a matter of tools. still waiting for the first crypto project written
with an erlang/mnesia combo. spawn a process costs you 1µs and using mnesia as distributed datasink means you
are working within the same memory space as your application, as a result, fetching data objects is a matter of
a few microseconds, all proven and robust due to erlangs memory protection at VM level.

however, curious to see the final storage setup, delivering those tps, doubt it will be mysql or similar rdbms  

FIFY, now it makes sense.

yawn, nxt is bad yadda, yadda ... sure, yes, no but... yadda, yadda ... yawn

...So either NxT has practically no new adoption and early investors are slowly dumping or NxT has steady
adoption and the early investors are dumping heavily. There is no escaping this fact...

true and both isn't optimal ofc but what i am missing here is a clear distinction between
initial adoption/usage problems and the objective potential nxt have compared to other platforms.

just saying nxt have a adoption problem due to it's initial distribution and therefore is a scam
makes no sense at all. ignoring and boykoting a provable good piece of cryptotech is very shortsighted
and counterproductive for the whole cryptomovement too.

this is one reason i am ranting in monthly intervalls, since beginning, to concentrate on the external market
and  stop trying to convince the cryptosphere to take an unbiased look to nxt, this won't work.*

nxt has everything to serve the external market and it is the only 'now available' crypto-swiss-knife able to
roll out many very usefull solutions, unfortunatly this doesn't happend in the past but this will change.

adding merchants doesn't solve anything, this is a tale.

*nxt perception within cryptosphere is to infested by historical grown envy, greed and misleading informations.

congrats! it is great to see such a supportive community. the timing for tennesse is well too, good luck!

great, and here comes the confirmation.

...If they had put NXT on the Acceptable white-list, you would be singing their praises...

arg... you where 10 sec. faster 

hmm...to much honor. servants doesn't have a need or using logic, otherwise they wouldn't be servants or not?