Sent. Seems to work ok from my end.

This is true. I also think it's important not to try to compete directly with bitcoin. The "NXT is better than bitcoin because..." strategy sets up a them-and-us dynamic that alienates people who might otherwise be really interested. Instead, offering a change to test NXT, ideally with services they actually want and will use (decentralised crypto exchange, for one) is what's going to win people over.

The Big One? Final Dump and move on. Or is that too much to hope for? I just can't see this going on indefinitely.

I suspect, though I don't know for sure (no doubt others will comment on this):
Lots of new people (aka the "Fresh Fiat" we keep hearing about) are going into bitcoin. We know that the number of new accounts on Coinbase, Blockchain etc is rising significantly, and that must be bringing some new money in.
The problem is that speculative money is leaving bitcoin at the same time. Bitcoin was vastly overpriced and has corrected/is correcting (depending on how bearish you are).
Although it's a gross simplification, I wonder whether the newcomers are more 'normal' buyers, Joe Publics who have heard about Bitcoin and decided to buy a small amount, try it out etc, before perhaps investing more in the future. Whereas the speculative money is at least an order of magnitude greater per person, because these people were trying to make a lot of money at it.
It may be that a proportion of current newcomers become larger investors later on. I'd be interested to know how many day traders here started small before going in heavy enough to make/lost decent money, and how long that took.

TL;DR - growth in user base and fiat is already there, it's just slower and steadier than the speculators running for the door.
-> Relax. Once the speculators have bailed properly ("capitulation") we'll see the underlying growth that was there all along.

Discuss.

Tera, has someone hacked your account?

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Some transactions are fast, low-cost and secure.
For everything else, there's MasterCard.

Alright. I'll check about the prize and if there was a crossed wire somewhere (which I'm assuming there was) I'll send you the top up.

Looks like they've got in touch from an update on the site - is that right?

Or are we finally getting to the Last Big Dump before the bottom? Assuming it's going to happen (which I now do), it can't be much further away.

That's just not how things are done. I'm sure OP can suggest some outcomes, but remember this is not about what the exchanges want. PBOC is instructing their banks, not them.

Actually, the questions that you pose expecting the answer "no" - that's pretty much the case.
Take a look at OP's articles on bitcoin.de. PBOC doesn't even tell the exchanges what to do. It expects them to understand what it wants without it needing to be that direct. The fact that it even needed to discuss it directly with smaller players was a major anomaly. And no, the legal system is not like the one we take for granted in the West.
Bottom line, PBOC can and will choke the exchanges in China by denying them banking relationships. They're 'free' to carry out as much business as they want outside of that framework.

In other news, does anyone know what's up with dgex? It hasn't been allowing NXT trades all day.

I wonder whether something like "low-cost" would work better than "cheap"? (Connotations of value instead of being, well, cheap.)
How about "lightweight" instead of "light", or is that distinction not worth making or can it be made a better way. Again, thinking of what your mum would think.

Great, thank you.
Wonder what the distribution of Dogecoin is... reckon it must be pretty egalitarian.

This is great, though there seem to be one or two inaccuracies or odd sentences.
I think one of the biggest problems is that NXT is perceived as a challenger to bitcoin and therefore is a threat to die-hard bitcoiners. In fact, the Asset Exchange could be a huge benefit to all cryptocurrencies since it can function as a decentralised exchange. (Side point: I guess it would even be possible to come up with futures contracts, so that you could be sure your $100 of bitcoin/NXT/whatevercoin was worth $100 when you sold it for something else. That would be a huge step forward as it would avoid the need for centralised exchanges right up to the point of cashing out.)
It would also be good to get some simple charts of NXT distribution, compared to bitcoin and one or two others. That would pre-empt a lot of criticism.

Hi dalek,
I'll chase this up with them. They are normally very good. If they don't pay the other half I will.

It's Morse Code. That was in one of the hints. As in SOS: dot dot dot, dash dash dash, dot dot dot.

I do get where you're coming from.
I would have preferred to do this without the brute force element. But I knew that people would make the software. That's why the first one was solved so quickly. My response was to make some of the clues much harder, so that it wouldn't be so easy to guess most and brute force the rest. You'd actually have to get into the head of the puzzle-setter and figure out how they thought and the kind of clues they were setting.
It's possible this went too far, though someone obviously did manage it with a minimum of hints.
Next one I won't write this way, it will use a different principle.

Sure. If it was only about the money.

Yes - done that now. The original confusion was in starting the client for the first time and being required to enter a 35-character key. My other one was 'only' 30 characters.