Glad to be in 5th round. Thanks a lot !

I've got my coins very quickly. Thanks!

Can I join?

"Suicide Squad Leader: We are the Judean People's Front crack suicide squad! Suicide squad, attack!
[they all stab themselves]
Suicide Squad Leader: That showed 'em, huh? "

Surprise, surprise... :/

Everything can be turned into pump and dump. Alts, BTC, dollar, gold, oil, even wheat and drinking water . This isn't about purpose, this is about speculation.

Updated signature, PM sent.

The "market cap" of the top 100 alts together are not even close (<10%, and from this 10% LTC takes 5%) of the BTC market cap. Apart from NXT (and it's clones) none of them offers any significant improvement over bitcoin. None of the alts have any significant real world services (you can't even buy a single banana or a gallon of petrol for DRK). Until an alt doesn't have good services - good means services what you need in you daily routine - all of the stuff above are just dreaming.

Kelsey is right, the BTC devs won't add anything what would hurt their relationship with the US regulators.

Fidor Bank. A smaller German bank. They are quite an "inventive" bunch, e.g. as far as I know they backing bitcoin.de too.

How can I register an alias? (As I see a couple of ppl asked the same question but nobody got any answer. Maybe now... ?)

Received my coins.
Thanks a lot!

Waiting for the launch ! Good luck!

Updated my signature and posted on FB as well.

If it comes from Germany, you can call it BailOut (BO). Maybe €BO or eBO for simplicity .

BTW long time ago we were discussing a name for a "New German crypto" -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=201326.msg2102665#msg2102665
I still would love to see something like Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungenzahlungsmittel_I/1_Ausf_A1.exe in my Task manager as eating 100% of CPU and 50% of memory. That would be so geeky .

Other ideas:

Just call it BMW. Easy to abbreviate, easy to remember, lot's of positive associations.
NeueMark or NewMark (NM) is pretty boring.

OK take this seriously:

Thaler "...coin used throughout Europe for almost four hundred years." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaler This name will give a sense of traditions, stability and enduring value.

First of all don't panic. Second most important thing: do not listen to people who advising you to buy only one specific coin .

Some practical advice.
- Looking for freely distributed coins in the Announcements section could be a good way to pull yourself out from this situation. In the last two months I've got about 3 BTC worth coins for free... actually during the COMM hype a week ago it was close to 5 BTC. If you have some of these free coins wait until they hit the second or third exchange and then dump them. (The first exchange is too early.) When you collected some BTC on this way you can start some daytrading.

- Find some cheap, established coins with liquid market, high volume, low maintenance cost and then trade them. (Important! Always diversify your orders.)

...and the usual stuff:

- In an average trollbox those guys are pretending to be your friends but actually the opposite is true. BTT is the same.
- Thou shalt not get involved in announced pump and dumps.
- Forget about IPOs. (At least at this point.)
- Know the coin you trading. (E.g: after the DVC bounty payments you can always expect big dumps. That means good buy opportunities but it can mean that your BTC can get stuck in sell orders if you bought higher a few days earlier.)
- Don't be greedy. A small but sure and relative risk free profit in your pocket is much better than any "great earning potential".
- Always keep some money/BTC in reserve.

So in short, stick to free stuff and be careful with your existing money.

I wouldn't be particularly happy to see people loosing money and hopes.

The signature checking is pretty impressive. Good luck with your coin !

Received, thanks .

As a POS coin believer I've PMed you guys. I think POS is probably the best  and most sustainable approach for mining .