I am observing a while the NashX (http://www.nashx.com) project and I find it very interesting. Now it seems to be quite in a "ready to use" state, but unfortunately very few offers/trades are there.
Does anyone has experience with it?
It seems for me currently the best solution for automated escrowed p2p trade, so I am wondering why it does not get more attention. Seems like the developer is not the best in marketing.

I will try it out with some small offers to see how it works in practice.
Hope I could maybe animate anyone to have a look over there as well.

Here is my offer if you are interested:
https://nashx.com/Offer/View/6b1bb9cf-72ec-4f90-a093-832db018ddfa

i have a question how a MSC transaction is done.
if i want to sell my mastercoins what are the steps i need to do? what do i need to take care of?
i have (had) my mastercoins in a btc client qt wallet, but used that wallet for other tx as well. from the block chain it seems to me that my msc are now in another wallet (a paper wallet i created and moved btc over). if i sell now msc do i need to send btc from that paperwallet?
thanks in advance for any help!

0.5 BTC Casascius physical coins (brass)

- Fully loaded with 0.5 BTC, uncirculated and in perfect condition, comes with a protection case.
- I bought it directly from Casascius at the first auction of the 0.5 BTC coins 2013 (roll #1 with prefix 121 and roll #6 with prefix 123).
- Trade only via Escrow
- Insured shipping included
- Prefer shipping inside EU to prevent hassle with customs. Outside EU buyer will take full risk of custom issues.

Here is the pub key and proof that it is loaded:
http://casascius.uberbills.com/?address=123HDSmwmBjpvqr3HVqSvNqAP9JeFNkfrG

PM me for offers.

EDIT: I cannot delete the post, but the offer is not valid anymore.

0.5 BTC Casascius physical coins (brass)

- Fully loaded with 0.5 BTC, uncirculated and in perfect condition, comes with a protection case.
- I bought it directly from Casascius at the first auction of the 0.5 BTC coins 2013 (roll #1 with prefix 121 and roll #6 with prefix 123).
- Trade only via Escrow
- Insured shipping included
- Prefer shipping inside EU to prevent hassle with customs. Outside EU buyer will take full risk of custom issues.

Here is the pub key and proof that it is loaded:
http://casascius.uberbills.com/?address=123HDSmwmBjpvqr3HVqSvNqAP9JeFNkfrG

PM me for offers.

EDIT: I cannot delete the post, but the offer is not valid anymore.

Thanks for the fast reply! I need to read more about the basics, still does not understand it well how they are identified and how for instance i could sell them. but good to know that they are not gone....

I have a question regarding MSC in a BTC wallet. I bought some MSC a while ago and kept them in my BTC wallet (togehter with some BTC). unfortunately i used that wallet recently for transactions and spent nearly all the balance there to tx to exchanges. What does that mean now to my MSC? did i lost them? the exchanges are prob. not even aware that they received MSC.

I have a question regarding MSC in a BTC wallet. I bought some MSC a while ago and kept them in my BTC wallet (togehter with some BTC). unfortunately i used that wallet recently for transactions and spent nearly all the balance there to tx to exchanges. What does that mean now to my MSC? did i lost them? the exchanges are prob. not even aware that they received MSC.

thanks for your answers. already found a solution (see orig. post).

hallo,
i have a problem with an old wallet.dat file. i bought some coins in april 2013 and now wanted to run the actual mac qt client to see my balance there. i copied over the backuped wallet file to the standard directory (where the new generated wallet.dat was). but when i restart the client the balance is 0 (network data all synced). are there some known issues with changes in that timespan?
i heard of some data corruption problems with the qt client on the mac. i hope that has not destroy my wallet!
hope some one can give me a hint! thanks in advance!

EDIT:
I just have found a backup of the whole folder and there are luckily my coins. seems if you set up a new client with encryption the old wallet file is not supported anymore.

interesting project but needs much better description and documentation (links are not working on the webpage). is there a way to use own pai keys to trade real, or do you need to install it on your own?

+1 @Coinseeker

- all been working our asses off (especially Peter)  - is that the kind of work bitcoin need?

so i guess that discussion can be closed now. no one with a brain would like to have vess anymore as director or even member of the bitcoin foundation. in fact the foundation itself should close down if it was so easy to get occupied by such persons. shame on you vess. and my confidence in the other board members has also shrunk significantly. you should have known this guy better!
just the 2 cents of an anonymous coward.

@Herodes: +100

Just watched a few of the videos. Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great work! Hope the "coming soon" lectures will come soon, looking forward to see them!

@ Herodes: I was referring more to the community people who are really intereseted in bitcoin, not the average user.

And I think we would be enough to contribute a relative small amount to an idea which helps to protect independence.
Look at all the crowd funding projects. Nobody can say that this concept is not working already!

I do not know how much budget is needed for the core development team.
To get a rough estimation we could have a look to the foundation. What is the budget it has gathered yet.  

Let´s sum up what the foundation gets in from the membership fees:
115 lifetime members 115 x 1.9 BTC = 218,5 BTC
211 annual members 211 x 0.19 BTC = 40,09 BTC
2 platinium members: 2x 758.4 BTC = 1516.8 BTC
7 silver members (between 7.6 and 37.9 BTC):
    min: 7x 7.6 BTC = 53.2 BTC
    max: 7x 37.9 BTC = 265.3 BTC

So the overall budget in the foundation would be between: 1828,59 and 2040,69 BTC.
Here you see also the problem that 2 companies fund between 74% and 83% of the budget!
That is for sure not a good situation!

I would like to see it funded in a more decentralized manner.
How would it look without the company funds?
So if you roughly count with 2000 BTC and 300 individual members it would be about 6,6 BTC per member. That does not sound an amount which would be impossible to contribute. I assume there would be more members contributing if the idea is clear and straight.

I wanted to join the foundation, but after reading more about it I was getting more and more sceptical.
If there would be a clearly defined donation page where the members are supporting only the technical development without all the complexity of the politics, I think it would be easier for people to contribute.
Of course the amount anyone contribute could be flexible and open, so anyone can contribute to his personal possibilities.

Lets revisit some of Gavins original ideas about the foundation:



I really like the idea of small decentralized independent groups instead of a central foundation.
Maybe a central foundation could server more as an umbrella for these task forces.
One of Gavins initial points was the payment of the core developers. It is now covered by the foundation but could be better handled from a more open and democratic structure.
Why not create a project where any bitcoiners can contribute with donations to the core dev team to get the independence back?
It would be really a shame if the community could not collect the money needed for salary and other development costs. Many people have already made a fortune with bitcoins so lets share some of that!

All these elements in the bitcoin eco-system which are not breathing the spirit of decentralisation and p2p are enemies for the project.
That starts with way too dominant exchanges like MtGox, mining pools controlling a large part of the mining power and also touches the problem that the core developer team has a central power (that does not mean any disrespect, but I think that is a problematic situation - at least a potential risk for the future).

So in fact we have something like a central bank (not to control money issueing but we got central power structures).
The bitcoin foundation seems to me just another part in the wrong direction.

Why not use the power in the underlying technology to create a democratic system out of these problematic regions?

Peer2Peer exchanges are in discussion and I hope they become reality soon!

A voting mechanism could be implemented to be used as a tool to find global democratic consensus.
Some ideas like liquid democracy used by the pirate parties (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Democracy#Delegated_voting) could be applied. So basically every bitcoin user would have the same voting power (not less then any company paying a gold premium membership). But of course there are situations where he prefers to delegate his vote to someone else who has more expertise. So a fluent delegate system could lead automatically to elected "board members" as well as it could be used as basis for decisions implemented by the core developer team.

I do not say that this process is easy. But I think for the money of the future we need also new structures and not concepts from the last century.

does anyone know a cheap source where to order plastic airtight cases for the coins?

Clever idea!!!!!!!!!

YEAH we are done!!!!