Where can I find the source code for this project? How will the price take off now that it is being delisted by Poloniex and many users are reporting problems withdrawing their coins? What proof can you present that the team is working tirelessly on getgems? Actually, who is the development team made up of? The only names I found on the seemingly dormant blog (https://medium.com/@GetGems) are Peled, David Allen and Chen.

How about engraving the keys on a piece of stainless steel?

Bitcoin rising to $500+ as a result of the halving: A realistic scenario given the upcoming halving of supply and likely increase of media exposure bringing new investors.

Bitcoin rising to $10,000 as a result of the halving: Wishful thinking

Like others said, look at the possible factors affecting price and ignore anyone who throws out irrational predictions.

The one time I checked out an ATM in my city, the price was 15% higher than the market price. I didn't bother with it, as there are much cheaper options.

You can use the block explorer at https://www.omniwallet.org. It will show your MAID and BTC balances.

Don't trade based on emotion. The price may drop even more or stagnate for a long time; these things happen with every coin. It's gone up nearly a third in value against Monero, so you might consider trading it for that. Or just hold onto them and bide your time; the devs are hard at work with frequent updates to the source code: https://github.com/maidsafe. Don't trust anyone giving advice here, including myself, as we may have conflicting interests or ulterior motives. Make your own informed decisions and know that no one makes the right one every time; sometimes you just have to cut your losses and move on.

Ultimately, it would depend on what Satoshi decides to do with his coins and how he does it. Although I doubt he would intentionally do something to seriously hurt the price of BTC. I can't see the announcement itself having any dramatic long-term effect though.

Why rely on hearsay when you can read the whitepaper and hear it straight from the horse's mouth: https://github.com/maidsafe/Whitepapers/blob/master/Project-Safe.md

It has the answers to all the questions you put forth.

Yes, that's correct. Eventually when Safecoin is released, you'll be able to exchange your MAID for Safecoin.

There are a bunch of online services like https://www.bitaddress.org where you can generate paper wallets. You can also run it on your machine offline https://github.com/cantonbecker/bitcoinpaperwallet. Then you just transfer your MAID to the bitcoin address. You'll be able to see them when you input the address in the http://omniwallet.org block explorer.

I still buy small amounts of BTC, and use some of that in turn to buy other cryptos that look promising to me.

It actually dropped to the low 2000s briefly on Poloniex before it before it started gaining traction. I was going to buy 100k more at that time, but the price went up before I got my chance. The ICO price for those who invested with Bitcoin was about 0.000042 or 4200. Mastercoin investors bought in for considerably less.

Yes, you can store them in a BTC address. Once Safecoin is released, you'll be able to exchange your Maidsafecoin for it 1:1

Interest seems to be picking up in the project lately; especially since the release of the launcher: https://maidsafe.readme.io/v1.0/docs/launcher. I think Maidsafe's ultimate goal is to have a decentralized Internet protocol, which could be quite profitable for investors if the real-world applications correlate well with the proposed whitepaper and it's objectives.

Why not withdraw them to a paper wallet? That would be the safest IMHO.

I just got the same email less than an hour ago, with someone from India trying to access my account. I hadn't accessed the account since early 2015 and the link in the email goes to blockchain.info, so I think someone is brute-forcing the aliases like Jambola said. Regardless, I've transferred my remaining balance into a paper wallet for now. Better to be safe than sorry.

According to many executives and industry experts, the potential is in the blockchain technology and not the Bitcoin commodity itself, which will never become mainstream. Are they correct in their assumptions? I don't know, but I hope to see them proved wrong in the future. I think this topic merits more discussion, and as others have stated above me, scarcity does not equate to value, unless there is demand. Is there demand for BTC? Everyone I know who has heard of BTC has not invested a single penny into it. Some of them have read about BTC online and understand how it works, while others simply heard about it in the mainstream media. What will change in the future that will create greater demand for BTC? Is it a financial crisis? Merchant adoption? Greater regulation? Better exchanges? Ease of use? A killer app that uses BTC?

We've already seen some of these occur to varying degrees, although their effect on the price of BTC is questionable.

Btc-e hit $294 earlier today.

Someone should ask these executives and intellectuals how they envision a Blockchain operating without a PoW system like Bitcoin. If there is no incentive for miners, they will simply shut down their machines, resulting in the demise of the Blockchain. I guess corporations could pay miners directly for using the Blockchain, or create their own mining farms and treat it as an operating expense. Ultimately, they must have some sort of system in their mind as to how the Blockchain will exist independent of Bitcoin.

One solution may be to allow users to vote posts up or down, with posts that receive many down votes becoming hidden. Then adding an option to ignore all users with many negative posts. I've noticed some websites have such a system implemented in their comments section.


The quality of spam has gone down while the quantity of it has gone up since paid signatures have become popular. Obviously not every post is going to be a treasure trove of information. But if we had cheap posts back then, we got straight up knock-offs nowadays. Online money-making forums advertise posting on bitcointalk as a way to make money: http://thebot.net/threads/make-money-posting-on-btctalk.321232/

Of course, the 'Engrish' speakers on those sites see that opportunity and figure that it's more profitable than making 10 cents per 1000 captchas and descend upon here like hyenas on carrion. These aren't people like Mikestang who post here anyway and figure, 'why not get paid for what I already do?' Rather, they're only posting here because it's the best way for them to make money online. It's not very difficult to spot them either, especially since they become very defensive whenever someone calls them out.