I like this idea also - at least we are now starting to think about a Nxt way of voting!

It certainly sounds a lot better than a forum poll to me.

It *costs* NXT - creating bitcointalk accounts just costs a little bit of time (now only seconds).

It is obvious there are plenty of people on this forum with very little "coin" but a lot of time.

Why is that - does he have more NXT than anyway else that he is going to throw at his favourite option?

I think it might be a good experiment to do anyway.

As suggested by Anon why not just set of 4 Nxt accounts and let people vote with their NXT (it is a PoS system after all)?

Anyone with an agenda in regards to Nxt could well have motive and as I mentioned: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=423995.0;topicseen means that you can create as many accounts to vote as you like right now.

So what does the poll actually achieve when you have absolutely no way to know whether it is in anyway representative of Nxt stakeholders?

(i.e. why even bother with it - wouldn't it be better to instead just have people cast their vote as a post that includes their account name and reject any new accounts?)

I prefer that - as the Newbie restrictions have now been lifted there is nothing to stop someone spending the next 12 hours creating new accounts and voting in the poll (am assuming that you guys did read about the Newbie restrictions being lifted today).

A bitcointalk poll? Really?

Is this a test to see who has the most bitcointalk alt accounts?

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I think you guys already *have* an image "the NeXT generation" and any marketing plan should be primarily be focused on this (the logo does work in this regards also as it looks kind of like some sort of Star Trek thing).

I don't like the material going too over the top to compare Nxt to other stuff (it just looks desperate IMO) - just make the points without looking like you are putting down (or obviously worried about being compared to) anything else.

Some of the most clever marketing campaigns have been ones that didn't even obviously appear to promote the product (the Silk Cut cigarette campaign from the 80's to the early 2000's being a very good example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Cut).

A good start would be to explain why all the options you have read about are not suitable?

I think I screwed up on trying to search for the key id rather than the fingerprint - (am more used to just copying and pasting public keys than finding them from key servers).

Thanks Jean-Luc - I've got it imported now.

So you don't actually have his public key then?

Does anyone else (it is not on the MIT key server or a few others I tried)?

Maybe only me - could you do a "gpg --armor --export jean-luc" (assuming the GPG key is tied to that name) and post the public key so I can add it?

I'd agree that in many cases people would be transferring BTC from their own "hot wallet" to "cold storage" although of course it is also possible that the transfer was done from an exchange (in which case the input UTXO's would not belong to the person with the address in question at all).

Strange - I cannot find FF2A19FA anywhere - can someone please post his public key so I can at least check that it was the one used to sign the download.

The private key is a SHA256 of your "pass phrase" (when you use something like brainwallet.org).

So the problem is that your "pass phrase" needs to something that someone with a lot of computing power and a huge set of "common pass phrases" won't find.

You can be secure using a "pass phrase" but you would probably want to consider doing a few things to be sure:

1) Length should be 20 characters minimum (better 40 or more).

2) You should mix languages, slang as well as numbers and special characters.

3) Do not pick any lyric or "saying" or famous quote (for sure people are mining these as we post).

Indeed that is the problem and "the lesson" people need to learn about creating a "brain wallet". If you pick any sort of phrase, lyric or quote that is known you are going to lose your coins.

Perhaps the best thing (if the OP is determined to move those coins) is to just send them to either a charity or to some project so at least they are used for something to benefit the ecosystem.