Why is my "hotpocket empty"?

To be clear, I didn't quit

We have to build the communication and identity management backend first with a secure and easy to use client alongside a good wallet to store the funds. Keyhotee will be released with the ID and communication system in beta in November and the wallet beta will released in December.

The Keyhotee trading system, the data visualization and BitShares backbone will be released in stages starting with the first release in march to April of next year and then every two-three months thereafter until the quality and economic alignment makes sense for the scale we are trying to accomplish.
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Invictus is in good hands and now I've moved on to other things. BitShares is going to be a great project and I have total faith in all parties involved.

Good job Financisto 

I've made a couple posts in the services section. I'm willing to offer free escrow. I have plenty of seasoned users to vouch for me, I've been active in the marketplace for a long time, and I'm willing to provide ID for larger (like >5 BTC) transactions. I just want to become a more prominent member of the community.

Only members with announcements threads / sites will be listed.

[...] 600,000 is a good number, but the main threat I see to Mastercoin value will be from Bitshares. People will probably sell Mastercoins for Bitshares if that idea actually worked as well as they say it will, but it's very possible that Mastercoin could have first mover advantage and work better too. [...]

The important thing to note about Mastercoin is momentum. It has the momentum. It has around half a million dollars from crowd funding to provide incentives for developers to actually build it. Owning the coins is like owning stock in Mastercoin and that provides incentive for developers and anyone else to prefer it over Colored Coin.

That is the mistake of Colored Coin. Colored Coin is like GNU Hurd which was the basis for Linux but most people don't know about it because it never had the same kind of developer support, marketing, or incentives to draw people to it.

When all is said and done speculators require incentives to do things. Mastercoin is being designed to attract speculation. Colored Coin is being designed by technical programmer types but since there wont be anything to trade initially and no crowd funding, and no momentum, in my opinion it's going to be left in the dust.

What would you choose as a developer or investor? Would you choose Colored Coin which by design will never be as powerful as Mastercoin? Which does not have momentum? But which I suppose could produce a simple solution to solve a simple technical problem? Or would you go with the momentum? If Colored Coin can capture the momentum and actually do a good job explaining what Colored Coin is then people will use it but it still isn't going to catch on fire like Mastercoin will.

Mastercoin will allow people to make bets and that feature alone will attract a very dedicated following. For example if Mastercoin works as intended we could bet on anything from which team will win the superbowl, to whether or not difficulty will double, to whether or not AsicMiner will be able to achieve 10% of the hash rate and we'd be able to do it in a completely decentralized manner. On top of that anyone who owns Mastercoins now is going to prefer using Mastercoin over Colored Coin because their Mastercoins gain value over time while Colored Coin is at best a platform which no one really has a stake in so who would care about it if everyone were a rational actor?

I know people are not rational and there will be plenty of people who like Colored Coin for ideological reasons. I can even think of some reasons why I might prefer Colored Coin and I own Mastercoins. One reason is that Colored Coin works on altcoin blockchains and Mastercoin works only with Bitcoin. There would be no real benefit to building an alternative fork of Mastercoin on top of Bitcoin if the original Mastercoin works as it should. There will definitely be demand for Colored Coin and perhaps Bitshares and Hops, and the market is going to be big enough where all of them will succeed on different blockchains but on the Bitcoin blockchain we will see Mastercoin dominate because it's basically build into it the blockchain and you cannot really beat that. Colored Coin is not built into the blockchain and that is both it's strength and weakness.

It's a strength because for Litecoin we'd have to use Colored Coin so perhaps they can create a niche around Litecoin and other altcoins. For Bitcoin it's going to either be Mastercoin ,  Bitshares,  or both but I don't think Colored Coin will be able to compete when both Mastercoin and Bitshares have lots of cash to build with and attract speculators with interest, dividends, and other kinds of incentive mechanisms which Colored Coin lacks.

I don't even see how you could build something like Mastercoin without some kind of coin which people would have to buy with Bitcoins. How would you get people to buy something with Bitcoins? People buy Mastercoins because they can be used to create new currencies. Those new currencies require backing in the form of escrow so that the supply can be controlled.

It's not just that Mastercoins are scarce, it's that they are incredibly valuable because they can allow so many possibilities but I suppose you could do some of it with Colored Coin or with some alternative to Mastercoin but it's all about speculation and liquidity,  once Mastercoin gets established its not going to be so simple to just clone it. If it were that simple then Bitcoin would have a difficult time competing with Litecoin because Litecoins are cheaper.

can't wait a fresh start of beloved NMC. BEST application other than BTC so far.

Intelligent and fast-responding team revitalize the innovative coin.

A lot of pizza places have online ordering, my wife and I use that sometimes with Papa John's.  Almost all of them will accept credit cards by phone as well

I just want to report that I successfully traded 10,000 bitcoins for pizza.

Pictures: http://heliacal.net/~solar/bitcoin/pizza/

Thanks jercos!

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Thanks for the comprehensive list

Namecoin is alive and kicking. It has been around a bit longer
than any of the other altcoins and certainly is the most innovative coin
after Bitcoin.

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Note that there are more possibilities in Namecoin than domain name
resolution as it is a general name/value storage system. The community
is only starting to experiment with new ideas like IDs, logins,
TLS/https, Bitmessage integration, file verification and so on.

Is there even a dev team?