Yeah, the thing is, is that there has to be finite proof of what people are going to be getting into with this sort of thing. There has been this kind of idea going around now with new projects that people like you will pay for hosters to seed certain things using their hardware and bandwidth... this could be problematic for people wanting to remain safe and unreliable for people using it. So how can you guarantee us that our shit won't be a site for illegal and sketchy activity taken place?

So I'm interested in this project in general and would like to ask some questions, because I personally hold some Monero and I generally like the Cryptonote protocol:

1) Can't AEON be replaced? : So from what it sounds like to me (or at least what I've read up on), AEON is primarily used for a testing ground for Monero and, in ways, new cryptonote functions to be tested.  I think that there are "testnet" coins (I may be wrong in the terminology) that could test the functions of how these future "coins" will play out with realistic tx's/sec testing. So if you were to invest in AEON, wouldn't you be generally funding the testing of sincere cryptonote coins?

2) Does AEON have a place against Monero? : If cryptonote were to become a mainstream asset/currency that every seeks for, I just believe that one will inevitably "survive" and be worth something in the end of it.  Relating to the first question, don't you think holding AEON just support and encourages devs like Smooth to keep on trucking on to make essentially a better platform for Monero to work on? Essentially what I'm asking, is do you think AEON will always be the "work horse" of Monero?

3) Best place to buy AEON? : So last time I have checked, Shapeshift doesn't support AEON... neither does poloniex (the only other exchange I have signed up for). I have tried to look this up in a very brief period, so this question might sound dumb or "noobish" to some people on here... but I feel like a lot of people don't know where to buy AEON, and based on the OP from americanpegasus, there isn't much resources on how to purchase this coin.

4) Wallets : Are wallets all primarily downloads, or are there webwallets already created like mymonero for XMR?

Thanks in advance for the answers.

I hate to rain on everyones (future) parade... but there seems to be a total lack of knowledge to the importance of the block size debates that are coming up in the future.  This has the most future implications for price and adoption in the future, because if you don't have a functioning system "under the hood" then you don't have a legit currency, just merely an asset that everyone jumps on board with.  I'm scared bitcoin is going to be a "starbucks" in a way, where they sell over priced items that is somewhat better than everything else... not the other way around, where in this case, have orgasmic coffee that nothing else is in comparison.

I hope that analogy makes sense, but that's the only way I can think of how to explain it right now.

Are you being serious?

That kind of thinking sends governments into turmoil, spending what they can't spend and borrowing from governments.  Now I know that if a government loans to another, then that means that in a way it will collect some kind of interest from it, and it is seen in the current US debt from Chinese loans... but this is not good for both sides at all.

It is basic Economics... when one major nation suffers economically, all major nations and thus fore, every nation suffers because of this.  This is why cryptocurrencies matter so much... it is because a digitalized/limited currency can make all nations play on the same "playing field" and allow trading/loaning to be "fair" in some aspects.

While I see where you are coming from, I don't think that someone should be "addicted" to bitcoin to become a supporter.  There has to be some realization that it's not all about being right or wrong compared to the masses... I mean who can blame them? They are people who are bombarded from mainstream news sites all the time and don't realize the importance of a limited asset backed economic system, because the school system has simply failed their students to teach them the importance of them.  I'm pretty sure that only 20% of millennials would know that fiat was backed by gold in the past, and this knowledge is rapidly decreasing.  The obedience of people to the government/the Central Banks is incredible to me, but you can't use that against them because it's rare that someone will go out of the way to learn that for themselves.

I'm sorry man, but what in the actual fuck are you talking about??

Of course if the internet goes down, Bitcoin transactions will be "slow"... not only that, non existent.  The second thing is that Bitcoin is not even close to the price of gold as of right now; it is probably over 2X the amount per "unit" it sells for.

Next, you automatically assume, (for some reason that I can't wrap my head around) that the internet is destined to go down for some reason. Don't you realize that this is a very unpredictable/not very likely thing to occur? If someone in high power were to start shutting down the internet, and mind, you can't just shut down the WHOLE internet to shut down upon command. 

You know, it's funny, because last night I was watching the Republican debates last night and Donald Trump was saying that he would essentially shut down ISIS's internet, which is hilarious because there is no way to shut down someone's internet entirely. Coming from a stand point where he thinks that the "internet" is nationally "regioned" in a way is quite hilarious to me and further continues my counter arguments towards Trump supporters.

*Sorry for the irrelevance toward people outside the US... just seems to relate to the topic here*.

I don't quite understand why you think this is the best decision to sell right at the $500 mark. I mean sure, from the past pump the major resistance was around $500 which crashed to the low $300's... but that was a bubble that was just primed to pop at any moment.  The growth in the price has been pretty steady since the beginning of November, and seems like it is primed for another long term pump up until at least spring, when there will be huge speculation pumps and dumps because of no known certainty with what the halving will do.  I think by spring time by next year we will get to at least the $650-700 mark, give or take.  Just be careful and trade accordingly.

Honestly, from what it sounds like coming from OP and what you're asking, there is good and bad news in your case:

The good news: is that you can be able to work from home, but just pay to "secure" an area or city of your choice. The customers will somehow do some kind of business for you... which I think in this case makes it seems like it is a pyramid scheme of some sort if the "customers" hand business for you.  Take that as you will though, I just know that me personally will not feel comfortable recruiting friends to do work for me and me receiving benefits for it.

The bad news: The idea will not be explained before you send funds. Going from what he has said before, he is concerned that the idea he has for a business proposal could be stolen from people on the forum.  So in other words, he wouldn't feel safe sharing any information on anything that has to do with what he is trying to sell, which I personally think contradicts everything that he is trying to do on this thread.

Just wanted to say that I can confirm payment for the second time and really appreciate the bonus pay.  ZengryT, as someone who is interested in the developments in online gambling (I personally think there are some things that could be done better), maybe you should entertain some of the ideas that are in my speculation thread found here.

The general consensus from that thread so far is that there are a lot of people are wanting a better arcade experience in gambling. When I have visited your site a couple of days ago I saw that your arcade section on your website is lacking a lot of potential games that could be on there. If your developers (or if your a developer your self) would like to think of some games to put on there (pinball maybe?), I think it would increase players who visit your site.

Now that I think more about it, maybe the OP should go to the "collectibles" section and pick up a Casascius coin or something like that.  Those coins tend to hold their value very well and I think will grow interest over time, regardless of what Bitcoins price does over time.

Watching this video made me cringe and stopped watching after like 4 minutes... It's just pretty obvious to me he is trying to make him self seem more prominent than what he probably really is.  He may have been a very early adopter and knew a lot about the code and probably worked with Satoshi him self, but in no way I think that he is single handedly "Satoshi". At best, he was probably on the core dev team that was labeled a single entity as "Satoshi". If this is the case, he has probably pissed off the rest of his team because he's essentially taking all the credit... and what could they do in this case? Just come out, and say yeah "We are all Satoshi".. which apparently there was some sketchy email that was sent around apparently to some email list saying exactly just that.

Personally I see this as the new big frontier for Bitcoin gambling. There's still a lot of room out there for new types of sports gambling games and sites to be created... Something like fantasy sports for every sport would be a very nice diverse option from the normal sports gambling sites that are out there right now.

You're definitely right, and hopefully if this very unlikely scenario were to happen, then hopefully Satoshi would have the descency to put his coins up on multiple exchange websites for everyone to have a chance at owning them. If the real Satoshi wanted to go full on "fuck you" mode, he would put his coins up for auction which would probably get a stupid high premium on them because these bitcoins are exceptionally rare... Which brings us to the fungibility issue again. Since these coins can be traced back to the birth of Bitcoin itself, people see these coins as more valuable since it hasn't touched any other wallets/scam sites/mixers/etc. I think this would cause more of an issue and hence a decline in price.

Well no offense, but if you wanted to keep things under wraps until you have your project/service fully developed (sounds like you're going to proceed developing it anyways), then why would you bother trying to garner interest in getting investors? If you wanted to protect your idea from being so easily taken over by someone else, then why not just apply for a patent on your business idea/product. Even after you get everything situated and developed, you still can't necessarily trust people not to take your idea and run with it when you finally tell investors how things would work.

Investors like seeing a finished project that they can tell if they at going to make a decent ROI with it.

The problem with this, still, is the problem with confirmation times in Bitcoin. If you are buying something expensive like an engagement ring or something like that, then sure, tx times don't really matter as much because the business is usually not that busy all the time, but say like at a fast food service, or somewhere that is constantly busy with people waiting behind you, you don't have the convenience of having to wait for the next block to be solved.

I think every online business can use what you where talking about though, but since it's "local" I would think that you are buying something in person.

Well I'm happy for you, that's great that there is big development over there happening with Bitcoin. I wasn't necessarily saying that tendencies in U.S. cities here are how every place works, I'm not some ignorant American gun totin' overweight hillbilly "'Merrica is freedom'" dick head a lot of people in the E.U., and rest of the world for that matter, likes to portray us... But in theory, you have to get that what has been going on, at least where I live, technically makes sense. Even you said where you lived has some big developments with Bitcoin in your area, while I live in the US who is technically a major player in the Bitcoin world, I'm in an area of the U.S. where there is no knowledge or developments being made that I know of within a 4-5 hour drive radius.

While investing in Bitcoin is a relatively new concept, and don't really know for sure if it will pan out like everyone believes it will in the future, there is always going to be demand for gold. The "market" your speaking of in terms of gold prices are a lot more complicated than I think any one can imagine, and have to do in some form with inflation of the USD over time. Sure, gold has been going down, but we still price it in fiat. If the fiat system were completely thrown away, and only priced gold in Bitcoin, I think we would see a lot more stable correlation in "price" or "demand" because they are both technically limited and not printed notes the Fed issues out not backed on anything.

Well unless you have a bitcoin ATM around you were you can buy bitcoin for cash like you would at localbtc, you have a point. But where the problems lies, is that people who don't have bitcoin ATM's around them in their city, or state for that matter, don't have many people around them that are trying to sell bitcoins on there... many people in cities like those have no clue about bitcoin.  So I would imagine places like those (and I currently live in a place like that) where you would see high premiums on coins for the "anonymity" part. 

To me it's still sketchy dealing with other people like that and probably ending up meeting with them face to face... there's a lot of bad people in the crypto world, and even though they might say they have a good rating doesn't necessarily mean they won't end up trying to rob you.

Bitcoin ATM's are the best choice for buying coins in cash to have anonymity IMO.

I think it's safe to say that anyone would really Yahoo, lol. There's a huge market that's available for people that can code this sort of stuff.  A lot of people like "retro-esque" arcade games.

I think it would be even cooler if someone were to make a game like that, where it doesn't necessarily require you to sign up for anything either... I mean, I would think you would want to make it as "life like" as possible, and last time I played pinball at some arcade (or bar for that matter) I don't remember having to give the machine my email address and that sort of thing.  So it would be nice just to be able to send coins "in" the machine, just like you would quarters, and start playing... If you win, that's awesome you can keep playing or withdraw (probably with a fee).

Cool project... I don't necessarily see how you can make that much money yourself, or how you can sustain that type of pay to everyone, whether they post spam or not.  I only saw one ad on your website, and the rest were just ads promoting, well, your website lol.  I'm just wondering how you can make this website sustainable and how does it keep track of everyone who posts there in general?