Traveling the world with Bitcoin is an awesome idea for a blog series, especially if you can incorporate at least a basic level of decent photography to help add to the impact. Good luck!

I would argue that Bitcoin isn't an example of Gresham's law at all. It is simply in the early stages of adoption and its utility hasn't been fully determined, so there's lots of speculation and price volatility.

That's a nice roadmap design/timeline. HAL seems to be making solid progress, and I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes in the next 10-60 days.

Custom minted coins is exciting - prices can be a bit steeper than one might anticipate though. Definitely make sure to do your research before committing to it here.

That's a terrific image, nice work!

More details would be great...

That's great - secondary spectrum markets still function via auctions, and consist nearly exclusively of large players like telecom companies. Are you planning on participating in those auctions to buy spectrum, then re-auction it? Or merely to facilitate the auction process?

The real, interesting question is do you have any experience in these areas? Concrete evidence of that would go a long way towards helping convince people to mine, buy, and hold your coin.

Decentralization is one of the essential founding principles of cryptocurrency, and I'm glad to see overwhelming support from NXT holders to sticking with it in this case.

That's a nice article by Gavin, and I hadn't seen it yet, so thanks for linking to it. I like how he quotes "complexity is the enemy of security", but there's another angle to approach it from: usability. Complexity is the enemy of real world usage by any significant number of the non-genius-level-technically-inclined part of the human population.

That's a great, concise point that few people realize. Market leaders are rarely the most innovative, but they do need to be well funded and have proper marketing.

Easy to prove indeed.. so why not post the proof? 

I am not a lawyer, but patents are far more useful than trademarks for this type of scenario -- also much more difficult and costly to obtain.

I posted this in the ZenMiner thread, but it seems important to note the following issues with GAW/ZenMiner here as well:

My favorite part of this coin are all the car rental jokes that have been made... but on a serious note: Is there any legitimacy to the ANN OP's claims regarding spectrum frequency auctions? It seems very unlikely because you have to be a pre-registered, qualified bidder for any such government spectrum auction...

It is always nice to see people called out in clear, concise language and then just have to sit back to see how they respond. So, how about it? Can anyone post details of multisig tx in XC?

Learning what the Prisoner's dilemma is can prevent you from being the one caught off-guard in that situation, or blissfully unaware of the real world's workings around you. Great time to post that, kotarius.

Thanks, this is *very* helpful information on mining Burst, and I'm glad to see it posted as a separate thread. Posting important information on page #80 of an existing thread often means it gets lost in the shuffle. I spent a little while digging through the Burst codebase to try and ascertain this, but got busy with other matters before making much progress.

It will be interesting to see results from your poll, but of course self-reported btc balances are a bit unreliable, at best.

Its interesting to see GAW/ZenMiner posting here on an unmoderated thread, given the extremely heavy handed moderation present on their own forum ("HashTalk") and discontinuation of their previous bitcointalk thread for GAW a while back. I'm eager to see what feedback and discussion we'll see in this thread, as most of the recent feedback on GAW/ZenMiner outside of HashTalk has been negative. Perhaps Eric can shed some light on several issues that have been banned from discussion on HashTalk or have failed to be addressed by Eric, Josh, Amber, or other GAW representatives:

1) Total lack of any real mining from ZenMiner Cloud, as confirmed by more than 50% of the pools ZenMiner Cloud claims to allow miners to select. No increase in hashrate, workers, etc. from ZenMiner Cloud, nor "affiliation" or "private stratums" that Eric/Josh have claimed in the past, as commented on by at least four of the ZenMiner Cloud user-selectable pools.

2) No documented evidence of physical miners or an actual datacenter presence, as much as you guys like to post photo/video propaganda of Josh being the "scrypt king" -- just seems odd you won't post any kind of proof.

3) Extremely heavy handed moderation on HashTalk of any discussion of these issues or any other question/topic that you dislike.

4) Increasingly large delays in shipping orders both from GAW and ZenMiner.

5) Decreasing amount of non-ZenMiner Cloud hardware available for purchase at GAW (and increasing prices on the few items that are available).

6) "Interest" on ZenMiner Cloud held-bitcoin -- seems an awful lot like a ponzi scheme.

7) Discontinuation of "founders club" benefits like the promised upgrade paths, free hosting for life, etc. without any announcement or discussion possible - again due to heavy handed moderation on HashTalk, and refusal of customer service representatives to address the issue.

Instant changing to fiat isn't necessarily a huge problem - it provides liquidity at market prices. Companies that amass large quantities of bitcoin and then exchange to fiat in bulk can impact markets though, so beware of those.