If there is any confusion around the hardfork, read this -> https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/3n06qw/there_seems_to_be_some_confusion_around_the/

Regarding polo and liquidity. It is a bit of both. First, back in the day the max withdrawal limit was the same for everyone. In other words, everyone could withdraw an unlimited (might have been 25k, not entirely sure about that) amount. Thus, it was fairly easy to get out your money quickly. With the KYC in place, polo literally needs to know everything about you before you have this 25k limit. Name and country will only give you a limit of 2k, which is quite small if you want to provide liquidity. Even the 7k limit, that you get after filling in some additional data, such as address if I recall correctly, is quite small if you want to provide liquidity. Certainly with the current BTC prices. At last, providing KYC data to companies is a huge turn off for people involved with cryptocurrency. It isn't necessarily that they are warry of providing the data itself. Just that they are warry of the possibility that their data might leak after a hack. Like I said before, polo literally needs to know everything from you to raise your limit to 25k (including photos if I recall correctly). If this data gets leaked somehow, that's a huge personal risk (think of identity theft, which is certainly no joke).

 
  
Sure, one problem at a time.  Just putting it out there.  
  
Also, it seems we got rid of this lighter blue, but I was quite fond of it.  Is there any way to see the logos in this shade?  It's a great compromise between the electric blue and the dark cyan you are using.  
  

Most currencies are 2-4% I think that a .75% rate would not be earthshattering and could give be the evergreen tree from the rear view mirror fresh smell. The fixed rate idea and deflationary theories are fundamentally flawed for crypto imho in many many ways including accidental and purposeful burning of currencies and network activity. I liked the idea before about having an algo that addresses that which controls a dynamic inflation rate... but yeah most countries are 2-4. Now hyperinflation is an interesting concept but when mixed with POS gives the ponzi feels. I dunno what is right but I think 0.75 wont burn the world to the ground, nor will it create a second earth. Run with it. GJ.

That is a risk, but on the other hand, mot of us are at a loss.
People had a lot of opportunities to buy below 0.002 BTC per XMR.

I'm a little confused.

What did JM say that you agree with?

In your last sentence what are you suggesting?

It would be great to see a "smart inflation" of sorts, where the rate of debasement is determined somehow by the transaction volume. This way, the money supply grows in proportion with the network.

However, "moar inflation" does not automatically mean more spending. You need enough to disincentivize hodling vs the opportunity risk of investing in productivity. Beyond that there's little incentive to spend (until you get to hyperinflation territory).

For those involved in the Aeon debate about enabling actual inflation, smooth has proposed the easiest and most socially acceptable solution would be just to leave in the first year's inflation rate (~0.85%) after the initial issue.  
  
This ensures we grow at a different pace than Monero (for better or worse), gives us unique identity, and solves the issue of having actual inflation without any possible fears of it being too high of a number.  Also, since this amount of inflation was already in the cards to begin with (after forking from Monero) this doesn't really alter the social contract.
  
On a long enough time span, this would result in significantly more Aeon being created each year vs. Monero, but the total values will stay relatively comparative for many years before this happens.  
  
As far as the idea for smart inflation, it sounds like a great idea (as did digital cash initially in the 80's and 90's) but sounds like it might need some new brilliant combination of mathematics plus some vetting on an experimental blockchain before it could be considered to be incorporated into one of the major cryptonotes.

I'm amazed people still mine at minergate...

 
  
Luckily, the highly predictable nature of the future has been a constant throughout history.  

Well, we all agree with the argument about breaking the social contract and eventually reached 100% consensus on the matter. But we can still feel sad about the things we can't change.

In keeping with my post above, I believe the emission is important sometimes and unimportant at other times. But if we look at different altcoins with varying inflation, it does not seem that supply inflation of coins has been significant in recent history:

By the end of 2015, LTC's supply inflation will be about 33%. Dogecoin's supply inflation for 2015 will be about 5.26%. Monero's supply inflation in 2015 will be even higher than Litecoin's. Peercoin's supply inflation for 2015 is slightly lower than Dogecoin's. This is a huge range. But when we look at the LTC, XMR, PPC, and DOGE charts, do we really see much of a difference?

Larger macroeconomic effects (namely, an extended post-bubble bear market) has hammered all the altcoins into the ground regardless of their individual supply inflation schedules. So in the end, I think emission has basically been a nonfactor over the past year.

To those who use http://moneroaddress.org:

When saving that page (always save as raw, or HTML only), your browser may select a default filename of "Monero offline wallet generator.html", based on the page title. If you intend to verify the signature (and you should, otherwise you are vulnerable to attacks from your ISP or your exit node), make sure you save the file as monero-wallet-generator.html, as this is the filename that gpg expects when verifying with the signature in monero-wallet-generator.html.asc. If you get any error along the lines of "failed to open file", or "no signed data", or "can't hash data file", then this is probably because the filename is wrong.

i pulled it off. just use the "compile monero" instructions in my sig, but replate the git clone with the aeon repository.

It has not been easy. I have a few good leads but most seem to be taking a wait and see approach. It is a balancing act between the work in setting up payment acceptance and the new business that Monero is likely to bring in. Even for privacy focused businesses, customer demand seems more important that payment privacy in most cases.  The companies that are most interested are the ones where the most Monero users have made contact to express interest. Retweets, emails, comments, etc. all help.  

Once we convince Tutanota to add us I hope everyone donates to them and more Monero users start using their services. This can be used as evidence to convince the VPN provider that appears most interested to accept us. I want to focus on one company at a time. When I posted lists of companies and exchanges in the past far fewer people contacted each one. I want to focus on a very small number of companies at one time. We should be thinking about how we can help them as much as how they can help us.

Thanks, but it still says "Wrong credentials".

Either that or more likely people would just boycott a particular service that wants them to disclose their view keys and transact elsewhere?

Try logging in with your email address as the username.  We are working on revamping the registration, but I think currently the username for new signups is the email address entered during registration.