Nice vid. Thanks for posting it.

What? Can you elaborate as to why you're coming to that conclusion from reading that? Because I don't see that at all.

In my experience with the NXT community, which is mostly on the SuperNET slack(but that's a lot of people and activity) people are generally pretty interested in Ethereum. There's a dedicated channel for it and lots of talk about how it can be integrated in to SuperNET, as well as how NXT and ETH will coexist. There's a lot of traders there as well, so lots of talk about the post launch dump and such, but that's just standard shop talk and not related to anything to do with the tech. They even set up a Superether asset that was insured up 100 BTC I think to give people a reliable safe place to purchase ETH before it was live on the blockchain.

So maybe the forums are different story like you said, but to me the reality of the day to day activity for lots of people involved in NXT and SuperNET is quite different than the picture you're painting here. Some people might be pretty annoyed at the moment because a certain whale(LSUM) is unloading a big chuck of NXT, but that's not really a big deal at all and better for the long term health and distribution anyway.

Ok, I see. Starting out on hashtalk would definitely make it hard for someone to get out of the echo chamber that it was. I hope the experience didn't sour you too much. There are a lot of scams out there, but also a lot of good projects and hard working honest people as well.

In terms of code? No, it's not.

In terms of general concept and idea? Probably.

Who other than LSUM is unloading large amounts of NXT?

He always liquidates NXT in large amounts anyway, so it's not out of character and it may or may not be to buy ETH.

Not trying to be mean, but what were you thinking? Everyone in the Bitcoin community was shouting at the top of their lungs for people to get out of that scam.

Hal Finney was the first to point out the 0 confirmation double spend attack. And it's named the 'Finney Attack' in his honour.

I think it's safe to say with absolutely certainty that he is not Hal Finney.

And the fact that he would claim this was his own doing is extremely concerning and I'd advise people to be suspicious of someone making these sorts of claims that are both without evidence, and impossible anyway.

It's still part of SuperNET yes. It's up to the community to continue to support it and make it more prominent if they wish. I think BBR will be becoming more active again soon, but that's just my personal opinion.

Also, I believe James as been continuing to upgrade the privacy related SuperNET tech and he's been testing some new innovations in that area. So other than the obvious BBR being an on ramp to using anonymity with SuperNET, anything other than that will still have to made more clear as the systems get more finalized.

There may be lots of skilled developers around, but when it comes to Cryptonote there are only a few who are really familiar with the code base. And I think all of those people are already preoccupied with their own projects. And having witnessed how well CZ has been able to handle emergencies and attacks, I think having one CZ is far more valuable than having even 5 outsiders come and try to start from scratch and learn this somewhat notoriously odd code base from scratch. Plus, it's not like he's disappeared or anything. He's still around here.

While there's work to be done on BBR itself, growth is more likely to come from 3rd parties building things to increase activity. It's not like anyone needs permission from CZ to keep BBR growing. We're probably at an impasse now where people who want to build things are nervous that CZ has abandoned BBR, and CZ himself is not sure if there's enough interest still in BBR to continue. So it's a chicken and egg situation.

CZ is still around and there's no one better. Community needs a kick start perhaps though.

What are you talking about? There's no game like that that I've seen that uses GMC.

Although anyone can use GMC of course since it's free and open.

Yeah, they're a good one. Clash of Clans is very well designed in my opinion. It's very simple and easy to get in to, but there's a lot of underlying strategy for players who want to get serious. And the in-game purchases are straight forward and not forced on people.

Not sure exactly what they have planned yet, but I'd assume that it's something that will end up getting the blockchain moving again to start with. Slack is probably the best place to get the latest info on that stuff. If anyone still needs a slack invite let me know and I'll get one for you sent to an email address you choose.

I remember Bitcoin itself was using checkpoints at one time, not too long ago too. Haven't heard much about that in a while. Do you or anyone else know if they are still in use at all?

Medic and Biomech for GMC @ CES 2016!

When not enough people are mining it relative to the difficulty it does make it very slow, yes.

For a while we had some community members theorizing on solutions to that problem, and now a new dev with lots of cryptocurrency experience has been hired by dbkeys specifically to try to implement something new I believe.

Because it was public and open for two months. And NXT doesn't have mining, so the term instamine doesn't apply anyway.

LOL. Did you actually read the post to see what this is?

What makes you say that they wouldn't want A?

And even if that were true for whatever reason, InstantDEX is coming soon which is aimed at opening the door to make A a reality.