Coinmarketcap has a button where you can switch units from USD to BTC, so they probably keep it straight between the two.

This is a new indicator worth watching, much more significant and indicative of public interest than their default ranking of market cap.  Just wait til NXT is on Cryptsy and all the Doge folk come to play with our shiny new toy...  

Congrats, Jean-Luc!  Just how many people are currently working full time on the core NXT dev team now?

Dude, my client on my desktop runs for a day or even two nonstop but doesn't get a tenth of those numbers of active peers.  I currently have only 70.  What's with that?

How long have you been running to get that many?

Made it on 500!

LOL.  The NXT transaction fee distribution algorithm already weights participation in accordance with how much NXT is in the account of an individual, not the sheer number of nodes being contributed by computers operated by that individual - which is far more important to the health of the NXT network.  And you talk about ethical problems applying the exact same arrangement to member voting?

Just a wry observation, I see the merit (and pitfalls) of both approaches...

As you wish.  Please step aside and let the buyer who is willing to do so come thru...

I dunno about this.  I've been watching to see this happen and what I'm getting is a lot more known peers changing from green flags to red flags (going from connected to disconnected) than new green flags "showing up eventually".   Currently I've got 420 known peers, 65 active peers, and of these, only 22 are showing green flag - connected.  The vast majority (43, almost two thirds) are showing disconnected - so why are they on an active peer list at all?

And yesterday's 1,800,000 NXT sell wall at 0.0001 has vanished.  The fuse to the skyrocket is lit, prepare for blastoff.

Sigh.  I am a quite impatient fellow and wanna make money as much as the next guy, but this is all happening too fast even for my taste....

Ok, so the is client decentralized and distributed.  Got that.  But...is there anywhere to go and get a master list of everybody that is currently forging at that moment?  

So does this mean that some who are listed in the known peer list on a particular desktop client are actually active peers, and the given desktop client hasn't figured that out yet?  Just how long does it take for a desktop client to sync up and see all of these new VPSs out there on the cloud?

I have a gap in my knowledge so I'm gonna ask a dumb question.  Just what IS the difference between a node up in the cloud and a peer running as a desktop (or Pi) client??  

We've got all these VPNs set up all over the world now - ferment alone has set up almost 100 - and these are "nodes".  They are all running the NXT 0.4.7e Java server software.  They are forging blocks.  Yet if I look at the "peer" list on my desktop client (where I have actually generated 9 blocks myself so far the past couple of days) I only see 52 "online peers".  If the "nodes" are generating "blocks" too, why aren't they considered "peers" as well and show up in the online "peer" list?  

I note one of the most prolific block generators is 4747512364439223888, a 50,000,000+ NXT account that has generated 3304 blocks so far, earning 56,290 NXT in fees.  Yet this chap  doesn't show up at all in the "online peer" list, which for me only lists two multi-million NXT accounts out of 54 as forging blocks : 78:46:63:221 at 6.6 million NXT and vps07.nxtcrypto.org with 2.1 million.   Somebody looking at just his desktop client with his minimum 10 NXT in it hoping to forge a block not only is at the back of the pack statistically speaking, he can't even see the front of the pack.

Am I missing something here?  Any elaboration somebody feels like sharing would be appreciated, thanks.

From an earlier post of mine:

A 1000 NXT forging stake will earn you 0.0001% of all transaction fees, which is identical to saying you get 1 transaction fee NXT for every 1,000,000 generated by the system.  You will double your 1000 NXT stake after 1,000,000,000 NXT have been generated in transaction fees.  How long it takes to generate a billion NXT in transaction fees depends on the average size of all NXT transactions.   For every thousand NXT in the average transaction size, a trillion NXTs must change hands for you to double your 1000 NXT forging stake.

Forging isn't mining.   It's gonna take a while to earn that first NXT from forging.

And let me extend this question with another.  What is the relative worth of a Raspberry Pi compared to a cloud-based virtual private server (VPS)?  Are X number of Raspberries worth Y number of VPS, or do they put their fingers in different parts of the leaking dyke?

Raspberry Pis are a cheap way to stand up lots of new nodes fast to stabilize the network from DDoS attack more so than using them for forging new NXT coins.

And yet they have just pardoned Mikhail Khodorkovsky as well as Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina of Pussy Riot.  Those wacky Russians.

Done.

CfB, a new topic for your consideration.  Is there a way to mod the next version of the NXT client/server software (0.4.8?) to identify whether on not it is running on a Raspberry Pi and perhaps even put out some sort of visual designator in the peer field of the client so you can tell how many Raspberry Pis are running in the wild?  Such info could be of great and growing interest in the future, perhaps even convincing the bad guys to give up DDoS when they see for themselves that NXT can deploy more nodes for $40 each than they can to attack.

Check this article and think about it.  If NXT is running on an ARMv6, it's running on a Pi.  Perhaps a nice raspberry colored dot could be used to show this?

http://htpcbuild.com/hardware/standalone-htpc-build/raspberry-pi-htpc/raspberry-pi-codec-license-install/

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