Strangely good news there. I wonder if they plan to time it with a mvp announcement, or something like that... then do the pump thing.

I say strangely, as I wasn't sure if the powers-that-be wanted the coin to fall further before a rise. Logically the lure of a chinese exchange would keep the price semi-stable at least, unless btc goes insane this week.

Thanks. Hopefully I turn into a hero by then.

A little curious about that too, as I may become heroic before the sig campaign is over.

Curious too. Made no logical sense, unless some folks thought Lisk would go down in flames? But even if so, it'd probably drag XCR with it too then. Or maybe some were just away from crypto, came back and saw they missed the ICO entirely?

Signature bounty ... info/link on first post. Just signup like the other bounties.

No idea either. Tested one of the color ones just now... appears I am non-glowy.

Edit: Guess this is the reason?

As your member rank increases, you can use more types of styling in your signature

Tried the revised black/white one just now. Looks like this... still a little too fat (change first font to 16 and it fits). Black/white inverse (or glow) colors look different too. Or maybe it's just weirdness with my browser.

Can't say for other ranks, but for senior I changed the sizes to 16 and 12 to get it to fit properly. Agree about color scheme... black/white works better for chess than some rainbow colored signature.

Giving this one a try, at least as far as the bounties go. Testing signature from bspus (nice design by the way). Had to make it a bit smaller to fit for me.

Bojack Horseman ... only netflix show I like.

The question is where is the bottom... expect it'd be around where it is now, or at least I'd hope so. I know a lot of people got into an uproar over the devs selling coins (part of the game, so don't see it being a big deal).... but to me it'd make sense for the devs to announce it/prepare like they did, so then they'd sell off right after they announce the MVP (during expected pump). I'd like to think it's soon then too, as it doesn't make sense to announce selling coins then slowly dump pre-MVP.

I'm just hoping MVP = Maid rising, and brings along SEC with it. I have a little Maid still left, but more in SEC (which is cheap now, so chance of a much higher ROI).

I'm not sure I'd call 11-12Kish to 9500 a price crash exactly. 12K to 3K would be a crash.

Combo of news regarding the devs selling coins + interest in ICO coins + BTC rising + delays before MVP = lower price. I'd throw in price manipulation too ... I always figured Maid would do the big rise, then fallback (so those who cashed out can buy back in at a cheapo rate) ... then they announce MVP and cash out again.

I am guessing that folks figured out the Maid price pattern (after several months of the same ups/downs) ... small rise every Tues before update announcement (expecting MVP news), then fallback (usually) when testing is announced instead.  I think this time folks decided to act on it a day earlier.

I'm not a daytrader.

I actually made a decent amount from maid during the previous pump (and all of that MVP talk worked to my advantage). I still hold a little Maid (and some SEC, which isn't doing so well right now).

The fact there has been a delay isn't a big deal to me. It's understandable. The wording of their updates however always was an issue to me; they come across as shady when they stated something they knew couldn't be true.

Not really.

Check out Ross' dev update from the beginning of Feb.
https://blog.maidsafe.net/2016/02/04/maidsafe-development-update-2/


Some key snippets:

"We are very close to delivering the MVP and depending on which core developer you speak to, this can be measured in either days or weeks. "

"In the next few weeks a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) should be released and publicly available to be tested."

Days, or weeks -- Unless he is using God time, and a day to a Maidsafe dev isn't a 24 hr day, their predictions were a bit off. And they had to know this, as testing hadn't even started yet. 

If you read their old updates during that time period, they certainly gave the indication that the MVP could be released really soon, any day now, that sort of thing.

I don't mean this as FUD, or anything like that, it's just an observation.

Take a look back a their updates in Feb (around when the pump started) and just how many times they
brought up the MVP. How many times they stated that the MVP was close, but not quite ready yet for release 'this week'. Of course when you phrase things like that, it leads one to believe the MVP is almost ready .... not that it is months away -- after months of more testing that the devs didn't feel worthwhile to mention.

The issue I see with Maid isn't this latest little problem. It's that the market is being manipulated to an extreme degree.

I also find it a tad bizarre how the MVP was slated for release back in March/April, devs gave all indications it was about to be released 'any day'. Yet they didn't even start testing yet. So they knew that had to be false.
We aren't talking about a delay due to the precarious nature of code, or bugs, or any of that. They had to know ahead of time that the MVP wouldn't be released back then ... not even close.

Of course the pump/price swings based on every single word they uttered via their updates were of some benefit to certain investors. But that just gets back to price manipulation.

I may have missed it here, but how to we get our twitter bounties? Should we tweet our emails used to create our ICO accounts to Waves... or some address, or anything?

I'll assume the FB/Newsletter bounties aren't set up yet. I hope there wasn't some dumb requirement for the newsletter bounty, like 'click subscribe' via an email that I expect almost everyone would have missed, especially since we all got newsletters regardless.

A viable strategy ... really depends on your general holdings and if you needed spare btc (either to eventually cash out before the halving or to invest in other coins). If you are sitting on a pile of btc, not a big deal to let it ride.

I sold some of my Lisk to just cover my initial investment (with minor profit), 2.5 btc, and am letting the majority ride. If Lisk sinks like a rock, I'll probably just buy back some of my sold Lisk ... if it goes crazy, I still make a nice profit (although not an optimal profit). Conservative way to go, but I'm not sitting on a pile of btc right now.

Short-term, who knows. Long-term, all you have to do is look at ETH for possibilities. I don't think it'll reach ETH levels, but .01 eventually isn't a crazy thought.