It's mainly because NEM is still invisible and many of the proposals are unprofessional and shit.

I don't really keep track of them. There haven't been a huge amount so far. The most interesting recent one was the NEM library, a developer resource type thing, and in the end the people proposing it wound up being offered jobs with the NEM foundation instead.

Copyright bank and Luxtag were other ones that passed.

This is the forum concerning them - https://forum.nem.io/c/project-proposal

Did you pay a nominal amount or get a free stake?

Dig out your original post registering yourself, the NXT or BTC payment if you did one, and show them the XEM wallet where the money lived. That'll be a complete trail. They won't understand any of it but it'll look impressive.

Yes. I see no reason why not. It's really not that far away from current prices and many a person has been calling for it anyway. No way I'm playing with the market though.

More Korea bollocks. Why is it only the Japanese can get it right in markets of an Asian persuasion?

No wonder you're skint. Quit fucking around and stay put.

Cryptopia has NZDT which is the equivalent of Tether - ie a coin pegged to fiat value.

https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange/?market=BTC_NZDT

If you don't want to go anywhere else that's what you can use to ride out coin storms. I've no idea who or what is backing it or whether it's legit so use at one's own risk.

Because some people actually want to spend and move it around? Paper wallets have served me well in the past but they are not the ideal option for the Bitcoin spender around town.

Well, they could give it just a teensy weensy little try to see whether they actually like it and it makes a difference. The fact that many of the companies who put out the most blockchain use don't even bother to batch is a stupid and depressing stat.

It's the computer interfacing bit that falls down for me. With Trezor I regularly get the pin entry bit going dark and freezing on me. And the chrome app never works so I have to go through a web page instead. With the Ledger the Chrome app regularly fails to load or craps out.

It's definitely not a slick experience as it stands.

Yes. I've had a play with both. I found the Trezor more user friendly myself but it's still pretty fiddly. Hardware wallets are still pretty first generation ish. I expect in a few years they'll be as slick as anything. In the meantime I'm prepared to put up with a bit of a grind for the sake of security.

Erm, who is doing more hijacking here? This was a dormant thread having a nice sleep concerning a ludicrously overpriced car. Now it's been ruined by devilish fork talk.

If someone wants the coin then I don't see why the seller should subsidise the sale to compensate for the buyer's feelings. Are they all going to be reduced to the status of the Casascius equivalent of kitten strangling to get the right price? Guilt tripping doesn't make for a very healthy or functional market.

Maybe, and ideally, the shitforks will dwindle to nowt in the future but again that's the buyer's problem, not the seller's.

Their rep. It's no good choosing an exchange with low fees or lots of coins if they're morons who can't run an exchange properly or refuse to respond to support tickets. That's basically all of them at the moment.

If this was a professional operation it certainly would not attract this amount of contention, and prick teasing is not the way to arouse your future customers.

Even if they're nowhere near ready, there's nothing stopping them coming out with a stream of updates, news and information. This is a potential multi billion dollar business and anyone planning on getting into it should be acting accordingly.

So far it's following the total deadbeat template almost to the letter.

I wouldn't be paying to stay put, I'd be paying for the choice to stay put if I wished.

I could very happily spend the rest of my life only spending a few weeks at a time in varying bits of the globe, but that might change.

Look at the sheer amount of ball ache this guy has put himself through to save some tax - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/feb/05/emi-citigroup-private-equity-terra-firma

That doesn't sound like much quality of life to me.

Like I said, if it was 40% or more I'd look into it. I can live with 20% just fine for the sake of convenience and choice but respect to anyone who takes the trouble. I couldn't be arsed myself.

So he should accept a vastly more volatile shitcoin to save five to twenty dollars in fees on his multi hundred thousand dollar vehicle? I do hope you don't run a business of any type.

It's basically high rolling localbitcoins. There are full time brokers who match buyers with sellers and take a cut. No fucking around with exchanges. It's P2P with a bit of tinsel. That's how you sell or buy large amounts without moving the market. It never reached an order book to affect.

For instance Cumberland mining, an OTC broker operated by an old wall Street hand, offered a buyer for all of the remaining two hundred and something thousand Gox bitcoins. No way could you do that on an exchange.

Quite probably a very stupid question but where is the actual gain? Your initial dollar Bitcoin buy in versus the Bitcoin value at the time of the ETH swap? Is it all dollar denominated?

Shit.

Forgot.