Looks complicated, I'll keep my car for now.

#1 StackCoin (2014) - 69.5 BTC Stolen

This is my personal #1 bcs scammer was courteous & upfront with investors posting update detailing distribution of stolen funds to Bitcointalk.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=457575.msg5302869#msg5302869

My personal vote was Dash bcs they paid, produced, posted & promoted this video to public without warnings of permanent ear damage  -----> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVzggP7k3fo , I won't forget.

Coin #29 [ANN] -----> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2057229.msg20605753#msg20605753

Pls Vote

You have my Attention.

Good to see some friendly faces showing up in thread, bags filled up on Binance, in it for the long haul.  Best of luck to us present and future holders, we gotta be BATshit crazy to trade in perfectly good Bitcoin 4 BAT COIN, ppl say Nanananannanana, I say Yayayayayayayaya.

YEAH A WHOLE BUNCH ARE GOING TO ZERO!!  SIX ZERO JUST LIKE MY BANK ACCOUNT!!!! BOOYAH!  

#BCASHTRILLIONAIRE, #HANDSOMEMANCOINGUY

OT - This is more a question of philosophy, not a follow-up to discussion in original post

If a thread for Basic Attention Token gets no attention, not even a token response, could you say forum is bASIC-resistant?

I'll take the complete lack of response to thread as a positive and enter the box with my BAT buy order.  Thanks?

When it involves real money the only person I feel comfortable giving advice to is myself.

That being said, I think from a beginner's perspective definitely check out Brave browser for free download here ----> https://brave.com , 1st, Internet browser is something everyone knows, it's a technology beginners can take a test drive, kick the wheels and feel comfortable doing so, 2nd the Brave browser comes with many privacy & security features baked in, security plays hand in hand with crypto and many of these features are enabled by default to help protect and secure a beginner from some less desirable aspects of modern Internet, 3rd after install Brave browser transfers a free grant of 40 BAT (Basic Attention Coin) into the browsers built-in wallet, grant tokens can be tipped however the user desires as reward for content providers participating in program, for a beginner you get technology you know, introduction to tokens & wallets, a small stash of real cryptocurrency and the opportunity to use and experience cryptocurrency in a live environment all at no cost.  I would say only cost is time, but Brave browser will speed up Internet times vs competing browsers & tracks this time-saved feature for users on its landing page.  

For me, this is how I'd do it as a beginner, baby steps.

https://brave.com
https://basicattentiontoken.org/

Throughout 2018 I liquidated most of my ALT holdings into BTC, present portfolio mix sits around 90% BTC, 10% ALT.  Recently started researching options to increase my ALT exposure by another 15-20% and after a few days i found myself depressed that despite the fact ALT investment options continue to proliferate on a daily basis, now numbering  into the thousands, I did not find a single ALT that had enough meat on the bone where I felt comfortable reducing my BTC position to take position in an ALT. Not one ALT I researched where perceived risk/reward was such I could say in honesty reducing BTC investment by any percentage for (insert name here) ALT made sound financial sense. Fact, having been in ALTs since 2014, most of what I see now in 2019 (same as 2014) has me thinking putting my money into a pile and burning it would be the better investment, at least then I wouldn't need to suffer over an extended period of time waiting for inevitable (insert name here) ALT implosion, collapse & death spiral to 0.

But yesterday happens and through discovering and installing Brave browser I come across BAT (Basic Attention Token). BAT checks all the boxes for me and if they continue to execute with high success on their business model potential positive returns in BAT seem exponential comparing against the other ALTS I've considered. I look at BAT & see through its integration with Brave the potential one day to stand toe to toe with a Google, Facebook, Youtube, et al. and not just stand, but win. I'm thinking I've found my next new ALT.  But I have a problem in the duration & depth of my knowledge regarding BAT is super thin, I've known of but nothing about BAT or Brave until taking a deep dive into all things BAT these past 24 hrs., so pls if you got dirt on BAT help me out, gimme the goods, tell me what I missed, why it's pure guano, give good reasons I should let BAT fall off my investment radar. Not looking for opinions on other ALTs to invest, only opinions on why it should not be BAT.

Side note - BAT investment yea or nay, I have found a new default browser for all my devices in Brave, if this is your first time hearing of it do yourself a favor and check it out for free download here ----> https://brave.com

1. Lon Wong's a lying sack of shit only concerned with inflating his own bottom line & ego, if that's your most compelling evidence of an imminent Catapult release then you have nothing.

2. The Dev tweet you linked to implies that work on implementing the public chain release of Catapult has only started and to expect a difficult road ahead.  In other words, Catapult release on the public chain isn't anywhere close to a general release, end of 2018 maybe, maybe 2019, hell maybe never with Lon at the helm.

3. NEM with Tony can only report the information that's available to him, unfortunately too much of the information is kept behind closed doors by the NEM Foundation or filtered out through lying sacks of shit like Lon who are much more likely to release disinformation or no information vs transparency, providing facts & open honest public discourse on current state and issues affecting NEM platform.

4. Sources you can't share = you have nothing

Zimstake is too big to fail, I will not admit its passing into the halls of dead shitcoin.

I've logged in my account and can confirm Bittrex XEM wallet is online for both deposits & withdrawals.  Good news there and now XEM trading volume on Bittrex has spiked considerably, #2 behind #1 Upbit.

Weider, NEM wallet implementation in WeChat is live now and they have integrated a XEM air drop to reward early adopters, full details on air drop & WeChat/NEM wallet install instructions here ->  https://twitter.com/Inside_NEM/status/943721176144150528

After installing NEM WeChat wallet, in drop-down menu, you can change default language from Chinese to English.   

Another recent "western news media" mention on BloombergTV posted to Youtube, tweet with video link -> https://twitter.com/NEM_UAE/status/943339271854936064 (skip to 4m28s for NEM name drop)

Don't know if it's been posted on thread but here is recent "western news media" with a big NEM mention, NEM account tweet of link to story, Yahoo Finance/Motley Fool (Dec 18) -> https://twitter.com/NEM_UAE/status/943330142696497153

NEM community is doing a good job giving them what's what over on the official NEM forum https://forum.nem.io/t/micai-the-world-s-first-ai-based-private-wealth-management-protocol-built-on-the-nem-blockchain/10698, I consider the project blessed we have so many intelligent participants that ask the hard questions, poke the pig.

Of issue for me, I like Lon and he seems to have brought a lot of needed organization and leadership to NEM early on when no one knew NEM from the nxt guy, but damn he's now put his rubber stamp of approval as "Special Adviser" on pretty much every NEM-centric ICO that's come out the chute.  Lon, you made it, you're there, too much too fast can ruin a man quick, slow your roll and be a bit more selective on the projects you endorse in role of NEM Foundation President.