You're welcome

I created a post meant to serve as a gateway/overview/table of contents for all the guides. I'll keep it updated, and you all can link to it as needed.

The CryptoMoms forum is actually a great place to post these guides because there's a built in way for people to ask any questions they have, and they can get an answer from any knowledgeable forum member.

I've put together a few guides to help with that very thing over in the Guides section of CryptoMoms. Guides I have written so far are:

How to secure and store your passwords
Coinbase: your first Bitcoin wallet
Trading platforms: your key to all other cryptocoins

These cover the very basics up to buying Bitcoin in what I think is the easiest way possible, then sending them to a trading platform and buying DNotes with them. I'm planning on writing my next guide about how the DNotes vault works and how to use it.

I agree that it would be a good idea to link to these guides, because they are written for people who have no prior experience with cryptocurrencies. I'll try to write up a post under "guides" which is basically a list of all the guides which I'll keep updated and that message could be linked to from anywhere.

I agree. I'm not necessarily a fan of heavy government regulation (I have some Libertarian leanings about that), but I am a fan of crypto-businesses who make the effort to comply with the regulations.

I registered and verified an account on itBit earlier today after reading the article. They still have a major entry barrier, though, and that is prohibitively high fiat deposit and withdrawal costs, at least prohibitive for small players. But according to personal communication, that is something they are working on.

Thanks, Nova. Every month I upload a copy of the receiver file to my website. The most recent one is for round 46 which can be found here: http://creativecurrencies.cu.cc/wp-content/uploads/receiver_46.csv

By the way, I am receiving no admin payment for the current round 46. Could we get that fixed before round 47 receiver file is finalized? Thanks so much

Aw thanks, Chase. I'm blushing

Thanks for this ^^^

I have actually been puzzling about how exactly DNotes has managed to stay so stable and so antithetical to speculating, and this above insight is key, I believe. I've noticed that by the time DNotes announces something, it's not coming, it's here. I actually like that and can see how it would stabilize the value (other than the stairstep jump up after a new innovation is released, then announced). But more importantly, producing first and announcing later actually cuts way back on much of the drama and anxiety that plagues the numerous altcoin projects that pre-announce.

Thanks to everyone for the kind words and warm welcome too. I'm happy to be part of the DNotes community

I tried to log in to that page to add my own duties. I still do signups, file custodian, sometimes help writers with their accounts, and am still willing to do ratings. My normal Devtome credentials don't open that page so can't add.

I haven't kept up as much lately but still want to keep doing what I do

Thanks.

PS. I've also had issues with my email provider not sending Bitcointalk communication to my inbox, so sometimes have been late on responding to people's messages. I apologize for that. I'm just going to be sure I log into Bitcointalk on a regular basis. I have not been on CoinZen recently, and it's possible my email server may be blocking messages from there as well. But anyway, I'm still here.

Cool coin! I'm going to invest in it. I can see kiddos enjoying this, especially the faucet that asks them a question

I guess BitTrex finally delisted this coin. Is there another exchange where it can be traded?

I've seen similar feelings expressed by women involved in Bitcoin--this sense that it's very white male dominated and in some cases even exclusive. I've noticed that there are two aspects to the cryptosphere: The first is the technology itself and the various coins and so forth. That part of it doesn't really have any entry requirements other than figuring out the mechanics of setting up a wallet and transferring funds and then finding the right websites on which to conduct business. If you know how it works, then you can use it. In that sense it's very unbiased. Or, I guess the bias is in favor of those who are more computer savvy than most, but it's not like anyone out there can't learn and then be a part of it.

The second part of the cryptosphere is the aggregation of human beings who are involved, and whatever kinds of associations they have with each other which collectively makes up the "community." This is the part that I hear people complain about the most. Some of the people involved in the "community" are truly obnoxious. It's not hard to find them on this forum. Lots of the movers and shakers in the "community" are primarily people who are very good with computers but who maybe lack social skills and graces. Some of those people (I'm sure with the best of intentions) can make you feel like an idiot for asking a basic question or not understanding a concept that seems obvious to them. And even if you don't run afoul of anyone there are a lot of assumptions people make about you just because you're here--i.e., that you're a white male computer geek with a libertarian bent. On this last point I've for the most part not made any great effort to correct people's assumptions of who I am even when false. Most of the time it's not relevant to the discussion anyway.

For the last two years I've focused very much on the first aspect of the cryptosphere--the mechanics--and not worried too much about my involvement in the social aspects. Part of the beauty of cryptocurrency is that you really don't need a "community" per se to make it work. You just do your thing with your cryptos and the various block chains duly record it and the whole network is based on decentralized machines anyway. If I transact with someone using my cryptos, say I buy a coin on an exchange that someone else is selling, I really don't care if the person on the other end of the transaction likes me or agrees with my political views or even knows anything about me. The main thing that temporarily brings us together is the transaction, and then we go our separate ways. I put up with a lot of the rude stuff that's pretty common here and just focused on why I was here if things got rough.

Then I got more involved in CryptoMoms and started to see how much better it can be when people interact using basic grace and courtesy type of manners. Simple things like saying please and thank you and acknowledging that you at least heard the other person even if you don't agree with everything they said. And the beauty of basic professionalism. Also things like sandwiching difficult requests within very upbuilding and affirmative statements, and all around good conversations. That's making me start to rethink the importance of the social aspects of the cryptosphere, and see how much the lack of social graces that is so prevalent really truly is a turnoff to lots of people, and may even be an entry barrier. I've gotten involved with lots of projects here, mostly alt coins. On a technical level some are definitely better than others. Some have positively brilliant code underlying them. But I'm seeing that none of that matters if the community working on the project does not conduct itself in a professional manner both internally and in dealing with outsiders. From a technical perspective I'm not sure that DNotes has anything particularly brilliant going for it. It's a scrypt coin with no bells and whistles as far as I can tell, one of many. However, the DNotes development team and community hands down has the highest level of professionalism I've encountered anywhere in the cryptosphere. It's that high level of professionalism which is going to be the reason DNotes ultimately outshines many of the other alt coins which may be more technically brilliant but whose communities lack professionalism.

In conclusion the social aspects do matter, and they matter a great deal. Without good social graces and basic professionalism, people burn out and leave. The projects that are going to go mainstream and attract people from outside the cryptosphere are going to be the ones that are conducted with the utmost professionalism from day one.

With that said, when one encounters lack of professionalism in the cryptospace, the answer isn't complaining about it loudly and letting it get you down or leaving in a huff. The answer is to conduct oneself professionally and whenever possible, to create space where that professionalism is valued and nurtured. The DNotes developers and community have done just that. Very quietly and very effectively. I suspect I'm not the only one who's noticed.

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I LOVE slow increases, especially the sustainable kind.

+1

Even in crypto, good things take time.

That about sums it up.

Two Chinese exchanges picked up XEM today. It could happen.

+1,000

Are you talking about trading volume?

Wouldn't the distribution and the amount of XEM that is being held mean more in terms of a metric for interest in the coin and platform? I mean, wouldn't the people who are truly interested be the ones holding onto their XEM once they've bought whatever they want to have? Using myself as an example, I either have bought or hope to buy a little over 100,000 XEM. That purchase would be part of trade volume. But that is nothing compared to the size of my stake, which has yet to even leave my wallet, but never registers as trade volume.

That's a good question. I'd be very interested in what the devs have to say.

As an investor myself, what I am hoping to see is a gradual increase in price as new features get rolled out, word gets out and more people get interested in owning and using XEM and NEM. If that actually happens, then of course the earlier you get in the better. But if the price hangs out where it is for another six months, then it would make sense to wait and then jump in right before the rise. The kicker is that it's tough to predict what will actually happen. I do believe there will be much progress made by the developers within a year--we're not going to have to wait an entire year for the next feature to be completed. I think the wait a year post was more about long term and big picture thinking. But by this time next year, there should be a whole lot more developments and new features.

Critics on this forum are a satoshi a dozen. NEM was never positioned or promoted as a pump & dump scheme. Those who feel holding onto XEM is a bad investment really should just sell out and leave. But they won't. They'll keep trolling and FUDing the thread. So thankful the forum doesn't put a cap on how many you can ignore. My ignore button just might save this thread for me.

I think we just might see XEM dip as low as 41 sat, possibly even within the next 24 hours.

This isn't FUD, btw. I have a nice buy order in at 41

I hope to never see 41