Hello team, been meaning to ask...are there efforts underway to secure a new exchange relationship? The issues with Polo the other day indicate our exchange situation is a risk factor and was wondering if there were efforts to mitigate our nose being open b/c of reliance on Polo.

Thank you wiser for contributing a great article. Unfortunately, most of us ended up learning the hard way at some point in our life time. Helping to educate investors in our industry is a good thing. We believe that DNotes is doing the right thing by having a strong emphasis on education.
Great job and thank you.

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Working on HEAT where FIMK's plans are however intricately connected and not abandoned.

I suppose it'd be less complicated to not have written it off when some of our long term progress begins to materialize. Your call, we're not tax advisors

Lol. It's called division of responsibilities and delegation.

If you go back in the NEM time machine, you'll find that the core developers were much more active earlier on in the project before the first "Marketing Lead" (xtester) was brought on. It was an intentional decision to separate into two teams - development and marketing - at that time. With that separation in place, there was less need for the core developers to directly engage in marketing activities. Nonetheless, any technical people who wanted to join the project could reach out to us.

As time went on, the division became starker and became far more formalized around two years ago. The development team partnered with TB to begin catapult development. The marketing team evolved into the NEM foundation and focused on NEM1 marketing.

You can disagree on the effectiveness of this approach, but it's a bit unfair to claim the developers are not personable. This is all by design. Building catapult from scratch requires a LOT of effort and focus and some insulation was needed to hasten development.

She's very good and I hope she does more.

It is improving rapidly with meetups and much more active social media accounts and so on, but had similar engagement happened in the earlier days it's likely things would be considerably further along.

Better to be ground up than top down.

He's having a moan at the community again. Fair enough. But in the past the core team have rarely acknowledged any community effort and weren't remotely interested in interacting with them or listening to suggestions. That hasn't fostered an atmosphere that encourages people to pitch in.

That's changing now but a lot of potential has been squandered and I'm sure people have walked to other more inclusive projects.

I totally agree with the point the Dyna and wiser were making. Sometimes I have a feeling that investing in crypto is more of a gambling than a real investment. There are a lot of teams out there who are making big promises and in the end after some pump they dump the coin and grab the money bags and go on tropical island

it is especially hard for inexperienced traders to tell the difference between those hyped coins and real projects who are aiming at long term success. I'm not an exception and I was also learning on my mistakes. In the past I invested in some of the coins that turned out to be dissapointments and at many of them happened just what I described before. The developers pumped the price somehow...then they did not deliver what they promised and abandoned the projects. Some of them made a few false promises after that, but many disappeared.

But yes a lot of people who are investing in crypto are impartient...as wiser and Dnya said they many times struggle with some form of financial desperation and wants to make some money FAST. And by doing that them make some irrational mistakes and wrong investments. Indeed some have luck and make some money, but many of them does not have that kind of luck.

Maybe I'll write a blog or sth. like that on Steemit one of this days  it is little harder for me since I'm not a native English speaker so I have some grammar mistakes, but I want the blog/article to be readable 

Well in any case...because I learned from my mistakes a little (at least I hope I did) now I'm always looking not just at coins, but also in the team behind the coin. It is of great importance that team is serious and can be trusted. This is why I have chosen not only to invest in DNotes, but also to help spread the word about this coin and the team behind it. I'm not a famous or public person, so I do not have much impact, but still...I belive in this project and team and so I'm trying to help as much as I can. And also I believe that this coin is great long term investment opportunity, so if I recommend it to someone I'm sure that I'm actually doing that person a big favour 

Keep up the good work and  I can't wait to hear even more good news from this coin in the future...I'm sure that there will be many of them

Well, I actually spent at least that much to write my book, get it published, and give it to DNotes Global 100% royalty free so that all of  DNotes stakeholders and other entrepreneur can benefit from it.

Having said that, this shows the madness of our industry. It is totally out of control. Greed is overwhelming that better side of humanity.

This is a real technology revolution that presents a generational opportunity for the entire world. We cannot let a small minority hijack a vital technology breakthrough that could contribute significantly to the better good of mankind.

Personally, I wish investors will start spending more time to understand what they are investing in. If it is not researchable and verifiable, be care and only proceed with caution.  

Nele, we are always happy to see you. I am in total agreement with you that, "All real projects need to be united and help each other on their way to final adoption."

I have been deeply involved in many different industries but have never came across an industry that is so loaded with issues and bad actors as ours. There are many great projects, but they are out-numbered by a lot of questionable ones often launched to make some quick bucks for a small group of people.

That "quick buck" mentality has led to a lot of ridiculous pricing of services, products, advertising, marketing, consulting, ICO advisory services, listing on an exchange, speaking/sponsorship and more. Some of them want more than "an arm and a leg". Someone recently offered to write two articles for us for $25,000. And customer experience has mostly "gone to hell". The "take it or leave it - not my problem" attitude is so pronounced it is a big turn-off to customer experience. My sense is that many of the little guys will be pushed out of the market, including some great projects.

We are relentlessly, committed to lead by example and will be delighted to work with our industry peers to see that legitimate players in our industry are given a chance and treated with fairness and respect.  

After all, DNotes is about inclusiveness and giving everyone a fair chance.

Nele, feel free to let us know if there is anything that we can be helpful.

Best Regards to you and your team at Game Credits.

Alan

almost no volume on Coinscontrol - are they just testing? Does anyone know their status?

Oh yeah, the block reward is always Current Total Coins / 525,600 * .02.

Not exactly on the earnings part.
All coins are proportionally equal in terms of the reward value. However, your reward percentage varies based on how many total coins are staking.

For instance, roughly 1/3 of all coins are staking right now, so let's use that for our example, and let's use 150,000,000 for the figure for total coins.
We know that 2% of 150,000,000 will be distributed over the coarse of the year. Which is 3,000,000 coins.
If 100% of the coins were being staked, everyone would receive 2% (more because of the compounding element, but let's keep it simple and exclude it)
But where only 1/3 of all coins are being staked, 50,000,000, the reward doesn't change just the distribution. So each user would earn 6% (again excluding compounding).

Divided the number of transactions by the amount of coins. Or you can divide it the other way, number of coins / transactions (makes the lower number more lucky), either way it tells the same story in different ways. But the story is that: It doesn't matter how many coins are where, you will get varied results when looking at a short amount of time.

Here is an example:
amount   transactions   divided
2203557   575   0.000260942
189441   27   0.000142524
11806   2   0.000169408
31700   5   0.000157729
21799   6   0.000275237

All of these have one starting input. The luckiest one is the one with the balance of 21799 right now. But as time goes on I expect these to get closer and closer in the amount of luck they have.

Your staking weight is the combination of all funds being staked in your wallet. As far as moving them around, or in different addresses or piles, would make no difference over time. Having them split in different staking wallets all-together, won't make a difference over time, but of course you would have two different points of failure.

Confirmed the only factor is your weight against the network weight and those weights are based entirely upon the number of coins currently staking.