Cryptsy has it pretty far down the list at the moment, but I gave it a vote.
It doesn't yet allow for paid votes. 
(5 BTC worth of votes would put anything at #1)

The MEW in its role as the business-facing aspect of Monero may provide advice and input to development as to what our analysis shows us would be helpful for the advancement of our common interests.

Let us take some ideas from our body here as to what features and functions would help take us forward so that we can be most useful to our developers.  Please feel welcome to add your own development priority ideas for consideration and discussion.  When we have the 10% voting quorum seeking a vote, according to our charter, we can then bring them to a vote on ranking, and them make a suggestion known to the development team.

I propose that these suggestions follow the format here of [preferred rank] [feature] [benefit]
By way of example, here are four: WIF, OTK, AUTH, GRACE in order of the rank I prefer:

1. WIF (wallet import format) for private keys and seed defined and implemented (import/export RPC and CLI methods)
2. OTK Address and transaction signing (one time key). - This feature allows proof of ownership of an address, or a transaction.  This should include format definition and the methods implemented.
3. AUTH Develop and implement HTTP/HTTPS/RPC simple authentication between components. - This allows merchants to run the daemon on a separate server and communicate securely.  (not every waiter in the restaurant has to have a full block chain on their bill pay device)
4. GRACE Upgrade error handling in the daemon to either use a "graceful shutdown" - Better stability of bitmonerod by determining if it is necessary to shut down (absolute worst case), or retry indefinitely. the daemon should only die under the most dire of circumstances, and provide alarmable output for manual intervention and remediation.

My ranking is based on my personal assessment of what would be beneficial to more widespread adoption, and to the development of an economic ecosystem.  These are incremental, small improvements and not giant milestones (like GUI wallet or DB).  You may have other ideas?  Or comments on these?

It would be likely be a win for both. 
How could it happen?

I thought NXT sounded like a computer system built by Steve Jobs that was almost commercially successful.

The thing about the block chain being public?
If there is evidence against them, it will be visible.
If not, they will deservedly go free. 
It oughtn't be guesswork either way.

Can you describe the difference you see between "diversify into" and "actually sell".

This zealot gave really the first explanation of it I've seen, that quickly made sense.
A market driven distributed exchange pipeline of crypto to fiat and back.  Not bad.

No, the paper wallet is useless only if either DOGE or paper become useless.
It doesn't require any particular website, the keys can be put in any wallet that supports key imports, and it would be a bit silly to have a wallet that doesn't.

Dissent is elemental.  Without it there is stagnation.
This was my view on the no-lose scenario for BCX.
We all win, if and when technology advances.
I love it when someone disagrees with me.  It means there is a chance I'm wrong and can learn something.

The only "side" that had a chance of losing this game was the Monero side, and this would be only if all of
1) they did nothing, and
2) there was a fatal flaw
3) it were executed effectively

TW attacks are expensive.  Now even more so if they take >50% hash power to execute, and what's more, if they also require DDOS.
But
XMR now even in this most expensive situation, can still recover.  So long as there exists some channel to get the word out on the good chain, clients can be updated in the field, with no recompile, and minimal non-mining time.  The target was significantly hardened, and the benefit of attack significantly reduced.

BCX may still wish to test this, but there is just not much incentive to do so and might as well just mine + sell instead.  With Monero's high privacy, BCX may be doing just that and we wouldn't be able to know.

If bitcoin goes down in price more days than it goes up, but when it goes up it goes up more... then most days people ought to want to spend it, and only not spend it during those times the price is rapidly soaring? 

Wow, I have the first edition of that Illuminati game from Steve Jackson.  Ultimately it led to their company being raided by the Feds, because the Feds were sure that IT WAS NOT A GAME.  The raid almost killed their company.  It was a famous case at the time, involving Phrack Magazine and the E911 document.

EFF got on the case and sued the US government with Steve Jackson.  They won this case and it set some important precedents.
Much of which have later been undone, but it is a good case to keep in your knowledgebase anyway.

https://w2.eff.org/legal/cases/SJG/?f=background.sjg.html


BTW, if you really want to join the Illuminati...

Legal Tender law allows the settlement of any debt in fiat.  Most of the ETF filings also make that explicit.  Make no mistake, they never have to give you gold.


They can opt deliver cash instead, at their choice.

Another example:
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2010/12/7_Jim_Rickards_-_Swiss_Bank_Client_Denied_His_$40_Million_in_Gold.html

Maybe the person with the qooglealert either edited the feed or improved the query?
Accurate criticisms are great, but there is also no shortage of inaccurate criticisms.

FTFY

Setting my watch.
and calender?
Sept. 24, 2037?

Once the BCX "I'm gonna warp you, but all I have is a DDoS for now" fud machine fades into memory, these will have seemed like some pretty nice prices.  Buying dips myself.
When people are afraid, get greedy.

It is different.  SecondMarket has a freer structure.

SecondMarket buys BTC OTC heavily discounted.  They trade on their reputation to get better rates than most exchanges, only in worst case to they buy through exchanges.

I suspect secondMarket will work to be an AP as well.

And they aren't even mutually exclusive!

FWIW Crazy determinations in US are vote based.
Doctor, LEO, Family Member.  2 of 3 and you go away for a while.

As for genius, not even all genius is recognized by all other genius.

Unless you are buying a "basket" of COIN for BTC as an AP you buy through your brokerage, so whether you can buy with BTC for us mere mortals will depend on whether your broker accepts them.  I'm not aware of any that do today.

I suspect that the CFTC will treat bitcoin purchases like they treat gold purchases wrt ETF.
So selling COIN for USD and buying bitcoin for USD may be subject to wash sale rules.

CFTC hasn't made any official statement, but one of the anticipated regulatory effects of COIN is that large BTC purchases may become reportable to the CFTC for compliance.

As to whether GLD/SLV are working, there are differences of opinion on that as well.

There is some dark humor opportunity here.
The US is called a success for its massive QE and rewarded with a strengthening dollar leading up to the UCB decision process of whether and how to delever or leverage up with massive QE of its own.

To me it looks like a head fake.  The US has them bamboozled.  
It is a way of extending others to their breaking point before the US breaks.  Some savvy global economic politics at play.  Yum yum intoxicating QE candywine for everyone.  Who will drink who under the table remains to be seen.