1 BTC is a big amount for Blocknet? Feh, if you're a no-coiner, I've got 7 worth on it.

Everyone who disses on Blocknet does it for the same reasons people dissed on BTC back in the day, they don't know anything about it and look it the evidence without realising they've left their glasses beside the bed; they don't know what they're reading and they're too haggard to bother to try.

Look at the info already presented above by hanniabu, consider that even if it stays the same as a stable coin it has a better ROI than just about any other coin. If it achieves any of its targets (which, if the developers are to be believed, will be realised by Q1 2018) it will go 5x at least - a coin of that value with a 20% ROI is insanely good value. I currently earn the equivalent of a basic wage off it. I don't care to pump coins, but when people are saying 'invest in ripple or stratis' over this, it blows my mind. Ripple and Stratis have bugger all to justify their price as a token except their value as a company. Block has trade pressure exerted on it from the DX at very least, never mind the other dapps that will use it as gas.

Please don't buy this coin, I want the price to remain low so I can accumulate, and after this next BTC pump I want to grab it from spaghetti handed fools and run more DX nodes.

Good on you b37d1!

A lot of posts without much substance and a surprising amount of votes for WAVES

I think Blocknet and BitBay are both awesome and synergistic, though I think Blocknet is the big one to watch.

Blocknet so far:
- Working atomic swaps for last 6 months
- Can trade non-BTC pairs, eg. SYS - DGB, DGB - VTC, LTC - VIA, DYN - PIVX, etc.
- Has been in development for 3 years
- Fully trustless decentralised exchange (DX): no coloured coins like Waves, Bisq, BTS, crypto-bridge, altcoin.io, etc. and no uploading of coins onto external wallet ala etherdelta, Jaxx et al.
- Decentralised governance based on node voting
- 100% of stake/dx rewards go to stakers and node holders and not to devs. Devs get paid by superblocks which are voted upon by node holders.
- New DEX/DX UI expected late December
- Joined with VSA Partners for DX UI design (preview images look great) and now for further marketing, DX will feature Tradingview tools
- Among the top ROI PoS coins... when the DX comes into play it will be ridiculous
- Partnering with 0x for ERC20 compatibility and Ethfinex for liquidity
- Amazing Rocketchat community
- Fees from DX users and rewards for node holders provide constant buy&sell pressures on token

Implications:
- Non-reliance on BTC as base trading pair could undermine BTC dominance and allow other alts to really shine
- No KYC means moving toward genuine private trades, greater personal security and freedom
- Because Blocknet is a protocol and not just a currency or a trading platform, there's enormous potential and opportunity for interchain DApps and APIs
- Working with projects like BitBay and Wysker, for example, could provide fully crypto based markets and ecosystems without the need for fiat at all.

I would really like to see if Blocknet can somehow leverage Ardor to keep it's chain size down, or maybe even look into some DAG tech, but I guess we'll see how it goes after the DX launches.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.