Regarding Counterparty's development, we've come up with what we think are good guidelines specifying the limited role of the core Counterparty team vs. that of the Counterparty community at large. We'd love for members of the community to review and comment on this as we see this statement, once approved by our team and the majority of the community, as serving as the guiding principles of the Counterparty project as a whole.

Counterparty Project Principles

Members of the community have burned or otherwise invested their funds into the success of the project.  The core development team will produce and maintain the reference client(s), official website and protocol specification. The community will self-organize and produce products, services, and businesses around these tools, as well as their own.

As a member of the community, you are encouraged to:

• Freely create useful applications around Counterparty technology and be compensated accordingly as people use your product or service.
• Be proactive and take initiative around the Counterparty protocol and in the community which will collectively be evidenced by a rising XCP value.
• Promote innovation by cooperating, sharing and collaborating with other community members.

I think i read somewhere that price is 0.01BTC/XPC.

Sending more than what is requested 20nxt or .002btc doesn't get you anything more than sending 20nxt or .002 btc worth. So consider the extra a donation unless utopian changes his mind.

well someone guess right..

MSC in the news again

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2014/01/21/bitcoin-platform/

yes, except that there is already 1,400+ BTC burnt.
So.... cats out of the bag. This will not be another NXT moneymaking bonanza.

Very promising project, I'll definitely watch this and invest a little.

I do think it should be PoS though. Any form of PoW will become obsolete at one point because of Moore's law, which is not suitable for a project that seems to be aimed to even remain valuable post-singularity.

Market prices are up 50% in three days.  Buying opportunity (at insanely low prices) is now closed.  Back to regular price soon (.25)  After the DEx is proved working, will hit .50 in two weeks. 

Is Terpin preparing a news flurry on this?  Maybe his friend can post a blog for another $18K?

Making bandwidth marketable would incent people to build their own networking infrastructure which could lead to a future of truly decentralized, grass roots, bottom up approach to world wide networking. If you guys can pull this off, this is the sort of thing that could potentially save the human race from extinction or worse. If this is serious, and you guys actually have a reasonable shot at pulling this off, i want to be part of this.