More like a Ford Fiesta at these prices.

He was banned because he came in every day spouting the same FUD talking points and if you challenged him on it, he'd refuse to back up or defend his statements with proof.

There is a difference between a debate and a rant.

Highly priced? Snakeoil Navcoin with Soopy the photoshop "cryptographer" is worth 5x more than working zerocoin tech, it's crazy really. This is why we need to get on Polo, even the scam coins prosper over there with its daily volume.

I'm just talking the politics of it, it is crony capitalism at its best, taking non-profit grants to fund your LLC venture.

It's already launched, only on bittrex.com and a few smaller exchanges though, Polo has still yet to add it.

Heh, personally i'm more offended they are taking taxpayer money while also taking investor backing AND 20% of the mining rewards. Why do they need grants with all this private backing?

This.  The dev rewards on both Zcoin and Zcash are already so high that I don't think the devs would abuse the inflation rate and risk the whole system collapsing when they can be wealthy alone off the coins minted. What I worry more is another DAO-type hacker who finds an exploit in Zcash and abuses it silently. That is one positive strength about zcoin is it has a public blockchain so people would notice.

Because free coins are still free coins, Bitcoin they'd have nothing to start from and would have to buy someone else's bags with their own money. How can Aurora be "at their expense" when they got them for free?

I remember all the negativity towards Aurora when it first launched, I don't recall any finger-pointing Bitcoin whales offering to airdrop some of their coins around the world to spread adoption...

Well if we're going to calculate present marketcaps based on coin supply years down the road then how do we calculate Monero with its infinite supply?

Let's say the pirate party does form a coalition or outright wins majority seats, what would be considered a reasonable time frame for Bitcoin and Auroracoin to become legal tender if they announced that was their first priority and the process for such a thing to be enshrined in law? 6 months, a year?

If someone asks you about Zcoin or thinks it's a Zcash clone, just tell them it's Zerocoin.

I know the devs had to name it Zcoin for obvious reasons but it basically IS Zerocoin.

People in crypto have short attention spans, if they start challenging you on it then you can explain the details of the history and relation/non-relations to the protocol but for now i'd just be ballsy and call it Zerocoin to someone's face.

Personally if it was up to me i'd change the coin name to Zerocoin and be done with it, afaik the name wasn't copyrighted and if the Zcash team raises a stink, it's free advertising :p

The sad part about all this is any money Halsey Minor made off this P&D probably doesn't even pay off .5-1% of what he owes to his collectors, he literally screwed hundreds if not thousands of investors, many working class folks with a dream just to pay off what is a minute fraction of his debt.

That is the character of this man.

If someone can jog my memory, is there an article or blurb anywhere talking about the Pirate Party's position on Auroracoin? I know the founder is pro Bitcoin but have they endorsed AUR at all?

I don't even worry as much about the Zcash devs but more a hacker finding an exploit and keeping his method hidden while he secretly mints coins.

Not to rain on the parade but no bankers in Iceland are spending decades in prison, most are spending 3-5 years max, it's when you combine the sentences in total of them all they add up to "decades" which is really deceptive. Also Iceland doesn't exactly have harsh prisons either compared to America.

The thing that gets lost in all of this is mining SHOULD be hard, it's not easy to mine gold, why should crypto mining be the same? To me the more difficult to accomplish such a task, the more value it gives to it.

I work hard at my dayjob to accumulate extra funds to buy crypto, likewise why shouldn't a miner have to put in a little work to get their share as well?

I'd guess it's because the Pirate Party is poised to win elections and they are pro-crypto.

It's all about supply and demand. I think most here wished they could have bought Bitcoin in the first few thousand blocks regardless of its inflation.

There is absolutely nothing Trex has done that Polo hasn't done before themselves. I don't know where this image of Bittrex as a scam exchange and Polo as a white knight one came from to be honest.

Slut is working overtime on the streets?