What kids?  Most of these people are adults with careers and jobs.  Especially nowadays, there's been people all over the country driving to Ferguson with the intent of committing crime.  It's like all those G20 conferences that attract anarchists and criminals from other countries.

Especially if you live in Europe - typical prison in Europe (especially in Norway / Sweden) is like a gated country golf club compared to American prison. 

Don't be a Crypto Nerd.  FBI and security agencies don't really care about this sort of details.  It's like saying Kim Dotcom couldn't go to jail because his site went defunct.  All these Ethereum developers are known people who can be tracked down and put into prison, especially if they reside in USA / Canada.

Samething with this Proof of Developer.

The more Monero threads there are the more the capitalization goes down.  

Monero is one of those anonymity coins.. right..?  It's an extremely over-saturated and competitive field.

You do realize that Napster back in the day had huge investments from private funds and banks, correct?  It doesn't matter what banks or funds are backing what, it's what the FBI thinks.

If Ripple gets too big and gets too much attention it is inevitably going to be raided by the FBI on accusation of money laundering, tax evasion, drug facilitation or enabling crimes, it's almost guaranteed.

Pure PoS is a lot quicker to implement than PoA.  NEM and Crypti has been tweaking their algorithms for many months.

I would rather see priority placed on fixing the website, the payment processor aspects like integrating BTC / USD / EUR and promotion.

Ad hominem logical fallacy - attack the critics, not their criticisms.   With that attitude then yes people will dump and jump onto other projects but not because they are traders but rather because the NODE community is full of delirious fan boys defending what are amateur developers who can't prioritize the necessities.


Stop screwing with this PoA rip off on NEM and Crypti, deliver on what you promised (pure PoS), fix the website and promote - that's an easy list of things to do, afterwards you can work on integrating BTC / USD / EUR.  If you want to do PoA then it can come in 2015 or 2016, not right now when NODE could fall to a 5 digit capitalization due to neglect.

Actually the staff owns another 20 billion more for themselves.  If they can take Charlie Shrem's BTC - they can easily throw Jed into a jail cell with gangbangers and seize his computers and auction it off.


Really Ripple is such a joke if you think about it - it's a Napster waiting to happen, same with Ethereum.  Development teams should remain anonymous unless they live in a country like Japan or Denmark which is pro-BTC.

Yet they seem to think that if NODE falls to a five digit capitalization then they can somehow pull themselves out of that grave.  

 Reality is nobody wants to buy a coin they perceive is losing value.  Nobody wants to be the loser / bagholder, they want to buy something they perceive will go up in value and make them rich - you may not like that truth but that is what it is


Really releasing NODE this soon was a mistake.  No mechanism (foraging is random), half the buttons on the website don't work and zero promotion.  This PoA crap probably won't be out until 2015.  Just stick to the pure PoS that you promised for months, fix the frigging website and promote - that easy.

Yeah the internet is full of Slavic babes posing in front of crappy looking cars.  Whereas it is the reverse in America, often unattractive women posing in front of beautiful cars (* cars made in Europe).   

This is actually cheaper than the Shanghai Bitcoin Expo that was hosted some weeks ago.   For $500 - you get a silver pass for two days which includes a free lunch and being Vegas that probably means a buffet.

I think so.  At least one Cafe in England and then a bar in Budapest was crowd funded that way.

PoA won't be fair if the capitalization continues to drop, drops as low as five digit capitalizations and you get whales buying from desperate bagholders.

Really this PoA thing needs to be suspended and temporarily halted.  It's not what people signed up for in the beginning, for one.  Second, this is all in concept phase which sends the signal to stakeholders that NODE was rushed out.

  Redd was PoW for 6 months until moving over to PoSV.  Really the priority right now should be userbase expansion (and retention) and you can worry about PoA in 2015.


I think this is really a slippery slope anyway.  Can you really 'out fair' coins like NEM?

NODE should be focusing on its' actual strengths.

 NODE should be aiming to be a payment process which integrates BTC, $USD, EUR and CNY.  As well as the language barrier advantage by replacing BTC as the main crypto currency in Ukraine and the rest of Eastern Europe, and then getting some presence in Britain / Germany / China / USA.  

There's already anonymity in Bitcoin - it's called being able to open a wallet without needing to submit identification.  These anonymity coins are a joke as their solution is to take away a public ledger but without said ledger how do we know someone isn't cooking the books or something?


Although yes it's true mining and the ex-hibernating whales are killing Bitcoin.

$1.5 million in Bitcoin is mined everyday and this is an A) inflation (hidden tax on existing holders) and B) these miners dump up to 80% to pay for their electrical costs.

Who knows about this coin outside the announcement section?

Developers I think shocked a lot of people when they surprised announced they were moving away from pure PoS to a "PoA" that is still in the concept phase.  

This is really one of the worst launches in crypto history.  I would had stuck to the pure PoS and went straight to promoting on VK and other Eastern European websites, in addition to some promotion on BTT and Reddit.  Instead this coin looks like it's in for some serious hurt due to the developers not thinking their priorities.

NODE coin is deaded?   

Is this America's Arab Spring?     Is Ferguson where it's all going down?!

That's the greater fool theory in action.  Should had bought bitcoin when it was fraction of a cent or cents.  Many of those people bought and forgot they had Bitcoin until it was all over the news in November and they've been dumping since.

The miners are dumping millions a day to pay for electrical and other costs - I don't see this amount being replaced