This method of "thought process" is epidemic in our age.  How many committees, intellectual think tanks, bureaucracy talking circles, workshops, et cetera, must there be before something is decided on and then implemented?  It is usually a sign of a dying society when there is all talk and no action.

There should never be a bailout for holders.  Ethereum is a failure in integrity.  Ethereum classic will always be classic.  Ethereum on other hand can fork indefinitely and even decide to arbitrarily seize and liquidate holders.  Maybe Ethereum foundation can issue a "tax" on holders to fund itself.  Another way, more stealthily, is to give themselves a considerable percentage of PoW / PoS for free.

We almost need to invent a scientific term in the crypto community - something like litmus test or grandfather paradox but for capitalizations following big scandals like MtGox and DAO.  Bitcoin has yet to recover to MtGox $1250.  Ethereum has yet to recover to its' high of $15 before DAO.  I don't think BItcoin nor Ethereum will ever recover to their former glory and  yet, because the market can't rationally decide to move on, we're essentially frozen in time until a big actor bets on a newer horse.

Worse yet, when those big actors bet on intellectual masturbation organizations like R3, which is all talk and no work.


How many years does it take before people realize the old capitalization will never been recovered?  Well it's been almost 3 years since MtGox. . .

This shitcoin Aurora died years ago. Shut up.   

That "fella" had at least 3 million XEM.  What you suggest is no different than saying bail out for bankers, rich and elites.  Good riddance to him.  We should be focusing more on the ordinary man, not the new bankers of crypto.  

NEM is about creating an egalitarian future for all people.

There's arguably already a bunch of projects which have those characteristics and no one is hopping on them yet.  In order for those characteristics to matter, the alternate first has to hit $5+ billion and this means playing the speculation game which only a handful of projects (Ripple and Ethereum) had ever seen any modicum of success at.
 

It always comes back to first impressions and networking.  Poloniex added XEM at their launch and kept them listed, even though XEM's volume dipped below $1000 for the longest time.

Waves obviously is not liked by the people who run Poloniex and thus you'll never see it get added. 

NEM is overall deflation.  Anytime someone lose their private keys, there is less XEM to circulate and everyone else becomes richer.

Sound money and religious implications has been a personal project of mine, within cryptocurrency.  Did you know there has been fatwas and declaration of haram against Bitcoin?  It usually comes down to easy replication, as there are 1000s of QT-shitcoin clones, and Bitcoin's inflation.   When we seriously evaluate the state of cryptocurrency, what projects do not have inflation?  10-second tangent and then back to the topic, why we are all suckers in hopping onto these inflationary platforms?  Inflation is a tax on the non-rich.  The religions of the book, including Islam and Christianity (although not many follow the principles anymore), knew inflation was a scam.

I had been collecting empirical evidence on NEM users and NEM userbase does have a lot of Muslims.  There were many swarming the Facebook pages back in 2014 and 2015.  Today, the most NEM-users per capita are based out of Malaysia.  Malaysia is actually the leader of Islamic Finance.  
http://theconversation.com/islamic-finance-goes-global-but-malaysia-still-leads-the-way-27347
 It is not a coincidence, because NEM is the only halal cryptocurrency.

Does NEM promote itself as a halal or Muslim coin?  Definitely not.  And I would say it goes both ways too.  The many Muslim users in NEM do not proselytize about Islamic principles.  Nevertheless, at some point, I would like to get affirmations of support from religious leaders in Malaysia.  

OP assumes people here are able to make an ethical judgement, when most are already self-identified Libertarians with sociopath tendencies like hostility towards anyone not a middle-class, middle-aged, white male.


Anyhoo - sure OP, and I don't think it is restricted to CoinBase.  We have 2 major alternatives, Monero and Dash, which are structurally and philosophically designed to enable pedophilia, ransomware and other criminal activities - CoinBase might be harassed by the IRS but we will see a higher response applied to those alternatives.

I think NEM will be the number one cryptocurrency.  NEM is the first coin intended to be egalitarian and it had a fair distribution to 1000s.

Why Dash when there is Zcash? 

Ethereum is essentially a Zombie.  Ever since the DAO, and like MtGox for Bitcoin, will ever hit $15 again?!   

If something overtakes Bitcoin then it has to be scandal free.  Monero might do it if they can put Rpietila under house arrest..

Some coins had seen actual utility this year - especially the DNMs like Monero and Dash.  There could be fundamental demand increasing and this is a rising tide which helps all alternates.

Otherwise, compared to 2014 which was squeezing blood from a turnip, it has been a great year. 

Gulden could very well had been the best ROI in 2016?  Wasn't it complete gutter trash sitting at $300K-something and it later hit $15 million?  500x ROI is not something you see everyday.

Ethereum also contains a "th" sound, which most non-English speakers are unable to produce.

The salary is hardly the biggest cost of the position.  The security detail, the best accommodations when travelling and private transportation far exceeds $400,000 a year.

TaunSew here,

I almost invested in Gemz but exposed Peled and his accomplices pulling an illegal bait and switch on investors.  This was your first and only warning to had pulled out of Gemz before it was too late.  Anyone who had stayed in this project was blinded by simple greed and all the magic tricks done by Peled & accomplices.

Appeal to authority.  Why would a Professor of Computer Science be taken as a credible source for something in the field of Cryptography?  "BRB, will go ask my dentist if I need heart surgery or if I can just walk it off" 

I left NEM over a year ago and went off to Bitshares.  I got involved with Steemit pre-launch and now it's amazing to see it become a big success in cryptocurrency.