MKR coin contract deployment date: Wednesday August 19. MKR will be transferable on the ethereum blockchain on this date.

Nexus sale buyers can withdraw their makercoins to the ethereum blockchain by replying in the Nexus topic they bought in.

More information on how to send and trade the coin on the ethereum blockchain will be released here after the contract has been deployed.

Deployment time of coin contract is announced tomorrow in this thread and on our forum. It will be within one month, but we need to do some final testing so we are confident we will be able to commit to the deadline we announce. This contract will give Makercoin full coin functionality, like bitcoin. Before the contract is deployed, you can still trade MKR for BTC using our forums accounting.

Release date of Maker is early next year (current best estimate). Other modules will come intermittently, including Maker CFD's (decentralized leveraged trading and USD hedging using ether) and a soon-to-be-announced whitelisted fiat (USD/GDP/EUR) gateway that can be used as an onramp for MKR (and eventually Dai).

Fixed. Whitepaper can be accessed from the frontpage.

google docs of whitepaper (readable online):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UPMEd407jT6zyvxZRH3N6ay_rjlO4SVKPiaxCgVUIbc/edit#

Any comments can go in the margin there.

Maker insures and earns income from the collateralized debt of the Dai Credit System. Maker transfers this income to the 1,000,000* Makercoin by continuously buying and burning supply over time. This results in a steadily decreasing supply, and a steadily increasing price. * The initial MKR supply is 1,000,000. It decreases over time.

You'll have to read the Dai white paper to understand what that means...

Due to its function as insuring asset of the Dai Credit System, Makercoins earn an income which initially sits at 2% of the value of all outstanding Dai Bonds (USD pegged stablecoin). This gives makercoin an intrinsic value equal to the Net Present Value of the projected future cash flows generated by the outstanding Dai. Because they are an insuring asset, Makercoin carry incredible risk. They are vulnerable to forced inflation if a Dai collateral asset suffers a catastrophic crash - a so called black swan event (an example is ether or bitcoin crashing with more than 30% in a few minutes). The insurance rate (initially 2%) can be autonomously varied over time to compensate for serious losses, and Makercoin owners are able to govern the debt ceilings (and thus risk) using a simplified futarchy.

MKR coin contract deployment date: Wednesday August 19

Scheduled upcoming releases:
Wiki and community bounties
USD and CNY on-ramps
Supply side price control and trading bands
Decentralized margin trading on Ethereum

The Maker, autonomous bank & market maker contract system will deploy to the Ethereum blockchain early next year. It is an open source contract system that deploys Maker to fulfill the functions specified in the Dai white paper. The Nexus development dynasty raises funds to help speed up development of Maker, but takes no responsibility for its performance once deployed, and are not entering into any contract when selling off Makercoins (meaning: do full due diligence on everything before you consider buying. This is an extremely high risk asset.)

Read more at http://makerdao.com/

MKR Now trading at Maker OTC.

The problem is that those who have the most (but luckily not total) influence on this decision, are the ones who'd would receive the extra inflation into their pockets: The miners.

New, lower priced ask has been added:

Selling 3000 ETH for 0.0040 BTC (~1.13 ETHUSD)

Maker OTC is an OTC board for ethereum related assets, which also offers free brokering services for larger buyers and sellers. Trading is primarily done using BTC in escrow, or ether in OTC contracts, and will eventually also support ethereum based stablecoins such as the dai.

I'll be mirroring the best open orders we have onto this board to improve liquidity across both markets.

Right now we have 4 open ethereum sell orders at 1.5 USD per ETH. Each order has to be filled by a single buyer, and paid in BTC through bitrated.

15,000 ETH for sale @ 1.5 USD

2,000 ETH for sale @ 1.5 USD

14,000 ETH for sale @ 1.5 USD

Contact the seller on Maker OTC through PM or reply if you wish to fill these orders. If you're an ether buyer or seller who wants to buy or sell an amount above 5000 ETH, Maker OTC can provide free brokering services on your behalf. Please PM Rune on Maker OTC if you want to use this free offer, or PM me (Shuai) here on bitcointalk.

Sorry for stopping the FUD train.

 https://youtu.be/hwaBM-kQeqc?t=34m43s

Satoshi called it a block chain. Most bitcoin and altcoin developers call it a block chain. Academic writings call it a block chain. Ordinary consumers started calling it a blockchain after blockchain.info basically coopted the word.

Sent a PM regarding buying with escrow, but received no reply?

After the recent crazy bull run of darkcoin, the two coins sitting on number 4 and 5 on coinmarketcap both offer their own version of anonymous transactions to cater to those who want privacy. Darkcoin uses coinjoin with its darksend feature, and bitshares uses stealth transactions with TITAN (transfer invisibly to any name).

As I understand it coinjoin is basically every time you send a transaction, the transaction is mixed together with other people who are sending transactions. Stealth transactions means that every time you send to an address, you actually generate a new public key for the receiver so addresses are never reused.

What are the pros and cons of each kind of anonymous transaction, and which one is better overall?

Bitshares also has anonymity with TITAN, which is basically default stealth transactions.

I'm not sure how stealth transactions compare to the coinjoin in darkcoin? Could some of the experts give an opinion on this?

I have friends pronouncing it as "dowshj", "dowg", "dog-ge"... it's really weird.

And if you're a cryptocurrency developer with some great ideas then join bitshares as a delegate and get paid to implement them directly by the blockchain.

What is going on with these moronic altcoin names? Did the cryptocurrency world literally run out of good names because the barrier to entry is so low?

I'd say unit price is pretty important when we're dealing with a pegged asset

But otherwise you're correct, being the most expensive cryptocurrency is just a fun but ultimately meaningless title.

I should make 0.0001coin!

Impressive to see there is still some life left in PoW altcoins. What's the current darkcoin inflation rate? Also does darkcoin have a light wallet?

Bitshares has an interesting mechanic where altcoin developers can join the altcoin and work on the blockchain for funding that is chosen directly by bitshares stakeholders. This allows an altcoin developer to leverage their skills across a larger community while receiving a larger (or at least more liquid) reward for their work.

https://bter.com/trade/bitgld_btc

Since bitGOLD is a bitshares market pegged asset (whitepaper: http://docs.bitshares.org/content/) it means that it tracks the price of an ounce of gold very closely and should thus be worth around 1300 USD. I think I remember bitcoin briefly surpassed this price at the height of the bubble. Any other crypto ever came close? I realise price per unit is completely arbitrary but it's still interesting to see which one has the highest price.