It raises some good points, but the whole purpose of crypto currency is to operate outside the restrictions of government policies.  If Nxt started to operate based on US Gov financial policies, I would sell all my Nxt tomorrow.  The goal is to offer more financial freedom/control and eventually become so popular that world governments have no choice but to comply or die.

Since you are clear to separate Nebulous corporate equity from Sianotes. I think it would be good for investors or others who are interested to understand how much of Nebulous revenue will rely on Siacoins generated by Sianotes that Nebulous controls. Your posts could come across as Sianotes are somewhat of an afterthought and not the main revenue source for Nebulous.  I believe investors want to know that although they don't own part of Nebulous, they do own part of the revenue stream.  i.e. You don't own part of Google, but you do own a % of revenue generated by Google Ads.

But accomplishing this within a client would be a trustless solution and a time saver, so using a 3rd party exchange wouldn't make sense when you could use an internal exchange/shuffle such as the case with Coinshuffle/Nxt.

I think that's the most popular as no one is about to change BTC core to include anonymity at a protocol level.  Do you have any other projects to review?  Input/Output can always be correlated but it would take QC power to do so.

Very good news, interested to hear what comes of the MIT project.

Not sure about the biggest, but definitely the best looking, which I think is the most important aspect of any dev team.  Anyway, looking forward to coinshuffle on Nxt.

A smart strategy,  if you are able to raise that kind of capital and employ several devs, you can accomplish many things in a short period of time.  This makes sense for Sia as Sia has a more commercial application than other Cryptos.

Typical for an alpha release.  Expect much bigger returns when Sia is up and running.

BTC will continue to be adopted by business/investors/consumers and LTC will not unfortunately. Satoshi's don't allow LTC to be a silver currency. LTC offers nothing new, and the speculation buying is over, you will see some small spikes, but it will indeed die.  I like Charlie Lee, a great guy and appreciate what he's done for Crypto.

Quark, it's already replaced by a new wave of shit alts and will never rise again, it will die a lot faster than LTC along with many other.

Usability rules all, look at Doge and Aurora, even with spectacular marketing, it's going down the toilet.  Big money investors and business always look at usability first.

Nothing will replace BTC as Crypto Gold, POW.  You will see other Crypto's being adopted in different verticals; POS, storage, smart contracts, etc...  But again there will be only one to rule each vertical.  Right now I see Nxt as the POS king.  I see Ethereum as the Smart Contract/Script king.  I predict Sia as the Storage king (not maidsafe), etc...  More verticals will be created and we will hopefully see more innovative Cryptos.  It's a crazy time, but very exciting.  

My advice for investors, ride the IPO wave for new alts, then sell and buy a king coin.

I don't buy Cryptos to sell them, I buy Cryptos to use them, I have never sold a Crypto for Fiat (believe it or not), so take my advice as a holder and not a day trader.

Thanks for the update!

+1, would like to see IPO on Nxt AE, would be nice to buy and sell Smoke Shares while you are in development for next 3 months.

I encourage you to update this thread and your blog with Nxt progress.  I appreciate all your work to promote Nxt, keep it up digitalindustry!

I would chat with ChuckOne (https://nxtforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=140), he seems to be willing and able to work on this project and showed a lot of interest.  I can assure you the bounty is real and legitimate, and would probably be placed in the care of Anon (escrow) once there was some commitment. 

Thanks for posting, testing DGS right now, very cool, and of course good to see encrypted messaging!

Man, I wish I had the free time to write a lengthy troll OP and respond to countless posts, all in the name of protecting my fellow BTT members from a coin I'm jealous I wasn't part of from the beginning, but instead invested in Quark which is now dead, congrats digitalindustry! 

Other than price speculation, please give me one reason to buy LTC over BTC.  That is why is will die a slow death.

Interesting read, as someone who has never owned LTC, I appreciate a view point from someone who has been a part of the  LTC community for a long time.  Personally I never invested in LTC because I viewed it as purely speculative, so why not just buy BTC.  I don't believe LTC owners are passionate about LTC as a true alternative to BTC (my opinion), they were just buying because they thought it would increase in value and they could sell it for a profit.   

My advice for investment, don't buy a coin if you are immediately thinking about an exit strategy.  Buy a coin because you can actually use it as intended (as a currency or whatever).  When BTC was at $2, I would only purchased it because I wanted to buy something that only accepted BTC  , that was a sign that BTC was incredibly undervalued, but I didn't see it at the time.

Seems below you to post such FUD, by I guess at this point your reputation is lower than you coding skills.

Yes, of course, I'm not saying it's a dead project, just that personally I'm worried if the core dev can't release a functional/stable blockchain. 

Maybe, but to me, if you are going to introduce a new crypto, you need to be smart enough to get it working and stable from at least a blockchain level.  Satoshi, BCNext, etc.. accomplished this although their source code was not the prettiest.