With a thread 172 and growing forgive me if this was posted previously.
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Of course these numbers are quick to change with some buy and sell orders for most coins even some of the titans but I thought it worth sharing.
iX has been around , paid it's dues and a strong secure blockchain. This is a very attractive feature on which to build trust which is what I believe to be the key to 'true' (vs. pumped or hyped) VALUE over the long haul.
Every day more people around the world become aware of cryptocurrency and embrace it and governments and corporations are certainly making plans for the future.
Just as it took a long time for people to pay for things with credit cards as the 'norm' -- worldwide changes don't happen overnight.
(research the history of credit cards they date back to the early 20th century and even late 19th century before Diners Club even existed in the 1950's ect.....) ..... Today it is rare I go out and see someone not swipe a card. Cash is going out of style like it or not. In America government 'benefits' like food stamps and unemployment are even done by card.
We here all see the good (and bad) things that lie ahead as 'credit' and 'debit' cards with banks fees ect.... are replaced by cryptocurrency.
I certainly believe the good outweighs the bad.
As someone stated above , mining is getting out of the reach of the everyday individual. With the latest increase in bitcoin difficulty the hardware with hash power that was earning .03 btc a day 2 days ago is now more profitable to be turned off and sold on e bay. (Unless anyone thinks difficulty may go down anytime in the near future which is very doubtful as the last time bitcoin difficulty decreased was January of 2013)
A similar trend is taking place with all scrypt 1024 coins as litecoin and the others are no longer 'profitable' from a mathematical standpoint to operate and 'exchange'. This is part due to more people mining, emerging mining technology and the alternative coin market 'adjusting' itself as it grows larger.
As people are forced to turn off mining or face negatie roi I guess some may turn to speculation but if history has taught us anything we know even top wall st. analysts often do no better than just riding the s&p 500.
Yesterday I noticed a so called newer 'popular' alt coin had a daily trading volume on cryptsy of over 5600 bitcoin and about half that on mintpal.
That translated to bitcoin and dollars means five million dollars of that coin traded hands in one day. That is quite different than a 'pump' with 40 or 50 BTC......
One important thing that helped the internet be so successful as it grew from it's 1970's or really 1990's self to today was backward compatability.
Back in the late 1990's when the 'few' had dsl high speed connections most were still dialing up. Still just as it was necessary for those who built the framework of what the high speed internet is today compared to the dial up days care was taken not to make peoples computers or other devices obsolete overnight.
As the new changes the 9.x platform are introduced as long as this mindset is maintained I think it prudent to plan and build for the future.
As Vlad and others mentioned features that 'destroy' coins or 'tie them up' in any fashion should be implemented with caution.
I think we all see parallels to the growth of the web from an obscure tool used by universities and scientists to it's place in the world today. While I think it a good analogy we must also remember that the evolution of 'money' , 'wealth' or whatever you want to call it may not happen exactly the same way as the technology 'boom' that ended the 20th century and began the 21st century and continues now.
In closing this long rambling comment.....
I tried to explain bitcoin some time ago to an older woman I often see while I commute on the train. She smiled at me and said 'oh honey, that sounds wonderful but those rich people are never going to let us poor people get rich like they are' ..... As time has gone on I think she may have been right so let's keep that in mind as we build the future.
As long as 'we' control the network, 'we' can make the rules.
