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Topic: [NEM] NEM -New Economy Movement - No Envy Movement - Updates+Discussion thread - page 440. (Read 661525 times)

hero member
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@The whole fraudster and multi account topic.

Koreem and I are already sweeping through the regsitration pages (Koreem has done way more I just started yestersay) and already found some multi-accs. I'm gessing utopian is also looking. The more the merrier so if you have time go ahead and check the blockchains.

If you do it remember that you have to check the history of an address as well. The multi accs I found were only discovered because I checked where the used addresses were funded from in the first place.

As I understand it the current plan is to collect all the intell until fundraising is over and then publicly discuss the cases and refund them if they have more than 10 stakes.

I myself believe that 10 is actually a lot and we should start at 5 but let's hear some thoughts.

What about for the people who gave NXTs to who friends and family who never heard of Cryptocurrencies? For example I gave NXTs to my aunt, and a friend in England. They gave me money for them and I helped them through the process? I also have extensive Facebook conversation helping my England friend out. There still have to be cases like that because as simple as the whole thing is for me, it's virtually impossible for people who are less tech savvy. Many people dismiss me when I tell them about them, but I'm very motivated to help the few that trust me.

Well that's probably why it's going to be public and everyone can make his case. If you helped a few friends it'll be fine. There'll prol be a bit of time between the transactions as well.
sr. member
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Guys , sorry for completely newbie question - would you explain PoN abbreviation? and how it works in two sentences?

many thanks

or at least give some reference link - as I couldn't find anything here.

proof of network.  like proof of stake, but it is proof of network.  I don't think the idea is used anywhere because it is likely quite flawed.  People who don't understand virtualization etc think that having different instances of a server add to security. Security can't rely on such things obviously. 
sr. member
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Guys , sorry for completely newbie question - would you explain PoN abbreviation? and how it works in two sentences?

many thanks

or at least give some reference link - as I couldn't find anything here.
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@The whole fraudster and multi account topic.

Koreem and I are already sweeping through the regsitration pages (Koreem has done way more I just started yestersay) and already found some multi-accs. I'm gessing utopian is also looking. The more the merrier so if you have time go ahead and check the blockchains.

If you do it remember that you have to check the history of an address as well. The multi accs I found were only discovered because I checked where the used addresses were funded from in the first place.

As I understand it the current plan is to collect all the intell until fundraising is over and then publicly discuss the cases and refund them if they have more than 10 stakes.

I myself believe that 10 is actually a lot and we should start at 5 but let's hear some thoughts.

What about for the people who gave NXTs to who friends and family who never heard of Cryptocurrencies? For example I gave NXTs to my aunt, and a friend in England. They gave me money for them and I helped them through the process? I also have extensive Facebook conversation helping my England friend out. There still have to be cases like that because as simple as the whole thing is for me, it's virtually impossible for people who are less tech savvy. Many people dismiss me when I tell them about them, but I'm very motivated to help the few that trust me.
hero member
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@The whole fraudster and multi account topic.

Koreem and I are already sweeping through the regsitration pages (Koreem has done way more I just started yestersay) and already found some multi-accs. I'm gessing utopian is also looking. The more the merrier so if you have time go ahead and check the blockchains.

If you do it remember that you have to check the history of an address as well. The multi accs I found were only discovered because I checked where the used addresses were funded from in the first place.

As I understand it the current plan is to collect all the intell until fundraising is over and then publicly discuss the cases and refund them if they have more than 10 stakes.

I myself believe that 10 is actually a lot and we should start at 5 but let's hear some thoughts.
hero member
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Let's assume 100% PON. So anyone can just install a client, setup a node and start forging even without initial stake/investment.
Why would you hold on to your stake if there is no difference in the gain.
It's not about forger's profit. It's about secure system. In Nxt u need coins to generate block, more coins = more chances. It makes front-attack expensive: attacker'll need biggest part of coins to write buggy chain that still'd be most diff. one (all honest chains'll be forks in this case).

If u replace PoS with PoN in start, low amount of nodes'll make network extremly vulnerable. I'm not sure even with later replacement, cos node-based attack always'll be cheaper than $/bruteforce-based attack (buy coins to generate buggy chain or crack Curve to do the same or to kill project). Should we sacriface attack cost gap for "fairness" (equal node-based forging)? I'm almost sure, that correct answer is "NO".

That's actually a good point. I was all about making forging more fair but it's really about keeping the network secure. Now I'm totally for a smaller amount of PON. Maybe 30% ?
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Maybe a picture of each stakeholder with the transaction ID written on a paper in his hand is enough.

This will set the fraudsters get to work =)

And if you announce it like we want a picture over a week from now. With a newspaper on that exact date.

They will only have 1 day to collect people who wants to be on a picture  Tongue

They can still fraud. Bit it will decrease it from 50 multiple accounts to 5-10 I think.
sr. member
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Here's an idea.

Set a new rule for the remaining shares. The rule restricts everyone but buyers who's registration date is sometime before the announcement of the coin, maybe several months before?.. and restrict the buyers to full members. Then lower the share price to a price maybe half of the current value or so. Allow buyins of multiple shares, but cap it at a small amount. This will bring in a different pool of investors. It should help fill up the spots quicker while also spreading the buyers. Thoughts?

This is idiotic.   Did you not read what NEM is supposed to be about ?  How can you claim an open coin that tries to be fair when you need an old account on 1 specific forum on the internet ?

It wouldn't spread the buyers, it does the opposite.  Hellllo?

It is so amazing how No Envy becomes Most Envy.  Like people complaining about taxes feeding the poor.  These people are first in line to get free government handouts.  They just hate the idea of someone else getting them.  I look at this thread a few times a day hoping for interesting discussion.  No.  What I see are more halfbaked ideas worrying about sock puppets having multiple accounts.  Instead of ideas to help coin grow etc, we get people worried about what others have.  All with the coin originally named "No Envy Movement".  Can't make this stuff up.
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Somebody keeps pushing the NXT price down. It's really annoying. I bought 10,000 NXT a few weeks ago for .00007 Bitcoins each. I went to BTER and saw that the lowest price was at .0000718. I decided to checkout how much those 10,000 that I bought last week would be worth if I sold them for .0000718, and in less than 10 seconds after I went to the page somebody had posted like 4 or 5 new sell order for under .000069. Including one for 14,000 NXT. Why not just sell slightly below the current lowest price? These people keep pushing the price down. The other week it was at around .000097 or so, then someone came and every 5 seconds kept selling 10 to 20,000 NXT for lower price, and lower price, and lower price, every few seconds, until the price was in the .000070s, and then it went to .000085, and then a repeat of the same process. It's annoying. The price would have probably been over .0001 right now if it wasn't for that.
hero member
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Maybe a picture of each stakeholder with the transaction ID written on a paper in his hand is enough.

This will set the fraudsters get to work =)
newbie
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are you stupid?
circulated but not everything on utopianfuture. everyone can look but even after muliple accounts and report them! Is that so hard?
And no nobody here will send his ID card or a copy of the identity card! We are not here at NSA.

Order other issues and the search for multiple accounts in the background and report it to utopianfuture in a private message
newbie
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I agree that something must be done to combat corruption of NEM's intended fair distribution.  I think the measures being executed by the devs are probably adequate.
However, come on people! It is appalling that closing this off to established forum members is being tossed around as a sensible idea. 
If anything there should be a drive to attract new members to join the forum.  Let's speculate that the forum veterancy rule was enforced from the start.  Were there even 4000 established forum regulars that would care enough about NEM to join?


I think the measures are anti-whale measures rather than anti-sock puppet.

Short of requesting identity documents (epic fail in the crypto world), there will always be a way for people to create sock puppets and claim multiple stakes.

However, the measures in place do prevent a whale from gaining a 4% stake in NEM during the ipo.  It is too time consuming for someone to create 120 different bitcointalk accounts, wait the required 4 hours on each before they can post in the registration thread, then create 120 different wallets to send the fee from.


NEM, the first whale-resistant currency.
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I agree that something must be done to combat corruption of NEM's intended fair distribution.  I think the measures being executed by the devs are probably adequate.
However, come on people! It is appalling that closing this off to established forum members is being tossed around as a sensible idea. 
If anything there should be a drive to attract new members to join the forum.  Let's speculate that the forum veterancy rule was enforced from the start.  Were there even 4000 established forum regulars that would care enough about NEM to join?
hero member
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Even with PON, a small stake will be required for forging, so that should mitigate some concern.
I'm looking forward for accurate comparing calculations.
full member
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Here's an idea.

Set a new rule for the remaining shares. The rule restricts everyone but buyers who's registration date is sometime before the announcement of the coin, maybe several months before?.. and restrict the buyers to full members. Then lower the share price to a price maybe half of the current value or so. Allow buyins of multiple shares, but cap it at a small amount. This will bring in a different pool of investors. It should help fill up the spots quicker while also spreading the buyers. Thoughts?

That would only limit it to Bitcoin talk register users, rather than bring new people in to cryptocurrency, who are the people who should be brought in. That would eliminate people who don't know anything about Bitcoin that I'm trying to bring in, and just limit it to certain people on one website. How is that fair?

I should add that of course you have to expect a lot of people to be creating multiple accounts, but you also have to consider that it all balances itself out if more people are doing that. If everyone bought two stakes, then everyone would still have a very balance market. It would be like having 2,000 stakeholder rather than 4,000, but that's still a lot of people. And I'm sure Utopianfuture thought of that when he set the number to 4,000 Stakeholders.

I think the vast majority of people complaining over and over about this issue, and trying to create scenarios for stopping the ipo are thinking so small minded, compared to the Utopianfuture understanding and approach to the situation. It's all small minded because it's all based on jealousy, and trying to lock out as much people as possible, rather than being grateful for the opportunity.

Many, many people are going to buy multiple stakes. Get over it already, because it's still more fair than any other coin that I've seen so far. Be grateful that you knew about it, and try to bring new people into the cryptocoin market. Help them set up an account. That would only benefit the NEM market. If Utopianfuture had a different, normal mentality then new people would be locked out. So I'm impressed by his mentality, because most other people are so small minded.
full member
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Here's an idea.

Set a new rule for the remaining shares. The rule restricts everyone but buyers who's registration date is sometime before the announcement of the coin, maybe several months before?.. and restrict the buyers to full members. Then lower the share price to a price maybe half of the current value or so. Allow buyins of multiple shares, but cap it at a small amount. This will bring in a different pool of investors. It should help fill up the spots quicker while also spreading the buyers. Thoughts?

That would only limit it to Bitcoin talk register users, rather than bring new people in to cryptocurrency, who are the people who should be brought in. That would eliminate people who don't know anything about Bitcoin that I'm trying to bring in, and just limit it to certain people on one website. How is that fair?
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I doubt we have 3000 newbies. And you just need to skim through the emails anyway, the purpose is to make it so that it takes 10mins to write the email but just 5 secs to skim through it. The guy creating 150 accounts would need to write 150 emails and send from 150 different addresses... impractical. We might still get the odd guy that uses his work email and his wife's email, but we are making it more difficult and at least we block the whales.

If we are going to start doing this, do we have an option for a refund?   This is a complete absurdity from the simple fact that the sock puppets can and will send you emails with some dopey story.  This is a time sink and detracts from getting a working coin out the door. My recollection is the social contract says funding accounts will be refunded so it isn't like NEM gains by keeping their money.  And if NEM did keep their money, it'd be a black eye on NEM as a whole.

Closing registration?  Now NEM is starting to really gain funds.  If the devs are going to write a lot of code then they need the money, even if it does increase the chances someone walks off with the loot.

Last I knew you have to sit on this site and lurk for some time before you can even post.  

In the end all you'll do is weed out the lesser intelligent "whales" or "scammers" or what have you.  Also, you might want to consider that the people who go through the trouble to get a few shares might give more because of their increased stake.  Having multi-accouters doesn't necessarily hurt the coin, it could in fact help.

I think we really need to implement a DNA/fingerprint rule.  1 stake per DNA/fingerprint sample.


Only problem with this is the "scammers" will start hiring sock puppet homeless people to provide DNA/fingerprint samples for them.

In order to combat the sock puppet homeless people problem we need to implant a bluetooth chip into each stakeholder that corresponds to their 1 wallet.  The NEM in the wallet will only be accessible if the bluetooth chip is within 5 feet of the computer that is running the corresponding NEM wallet.

DNA/fingerprinting is really the only way to go guys.

We should also require social security number, mother's maiden name, birth certificate, passport, proof of address, and bank account information.

Please make the distribution even more complicated than it already is.  After you've done that, I'm going to say it's still not good enough and ask you to please make it even more complicated.
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i just noticed, NEM is currently funded twice as much as NXT.
this is nice!
And considering there are still open spots, this could be a fun baby to watch it grow.
c2e
newbie
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Here's an idea.

Set a new rule for the remaining shares. The rule restricts everyone but buyers who's registration date is sometime before the announcement of the coin, maybe several months before?.. and restrict the buyers to full members. Then lower the share price to a price maybe half of the current value or so. Allow buyins of multiple shares, but cap it at a small amount. This will bring in a different pool of investors. It should help fill up the spots quicker while also spreading the buyers. Thoughts?
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1. sending money that violates "Counter sockpuppet measure" would be considered donation (from page 81 and up)- very easy to check

2. there are more complicated cases in which multiple addresses are created and funded from a mother account which would not violate "Counter sockpuppet measure" ; in these cases, we can apply the "unfairly accumulation" clause and refund the money if we have solid evidences. I still think about the ceiling limit for these cases; exceeding 0.5% of total stakes could be considered "unfairly accumulation", imho.

There will be a period of public auditing of our registration threads and stakeholder list after the fund raising is over for these issues. At this point, I am focusing on weeding out all the fraudsters first.

  
Excellent, 0.5% is a good good investment. if the percentage is less, nothing happens. It's good to live with what is necessary. Excess money rots us.

They can create 10 btc-e mother account, and only OKPAY account to transfer. Sure there are some trickster.

Some people think it's crazy, but it's the best: Send identity document for each of the stakes If this happens, NEM would expand the more friends

There may also be document forgers. Crazy world. Huh

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