Topic: NEM (XEM) Official Thread - 100% New Code - Easy To Use APIs - page 147. (Read 2984910 times)

What can I do if I did not indicate the message when I transferred xem to the exchange. and the funds did not come into account ?

To get the airdrop being discussed I think you have to deposit your precious XEM into the Mint wallet, which for anything larger than pocket change sounds like a really bad idea. Some airdrop based on creating a wallet with a minimum balance and signing a message from cold storage wallet on a trezor seems much better, then users are protected, and the Mint wallet gets some new user promotion.

Just because something runs on multiple computers, doesn't make it censorship resistant. It is all in a matter of degree. A powerful enough adversary could easily censor transactions on most blockchains. On that scale, BTC ranks higher than most. NEM is fairly good in its own way given the wide distribution, which means less concentrated control.

For the developer community, the key is building on top of the infrastructure layer. Catapult might help, only time will tell.

I believe all the block chain projects are censorship resistant by virtue of the immutability of the block chain and the fact that it's stored on multiple computers, so that is not unique to BTC. But the huge developer community working on value added infrastructure is a very good point, and for now BTC definitely has the edge. I think NEM could be a contender once they have Catapult working for enterprises on more than a pilot basis.

It's all about what gives a coin value. BTC's value isn't derived from it being easy to use. It is derived from its censorship resistant transfer of value and huge developer community working on the core protocols. The trick is to figure this out for NEM and push that forward.

BTC hit $20K at the end of last year so it's certainly possible. I would take these predictions with a grain of salt. It is likely that more people will be getting involved in cryptocurrencies, but there's no guarantee it will be BTC. BTC is actually clunky and hard to use in comparison to other coins out there. The key for NEM or any coin is to figure out what it's going to take for the uninitiated to start using your coin, and then deliver. Whichever project manages to do that first will be sitting mighty pretty.

Thomas Lee, Managing Partner and Head of Research at Fundstrat Global Advisors, has accurately predicted the price of bitcoin for several years. His latest prediction is a year-end target price of $25,000 and a price of $91,000 by March 2020. Lee’s analysis incorporates Metcalfe's Law, which states that the value of a network is the square of the number of its users, and bitcoin’s potential to become a substitute asset for gold, among other factors.

“I think this next generation of young people view bitcoin as their store of value. And if it captures 5 percent of the gold market, it's worth at least $25,000 per unit,” Lee told Business Insider in an interview in October.

Ronnie Moas, founder of Standpoint Research, predicts that the price of bitcoin will hit $28,000 in 2018 and believes that its value will eventually rise to $300,000 - $400,000. Moas bases his price prediction on the limited supply of bitcoin facing potentially unlimited demand, which could push the price of bitcoin to never-before-seen highs, among other factors.

"I don't know how much gold there is in the ground, but I know how much bitcoin there is, and in two years there will be 300 million people in the world trying to get their hands on a few million bitcoin. This mind-boggling supply and demand imbalance is what is going to drive the price higher," Moas said.

Of course one may argue that Fundstrat Global Partners benefits from Lee’s high profile and his outspoken views on cryptocurrency valuations. However, the success or failure of his company nor his career does not depend on the future performance of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. The same goes for Ronnie Moas and his company, Standpoint Research.

source: https://bravenewcoin.com/news/when-it-comes-to-bitcoin-price-predictions-who-should-you-believe/

It's bullshit, catapult won't be open source in May or next mont. I advice to forget about it.

Jeff M says Catapult will be open source next month. What does that mean in terms of adoption on NEM blockchain? Is there coordination to update NEM blockchain to Catapult?