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Topic: NEM (XEM) Official Thread - 100% New Code - Easy To Use APIs - page 1895. (Read 2984910 times)

newbie
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Forget the advanced features at this moment. Make a simple and solid one and make the consensus mechanism work very well first.
legendary
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mining is so 2012-2013
I don't see a need to rush an anon function. As others have said it's especially hyped right now. Also, it's not even being done right. There are like five different approaches and many are proving to cause a lot of friction and bloat and not actually even be really anonymous.

Right now everything is an experiment in anon. NEM is already doing a very neat experiment in PoI and distribution.

In the future lots of PoI coins will have added anon. At that time NEM can add the feature "IF" the community wants it and it is being perceived as useful.

I use to think like others that anon is for serious criminals and in many ways it is. But I think in the future it's going to be for everyone.

Why? Imagine a day when insurance companies are aligned with credit card companies, they see not only which fast food testuarants you eat at but if you double size or not, and charge you extra if you do.

Imagine a day when a giant search engine/shopping portal tracks your every purchase building algorithms knowing what time of day you buy things and if your a more careful shopper in the morning or night, it also looks to see which genres of products you spend more time researching and comparing prices about, and then based on its algorithm will raise or lower prices against you manipulating you to get more money for them.

Wait!!!! Things like this are already happening and worse just around the corner. In a digital age people are mapping us to manipulate us. Some anon money will help us take the power back.

Again, I'm in no rush. Nobody is even doing anon correctly yet. Let's wait and see what happens with the whole scene and then later on reevaluate. It'll be much easier and give a better product in the long run.
full member
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The recasting feature of NTX coin seems very interesting. NTX is a Chinese branch of NXT.

RECASTING Feature: Prevents the inflation of the block chains and makes the anonymity of the coin untraceable.  Recycle some lost forever coins after a few                     rounds of recasting.

Will NEM include such features? If not, is it possible to add RECASTING feature to NEM?

I think it is a good feature which will definitely benefit NEM. Devs should consider to add this feature to NEM.

from irc:

Quote
00:13 <@gimre> TruthTaco_: can't tell, english paper sound like auto-translation and doesn't make much sense
00:19 <@gimre> TruthTaco_: I'm wondering how they want to ensure anonymity, there's almost nothing about that
...
00:27 < Hap_> Anonymity is a fad.  Darkcoin isn't going up from use but rather people speculating on the preceived 'value' of
              anonymity.  I don't think the logic is particularly sound.  Almost nobody uses TOR or other anonymity measures.
              It's a very niche thing.
00:28 < Hap_> Great for pedophiles and drug dealers but that isn't the current crypto user or future user.
00:29 < Hap_> Nor is it proprietary.  If anonymity proves to be that important then everyone, even Doge, will rip it.
00:29 < Hap_> It's an one trick pony when coins specialize in anonymity.  ---? agree witth his


Yes, I agree. Anonymity is for criminals and pedophiles of all kinds! ---> hugely biased point of view.

Criminals do not need crypto anonymity, they have BoA, HSBC, GS and others to deal with that. Is not like there were no criminals until bitcoin arrived!! i.e. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-02/hsbc-judge-approves-1-9b-drug-money-laundering-accord.html


+1 on this but we could just relax and wait until the coin is out first. The anonymity discussion is unnecessary at this point.  I think NEM is positioned to be a multi-service 2.0 gen. crypto so an anonymity service could be built on top of the blockchain and that would be a more flexible approach.
pgb
full member
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The recasting feature of NTX coin seems very interesting. NTX is a Chinese branch of NXT.

RECASTING Feature: Prevents the inflation of the block chains and makes the anonymity of the coin untraceable.  Recycle some lost forever coins after a few                     rounds of recasting.

Will NEM include such features? If not, is it possible to add RECASTING feature to NEM?

I think it is a good feature which will definitely benefit NEM. Devs should consider to add this feature to NEM.

from irc:

Quote
00:13 <@gimre> TruthTaco_: can't tell, english paper sound like auto-translation and doesn't make much sense
00:19 <@gimre> TruthTaco_: I'm wondering how they want to ensure anonymity, there's almost nothing about that
...
00:27 < Hap_> Anonymity is a fad.  Darkcoin isn't going up from use but rather people speculating on the preceived 'value' of
              anonymity.  I don't think the logic is particularly sound.  Almost nobody uses TOR or other anonymity measures.
              It's a very niche thing.
00:28 < Hap_> Great for pedophiles and drug dealers but that isn't the current crypto user or future user.
00:29 < Hap_> Nor is it proprietary.  If anonymity proves to be that important then everyone, even Doge, will rip it.
00:29 < Hap_> It's an one trick pony when coins specialize in anonymity.


Yes, I agree. Anonymity is for criminals and pedophiles of all kinds!

Criminals do not need crypto anonymity, they have BoA, HSBC, GS and others to deal with that. Is not like there were no criminals until bitcoin arrived!! i.e. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-02/hsbc-judge-approves-1-9b-drug-money-laundering-accord.html


sr. member
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DRAMA: Dumb Retards Asking More Attention
I would love to have a sneak peak at coinmarketcap in say  Huh 5 years or so  Cheesy

Here you go:

1. NEM
2. Nxt
3. BTC

 Wink

Love it.....lol....

It's not the ranking that interests me the most, rather the capitalisation  Wink
I guess cryptocoins should be mainstream in 5 years, so capitalisation will increase incredibly.

legendary
Activity: 1059
Merit: 1016

Anonymity is a great feature but it is unbelievable risky. Is this coin goes mainstream, then a lot of people, journalists and governments will have an eye to. That could be a big threat to NEM.

We have nothing to hide, and we want a coin for everyone. Please don´t push this forward just because the anoncoins are hyped at the moment.

An important way to get mainstream approval is to be indifferent about anonymity. What is most important now is to make NEM, easy to use and easily accessible by all.

It should not be complicated and should be easily picked up by one who only knows how to use the computer to read and write emails.

The wallet being "web-based" is a good start.
member
Activity: 117
Merit: 10

Anonymity is a great feature but it is unbelievable risky. Is this coin goes mainstream, then a lot of people, journalists and governments will have an eye to. That could be a big threat to NEM.

We have nothing to hide, and we want a coin for everyone. Please don´t push this forward just because the anoncoins are hyped at the moment.
hero member
Activity: 980
Merit: 1001
The recasting feature of NTX coin seems very interesting. NTX is a Chinese branch of NXT.

RECASTING Feature: Prevents the inflation of the block chains and makes the anonymity of the coin untraceable.  Recycle some lost forever coins after a few                     rounds of recasting.

Will NEM include such features? If not, is it possible to add RECASTING feature to NEM?

I think it is a good feature which will definitely benefit NEM. Devs should consider to add this feature to NEM.

from irc:

Quote
00:13 <@gimre> TruthTaco_: can't tell, english paper sound like auto-translation and doesn't make much sense
00:19 <@gimre> TruthTaco_: I'm wondering how they want to ensure anonymity, there's almost nothing about that
...
00:27 < Hap_> Anonymity is a fad.  Darkcoin isn't going up from use but rather people speculating on the preceived 'value' of
              anonymity.  I don't think the logic is particularly sound.  Almost nobody uses TOR or other anonymity measures.
              It's a very niche thing.
00:28 < Hap_> Great for pedophiles and drug dealers but that isn't the current crypto user or future user.
00:29 < Hap_> Nor is it proprietary.  If anonymity proves to be that important then everyone, even Doge, will rip it.
00:29 < Hap_> It's an one trick pony when coins specialize in anonymity.


Yes, I agree. Anonymity is for criminals and pedophiles of all kinds!

Right. It's not like people have to stay anonymous because they live in a country where free speech would otherwise be impossible.
Nothing like that on this wonderfull earth Roll Eyes
legendary
Activity: 1059
Merit: 1016
The recasting feature of NTX coin seems very interesting. NTX is a Chinese branch of NXT.

RECASTING Feature: Prevents the inflation of the block chains and makes the anonymity of the coin untraceable.  Recycle some lost forever coins after a few                     rounds of recasting.

Will NEM include such features? If not, is it possible to add RECASTING feature to NEM?

I think it is a good feature which will definitely benefit NEM. Devs should consider to add this feature to NEM.

from irc:

Quote
00:13 <@gimre> TruthTaco_: can't tell, english paper sound like auto-translation and doesn't make much sense
00:19 <@gimre> TruthTaco_: I'm wondering how they want to ensure anonymity, there's almost nothing about that
...
00:27 < Hap_> Anonymity is a fad.  Darkcoin isn't going up from use but rather people speculating on the preceived 'value' of
              anonymity.  I don't think the logic is particularly sound.  Almost nobody uses TOR or other anonymity measures.
              It's a very niche thing.
00:28 < Hap_> Great for pedophiles and drug dealers but that isn't the current crypto user or future user.
00:29 < Hap_> Nor is it proprietary.  If anonymity proves to be that important then everyone, even Doge, will rip it.
00:29 < Hap_> It's an one trick pony when coins specialize in anonymity.


Yes, I agree. Anonymity is for criminals and pedophiles of all kinds!
hero member
Activity: 980
Merit: 1001
Can people still buy NEM at the AE of NXT or not?

I'm confused after the scam.

Yes. There is absolutely no reason not to buy them. There is actually good reason to buy them since they are so cheap now than NXT price is lower as well Smiley
full member
Activity: 232
Merit: 100
Can people still buy NEM at the AE of NXT or not?

I'm confused after the scam.
legendary
Activity: 866
Merit: 1002
The recasting feature of NTX coin seems very interesting. NTX is a Chinese branch of NXT.

RECASTING Feature: Prevents the inflation of the block chains and makes the anonymity of the coin untraceable.  Recycle some lost forever coins after a few                     rounds of recasting.

Will NEM include such features? If not, is it possible to add RECASTING feature to NEM?

I think it is a good feature which will definitely benefit NEM. Devs should consider to add this feature to NEM.

from irc:

Quote
00:13 <@gimre> TruthTaco_: can't tell, english paper sound like auto-translation and doesn't make much sense
00:19 <@gimre> TruthTaco_: I'm wondering how they want to ensure anonymity, there's almost nothing about that
...
00:27 < Hap_> Anonymity is a fad.  Darkcoin isn't going up from use but rather people speculating on the preceived 'value' of
              anonymity.  I don't think the logic is particularly sound.  Almost nobody uses TOR or other anonymity measures.
              It's a very niche thing.
00:28 < Hap_> Great for pedophiles and drug dealers but that isn't the current crypto user or future user.
00:29 < Hap_> Nor is it proprietary.  If anonymity proves to be that important then everyone, even Doge, will rip it.
00:29 < Hap_> It's an one trick pony when coins specialize in anonymity.
newbie
Activity: 36
Merit: 0
The recasting feature of NTX coin seems very interesting. NTX is a Chinese branch of NXT.

RECASTING Feature: Prevents the inflation of the block chains and makes the anonymity of the coin untraceable.  Recycle some lost forever coins after a few                     rounds of recasting.

Will NEM include such features? If not, is it possible to add RECASTING feature to NEM?

I think it is a good feature which will definitely benefit NEM. Devs should consider to add this feature to NEM.
sr. member
Activity: 313
Merit: 252
The recasting feature of NTX coin seems very interesting. NTX is a Chinese branch of NXT.

RECASTING Feature: Prevents the inflation of the block chains and makes the anonymity of the coin untraceable.  Recycle some lost forever coins after a few                     rounds of recasting.

Will NEM include such features? If not, is it possible to add RECASTING feature to NEM?
legendary
Activity: 1059
Merit: 1016
interesting blog post about proof of stake written by vitalik buterin

https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/07/05/stake/

@devs, is nem the solution to the issues brought up in this article? Wink

I also saw the reddit thread.  

I'm not sure why Vitalik Buterin has such a wide cult following, even being more famous than a real Bitcoin developer like Gavin Andresen or even an alternate developer like Charlie Lee.  

Vitalik's fame was some obscure magazine which was only actively read by hundreds.  It seems probable that an old theory is correct - Goldman Sachs needed a "hip young mascot"  ("to appeal to the young Facebook masses") for their crypto currency, so they went with Vitalik.


Goldman Sachs ...  umph ... I would think very carefully about participating something, which is touched by GS. And would reject even from the principal basis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80%9308
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_15/b4173030234603.htm



They have former Goldman Sachs.  Which you might otherwise excuse, saying someone's past shouldn't matter, but at the same time there's only so many people in the world who have worked for GS (we're talking tens of thousands in a planet with billions of people).  It's not a coincidence that one would show up in coin which appears to have huge funding.  There's plenty of developers and organizers without that sort of background.

That's not the reason why I dislike Ethereum.  To me Ethereum is a copywrighting coin like Mastercoin and Maidsafe.  Worse yet, they seem to be a copywrighting equivalent to Ripple.

  They spam YouTube with these awful rhetorical rambles about politics and bankings which last over a hour and only get a few hundred views.  They pump out equally boring articles which nobody reads.  They have all these developers and people who don't work for free..  so where are these guys going to get their compensation?

IIRC - Ethereum (before it got in trouble with the Ontario & Canadian Government) admitted it wanted a $30 million IPO.  I'm sure that money would be put to great use.  Vitalik already vacations around the world but I guess he needs a Tesla automobile and a mansion in Thunderbay (or whatever constitutes a nice area of Ontario).

https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/107/why-30-million-why-so-inflationary
(or, alternatively, just google "Ethereum 30,000 BTC" without the quotations)

It makes you wonder the point of even investing into Ethereum if it's a grand version of Mastercoin.  I put in $1000?  Ok that gives me 0.000033% of Ethereum...   making it $10,000 to get 0.0003% makes no quantifiable difference for what is an extreme high risk investment (the people who invested into Mastercoin and Maidsafe know this.  They would had made more money off Doge, NxT, Darkcoin, et al).  Ponzi schemes ran by wealthy investors and greedy developers is just exactly what we all want *sarcasm*

Then there are the technical issues.  I'm not a programming but I can say this: programming languages like Java, C++, et cetera, weren't born overnight and took as long as a decade or more to work out the kinks.  I doubt Vitalik was busy programming his revolutionary new language when he was twelve.  Not only will it take time for Ethereum language to be completed but there's also an education issue in that Ethereum language developers currently don't exist and they'll have to spend years to master the language and then pump out the code. 

Ethereum, if you noticed, has exiled itself from Bitcointalk after it couldn't take any criticism.  They've also banned and deleted many users from their own forums.

Stay classy Goldman Sachs


We should not just see the negative side of things. Vitalik's claim to fame was because he put a face to his name. He sold himself well. We shouldn't discredit that as each entity has its own objectives and motive for doing so. That's marketing 101. If he did not do that, would we be talking about him here?

Whether they can deliver ethereum is another matter. And to be honest, even with such exposure, they haven't even reach mainstream yet. I can say that it is not that easy to market a crypto these days, what with thousands of them being rolled out. Without a war chest of money, it is going to be difficult.  Such is the evil of reality in which we live in.


Come the day, when NEM will have to do the same. No matter how great it is, it will not gain mainstream traction if we do not have deep pockets.

Bitcoin is five years old and it is only being used by a little over 2 million account holders (note, Account holders not necessary unique persons). About a couple of hundred million have been thrown into the project by investors all over and is moving at an extremely slow pace.

Unlike all Internet/mobile fast paced initiatives of the 21st, century, cryptos as a project which hold so much promise is moving at a snail's pace. Perhaps, it is important to ponder why.

Should we discuss this further in the nem forum? I have set up a link for that here : http://forum.nemcoin.com/index.php?topic=2278.0
sr. member
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hero member
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Between NxT losing value and people dumping NEMstake, think we'll see $500 NEMstake soon?  Cheap.   Grin   
legendary
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I am not Dorian Nakamoto.
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legendary
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I am not Dorian Nakamoto.
Some cities in Spain are using decentralized currencies, but you can only use within cities. The elite can't control us as before!

New technology = New Times



Get them to use NEM!
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