While we are still in beta test, we have a nxt gateway into ripple and already a small market in nxt using ripple wallet and its distributed servers ledger. Should be resistant to ddos
Working on trading page to simplify trading
Ripple wallet is all you need, takes two minutes
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Separately, it really bugs me that yurigeorge and the like keep saying how it is unfair about the huge gain founders made. I think the standard response to this can be improved. The key is that what the founders purchased was a promise of a new coin with no guarantees that it would even be delivered. So there are two critical factors here, first is the value of what was initially delivered and second is the discount the founders got. ANY investment gains should be based not on what the founders paid, but rather on the initial value of first release of nxt
Since lifetime future cashflow is not a useful measure of nxt value at that time, lets use a purely software development cost model. This assumes that the entire value of nxt is based on simply what it would cost to develop. I think that is a significant discount to value it at since it gives no value to any potential future of nxt
Does anybody really believe 21btc is enough to develop first version of nxt? No fair saying it was done by one person, as for all we know there were a dozen guys working on it for two years. You need to hire enough programmers, testers, etc to develop an entirely new crypto currency/system. $1 million usd would seem a bargain for this hypothetical project, and there are companies that have spent far more on much less
We can quibble about the development cost, fair enough, but using my estimated million dollar cost, the "book value" of nxt would be $0.001 and the founders purchased at a giant discount, yes, but their initial gain woild be difference between 21btc and book value. BTNext gave them a deal of a lifetime,but a million dollars split by 70 people is not the super lottery it has beem made out to be
We have " only" a 100 fold gain from book value to now, however a lot of people are missing the significance of the alias enabled release. That essentially gave nxt the functionality of namecoin, is it any wonder that it immediately reached namecoin market cap? These gains are all fair investment gains of anybody that purchased nxt, founders or early adopters. It is no surprise that this release happened, it was announced and as is the nxt tradition of delivering on its promises there shouldn't be a 99% discount on future value based on announced features
The founders got a deal of a lifetime at the beginning, then they made significant gains on top of that as the market valued nxt based on future potential, then they made more gains as namecoin functionality and market cap was achieved. My experience with founders has been unversally positive, they are generous and helpful to newbies trying to come up to speed.
Nxt is currently trading at a slight premium to namecoin, is that so crazy high? Assuming a purely market float based valuation, nxt could be at 0.01 to 0.02 btc depending on total btc mined. That assumes market values future potential of nxt the same as btc. The market is currently saying nxt potential is significantly lower than btc, if you believe the market is over valuing nxt now, wait for it to go to less than namecoin valuation.
Stop bitching about how unfair initial distrubution was, my guess is that nobody signed up for any more founders shares for a while, so they decided to move to next phase with what they had. I would have put in my 1btc had i known about it back then, but i didn't know about it. That is my responsibility. As an investor if you dont know about an investment you dont deserve to benefit from it, why do so many people feel entitled to investments they didn't even know existed or worse they knew but passed up?
James
what is your ripple gateway trust add. please!
in my opion, ripple can do all kind of coin exchange, why people spending much time building their own web, ripple gateway should more than enough.
gateway add,please.