Anyway, it seems there are some price improvements with VeriCoin. I was just wondering, who is pumping the coin?
There have been a rash of pumps across the board and, selectively, taking some coins, like VRC, sky high from very depressed levels. Latest example, Feathercoin. But there are many. I'd like to have an explanation for it... The only thing I can see is the James is doing very, very well at BTCD and that other supernet plays have performed extremely well -and continue doing so, remarkably in the case of BTCD and SYSCO. So I have to chalk the pump out to the supernet connection since there's nothing else that even remotely would justify the otherwise quite impressive price jump.
That said I fully expect this thing to come back to medium to low singles in not too long a period of time.
Thanks for the info, I am not following intensely crypto lately and I was not aware of that James' Supernet coins are doing well. Last time, a few months ago I checked, it seemed to me the assets are completely useless, hopeless but hyped things. Though they (Supernet) have lots of cash, after all they have collected millions $ from their believers/supporters and it is not hard to move this dead market with 1,000 BTC, so if BTCD and SYSCO are doing well probably James is pumping them.
Do you know more about what's happening with Supernet? It was told the software will be released by January and the killer Vericoin feature will be released by March. Of course there is no killer Vericoin feature, and I understand James is working and checking in work to the source repository - hurrah, for the $2.5 million investment he is coding and checking in some work - , but is that vaporware will be ever released?
Can I ask your opinion, what you think where this whole crypto is heading to? I am still actively trading with BTC, and crowfunding/supporting a few specialized alt projects (Skycoin, Tilecoin, Gadgetcoin) just to support the devs and tech, but not sure about the viability of alts at all. The smart contract idea failed to make any impact at all, you were quite right in pointing out at some other places that no one is using smart contracts (now), the real world businesses are not interested in such solution, I can see your point about the problems with decentralized market solutions, and you are quite right the regulators will try to shut down any market that deals with illegal content. (The Horowitz boys just invested US$1 million in Openbazar, but it seems to me the VCs are interested in the market rather than the digital currency aspect of the project.)