Quote from: TaunSew on October 11, 2014, 05:07:55 PM

Quote from: voidjarhead on October 11, 2014, 04:53:15 PM

The one thing the niggles me is the staggering amount of unclaimed stakes. I tend to think these belong to Chinese accounts. It was decided by the owners of nem that i month was it so i suppose thats it then.

Just something that happens. NODE had like over 200 unclaimed stakes from a pool of 900-something. These were given like 5 months to provide an wallet ID and despite updates and even some PMs didn't follow through. What they did was give more coin to existing stakeholders and then did a controversial fire auction which created dolphins who then proceeded to dump (not the way to go).

You really think these 1000 or 800 stakes might all be Chinese? I strongly doubt it. I think a lot of them were just random people off the internet who were like "It only costs the equivalent of a lunch" but completely forgot by June (asset exchange) never mind October.

Surely they aren't all Chinese. Definitely not 1000.

But we do know there are many Chinese that are blocked out and many Nemsters are Chinese and that is a problem. Not sure how to handle it. I would like to see something set up fairly.

I think TaunSew is right that many of the people were investors who thought it was cheap and forgot about it. Maybe they left the whole bitcoin scene all together. Since the NEM IPO, the price of Bitcoin has only gone lower and lower. I can see how some people just sold off all their bitcoins and forgot about NEM.

Then there are the sock puppets that the puppet masters lost control of. The puppet masters make sock puppets and then forget where they put the passwords or even accidentally delete them.

I know it would be a ton of work, but I was wondering if like two weeks before the deadline is up that another message might be sent to all the members who haven't claimed their stake. Wiser mentioned an email with more information might be helpful and I agree.

As of right now we can know that the launch isn't going to be until November sometime, so that still gives people a lot of time to check in.

I am okay with stakes being held for a short time after launch, but only a short time. Launches will make a lot of buzz, and maybe the information will get to some of our lost Chinese friends and they will find their way back. But after a short time after launch, I think the NEMs need to be reallocated in a manner that is very clean and transparent to the community.