Quote from: rockethead on November 04, 2014, 03:55:02 AM

Quote from: Kmonk on November 04, 2014, 03:30:43 AM

Quote from: rockethead on November 04, 2014, 12:33:54 AM

In what context does the statement correlate to Stockholm syndrome reaction? Care to elaborate?

I was referencing the numerous calls for banker involvement in this discussion, not makoto1337's statement.

Have you ever felt that you're being held hostage by the banking system or think it possible to identify with your aggressor in an attempt to defend one's ego?

On a side note... has a vote by stake holders in relation to unclaimed stakes been discussed yet?

OK point taken on the Stockholm Syndrome. I would use Rockethead approach. Work with them usurp them and then reign over. Wink

The unclaimed stakes are still actively being discussed in the NEM forum. You may want to hop over there to see what have been discussed. The direction is to take these out of the control of Devs and the general consensus appears to be leaning towards ecosystem development and building beyond what the devs are delivering.

https://forum.nemcoin.com/index.php?topic=2501.0

Bankers are not popular on this forum but most of this is about commercial bankers like Goldman Sachs and government central banks. Granted our neighbourhood banks are also producing some inflation but we ordinary persons at least get some tangible benefit from them like financing & credit and safe accounting.

While you are being a sour grape it seems like most people are welcoming this Fidor development on other websites I've read. As Rockethead wrote: 2 million unhappy people want decentralized accounts while 7 billion are content with centralized accounts.

The biggest hiccup with digital currencies is people think it is unsafe and they'll lose their funds to a hacker, a hard drive crash or the theft of their computer by a burglar. Heck what if your phone is your wallet and you lose that to a simple street mugger or you accidentally dropped your phone into the river?

This fear is essentially removed if a regulated reliable bank will hold your coins, has more SSL than the SS themselves and will reimburse you in event of a freak hack or fraud.

This is in nutshell why the original banks were formed, to protect people's money and later on they evolved to provide services.

When I think of digital currencies only having these 2 million users (at best) when the technology should be used by 100 million to 1 billion, I think it's worth a chance to give these third party crypto banks a chance. It's quite possible mainstreet will never come into digital currencies until they think it is a 110% safe to deposit their earnings and that level of safety / guarantee is likely only possible through a regulated crypto bank.