Re: NEM Official Thread - Beta is here/Phase 2 Redemption begins[Updates&Discussion]
I think switching to 8 billion is a good idea. It might confuse some people with the amount change and yes some people will be upset, but oh well. I think its going to boost the market cap by a lot. Its all about the numbers. Its about what price people see on the exchange sites. With the illusion that its cheap it should bring in more buy support. 100 satoshis a coin looks twice as good as 200 sats. Attention is usually focused more on price than total supply anyway. Also it should help with hoarding coins by making it psychologically easier for holders to part from them. Someone is more likely to give up 100k nem of 2 million coins vs 50k nem of the amount of 1 million. "That shiny pretty 1M coin stash isn't complete anymore 
" VS "I'm still holding 900k along with a whole 1 million, whoo!"
" VS "I'm still holding 900k along with a whole 1 million, whoo!"Just check the amount of the coins in top 10 in CMC.......
CMC?
link to that top 10?
From https://www.cryptsy.com/ and https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_alternative_cryptocurrencies
Market Currency 24hr Vol Unit cap Price
millions
DRK/BTC DarkCoin 421 BTC 18.04 0.00777300
DOGE/BTC Dogecoin 116 BTC Unlimited 0.00000063
LTC/BTC LiteCoin 106 BTC 84 0.01030010
RDD/BTC ReddCoin 17.9 BTC 0.00000012
BC/BTC BlackCoin 16.6 BTC 0.00009343
XRP/BTC Ripple 14.2 BTC 28989 0.00001444
VTC/BTC VertCoin 12.5 BTC 0.00016301
WDC/BTC WorldCoin 12.3 BTC 0.00002690
PTS/BTC Bitshares PTS 11.3 BTC 1999 0.00175430
DGB/BTC Digibyte 10.6 BTC 0.00000024
EXCL/BTC Exclusivecoin 8.23 BTC 0.00001608
UTC/BTC UltraCoin 7.96 BTC 0.00008199
CANN/BTC CannabisCoin 7.82 BTC 0.00002427
ANC/BTC AnonCoin 6.93 BTC 0.00072125
PPC/BTC Peercoin 6.10 BTC Unlimited 0.00225000
SDC/BTC ShadowCash 5.92 BTC 0.00022000
XC/BTC XCurrency 5.19 BTC 0.00051000
POT/BTC PotCoin 4.07 BTC 0.00000656
NXT/BTC Nxt 3.68 BTC 999 0.00005787
MINT/BTC MintCoin 3.67 BTC 0.00000003
FTC/BTC FeatherCoin 3.24 BTC ? 0.00007000