guilty for what? Telling the truth?  It has to be false information to be categorized as defamation, what were the guys in that courtroom smoking?  Dan Metcalf is a morally bankrupt POS, I hope he gets space AIDS.  And I also hope you don't go to jail Spoetnik, good luck.

every marijuana coin is a pump and dump, and it should be obvious.  Anyone with a brain will not touch these coins with a 40-foot pole

you can only get 2 of these things as of right now, no one yet has all 3.  I'd take a look at BitBay, has everything you want except for anonymity.

ZCoin is not a fork of Zcash people, it has a different protocol.  DYOR

does anyone have a link to more detailed mining information? I want to know what the total supply is going to be and what the emission schedule is.

1.) how do you prevent bad actors from voting multiple times?  What limits are there on making an account?

2.) In this system you will be able to verify to a 3rd party what your vote was, and with that it becomes far easier to buy/sell votes.  This has already been a problem in some places, Hong Kong for example https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/53bq34/hong_kong_election_ballot_papers_outnumbered/d7rtxyj

I only see this getting worse in this kind of system, do you have any solution in mind for that?

I think along the lines of the latter.  I can't really tell you if it it'll ever have genuine adoption or not, but as far as the speculation game is concerned that doesn't honestly matter very much (see potcoin).  The very system that supposedly makes Ethereum so valuable BURST already had coded for it by Ian Knowles (CIYAM), and it hasn't gotten the attention to show for it.  So yeah I think it is potentially one of the best investments you could make right now.  I'd definitely put it in my top 5 for altcoins, at least from a speculative standpoint.

BURST (and Qora as well, same developer), is the first coin to have a turing-complete smart contracting system, it beat ethereum to the punch and doesn't have the market cap to show for it.  Keep that in mind when you see people calling it a scam.

Buy the dip

Yeah nothing there about any specific altcoin.  But hey who knows, if you keep shilling maybe your precious SDC will go viral! lol you're starting to remind of Child_Harold

in any active network you are going to see lost coins; from people sending to incorrect addresses, to people losing their .dat files, etc, so if you have 0 rewards then it essentially means that the currency would be deflationary, and people have no incentive to stake.  So all you have to do is have a staking reward that is just high enough to make up for lost coins, the overall supply won't increase but people will still have incentive to support the network.  Monero's (PoW) planned tail-emission I believe is designed for this exact situation, I'm sure you could do something similar with PoS.

What Doge had going for it was absolutely genius marketing.  They hijacked a meme in order to get free viral marketing, and it worked brilliantly, people in my life that know nothing about crypto had heard of Doge.  So despite any shit bitcointalk veterans will pile on it is really is impressive if you look at it from that perspective.

That being said, I can't really say it has anything groundbreaking on the technical side, and as an investment at this point you'd most likely be better off taking your money elsewhere.

Stop the spamming, fanboy.

Bitbay, Qora, Burst, BTCD/Komodo, COVAL, and Krypton (if they get their shit sorted, got 51% attacked recently), are all solid picks.

Bittrex wallet is under maintenance, any news?

If banks want a blockchain system to make transfers between each other they will make their own system of which they will control, it makes no sense that they would put hundreds of billions in transfers(and yes, that is the type of money we are talking about in this hypothetical scenario) into a heavily pre-mined system like ripple, they stand to make far more money by making their own system.

Many independent credit unions are happy to play ball, as they are often separate from the big money that usually opposes crypto.  But if they have to they'll freeze your assets like anyone else when shit hits the fan, no where is truly safe.  But generally smaller organizations will put you under less scrutiny.

restarting POW is not a bad idea, if you do this though I would definitely recommend keeping rewards low though as to not dilute the coin supply too much.  A simple 2% tail emission would likely be all you need to get the network secure.

buy silver

Question. Does anyone know how much money money goes through online dark net markets currently? Because the answer to that will give you an idea as to what kind of money will go into Monero in the near future.  I've had trouble finding any estimate as to how much money currently goes through them, but I can tell you that the Silk Road was raking in roughly 100mil a year as of 2013.  This should give at least some kind of idea as to how much could potentially end up going into Monero, that is assuming it does become the de facto darknet currency.