After contributing shouldn't it be possible to follow the contract and token in the ethereum client? Any directions on how to add it? The only thing I've found by poking around is the raw code on the contract but that isn't very helpful, was hoping to be able to see my AE tokens on the blockchain.

Hey said main part not main sale, I think what he means is on the blockchain after the mainnet goes live they don't know if they will have a cap yet.  Vlad can you confirm?

Anyone else notice the BTC = ETH ratio is fixed at 1 BTC = 23.6941 ETH.  Right not it's not profitable to contribute BTC but I'm waiting till the end of the day to see if I'm better off contributing BTC compared to ETH.

I believe it's one per mailing address, but if you have multiple mailing addresses I guess you could get more than one from them.

You have a link to the block, on bitcoin they seem to just be trolling by signaling for everything.

I'm curious why you want to buy IOTA.  Currently it's not on any exchanges and they keep delaying when it will make it on exchanges.  I owned some for awhile and gave up and sold it as it barely worked.  If you do want to invest in a tangle based coin I'd recommend byteball, it has more utility and actually works.

I would assume because the price of ETH has sky rocketed and ETC seems to be stagnate. It feels like the market has picked a winner already.

Agreed, at the very least I'd like to see the later rounds where you say there would be 800 AE (or less) to be less in the case ETH drops, other wise people who invest months later could be getting more AE than me who invested in the first 24 hours just because the price of ETH dropped.

My only concern with the amounts in the contribution campaign details is the current high value of ETH.

The first round of contributors gets 1000 AE tokens for 1 ETH which seems fine given the total amount of AE is based on the number of contributions so the ratio here doesn't really matter.  But since the second round gets a similar amount (800 AE tokens for 1 ETH) it is going to be kinda crappy if the value of ETH plummets in that span of time.

I actually wish you had just set the value of each AE token on USD given the current bubble we are in with alts and potentially even bitcoin over the next 60 to 120 days.

Another concern is that the campaign is a long one with no cap, if I contribute a significant amount in the first 24 hours I could be screwed over by the campaign becoming very successful in round 2 and the total % of AE I get could be much smaller than I originally thought it would be.

You mentioned the 800 AE per 1 ETH could be less in this post, can you describe what would cause a lesser evaluation in round 2? Would a drop in ETH's price compared to USD do it or maybe a significantly more popular campaign in the first day than expected (so more funds raised than anticipated in round 1)?

Thanks and keep up the good work, really looking forward to this project.

Reading through the white paper now. I do think the idea of verified oracles in the blockchain makes sense. However it looks like there is no reward or incentive for users to become oracles.

For example you have to post aeon to be an oracle, and depending on how far out in the future your answer is you have to use more aeon. If you answer the question you simply get back the aeon you posted so no net gain. If you fail to answer the question or if others (the majority I assume) conflict with you on the answer then your aeon is burned.

Even in the case where you did everything right, you are still locking up your aeon for a potentially significant period of time. I guess I'm just trying to figure out what the incentive is for being an oracle as it seems like it is all downside from the oracle's perspective.

Any idea when info will be released about the backing campaign, before the 31st I hope.

If the price of ether goes to $200 doesn't it get kinda ridiculous to actually use the network for some use cases. For example this project used to cost about $0.02 to send a tweet, https://github.com/yep/eth-tweet, but now is about $0.20, and would be $0.80 if the price hits $200.

I know it's possible for them to change the default gas price and miners can accept lower prices, but it seems like some use cases for the network just stop making sense as the price goes up.

Agreed that USD is probably your best hedge against the value of bitcoin falling from an oncoming fork. I'd predict that once this is behind us the increase in price will continue but right now there is no reason for the price to keep going up until we get the fork/segwit behind us.

Yeah once I realized the alliance won't be transacting on the public chain it made that news have far less weight than it did when I originally heard it.  Sure it's a good endorsement of Ethereum and I'm sure they will contribute code back to the project, but they won't have much of a reason to buy ETH or make sure the public network can scale if they are using it in private networks.

Looking to sell 1.015 Ti for 13BTC, let me know if you are interested, could split it up in smaller sales if needed.

There is 80200 IOTA on NXT Exchange for 2.8 NXT if anyone is looking to buy some there.

https://www.mofowallet.com/launch.html#/assets/nxt/6142450902338776418/trade

I'll buy 500.000 IOTAs @ 13 BTC if anyone is selling

Looks like it:

"Due to a legal issue, we are suspending operations. Please cancel any orders and withdraw your balance or email support from your authorized email address for a manual withdrawal. Matches for March 27 and beyond have been voided. We appreciate your support over the last 3 years"

http://forum.sbrforum.com/sportsbooks-industry/2841470-btcsportsmatch-eu.html

And according to the posting on that thread withdrawals weren't working after that post was made.  I'm sure the operator made off with a bunch of BTC as there were probably accounts on there that people haven't checked/used in awhile.

There is still the issue of mutual destruction though.  You may ask why that would happen but I can imagine if a decentralized exchange like this really took off it might be worth it for the existing exchanges to mess with users of the decentralized exchange by locking up their funds at random.

But I agree with transaction malleability out there this seems like the only possible solution.

Is LTC still stuck there as well (I can't test because I already pulled everything out)?  If so that would be 8 or 9 straight days of no LTC in the hot wallet and now BTC is empty?  Not a good sign.  Anyone try sending a PM Kumala, I didn't have any luck with the support email last week.