They are all subject rise and fall even the king BTC. I personally think that the mining pools are going to collapse all of the PoW coins eventually so I am going in to NODEcoin until a better alternative to PoW is found. I have heard other opinions on this and various other aspects of cryptos and the best advice I can give is. Do your research, actually read the white papers including Satoshi Nakamotos original paper (they are not fun but they are worth it), find something you believe in, then invest in it because you believe in it not to make a quick buck. When you invest to make a buck YOU are the pumper/dumper. Also only invest what you can afford to lose and hold on and don't pull out until something that you believe in more comes along or your research leads you to stop believing in the project.
Happy investing, 

Every announcement made here or in the main forum needs to also be accompanied by an announcement on the Reddit and FB page. I have tried to write a few articles on the Reddit but they both look really bare right now. Even just putting up announcements would help them a lot.

No worries here. Just saying we should regroup and rally when BTER is back up. 

This forum seems to have died and I have stopped tweeting because it is hard to sell a coin that has no active trade sites. I think once we get BTER working again this thread will come back to life.

I see what you are saying and our searchability under the name NODE and our URL is unfortunate. But we need to push our brand away from Bitcoin and other altcoins if we want to not be seen as Bitcoin light so I think NODE is better. That is why I have been referring to it by it's ticker symbol "NODE" and referring to a node in the network as "node" I think for the time being we are stuck with the official name Nodecoin but I would like to brand as NODE not just another coin, in fact that's not a bad slogan. Ultimately though it's up to the DEVs.

Well there you go, this is perfect, now when Bitcoin is worthless and nobody uses it you can just say it didn't fail it's still good, see guys it's not in debt and it only takes me keeping a 1 terabyte file on my computer to spend 20BTC on a pizza that used to cost $20,000 BTC. If you are ever forced to admit that it failed as a sustainable currency you can say it was because people didn't believe in it enough because obviously it is was "due to pure speculation with no real monetary reason" as Putin would say. That's fine blame me, redefine fail it doesn't matter. Bitcoin rose in spite of the nay sayers due to innovation and it will fail in spite of the believers due poor network topology, an unsustainable arms race for mining equipment, and the unforeseen externalities of miner pools. I like decentralization but I won't let my Utopian dreams mask reality and I will speak the truth as I see it. Time will tell if I am wrong.

This industry had plenty of money invested and literally worked themselves out of a job because they did not consider the external costs of their actions. This is going to be the same as BTCitcoin the industry will mine itself to death and fail. But I think just like the 16th century energy market that people will never look back and this will lead to a currency/internet/blockchain revolution. But I do not think that Bitcoin will be the end all be all. To be honest I don't think it has much life left. I am just hoping it can last long enough to expand crypto adoption. I am selling out and moving on to NODE since I think the better network topology of PoA is more sustainable but who knows something better may come along or NODE may fold up due to marketing or development shortcomings. I don't see this as a failure for Bitcoin it had it's role to play but I think that time has come and is going. A nostalgic part of me hopes I am wrong but the economics and history say otherwise. Time will tell.

Hard call to make did anyone know 2 years ago when it was going to blow up? I don't think it has more than 3 years and I think it is going to be 3 years of steady price decline but maybe I am wrong. Maybe another economy collapses and tomorrow it is over $1,000 again. If you are asking for an exact date all I can say is if I was that good I wouldn't be selling out I would just be buying low and selling high and riding this whole thing to the bitter end playing the waves. Unfortunately I'm not that good, that's why I'm getting out why it is still worth my time to get out.

While I don't think the software or the community is at a point that we can do it yet I would love to see a large bounty put out for a "Hype Video" contest like DOGE did. The DOGE Hype Video Contest Winner was amazing and just watching it makes you want to be a part of it. Looking at the price trend, technology, and inflation schedule is another story however. With a good coin though I think this could do amazing things!

I only read the first page so if something I say has already been addressed or is redundant forgive me for not going back through the whole thread. I have seen the writing on the wall BTC is a HUGE success that is doomed to failure. What does that mean? Well look back through history. Most of the best things we have today were brought here by failures. The Olds Motor Vehicle Company long term was a failed company but the assembly line improved our lives immeasurably, Nobody uses AOL any more but we all use an instant messenger, MySpace is all but gone but we all use social networks, and nobody trades in beads, seashells or salt anymore but we all use money. Bitcoin WILL FAIL. This is real disapointing to me since as a Libertarian electrical engineer this idea of Bitcoin really appealed to me philosophically and peaked my interest as a student and designer of systems. The network is unsustainable, the trust is unsustainable once any pool gets too big (this is coming sooner than you think), the blockchain bloat is unsustainable, and the transaction time was never sustainable as a long term solution, NEVER. However I say this with peace and love because the Blockchain WILL LIVE ON. It is a beautiful system that may (and I think it will) bring us decentralized currency one day as well as a whole host of other tools. I personally am in the process of selling my holdings and I am moving on to NODEcoin or maybe a better option if I find it. This house of cards is tumbling down and it is time to jump ship. This is not just me talking either many others are saying it, one of the most surprising ones lately was the Cato institute. They have every reason to want this thing to work, as do I, but the data is what the data is. Maybe I too will eat "humble pie" and kick myself for selling, time will tell. With all that said if you still browse these forums thank you Satoshi Nakamoto. You have changed the worlds in ways nobody even realizes yet.

For those who will froth at the mouth and say that I am all FUD I will leave you with this last thought. As I said earlier I am in the process of selling my holdings, I have not done it yet as all of my sell orders have not been hit yet. I have every reason to want this thing to surge in the near future. FUD is not the way to do that. I am saying this as a member of the community trying to be the voice of reason. Not as a troll and not as a FUDer. I am willing to entertain reasonable dialogue on this topic and discuss reasonable questions but for those who would only seek to attack me for an opinion of decent I have this to say

"It seems like you’re inclined to assume everything is wrong more than is actually so." ~Satoshi Nakamoto~

Your game has an error that let's you win every time. I don't know if you care since it is only $0.002 every 6 hours but thought I would let you know.

Don't tell people the cheat, then they will fix it. 

Extremely important. I know that the website developer is currently out of the country but this should be a number 1 TOP priority. We can have the best promotion on the planet but if the product is not secure those people we drive to the page are going to quickly start falling through the cracks and it will have all been for nothing.

I have posted a short article on the Reddit and have started sharing it. Facebook and Twitter are awesome tools for bringing new people in but if we ever want to get the core BTC group involved we need a lot more activity on our Reddit. Check it out, let me know what you think, and write your own.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Nodecoin/comments/2mo9rt/why_i_believe_node_is_the_next_step_in_blockchain/

I made 3 Facebook profile pictures to go with the cover photo I made yesterday. I recommend using one of the two with text, one says "NODE does it faster" and the other says "Ask me about my NODE", but if you would rather you can use the plain logo. I just think the plain logo looks redundant against the cover photo. I have moved the cover photo along with the profile pictures to one folder that I will be adding files to. If anyone has any suggestions for other things you would like to see graphics made for please let me know.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ltlcuhimkzyzp22/AACdqx5HYCpV_EQGzxqNoWw3a?lst

I would also like to say that since I have put up my own cover photo I have already had someone like and share it. These things are subtle but one of the things that is imperative for NODEs adoption is that people see our logo, colors and fonts often. It creates a warm feeling of recognition towards the product. The other day I was talking to one of my friends about BTC and cryptos in general and the only reason he had any clue what I was talking about was because he recognized this symbol BTC but had no clue what it was about. This created a feeling that this was a real thing that a lot of people were using that he didn't know about and laid the ground work for the conversation. This stuff takes time and it will not be apparent at first but IT WORKS.

I made a NODE Facebook banner. Feel free to use it. Sorry if the fonts, colors, logo, ect. are not exactly right but I had to make it from scratch since I did not have the original vector files. I plan on making more promotional materials so please feel free to give your feedback. BTW the shrunken text with the green stripes on the side may not look the best on Desktop but they make a HUGE difference when you switch to mobile.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/eyb5loq60ibzko5/NODE%20banner.png?dl=0

EDIT

I have moved all promotional material to a single folder that can be found here.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ltlcuhimkzyzp22/AACdqx5HYCpV_EQGzxqNoWw3a?dl=0

Will do. 

BTW this may not be revolutionary enough to get a bounty but the website could use a serious makeover. All of those icons on the front page should be a link to a description/interactive page and every description page should have at least one eye catching graphic optimized for facebook and twitter. Doing that alone will get you more traffic plus it really helps if you later decide to use Facebook dark posts. Lastly do you have any marketing standards yet and a repository of Vector graphics. If not I would like to start working on those for you in my spare time. Not looking for NODE if you feel like giving me some fine but just to help get this thing off the ground establishing standards such as color codes, graphics and fonts is VITAL.

It is defiantly a dry read but if you are worried and have the patents this paper not only states that PoA is scalable but that it should produce a BETTER topology than PoW since there should not be as much mining power concentrated in to pockets due to pools.   

http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/452.pdf

One of the key features that sold me was the online wallet and easy cheap forging that can be done on any PC. I know us hard core cryptos carry our wallets everywhere, have the best miners, create cold storage and have all the best encryption software but if we ever want cryptocoins to be more than a hipster club we have got to make it easy for people who don't want to read the white papers, join a mining pool, buy hardware or even understand what a blockchain is to use. NODE is the next step in that process. Plus when immigrant workers find out that they can send FIAT back home for such a small fee and they don't have to worry about government X banning it because some federal bank wanted to ban decentralized currencies this thing is going to explode. We just have to carry it until then.