If you're really only interested in coins that are at least two years old then Peercoin is the only option that both brings something new and useful to the table, and meets your age requirement.

Keep an eye on BitShares through the next year until it's birthday. it's getting close to a year old. that's my pick.

i'd keep an eye on Nxt, Ethereum, and Counterparty until they meet your two year requirement as well.

it didn't ann here but protoshares/bitshare-pts has been on coinmarketcap forever.

this thread pointed out the existence of the plans to make bitsharesx: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=313873.0

there have been plenty of other thread talking about it during that time too.

even some threads desperately trying to point out that AGS donation was coming to a close.

here's a post mentioning the february 28th snapshot https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=476312.0

anybody interested in alt-coins had PLENTY of time to learn about the ideas behind bitshares, and plenty of time to invest by buying PTS. more time than any other alt. you're right, there was no formal ANN. do you really need a formal ANN to recognize a good idea when you see it?

is the blockchain on your phone completely synced?

if not, then the coin will show up when it is even if the receiving address has changed.

bitshares could certainly spam the altcoin section alot more.

in fact there was a thread about that very topic once acknowledging that not as much information is shared here as could be.

but there's so much activity I think bitshares really does justify having its own forum. it's not like all the information isn't freely available.

I personally don't come around here much any more because I kind of feel like these forums have been overrun with assholes. not to mention all the scams. but that's just my opinion.

fair enough, i didn't offer much explanation of why I feel that way either. i look forward to finding out how my plan plays out either way.

I mean... you could explain why I'm wrong and maybe change my view...

I don't have a lot of money, and I'm normally not a betting man.

But man. I want to take this wager.

how about 30 bitUSD?

yea that's how it works for me too.

my advice to you is to stop day trading.

research all the coins thoroughly, and pick the very best, most innovative ones.

buy those. consistently. like the same small amount out of every paycheck, whether the price be high, or low. i think they call this dollar cost averaging.

when you have as much stacked as you're willing to risk, forget about them.

for a long time.

a really long time.

if the fundamentals were sound, and the product was innovative, then it will still be around in 2-3 years time. at which point you'll probably be up 10000%

satoshi emerged to point out that he's not dorian nakamoto, so he's probably still alive.

I don't think DNS, VOTE, and PLAY were ever viewed as "competitors." They all serve different purposes.
BM just realized that if they all use different blockchains, then we may end up with 4 different versions of bitUSD.

pretty sure the plan was for all the devs to work on all these projects all along. I don't think that constitutes "threatening to bail and develop a competitor."

30 grand isn't substantial? what kind of silver spoon did you grow up licking?

It is supposed to be more decentralized than bitcoin.

101 delegates (who can be voted out at anytime) signing blocks instead of... how many mining pools with a monopoly on hashpower?

Bytemaster is transparent, and really cares about how the community feels. He had this idea, posted it, wanted people's feedback on it. He does this all the time because the community can often times come up with improvements to ideas he has, or explain better why an idea is terrible (like this). The idea was not to guarantee him and his devs a delegate spot, just to make their spots more secure by making them the default votes which could be changed.

Everybody told him that it's a bad idea. He said "got it. skip that then."

And this is an example of why the bitshares community is awesome. Everybody has a voice that will get heard if they want it to be.

surge

Assuming I can't track down the sender after a reasonable time:

10 BTC > BitShares, Notes, and PLAY tokens.

2 BTC > Other alts (Peercoin, NXT etc)

5 BTC > Cold Storage with the rest of my savings

3 BTC > Give to other people/convert to fiat and pay bills

I would be ecstatic because my savings would be multiplied by like 9.

ah CLains, couldn't have said it better myself.

I will actively discourage anybody I ever talk to about the project for the above reasons.

bitaddress.org from a live-cd with the router unplugged.

bitcoin core/qt for funds I want easy access to.

ahhhhhh gotcha.

so the question is if you have access via a private key to a spot on the blockchain, is the balance on that spot considered property?

Is the rare mmo sword being stolen or ninja'd?

If the sword is being ninja'd then the games loot mechanics might come into question, and whether or not it's a guild and there was a pre-existing agreement. Or if it was a disagreement in a PUG.

As a former wow player, I'm not sure how one would outright steal the loot.

Maybe in Everquest though?

Setting them free would be promoting them to a liveable wage.

Which would permit them to save up some cash, which in turn makes it possible for them to advance their education, move to a different country if they choose, or just save up enough to live on for a while and leave.

But that's not profitable. Master would have to "train" somebody new.

If your employees feel like slaves there's nothing you can do to change that except pay more and improve the working environment/hours. Also they won't tell you if that's the case, they want you to free them.

If you're a small business owner odds are you pay your people well though, unless your just starting and struggling to become profitable, in which case you're out there pulling your weight with them.

I can think of one decent paying position that doesn't require a bachelors. Mailman. But competition is fierce for a job with the USPS.

This is discipline for disobeying.

Now they have to suffer, probably lose their apartment, rely on other people which stresses relationships, experience self-esteem loss from being temporarily (or permanently, in some lines of work) unable to provide for one's self, possibly go hungry/be subjected to a demeaning food-stamp program (not every city has soup kitchens, or well stocked food pantries, and not everybody lives in a city), all while having to go around filling out job applications and present their best self for job interview after job interview, selling yourself to a new master.