A new article from Malcolm about how witnessing works:

https://medium.com/@MacLeod_MJ_za/beginners-guide-to-witnessing-11253afd645d

In Peercoin you sign a block with EITHER PoW OR PoS. in PoW2 you sign with PoW AND PoS. That's a huge difference for security reasons. Malcolm discusses this detailed in the Whitepaper.

Edit:
Find the Whitepaper here:
https://guldenpagina.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/tmp_25790-Gulden_PoW22819007230.pdf

Relevant paragraph:

*flips a coin* -> heads "Yeah, I totally intended to throw a heads."

  Am I a madman, a troll or both now? This leads to existential crisis 

I agree with our Dutch Jesus on that. If you go through all TwoRightsMakeARight's posts (which are not many), they are all purely positive about Gulden.
Also who asks such a question and doesn't engage in the discussions that follow?

If he really closed the thread because he feared that the ongoing discussions would hurt the NLG price, I would call that pretty naive. The two big things pushing down the price were the overall price drop in crypto market and the "watch out for some sneak previews to follow!"

I hope RichPissman doesn't mind being labelled Dutch Jesus  

I don't know him either, but appart from the official updates I didn't find open communication or discussions of the Gulden dev-team.
I understand that one wants to focus effort on the development rather than communications but as an open-source project IMHO you shouldn't hide behind closed curtains.
While considering to join the slack channel I saw too many posts about getting banned for a critical point of view and not one who called those out to be false. That's why I got the impression of a 1984 like state in there.

I rather have this thread where you can post your point of view freely if the only cost is that we also see some sarcasm, trolling and sometimes rage-comments. This way it's way more likely that one can build an opinion compared to if there's only whitewashed progaganda around.

Thanks to BioMike for opening the new thread.
An openly accessible platform is essential for discussing both positive and negative news.
An approach such as slack, which is more reminiscent of 1984, does not necessarily promote confidence in the product. This is why I definitely prefer this platform here.

Krusty aren't you well 
I normally expect you to fool around and make sarcastic comments but this post was neither of it.
Of course there was this sublte stinging against a specific person but I'm still worried we might lose our clown here.

HODL is not generally a bad strategy neither for an investor nor an asset, it reduces volatility to some point. The problem starts when an assets only use case is HODL.
Let's take a look at houses, most are HODL'ed for a relatively long time, therefore a bubble can build up (-2008), however for most houses there is also another use case (shelter) and that's why I wouldn't say that buying a house is a bad idea. Buying a house no one want's to live in and you buy because you think that you can resell it in a few years for double the price you invested however IMO is a bad idea.

Many thanks to the author of this update. This elaborate article surely helps to deal with the growing uncertainty of the last months. I really appreciate the depth of explanation of what is going on behind the scenes, which in my opinion is a big improvement to the january update.
I hope the thorough testing can settle successfully soon and the developers can see as much appreciation as they saw critical votes lately.

If you want to invest in a startup with new biochemical stuff in the pipeline, then you don't need a Phd but you should be able to understand if their claims are rubbish or not. Especially for startups you can't rely on how they performed so far. Also you should be able to know your risk, which safes you from surprises. If you can't do this either the company is not transparent enough or you didn't do enough own research.. or both.
I don't see evidence that they are liars, nor is this my opinion. Since I know about the difficulties to estimate time consumption of a software project I never saw those dates in the roadmap as a promise but as a self set goal of the developers.

Everytime I see posts like this, I immediately assume no basic knowledge about software development of the issuer of the post. I always wonder why such a person would put a serious amount of money in cryptos, knowing that the market is flooded with scamcoins.
Delay in software release is already an old topic and well known but "There is no silver bullet!", especially not in big releases.

Hmm, I should read the famous tweet chronicles of Goebbels once again.

As I see this, NLG not showing the same uptrend at the moment is a very good sign, especially for future investors.
If you search for a long term investment coin, which one would you trust more:
The one which has nearly the identical chart like bitcoin with high volatility with often no apparent reason or the one which keeps at a constant value while no big news are available?

Keep in mind that if an asset reacts intensely to good news it will most likely do so for bad news too. I myself am content with NLG not being the same rollercoaster on the markets as most other coins.

I don't think that this is solely FUD in order to drop NLG price.
I felt like I saw this kind of behaviour before. Now I know where this was.
It is like people in the comment section of Youtube Let's Players who feel entitled to e.g. command the Let's Player to do more content. It is the kind of people who think that others owe them because of their minor support. That's like feeling entitled to get something for free just because you waited for it.

I'd like to know: Do you guys really think, that development works so much smoother in "normal" businesses?

For this I'd like to tell you a little story:
I use a CAE software solution at work which is developed by one of the market leaders in that segment. The software is under license (annual fee for usage and continous improvement of the software) and the company I work for is not a key customer to the software company.
About one year ago their customer support offered us to give beta-access to test a new feature which might prove very helpfull in our daily work. It was one of their big things to be implemented in the new software version to come and was announced years before and already delayed heavily.
The beta-testing of it showed following:
    - The new feature was hardly working and most of the time spent testing it, I was trying to get a stable run.
    - Most of the functionalities the feature offered didn't work.
    - Bugs reported to the support took weeks to get a short reply and most didn't get solved.
    - During this time the feature still got promoted by using stable live demos.
    - The demos could be reproduced in the beta version but small modifications would break them.

About 3 months ago the new version of the software was released including the new feature.
I tested it again with a 3 month trial:
    - The new feature requires an own (costly) sublicense.
    - New functionalities added but most don't work.
    - Customer support ignores requests about the feature.
    - More bugs added.
    - Some key functionalities removed.
    - We have no clue when a usable version of the feature could be available.
    
Can you tell me if you would rather have the Gulden developers work like this successful worldwide operating company?

I totally agree with flappie. I encourage anyone in here complaining about marketing to talk to your friends and relatives about the prosperious future of Gulden and the big opportunity we see right now. Post about it on social media, in the comment sections of your favourite press or directly contact press representatives and encourage them to make a report about Gulden. If you did this, feel free to complain about other Gulden supporters who did not take the effort but keep it polite.

I don't really get the whole confusion around the NLG price drop lately. People in here act like Gulden is an island, that acts independet to other cryptos.
Some times this is true, when for example before christmas the BTC price drops while NLG rises.
For the latest week however we can see almost every cryptocurrency dropping and rising similarly. My interpretation of the recent events is, that the measurements against cryptocurrencies announced by India and China and before South Korea lead to a wide uncertainity in possible new investors.
When now the FOMOs of Nov and Dec start to sell their assets and only few new adopters opt in the market the price naturally fall. The reason why Gulden at the moment behaves similar to the other big cryptos might indeed be because of FUD about POW2 and SegSig.
Another point is: I assume there is still a very solid base of investors for Gulden who also want to buy in some more, if prices are low. Now if everyone waits with buying new NLG, prices will fall further until a critical mass of investors decide for themselves that the bottom point of the dip is reached.

Nice try with the FUD, just inconvenient that the panic selling is already reverting back to panic buying