Mark Nuzz here. First off, a quick clarification: I understand that you and I don't see eye to eye Johan but you may have misunderstood the intended wording of my message. The two sentences you picked

I have gained some inspiration for a post and have begun work on it. I think that it will be a good enough post to make this entire competition worth the amount of time and money spent by its organizers.

A bit irresponsible to promote pre-release alpha software that manages money, using hand-wavey terminology that is directed at a non-technical target audience, no? Quoted from the Eden page itself, from

The only option, or the least risky option?

I have done many of the steps to decode/decrypt the data hidden in the image. But unfortunately have hit a wall. I'm considering releasing my findings to Zero State members (one more reason to join this

A few thoughts. A single good day for Bitcoin does not equal a final nail in the coffin for a competitor. There is a LOT of criticism about Lightning Network. It should not be regarded as a magic bullet.

Isn't XVG just a coin that routes its transactions through Tor? A lot of non-technical people think that automatically implies privacy, when that couldn't be farther from the truth.

Number of transactions does not correlate to market value, so when you say "do the math" what are you implying? :)

I was kicking myself for not buying sooner. Had been planning on joining the site for a couple of months now but didn't get around to it. Did the price really increase because "people are becoming

A common way that developers describe their free software, is to refer to it as either free (as in speech, not beer), or freeware (which implies it is proprietary but priced at zero).

Here is some ongoing commentary at Hacker News: