It was only directed at your statement which I think isn’t true and if it was only your opinion you should try better to explain this or maybe I should study your posts better.
It’s possible that Justin wants to wait for Safecoin because Maidsafecoin is still a promise to once become the (in my opinion far more valuable) Safecoin. So far the release of Safecoin hasn’t been realized so I can understand that some people want to wait.
To me Safecoin and MAID are the same. They can be exchanged on for one. Nobody has a clue about the price once the network is live. It could be $0.20 or $0.40 or $0.0004 IMO.
Key word here is “launch”
And most people don’t care about secure internet routing etc etc I know this because it’s always a hurdle to explain it to them (moreso to convince them to put money into it!)
IDK what u expect, most people are not early adopters. If they were, it wouldn’t be called early adopters lol
All means buy more maidsafe coins and yes when safe coin is released the market will move with excitement.
In the future I am hoping to use safe coin as a currency because of it’s network abilities for e-commerce buying and selling.
Myself I do not feel comfortable in the crazy BTC markets and my low Australian dollar but that how I just feel because I am not comfortable reading the market.
I have a life time to trade crypto-currency and there is always new opportunities.
I think there is a fear that nothing will be delivered, as time scales have slipped. Some investors have likely lost trust and moved on.
I think the concept is still awesome. It is all about delivery now.
Yes agree,and people will consider the safe network is it better then the other networks?. does it maintain good connection speeds, is it user friendly for websites. does it have acceptance from the wider community or is it feared from the media hysteria of being a darknet. At the end of the day does anyone care because crypto-currency are high risk investments and people are just waiting for the next pump and dump, and as they say waiting for the right time before the train leaves the station…
People just dont know what Safe network is or just dont care.
I say the word Maisafe to anyone or any family member and they shrug. I say its a new internet and they ask whats wrong with this one? Tell them about security and their not bothered or the new currency and they couldnt care less. Nearly all people have no clue as to what the pieces of paper they pass around for trade. They think its money. Have you ever google images the word money? All you see is pieces of paper.
I saw the father inlaw retire after 50+ years of labour. 50 years of trading his time for pieces of paper and then putting no effort into learning how to keep it. However much evidence you show of monetary events in the past that wiped out depositors in this country and they will still hedge with .gov.
I say to op to be pleased you had the chance to buy coin before the herd. Because when the herd knows about it it will be too late to profit from the coin.
A comment above somewhere says the devs are intentionally keeping low key. Maybe they dont want or need a general discussion on this forum which is why I try not to post too much and bring the overall IQ level down.
I think it’s too much of a niche to attract investors not technically minded and like mentioned before crypto-currency and derivatives are to chaotic to attract investors… Regulations make it even more crazy…
I’m not fearing the future of maidsafe at all because I think once launched and app’s come out corporations will pick it up and like it… technically folks want to see result and not speculate on fiction
Over the years my experience in investing tells me that you really could be too early to invest, simple as that, I had to learn this also…
An example of that is the graphene industry… Can you explain me why most of those Canadian based graphite mining, exploitation firms are not popular for the moment??? Graphene seems to be one of the products of the future but the investors are not investing because the market isn’t ready for it yet,… it’s just to early…
That’s my thought about investing for the moment
@traktion sums it up well for me.
This has been a very long haul, and people who have not stayed the course - a marathon - have by definition lost faith that this will happen soon, work as expected, or work at all. And that surely includes speculative investors - when there are so many superficially similar opportunities.
Most of those who have stayed, have got to know the ins and outs of various elements of the project. Some get the technical, many get David, many the Devs, the twists and turns of creating something never done before etc - and we’ve all got to see how this project has attractions for a group of people from all kinds of demographic and quite often opposing views!
Speculation is the dominant force in determining price of Safecoin now, and will remain so for the foreseeable future, yet while many here are invested, we are not enough to influence that significantly.
So there is a big disconnect between the things that affect price, and how a rational informed person might judge the likely success or otherwise of this project.
Obviously this community and the supporters here are not objective, but we are very well informed, so I take this community as a far better guide to the future than the price of Safecoin: which for me means it’s still a buy opportunity if you have cash to risk on a very high risk bet.
This is not investment advice - but a response to the idea that the low price suggests the project is likely to fail. It may fail, but I don’t see any connection between these factors. And I’m still betting on success.
I also think there’s a disconnect between folks who normally invest in cryptocurrencies and the tech that we’re building. In particular, it’s taken me a while to understand the system as a whole and the DHT-based consensus process so I never got into the details of it in presentations. People trust bitcoin and blockchain coins because the security has been tested and reviewed by experts in many fields. I hope to do more bitcoin dev focused outreach in the near future.
We’ve also held back on marketing in general because of the changed time frame for launch and needing to focus most resources on development. It’s all about balance and patience.
SAFE is something beyond money and investment. It isn’t about trading freedom for security. May it spread like a virus.
Correct me if I am wrong, but hypothetically you can make the following assumption on the potential value of Safecoin:
A couple of years ago Goldman Sachs estimated the value of the internet at $14 Trillion. More recently in February 2014 Cisco stated they believe the value is at around $19 Trillion.
If Safecoin (max 4.3 billion coins) would be the only crypto used to express whatever value of everything on the safenetwork, you could state
Value per Safecoin : $19 Trillion / 4.3 billion coins = $4,418.61, if maidsafe would completely replace the unsafe-internet.
Take 1% and you have a huge upward potential.
“The truth is Maidsafe is far from being considered 'a favourite”
Puleeez. By whom? Dogecoin holders?
“are doomed to lose everything…”
Really? You put your entire life savings into MaidSafe Coins?
Too much troll. Too little common sense.
You not wrong everything internet will be serviced through safecoinit might not be 4000 k but certainlyit will be worth holding.
For sure you are confused, do not follow public feelings when making decisions . Research pal . I remember in 2010 when i heard about bitcoin i rubbished it the wah you doing now. Thanks to my objective mind i gave it a try that same yearguess what we enjoying the bitcoin ride . From experience we now on safenetwork we know and see the pontential.Thats the difference between visionaries and short sightedness. People like you are not meant to be inventors.This is an invention pal. Go back you will see the fathers of invention likes of Edison. I will leave you with a qoute:
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Thomas A. Edison
This is the stage in which we are at here wait till we give you light 
A point to ponder - to make money in investing, you have to be right when most people are wrong.
That’s how you get to buy something at a low price.
The question still remains - are we SAFEnetwork fans going to be right! 
And this is why I keep buying more coin each week. Any bad news is actually good news for my portfolio 
- If we are right that is…
I think it’s far more safe to say that safenet will own the part of the net that requires the Alex Jones level security the network provides, namely fintech and other sensitive data. Less sensitive data, like online multi-player game connections, will inevitably prefer the inherently faster connections of less secure networks.
I like the way you put that!
We’ll see whether the lack of a blockchain will matter or not for fintech.
pmsl, hey think big dude… in 10 years more people will be online in developing world and ‘the internet’ will be much bigger by then too… $4,000 USD pft, why not $8,000 by then?
/chuckles
I have half a million coins bought for fraction over 1 cent each… I will be very very very happy if they are ever worth more than 1 USD each, but if they do get to that kind of size it would mean network effect beginning and I would probably still keep a fair few (fomo gridlock ftw).
love the dreaming, what fun I could have and how many people could I help if it got to $10!!!
nothing wrong with dreaming big, except the disappointment and dissatisfaction with what should be a huge win for investors @ $0.20 in 12 month’s time. 