It makes me wonder what the whale now considers their average cost basis and, therefore, at what price will they dump more coins on the market…
So far my prediction of .70c looks off. My take is it all ebbs and flows. Whales cycle through small caps, mid caps, large caps, and BTC to maximize gains. So after the coming BTC pump we should get some good relief and hopefully solid gain.
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See a lot of chatter about BTC and MAID price ratio widening and why it’s happening. Would that divergence be there if investors had access to both coins equally? BTC = worldwide access to all crypto exchanges, plus it’s the face of Crypto; versus MAID = one exchange, no US market, and no publicity or marketing. Apples and oranges.
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You hit the nail on the head. The irony is that it’s a simple problem to fix: list on a few more high-volume, reputable exchanges like Bitfinex, Kraken, Binance, etc.
I’d add that all the publicity in the world is useless without the above in the short term, and without a release in the mid term.
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Get out for regular walks and fresh air, and there’s a good chance 
how did your computers pass away exactly, may I ask?
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Been there done that. I do it every so often with ETH…
Agreed! There is no reason to be not listed on these exchanges. We are half way through the bull market. This only harms the project.
We have a real project with real technology but are invisible to the world. Why are we choosing invisibility? It’s disturbing at this point.
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Thought the Exchange was the entity, who makes the decision whether a coin is listed or de-listed? MAID is not “choosing,” to de-list itself, the decision is being made for it based on the exchange’s business or cost/benefit model.
There are many coins above us that will never have a product. Never. How do you explain that?
They are listed because they paid to be listed by a motivated team. I can’t accept the argument that exchanges are ignoring MAID because they want to. Maidsafe is not motivated to get this project visibility in this bull market by making sure it is on the top exchanges. This part of doing business today in crypto not something that can happen at some point in the future. We have 2-3 years of funding at the current burn rate. We won’t exist in 2 years. The world will have moved on. Look at the size of the market above MAID. Doesn’t this project need some of those resources? We can’t have them if we remain hidden. If we had a 3 billion dollar market cap how many engineers would we have? What kind of marketing could we have? That market cap in no way requires a working product in this market. It requires projecting vision into the world whether real or not. In our case we have a real project with real tech. This should feel like an exciting project both inside the community and outside. I’m not getting that feeling for those outside of this forum. They don’t know we exist. Why?
I’ve brought a good number of people into this project and I feel responsible for them to some degree. So I’m watching this very carefully at this point.
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That is from 6 years ago 
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Yep, I hear the frustration in your words and share your concerns. I have long held the belief that once they have a solid BETA, marketing needs to kick into overdrive. But your point is well taken that much less deserving projects are reaping cash and profit from the vacuous hype they peddle. Unfortunately, many-a-good inventors and technologies have been left in the dust bin of time, because they failed to get their “perfect” ideas / products to market in time when a mere “good” one beat them to it and was able to improve on it later after take-off. Let’s hope the “Let’s-have-a-working-product-first” strategy works. 
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But it’s interesting to see how team every time postpone to release something real, it looks like they afraid to fail or something like that. They said they release for christmas present, now suddenly they want to add something more, they don’t stick to their plan and it never ends
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By all accounts working Rewards into the Network will be tricky. Probably a few months. But I’ve never been right with my guesses before
I think yer missing the point. There is a minimum feature set that is Safe. If you can tell us what to leave out then yer better than me for sure. A partial feature set is not Safe, even with test-safecoin it’s not safe. on planet zoo zoo maybe you can release a part of an interconnected system, but we are not on planet zoo zoo, well I am sure most us are not!
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I’m in the US. I can’t get https://simpleswap.io or https://coinswitch.co to load an offer. I know three other people having the same issue! These services are intermittent and expensive.
The entire US market is cutout from purchasing MAID. When we use the services above, we pay outrageous fees. For example I had a friend who bought $1000 in MAID. The prices was 36 cents. When Simpleswap was done they paid 40 cents. This is unacceptable.
There was talk of listing on major exchanges.
Coinbase said months ago they wanted projects to apply to be listed. Did we apply?
What exchanges do we have applications in for? Which exchanges do we still need apply for?
US customers need some clarity here. How am I supposed to bring in more investors if they can’t buy on a reputable service? It gives a bad look to the project. Shitcoins are listed but not MAID which I’m pitching as better project.
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The last time I tried to place a buy, it “failed” and after communicating with tech support I received 10% less MAID than I bought with BTC.
I gave David / MaidSafe populated apps for Kraken & Bitfinex. I’ve just about completed one for Binance. I hope they’ll actually be submitted.
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Thank you for your efforts! 
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@dirvine we know things are very busy and we don’t want to come off as pushy but rather, hopefully, supportive. When you have an update (even for if or when listing forms have been submitted) would you so kindly share that? We would love to keep making noise on Twitter so these exchanges know there is organic demand. Thanks in advance.
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Has kucoin been looked at? Great UX, accessible to both US and foreign markets. I’m thinking it wouldn’t be an exchange that charges outrageous fees. Just a thought.
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ERC20 is all that’s needed at this point, Maid on uniswap, can then stick it on xdai etc too for cheaper access. A lot of central exchanges will just list it immediately if it’s erc20 and getting some volume on defi. Currently it’s almost impossible to get access to maid and so it’s pretty disconnected from the entire crypto community which is a huge missed opportunity IMO. We should be embracing the rising tide not fighting against it.
Should have this soon thanks to all the hard work from @DeusNexus !
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