I tend to agree with you. It also turned out that most people don't care about anonymity.

I think people will care about anonymity if it becomes an issue to them. Based on the amount of information people give away on social media, I expect that you might get anonymity being required on a case by case basis.  The thing about consumers is that they just expect things to work, they don't want to tinker with options.  

Making bitcoin transactions confidential by default, with side chains as an example, would end up being really good for us.  When you don't have anything that can easily identify what people are spending their money on, our node connectivity with SPVs will give people a way to carry out trend analysis which when done right can yield plenty of good business Intel.

Yes, of course.
Ask anyone on your street how money is created? 99% won't know, and don't care as long as they have a "fist full of Dollars". Ask them, do they encrypt their HDD/SSD? do they encrypt their internet connection? The answer will be NO again, then ask them, do they want to know how to. And the answer will be NO.
The heard will be chipped and fully tracked in the near future, today they use our phones masquerading as a useful tool for the people.

GCHQ, NSA, CIA, MI6, They are watching and listening to everything we ALL do....... And only a handful of people actually seem to care.

I have tried to convince my family and friends....... So far only 2xfriends have gone into (XRP & SPR), everyone else just laughs and say "Oh, Simon you are funny, digital money replacing REAL money. asif".

WTF is REAL money? It's just a perception pushed onto us all by the system.

In the UK, we have a real problem with our politicians and children, which they KEEP covering up!!! Look into it, no one else seems to care anymore. Why would they care about decentralised/centralised???  

THEY STILL TRUST THE CURRENT SYSTEM. FACT.

 

It will be interesting to see what happens to Dash, xmr, etc when confidential transaction (gmaxwell Blockstream version of crypto note) gets soft forked into bitcoin later this year following any successfull soft fork deployment of segregated witnesses. Anon as a speciality act is looking like a dead end.

So, as I said before, if bitcoin gets privacy built in, bitcoin big data becomes more important. And this helps us to park any noises about our data analysis being somehow intrusive. It will never be that. It's just going to be business intelligence.

What no one has picked up on yet is that we will be able to analyse data streams for smart contracts. And with service nodes able to hold multiple nodes from different crypto projects we can collect data from projects like Ethereum, which is all about smart contracts. Distill this further and ethereum being used for Internet of Things means we can allow people to create dash boards on data associated with appliances, driverless cars, buildings, street lights, utilities, etc, and other connected devices around the world going about their daily activities.

HOLY F*$&@ng S%*#!!! I just found out that I have 3000 Spreadcoins in my BITTREX ACCOUNT!!!!!!

YESS!! I am so happy.


I seriously was disappointed that I had hardly any. I can't even remember having them there.

I also found a way to covert PayPal to BTC by converting it through a second life exchange. (I converted $100 before I found out about the good news, but I don't mind)

Edit 1:
I really REALLY have no clue about how they got there. Actually I vaguely remember splitting my bitcoins between Spreadcoin (good investment) and Motocoin (currently bad investment). Man, I just... I can't believe this.

Edit 2:
Are we currently experiencing a bubble? Because I am unsure weather to buy now or wait. Can I hear some of your opinions?

I agree, it's just that some people have a pretty pessimistic outlook about their fellow human beings.

But I would argue that most people just didn't yet make a real effort to understand the consequences of losing their privacy/anonymity. (bread and circuses keeps them distracted)
Or what it means when centralized institutions get to manage other peoples lifes more and more, instead of having individuals act on their own behalf (decentralization).

When will the new roadmap and OP be ready georgem?

I know I would be happy picking anything up under 9k. And I don't think you will see very many sells below 8k, especially with the upcoming release of the testnet and SPR gaining more and more attention (the twitter following is growing). Also, if/when Poloniex picks it up, there might be a nice wave of new interest in the project.

Edit 1: There are ~5 BTCs now down to 9k. This was not the case last week.

Edit 2: Might be best to buy a small percentage now, then put some buy orders lower. Someone else gave this advice a few pages back.

I think you're understated what Google actually did for the internet, Google didn't just make a really good service that was easy to use and was freely available. They revolutionised search engines and the internet, in doing so made a multi billion $$$$ industry out of it. Google understood BIG data. Amazing!

 

I believe the crypto client you talk about will be Ripple(XRP) and as I said before, this will be good for all crypto's. Ripple is agnostic so can support all ledgers, surely SPR being a 2nd tier BTC crypto this would be of interest? If SPR was a 2nd tier on Ripple, wouldn't that give access to ALL ledgers BTC, LTC, USD, XRP etc? Really really BIG data.

0 SPR because ServiceNodes have been talked about for far too long and nothing has been done about it even when the previous Developer was babbling on about it.