There will certainly be an effect on the price of Nxt. Particularly if we get more than just a NXT/BTC trade pair.

And... if I'm not mistaken, one can trade any currency listed on Vircurex against any other. So we are about to get our first NXT/USD and NXT/EUR trade pairs!

They just don't list/link all the trade pairs on the front page (it makes sense because there are "N choose 2" possible pairs, where N is the number of distinct currencies. With the addition of NXT that will be 18C2 = 153 possible pairs).

E.g. On the Vircurex Homepage they list LTC/BTC. Clicking that gives the following URL "https://vircurex.com/orders?alt=ltc&base=btc". Changing "base=btc" to "base=eur" or to "base=usd" gives the following:

https://vircurex.com/orders?alt=ltc&base=usd
https://vircurex.com/orders?alt=ltc&base=eur

Admittedly these have lower liquidity because they aren't advertised very well. Ergo, I think we need to do our part to promote the NXT/USD and NXT/EUR pairs! Who's with me!? Perhaps if the liquidity of NXT/USD or NXT/EUR increased the Vircurex team might put some links to them on their homepage!

https://vircurex.com/accounts

Coming Soon

I was thinking of the voting issue as well. So far, a pattern is emerging.

Let v be the voting function, mapping the amount x in one account to it's voting weight: v(x) -> weight of voting. Let's further assume v is monotonically increasing (the more you have the more your vote weigh in) and differentiable (so we have a v').

There are three cases:

1) v' is increasing => merging accounts is more valuable regarding voting => merging encouraged
2) v' is constant => 1 Nxt = 1 Vote; conservative; no change encouraged
3) v' is decreasing => splitting accounts is more valuable regarding voting => splitting encouraged

From my perspective, distribution of nxts is a good thing. So, higher amounts of fees are a good thing. Therefore, splitting and merging accounts should be encouraged as big shareholders then have to give away fees. These fees are then given to the ones forging and stabilizing the network.

On the other hand, splitting and merging just because somebody wants to act in the best interest of the network seem to me like spoon-feeding that somebody.

So, why not making v dependent of the amount of fee somebody is willing to pay for it. I favor a logarithmic scale: v(fee) = log(fee).
In that case, one could even imagine that these special fees aren't just given to block forgers but are evenly distributed among 'all voters' or 'winners' or 'loosers' of the voting session.
So, voting is encouraged.

please anyone explain me why the voting system is needed?
give me one concrete example why it could be useful.

I had no idea that talking about the single most pressing and confirmed issue in science in the recent decades would open a can of worms.

Let me first say:
I respect that there are people who have not read the scientific literature on the matter.
The "opponents" of global warming has managed to do a great job psychologically in making a lot of people believe that global warming is some sort of scam or somehow that it's just another hypothesis.
To me this is actually quite mindboggling with all the emperical data that exist and the borderline unprecedented consensus within the scientifiy community.
Even gravity is more controversial than global warming at this point, at least gravity is irreconcilable with relativistic quantum mechanics.
Proof of consensus on global warming and climate change: http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus

So why do I mention this instead of just playing it neutral to not step anyone on their toes? Because it is real and I refuse to ignore this just because it "might" offend some redneck idiot because we might lose a few dollars over it. That is worse than what the banks is doing today, at least they just steal money and don't force people to remain ignorant and dumb.

As one of the guys who actually got into cryptos because I also actually believe in the need for change I will not piss on my principles.

But hey, I am not going to create the video so sure it's up for vote if we are going to include the fact that NXT is important due to the insane amounts of energy Bitcoin uses which is detrimental to the worlds ecosystem.

If you happen to lack knowledge about global warming and don't want it to be included: feel free to vote against it, since it's decentralized and democratic you have all the right to ignore reality.
But I honestly think it would be a much, much more honest and influential way to show just how important it is that a mining altcoin don't become THE FUTURE.

the only reasonable VS would be if the Nxt network itself can enforce the outcome of a voting.
this would be like coding an AI -> it's impossible.

Leave it with the opinion function. More could mean a disaster.

1 nxt = 1 voice is fine. Case solved. Now implement it! 

Well, here's a fun guy.  Not going to give much attention to that whole spiel, but this here is just plain wrong:


If governments around the world really somehow loved global warming the way you suppose, it should be noticeable in any relevant way. But even when I look at local crazy socialist fascist European politics, one thing that politicians in power try to care as little about as possible is CO₂ emissions. For example, the German government (which is somehow known internationally to be the vanguard of environmentalism) is trying semi-secretly all the time, together with auto corporations, to disregard any environmental considerations and allow producers to build the highest possible amount of cars (and the biggest possible ones at that) they can.

In reality, governments have to be pressured from all sides (academics, elections, the public, even facts!) all the time to do even the bare minimal actions regarding the scientific fact of global warming.

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Ok, now that I got that out, I can now say how little I personally care about global warming. Why? Mostly because blind energy and resource consumption is so detrimental in and of itself. A Watt of energy wasted is a wasted Watt of energy, period, and one Watt less for later use. Don't believe in global warming all you want, but resources are finite, and we get almost all energy from mining and pumping finite resources. The fact of scarcity should be something even right "libertarians" should be able to get behind.

And now some über-scientific American right "libertarian" can go ahead and tell me how oil resources are unlimited, please