Will we be given some kind of heads up regarding when the asset exchange is opening? It'd be nice to let everyone know so we all can plan to be sitting at the computer and try to reserve our favor assets instead of these assets being taken lottery like based upon the first people to realize it's been released. It'd probably also distribute them a little bit more fairly between people trying to pick off the good names. Because I can think of a couple asset names that everyone would love to own.
Anyway, owning assets names to never use them sucks.I bought many aliases ,which could be speculation, but i find assets a more serious thing that should only be taken if you are really issuing the asset. What do you want,to have 10.000 assets which are really nothing??That would kill asset exchange,if you have to dive into thousands of assets to find something is worth > 0.
In fact, i would try to give jl777 preference to create first all the assets with a gateway, so people could knew all assets with coin name in account XXXXXXXX are safe.This exchange letting trade all the main coins is what NXT needs!!!! If you get hundreds of people trolling asset names,it will be a mess no one will want to touch.
Well, im glad its 1000 nxt to issue an asset,it solves a part of this problem.But still,
i think we need to focus to have all the main coins gateways ready with their assets,and let people know how to get to them fast and easy when we launch the AE!So when they first use the AE,they see they can do something useful with it, instead of logging in and just click buttons and see how colourful it is.(no offense wesleyh,we all love it

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Can an asset-name be used only once? Otherwise it would make sense to higher the fee to start an asset, it would make it safer against whales registering the best Asset-names for 'just' 1000 NXT.