This situation with BCX is a good example why including an outside CN expert in the XMR dev fund oversight committee is not "bizarre" but rather makes sense.

He's a valuable resource to call upon in Troll Block type critical situations and your respective sister projects share code, so why not also get his input for planning Monero Research Lab expenditures?  He'll probably agree with the rest of the team's priorities 80% of the time, and his reasons for the 20% disagreement should be taken into consideration.  XMR owes CN a debt of honor, and granting CZ one of nine seats at the table is an optimal way to repay it, given his probable affiliation with the original code.

Having a 'frenemy' on the team is intended to help keep the rest of you honest and away from groupthink.  CZ is the only publicly known and qualified person available for that role.  That you would prefer to keep the group homogeneous by including non-experts instead of a CN wunderkind is truly bizarre.

Also bizarre is that I've already explained these reasons, and yet some people seem unable to read and comprehend any words besides "CZ."   

Risto has taken the initiative to provide XMR massive social and financial backing, and it would be equally bizarre to exclude him from the decision making process.

nvm...

Regarding a kickstarter:

1- Use kickstarter.com
2- offer a feature
3- reward USD funders with xmr

rinse, repeat.

It is simple; it is low cost; it is likely to work with some non-vanishing probability; it is a market-based mechanism; it is entirely voluntary; it offers positive incentives for everyone.

Totally agree. all that falling may be caused much more by alibaba ipo than fud effect...

I definitely agree with the idea of outside experts being involved as advisors, on an oversight committee, or something along those lines. Of course they would have to be interested in doing it, and I doubt CZ would be, but it isn't impossible.

What I thought was bizarre was including him as an approver for multisig escrow of the development funds, without some sort of broader initiative such as the above. Perhaps I simply misread your original proposal.

I hope that is more clear.

I just saw on Wikipedia that "Amir Taaki is a speaker of Esperanto, which he promotes as an auxiliary country-neutral international language to preserve local languages. He writes that Esperanto serves to break down barriers and help the flow of media across cultural boundaries." As you all know, Taaki is an anarchist. Has he made any public comments on Monero? I know he is working on Dark Wallet, but what are his perspectives on anonymous altcoins?

Amir's hung out in #monero-dev before and discussed database implementations (he and I both lean towards LMDB), but nothing beyond that. I think he's busy with DarkWallet and other stuff, but he may definitely make a comment of some sort in future.

Nice.

The reason I have not tried it is because I have worried that if I sold, the price would never come back down. Of course, my XMR hoard is small, but I am always working to increase it, so I may try selling a fraction at a later time, in hopes of buying the dip later.

Edit: What does the last part of your post mean? "TA has been triangle and 6h ma20"

Investonomics?

I'm not sure I understand. How do the needs of these other gambling sites differ from those of exchanges?

this triangle (i have been using little bit fibos and rsi also). this has been risky, i could have ended with less xmr, but also this protects my investment if xmr fails. i have had quite strict plan and i don't recommend you to trade if you don't have a plan or if you are too emotionally attached to your xmr/btc stack.


EDIT. oops, this is not the speculation thread, sry about OT