You bet. NEM has a fraction of the volume of other large projects. It can't take this selling pressure. Others would suffer too but not to that extent.

Buy XEM responsibly. I love their project, their whole vision. I believe their scaling will be much more efficient moving forward into 2018 and 2019. Lets see what this year has in store for XEM

The dump isn't over because the exchange Huobi still hasn't allowed deposits yet - once they open there doors NEM isn't going to be $0.45 anymore over there.  If BTC takes off from here all alts are going to bleed anyway so then the people that are still holding XEM and have already taken a large hit are going to see that as a painful opportunity cost and dump some more.  If BTC corrects to 6K again then everything is going down hard.  Basically BTC has to sit still or creep up to give XEM any chance to recover and this would have to be a substantial period - not the style of BTC as of late.

Lon Wong made a terrible decision in tainting wallets and individual coins.  He basically demonstrated that XEM is not fungibile and the Foundation will intervene at any time in situations they do not consider ethical.  This is not their place because with a true currency people should be able to acquire it and dispose of it however they see fit - NEM Foundation isn't the proper authority to be governing this.  This is a law enforcement matter and while I would agree with NEM Foundation cooperating with an investigation they shouldn't try to be the law.  It gives the impression that if they don't agree with a project or business using XEM they could start throwing up roadblocks on those wallets and/or tokens that pass through them.  It is a slippery slope and anti-crypto in many ways.

Hard to say when it will be a good time to buy again because that depends a lot on the overall health of the market.  Given the Huobi situation most likely not now.  I would be looking around $0.25 - $0.28 and consider it there to cost average down my stack.  I would only start there though.  Depending on BTC the bottom could be something like $0.16 based on what XEM was doing in the Sept - Nov period of 2017.

The coins were tainted because they were stolen. Its a bit of a leap to compare that to intervening in unethical situations or throwing up roadblocks on projects they don't agree with.  The tainted coins are obviously still being traded.
Its similar in my view to inking stolen cash from a bank.
Other coins have succumbed to pressure and forked after similar losses. I think they deserved at lot of praise for not going down this route. Sure the coin is going to lose value during this phase but we all knew that when the theft occurred and could have sold and bought back at the bottom.
No point in bitching after the fact

Mosaics (equivalent of ETH Tokens) were sent to the address with stolen funds so nothing really got tainted.

That actually is a fair point that i had not considered. I guess the decision was rushed when the pressure came on to fork and wasn't thought through properly. In the end the tainting worked out to be relatively ineffective so i don't see a repeat.

Any tainting attempt is a one-shot attempt. If it proves to be unsuccessful, as it did in this case, then you can forget about it. End of the day, it is just an asset being created on the NEM blockchain and distributed to several addresses. By itself, without everyone agreeing to what it means, it means nothing really.

This wallet tainting issue to me is reminiscent of the Ethereum DAO hack. Same kind of FUD going on at that time for ETH and look at ETH now.

the scope is different
the theft that happend would be like USA england france amd germany got their national bank funds stolen the same time

that would have impact on worldwide economy too

but still no need to panic

after rain always follow sunshine

Which exchange lets me deposit bitcoin, buy XEM, and let me WITHDRAW them, they are all fucked up now, because of the hack-thing.
Which one is working ?

I can´t stand these prices, have to buy some more, but where ?
You weak hands sell into my strong hands, no plomblem.

Where ?