I thought I read they were getting reimbursed in jpy. Don't quote me on that, but if so I'm hoping they see what a good deal is staring them in the face and buy up 3x as much NEM as they had before the hack. It will drive up demand and price, as well as gain ground vs btc, which is down a bit now. Then hopefully when the broader market picks up, we will be in a better position to rise with it and recapture some of those lost gains. More importantly, such a move would probably vault us back into the top 10, and give us more breathing room and a higher support floor.

That's good to know that lots of others are having wallet issues. That means the NEM team probably knows about it.

If Coincheck funds start getting repaid next week, then I won't expect to see too much price increase for XEM until next week.

Japanese and Koreans are leading the buying. Their volume has increased due to the refund of the Coincheck hack to Japanese investors next week (@ 80 cents per lost XEM). They are most likely buying in before this happens as they are anticipating that the refunded investors will buy back in

Every exchange has their NEM wallet offline, except obscure ones I won't even mention. Trading can still happen within the exchanges, but nothing outside.
NEM team doesn't just "know about it". They must be behind it. The question is why. Is it a good thing, or bad?

Regarding repayments: Announcing you will do something has an effect. Once you actually do it, it exemplifies that effect, but any savvy investor isn't likely to wait. I did mention previously about watching those volume spikes.
Right now NEM global trade volume is setting records, exceeding the volume that occurred when the hacker dumped. Why is trade volume so high? Why are single traders buying through several layers of sell bids? Why is this happening despite all exchange wallets being offline? The Chinese dumped for a period of 30 minutes, decreasing price from 44 JPY to 36 JPY. A significant drop, yet rebound was quick. Why is NEM foundation sooo quiet during all this? Can you connect the dots?

Regarding bitcoin: There is $1.9 Billion worth of BTC to be sold. When this happens, how this happens, we do not yet know. Last time it happened, BTC went from ATH of nearly $20k to $6k in a short period.
The SEC announcement is not immediate regulatory affect, but requirements are likely to follow. This is not a requirement to register with the SEC, like security exchanges must. There are other options. Crypto exchanges can rebrand as alternative trading systems (ATS), or join a self-regulatory organization (SRO).
The SEC statements main point was that Crypto exchanges appear to investors as SEC-approved exchanges with regulated marketplaces. Maybe a big warning pop ups stating "WE ARE NOT SEC REGISTERED, WE ARE COMPLETELY UNREGULATED" will be enough. Likely accompanied by user agreements required to sign before trading.
Right now, we can only speculate.

The biggest issue I see would be if foreign exchanges would be required to have every single alt coin in their system, be approved by the SEC before being allowed to service US traders. But that seems unlikely. Most foreign exchanges are already registered and regulated in their own countries. After recent coincheck hack, Japan is increasing regulation enforcement. - They already have regulations, but have been lax in enforcement and oversight.

Ah true, JPY would actually make sense. And we are probably safe to assume that Binance has enough of that

I think a lot will be quite happy to double their investment

I came across this just now:

https://imgur.com/ix6UchF
(could not insert the image, so I posted the link to it)

This is more outrageous. I mean Forcing us to buy xem, from them obviously, in order to get our deposits available to us.
Second thought: Does this have connection with stolen xems?
http://bitcoinist.com/blockchain-forensics-coincheck-stolen-nem/
Definetley stolen coins had been moving to other exchanges, and the process of following route will take some time.

Sounds you are a bit nervous!! and trying to act as a teacher, telling other members what to post and what not to. I will ignore that, as I dont want to waste time in useless arguments.

I purchased xem from bittrex and sent them to my account at cryptopia. They arrived there and the deposit was confirmed but did not appear in my wallet.
Surely at that time, Bittrex wallet was online.
So your comment of [All Nem wallets are offline] does not apply.
(I did not check the current status of Bittrex wallet since my funds were received at Cryptopia.)

Secondly please read carefully my post - if you want to be helpful as your slogan indicates.
I said I came across this [Buy 5k sats trick].
It is not a fair requirement to get your funds in your wallet, even if this applies to other coins.
How it was known to users?
Most likely someone from their side, acting as a user, posted it as a [Trick/ workaround] while it is/could be a requirement.
And if it is so widely known, why they did not fix their system?

Thirdly I was wondering if this mess might have connection with the issue of stolen coins, and the probability of them being moved to other exchanges.

I am afraid I did not find your post of any help.

"All exchanges NEM wallets ARE offline"

What do you mean by "offline" ?
What do you mean by "All" ?

That is interesting. Can you confirm that you are able to successfully deposit or withdraw on Poloniex? If so, can you share a transaction ID, or at least a timestamp?