I left the link out intentionally as it would have been even more prone to scamming. This way we could tell people that we won't be sending links and keep them from expecting and naivly clicking on any links.

No specific date has been communicated because there is no specific date yet. We said it was going to be at least a month. We're preparing a lot behind the scenes and if that takes a little longer then so will the redemption.

In a perfect world we could have a perfectly distributed coin with no unclaimed stakes. It's not a perfect world, though, unfortunately. So, the best thing we can do is try to turn a negative situation (having unclaimed stakes in the first place) into a positive one (using those funds to help further the development of the coin).

I don't think anyone here can say with a clear conscience that they are glad there are unclaimed stakes. I know I hope that everyone who invested in the beginning gets their stake safely in their NEM wallet when the time comes. Unfortunately, the crypto world changes at a rapid pace. Many people likely invested (since it was such a small, small amount so many months ago) and then completely forgot about NEM or maybe even gave up on crypto entirely. But remember, that was more than a simple investment. By choosing to reserve a stake in NEM, you became a part of this community. The goal of NEM is to have a community of people who actually believe in the ideas of what NEM represents. I don't think we are looking for people who just want to pump and dump to convert their NEM back into a few more BTC or, worse, fiat.

This is just my opinion but I feel like if you are not willing to be a part of the community, even after we are doing everything we can here (as volunteers nonetheless) to make it easy for everyone to claim their stake, then you forfeit your advantage of being an early adopter. Yes, we want to be accommodating to everyone who has an interest in NEM, but when there are thousands of people involved (and soon to be many more than that after launch), it is an impossibility to try and please every single person.

In these early days of NEM, we have an obligation as early adopters and believers in this movement to try and make it successful for the sake of everyone who is an early adopter who IS actively participating. If we bring in unnecessary risk to the system in the way of holding stakes for people for an unlimited amount of time, that is not fair to any of us and could itself undermine NEM completely.

Imagine, if you will, a situation in which NEM is worth $10/NEM. Suddenly a NEMstake is worth $10 million. By the time this happens, most of the initial stakeholders will have sold at least some of their coins off, and distribution will be much wider across hundreds of thousands if not millions more NEM users. By this time, there will be very few (if any) people holding 1 million+ NEM. Now suddenly you have people realizing they had a NEMstake, and we've been holding the unclaimed stakes indefinitely. Now you have people who have essentially artificially entered the market (because due to their lack of participation henceforth, they were not actually market participants and were not subject to the market pressures that caused everyone else to sell off or use their coins in order to distribute them to a wider user base).

So now you have people who never cared about NEM in the first place with more NEM than anyone else. They will either dump the coins immediately and take their multi-million dollar lottery winnings or, even if not they will have artificially high and unfair harvesting power due to their disproportionately high amount of NEM.

I just don't think it is fair to those of us who ARE actively participating and who will be building/securing the network from the beginning, to suddenly have to bend to the whims of stakeholders who come back to the party years later when they contributed nothing in the first place. To me, this goes directly against the principles of NEM in the first place.

Anyway, that's just my opinion. Would love to hear others' thoughts about this as well.

Great explanation of the situation, you have articulately described why it would be unfair on original participants to allow stakes to sit unclaimed.

I don´t ask for more or less, just this . . !

Thank you.

Still blocked, according to this site:
http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/index.php?siteurl=bitcointalk.org

(along with other sites like google.com, while sites like apple.com and microsoft.com are not).

This did not happen to anyone who followed the rules.

We are playing like broken records.  I already said other coins had a cut off and it didn't result in any controversy.    We already have Chinese NEMsters who've commented on here and on the NEM forum after China blocked BTT.

 Before China blocked BTT there were other coins where many people missed distributions, like those 14 people in NXT (IIRC) or the 200 in NODE

I don't recall putting three periods at the end of my expression.  

I'm having little patience for this broken record playing at the moment.  If you want to nitpick on words.  It was a call for participation, how much participation is it if you can't even claim your coins within a month period and probably 5 months of warning before that?

What's stopping me from dumping?  If I recalled I paid like $6.50 something for my NEMstake.  Could had dumped months ago on the AE.  This is the case for most of the 3000 stakeholders who paid some amount between $2-$50.  Most of the 700-something claimed tokens were never put on the market but were claimed for security reasons.

I rationalize it as differently.  I paid almost no principle (like a Bitcoin buyer in 2009) and thus I have no principle to worry about recovering and thus no incentive to "cut my losses".  Multiply  that by 3000 and you get a lot of stability.  That's why Bitcoin, despite the chaos, has some stability too (due to all the 2009 2010 people who are still holding).

Of course faith is also a factor here.  If the stakeholders are confident about NEM's long term future then they'll refrain from selling.  Why sell now when NEM could be $10-$500 in a hypothetical $trillion dollar crypto currency market?