Although it may not be a panacea, the best way to do it is to ignore the USA. Concentrate on Europe and the rest of the world, especially third world countries. Like the second last paragraph on the Red Flag Act in England, this will have a bearing later.

If the financial boys are not careful, USD may lose its importance and if the USA also loses grip on the cryptos, we may see quite a bit of changes in the financial world, including transfer of wealth. The USA is in a very precarious position, especially with its USD being a reserve currency. It will change as the Petroldollar loses its significance - http://www.forbes.com/sites/energysource/2014/05/29/the-colder-war-and-the-end-of-the-petrodollar/.

These are trying times. The world economy is taking a turn for the worse and there is the rise of a new currency in the form of crypto. Uncertainties will lead to collapses of some of the financial systems that we are used to and the rise of something else. It may not be crypto but it could well be crypto as the front runner.

We'll see but definitely an uphill battle for crypto, something I have foreseen anyway. Usurp them was my answer and change the goal post to block chain technology first. Do it in tiny steps.

So the test NEM has been in my wallet for a few days now, yet I still get:

"Oops!

ERROR 700
The provided account does not satisfy the basic criteria for harvesting. Mainly it is related to the amount of NEMs within the account. Harvesting starts with at least 1000 NEM."

When I attempt to start local harvesting.  There are 46,000+ test NEM in the wallet.

If they cannot change the laws then change the lawmakers!

I know, many people may have asked this question already. But here we go.
On Octobre 5th, I got a token through PM - no infos about what to do with it.
Now I read that I am too late to claim my stake... and I read about phase 1, 2, 3 and deadlines.

I was away for a long time and never thought it would be "too late" to get my full NEM stake.

So, please someone tell me, what I have to do to get my full stake. Thanks in advance.

Introduction

The goal of this competition to promote more active use of the beta software and to encourage people to try to take advantage of, and learn about the proof of importance algorithm by manipulating importance score through transactions to the benefit of the account holder. There will be some simple rules and guidelines that users will be required to follow but aside from some basic rules users are free to do as they like in an attempt to raise their importance. Upon completion of the competition, the winner will be rewarded with a prize of one NemStake.

Aim

The aim is for participants to raise their importance whilst retaining the most amount of the initial amount of nem that was provided to participants. For example, user A and user B get 10,000,000 nem. if both user A and user B increase their importance by 1% but user A retains 9,000,000 while user B retains 9,500,000 nem, user A increased his importance by 0.000001% per nemcoin spent where as user B increased his importance by 0.000002% per nemcoin spent. User B increased his importance most in terms of percent per nemcoin spent thus winning the competition.

Rules

• All participants will be given private keys that will open accounts that contain equal amounts of nem. These will be users “Primary accounts”
• Users are allowed to open as many secondary accounts as they wish.
• A minimum of 10 transactions must be made using your “Primary account” to be eligible for the prize.
• The submitted importance score must be on the “Primary account”.
• Any remaining “dust” in secondary accounts must be returned to the “Primary account” before submission of account data.
• Remaining dust that cannot be sent is excluded from calculations.
• Importance score of secondary accounts will not be taken into account.

Start date

This competition will Start Wednesday evening at 8pm GMT. If you would like to participate please contact me as soon as possible via PM to ensure your place and i will assign a primary account to you. I will then send you a private key Wednesday evening prior to the start of the competition that will give you access to your “primary account”.

Note: The nem team reserves the right to disqualify any participants if rules have been found to be broken.

Please direct discussion about this competition here