there was no Ripple pre-mine.  simple XRP creation out of thin air, distribution to themselves and others arbitrarily, and further creation just last/this year arbitrarily.

Jed left and started the non profit Stellar which was supposed to be better and non conflicted.  then Jesse left the board.  both cuz of disputes with Larson.  Larson desperately got both of them not to dump their XRP for fear of dropping the price.  Larson gets forced to donate his share of XRP to charity after Jesse called him out on it.  now Stellar forks.

the whole debt based IOU model secured by centralized gateway signing a supposed decentralized hashchain doesn't sound like it can possibly work.  why would any banks convert to this after what has happened?  the ultimate in centralization of the entire protocol down to one server?  sounds like the death knell to me.

most ppl are going to lose money in the cryptocurrency space.

I remember the moment I thought about the total supply it felt like a topic no one wanted to talk about and then when you did the issue was marginalized to understanding of M0, M1, M2, and M3.

I knew it was a problem when my calculator didn't have enough digits to display the numbers involved. This was what made me realize how abstract the problem was to everyday people. That reality helped me find Bitcoin.

I guess we should leave the care taking of supply to the professionals if no one cares 

This is gonna be fun... When you buy one of his books on his site, you can get a "custom inscription" which it sounds like Jim personally hand-writes on the book. So I'll be buying one with a personal inscription regarding bitcoin that'll be utterly painful for Jim to write.

I'm taking suggestions. It can be up to 150 words.

I'm going to make him write something about how bitcoin is the future of money since it solves gold's tangibility bug. It'll be a fun 150 words.

That would be epic if he had to write it. Maybe special request? 

Same here. what am I doing wrong?

Yup that would be likely the problem. Never was a problem before.