As soon sa you start exchanging directly to fiat, you need to start taking into account and planning for regulatory bodies, and any laws concerning that.
While it'll soon be possible to purchase other coins with BTC or any other coin on the blocknet, I can't say that direct fiat pairings are somthing I'd expect any time soon until all the legality issues were worked out.

Node bounty UPDATE:

There is a delay in receiving the node bounty reward currently, yes. We are developing a new automated script that will run more smoothly and be able to keep up with the work load.
None of the node bounties are lost, they are just delayed because of the backlog.
Slowly clearing through it...

You can see node bounties are constantly been paid out here:
http://explorer.nhzcrypto.org/?page=account&id=13394496573002751894

We understand that some people are frustrated that node rewards aren't being paid out on time, but please understand when the script was created, there were less than 400 nodes operating off it, so it was never 'stress tested' for a 10x increase in network growth in such a short period of time. Everything we develop needs to be checked, and double check to make sure everything works flawlessly. We don't want to rush a release out the door and then have it break the network completely, or cause major issues for any of the users.

Be glad, I did both and could not get it working.  Spent a damn 2 hours on chat support with Netgear today only to be disconnected without resolving the issue.  I can't even get as far as getting CanYouSeeMe.org to communicate via the needed port.  What's really frustrating is I literally just dropped $300 to get the best router on the market........NEVER have I spent that kind of money on a router before!  Argggg:-(

How to do 'Manual Port Forwarding'?

My Internet connection is wirednetwork, so I think there is no router!!!

Yeah my last one was around $150, was a Netgear as well that I never had any problems with, including opening ports.  Maybe I just got lucky though, never have been much of a network guy.  One thing we have always had problems with is our home Wifi.  Pretty large single story home and we always had a just ok signal with our WiFi devices.  That router finally crapped out on me after about 3 years so when I got the new one I bought what I was told was the best on the market as far as WiFi goes. 

The thing has insane antennas and I can say I get full bars every I go in or around my house now:-)  Stupid as hell it is so problematic at handling something as simple as opening a port!

Hi everybody. Are there any dates for the blocknet share sales on nhz asset exchange yet?

thanks man. word should be spreaded.

Excellent post!
Thank you, Synchist!

You can get a 10% discount on the #Blocknet ITO if you pay with #NHZ
Just sayin'...

two scripts I use for my nodes:

a simple node checker script for your console:

see it in action: https://asciinema.org/a/13147

code: https://gist.github.com/emre/b9b84f51426be1e4910f

(you need to install requests and clint library to run this.)

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auto installer for ubuntu

- automatic hallmark creation/ip detection
- node monitoring included. (restarts if something happens to node)

https://gist.github.com/emre/b9b84f51426be1e4910f

you can donate if you find these useful
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