An admirable goal 
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As others have noted we ( crypto ) often drop late / early in the year.
Imo anytime before spring when new money tends to pile in.
While we could drop in a correction.
I think we could have had out dip when we hit low 30s / high 29s cent us prices.
We may not see another big dip till after another influx.
Only time will tell.
People are gonna get burnt though.
Ive been telling ppl about maid for years but yet some have bought ripple. Not one ive ever liked.
I think weāve reached a new plateau. People say that crypto has become mainstream. And this might be true to some degree. But I think there is still a long way to go, and a lot more money to come, and a lot more people showing up.
I think the upward trend will last a while longer. Itās not quite time for disillusionment in any particular coin, at least not yet.
This is a young, exciting, wild market, full of dreamers wanting to cash out at BTC prices.
It will take some time for the great fall to begin. I do see another big surge coming, if the over inflated stock market has a tumble.
People will see crypto as a safe-haven for their dollars.
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Which price do you expect on Safecoinās launch?
Hard to say, but probably around 30 euros. Maybe a bit more. Of course it would be a dream if he stood at 100 euros on the day of launch.
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I am gonna have to respectfully disagree here. I donāt classify rising speculation/price as adaption. The day I can go to a chain grocery store and pay with crypto currency without using some new trendy 3rd party company handling the crypto<-> fiat conversion then I will say we are mainstream 
. I always liked this pic below to sum it up best when we will know if its mainstream yet or not haha. I am also skeptical about crypto being the safe-haven, I personally think if stock market crashes people will take their gains in crypto out as well thus hurting the market out of pure fear. I do believe crypto would fair better though in a recession and bounce back nicely.
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Hereās a question: Are there any factors, primarily stemming from Safecoinās future use in the Safe Network economy, that could potentially hinder it from reaching values in the hundreds or thousands of dollars? For example, the possibility that it may not be divisible?
As i understand from alot of topic discussions, it will be divisble. I think that the value of all data and transactions that will be stored and take place on the network will give it great value. I think of similarities to google. that their data is very valuable and so will all the secure data stored on the safe network also be valuable. Data is recognised as an asset class by world economic forum.
Hereās one potential way of thinking about it with quick, back-of-the-envelope math. Letās say the year is 2025 and 163 zettabytes of data are created that year. Assume that 1 billion Safecoin are in existence and that the SAFEnetwork has captured 5% of data storage market share. In such a scenario, one Safecoin could hypothetically buy 8.15 TB. Today you can get a TB of storage for ~$50. Even though I expect that by 2025 youāll be able to get a TB of storage for far less, Iām going to hold the price constant for the security and reliability the SAFEnetwork provides. As noted,
According to the assumptions above, the value of one Safecoin would be something like ~$400.
Now, if there are only 800M Safecoin in existence, then the price per coin would be ~$500. Similarly, if the SAFEnetwork has captured 10% of newly created storage, then the price would be ~$800 with 1B Safecoin in existence, or ~$1000 with 800M Safecoin in existence.
Perhaps the price of Safecoin at launch will reflect the potential value as it grows towards steady state with respectable market share capture. Also, I think the amount of data each Safecoin would/could need to store underscores just how important divisibility is unless Safecoins are burned and farmed at a blistering rate.
In general, I think these price estimates are supremely conservative because they donāt take into account all the other uses for Safecoin beyond data storage. Moreover, I should hope that circulation of 1B Safecoin would reflect a world in which the SAFEnetwork has captured at least 25% of the data storage market. Then weād be talking a price ~$2000 per coin. 
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I understand what you are saying here and agree.
But I wonder if we could be closer than it seems. At least in Australia the major shopping stores either have their own card (store card) or they use a 3rd party payment processor. The 3rd party payment processor then connects to a number of other payment processors (Mastercard, visa, mastercard, banks etc etc).
Many of our 3rd party card processors are run by the banks and some are financial institutions owned by the stores themselves.
The point being that when I rock up with my magic plastic card and swipe/stick it in the EFT terminal at the shop it then connects to the 3rd party processor to do the payment. Why not there be included a BTC ā fiat payment processor that the 3rd pary processor can access. So you have a magic card that has your BTC details instead of that 15/16 digit number.
The day may come where its not just BTC but any of the major cryptos.
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There would be some limiting factor. For example a safecoin is used to buy resources. If the spare space resource pool is always large then one coin will buy massive amounts of space and thus tend to pull the price downwards. But the ability for safecoin to be used for exchange will pull the price upwards. Where the balance point is, is what the market will determine. 1000$ or 100000000000$ depends on this tug of war so to speak.
If the spare space incentives work anywhere near as intended then there will not be massive amounts of spare space and a coin will only buy a reasonable amount āPUTsā and the coin would then have very little in the way of a limiting factor.
And yes divisibility is doable, the only question is which way.
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I think that is a step in the right direction, but ultimately you still have central entities holding the crypto. I wanāt to see crypto currencies in the hands of store owners, family, friends and anyone else that wants to transact with digital exchange of wealth for goods/services. To achieve that, the average user needs protection from confiscation of coins if they have basic device protections enabled(can SAFE actually make our computer crypto wallets safe ) . As well as a very simple interface that takes away the technical aspect and leaves them with an extremely easy/clean UI.
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Only the crypto they received from payments made. I would say they will sell them asap so as not to get caught if BTC goes down. Just like if you pay in a foreign currency the payment processor immediately converts it into local currency through their networks.
Your BTC is at your address and the card only needs to sign the transaction. That way you control your BTC at all times. The payment processor only receives the BTC you spent. Oh and sets the required amount of BTC to be sent to cover the payment to the store.
But yes having a crypto terminal without the 3rd party processor would be a great move.
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All this talk on other threads about wanting to introduce a parallel ERC-20 MAID token has made be realised how undervalued MAID is.
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Interesting figures and it shows a core value proposition. However, I would say that the utility of SAFECoin itself will act as a multiplier. Many other coins just do transactions and little else, but safecoin will potentially do that better and grease the SAFENetwork.
There is huge potential here. I am sure once data chains is proved out by alphas, more will realise this potential.
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Hitbtc is way out of sync with the poloniex and bittrex - about 15c (15%) down.
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with 200 maid transaction fee ā¦ not really surprising
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Looking forward for todayās dev updateā¦ I wonder if there will be a marketing update and impact the price of maid 
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Yes there is new excellent info on an actual detailed marketing strategy! 2018 is going to be a good year for MAID.
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Looks like were heading for a $0.40 buying opertunity.
What a rollercoaster. HODL on tight guys.
Could have tried to trade and sold high, but Iām not going to gamble with the coins I have. I am lining up some cash to scoop up cheap coins though.
Hopefully one last chance to buy cheap coins for myself and the friends Iām introducing to safecoin.
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