Thanks for that great big info dump. I wish there was a really through curated Wiki for every coin - there are now so many but there are also some real gems. I had not heard of Skycoin but I was an early investor in Maidsafe - and I'm patient. I honestly thought MAID would be a bigger deal than ETH but progress has been oh so slow. Would be great to see a side by side comparison of these similar projects by someone who knows them both pretty well

Regarding Skycoin - well one stand out was the 300 tps. For something that aims to be a global massively adopted technology that could be a problem. For all the hype and pre-hype if EOS team pulls it off they seem to be the one team that is offering a real solution there.

Anyway, I really like coins that have actual practical uses which includes Steem of course. With the VPN coming soon Skycoin could become one of them but they really need to make it easier to buy - I'm getting tired of opening accounts in so many different exchanges. I can't wait for there to be one global decentralized exchange - or distributed federation of exchanges working together.

I wonder if their technology can deal with the problem that the Chinese have with censorship. The government there is telling ISPs they have to block all VPN traffic pretty soon - how is that going to work and is it even feasible? Can you tell an SSL VPN from any other kind of SSL traffic to block it?

Another plus about Skynet is you can download their code and run a node now - sounds like a fun project for the weekend. I might take a look.

Once again thanks for the heads-up. Keep on cheerleading for it and if I like what I see I may join you!