Seems pretty odd to shut down because a founder leaves, must be more to the story

I have a feeling an e-commerce company saw the launch and bought the company quickly. If that didn't happen, why not open-source the platform?

It's 1000% homeshare, so not libel.

Once I learned about the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon it seemed to pop up everywhere.

It's spreading on HN this past week, you could say it's viral.

Whole account was deleted. Archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20171220235902/https://webcache....

There are about 10 articles about it now, look again

In that case it should be fairly easy to find the comment it's associated with.

I originally had the same thought but couldn't find it after a fairly thorough search.

And you find that a compelling reason to tokenize it? I don't.

Very compelling. Without staking the hedge fund doesn't have any knowledge of how confident you are in your estimates. If you can put the value of a coin up against your confidence estimates then you are giving that information in a very real and binding way.

Do you have another way data scientists can give estimates of their model's ability to do better than chance and be held accountable for that estimate? Additional prize pool based on giving good reliability estimates seems like an excellent way to do it.

The tokens are not the value of the numerai fund itself. They are merely a tool for the staking process.

Yes...I remember a few years ago, with one of the algorithm testing sites, a group basically just submitted 20-30 pseudo-random predictions. One of them ended up winning, but it wasn't like the team actually had a useful algorithm, they were just playing the system because betting was free.

why not stake with bitcoin or ether?

Because they can't mint and award it to users. NMR is only earned by performing well.

theyre listing it on poloniex FYI