Why not join forces with NXT and create a even better platform together instead of competing head on? Clearly nxt is leading on the 2.0 front. Why waste resources when you can work together.
Actually, that's not as inconceivable as it first seemed.
The software that BitShares 2.0 has been offered by
Cryptonomex.com has enough excess block signing capacity to sign every block currently produced by
all leading chains on coinmarketcap with enough left over to handle the current transaction load of Visa or Master Card.
So nothing says NXT and BitShares couldn't agree to move in together on the same
neutral platform while maintaining our independent financial, biological and technological distinctiveness and those of all other chains who join us. This would allow all our existing assets to work together with shared network effect, market depths, interoperable smart contracts and instant atomic cross-asset trading among all partners.
In fact, I expect more than one leading developer to decide to do exactly that this summer. (!)
Once each lead developer realizes that almost every penny they are paying their current block signers could go to
fund their own team, some are going to
Carpe Diem. This will grow with its own network effect -
like a rolling stone. With three teams working together on the same
neutral industrial grade platform, it won't be hard to get four. You get the idea.
Bitcoin itself could solve most of its current problems with such an upgrade and instantly become the unstoppable force it aims to be. Think of what the Bitcoin core devs could do if they had the
hundreds of millions of dollars they are paying miners added to their ecosystem development and marketing budgets. (!!) With Cryptonomex putting that kind of money out there on a silver platter for them, somebody is going to re-evaluate whether their business model is about security nuances or about market share and revolutionizing the global financial system.
The only question is which two of the top chains will first realize that the competition is not about proof-of-manhood anymore. There's a whole global financial system to conquer together! Combined network effect. Independent market caps. And an incredibly more profitable field of competition!
Olive branch anyone?
