Any coin that makes "stability" its aim should be looking to avoid sharp upswings and pumps more than downswings.
Buying something overvalued is the biggest deterent to usage, and a main obstacle for Bitcoin adoption. Bitcoin can be fairly valued on Monday but overpriced on Tuesday.
If something is undervalued or oversold, that's actually an incentive to merchants.
I don't think BK will get anyone on board with NAUT if he's showing them a chart that looks like the top of a hockey stick. If the NSF is working we'll see long flat lines broken by occassional pushes towards a median price. For the sake of interest I'd like to know the exact time of the first ever NSF activity. I don't think anyone is talking about how a "stability fund" makes it impossible to exploit NAUT as a ponzi scheme, which it should do if the volume ever picks up.
HI BK,
I mentioned this exact same notion last week but it got buried some pages back. I think it would be a GREAT idea for the NSF fund to outright own some scrypt miners. They could be adding to the hash power while POW is still going on. And when POS gets implemented, they can continue to mine at multipools that will convert to NAut. It would be a great way for the NSF fund to be a little more diverse and balanced.
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As for sponsorship ... maybe the NautilusContent guy could get some kind of sponsership or ad system going. POS transition is a great time to tweak the brand and tell everyone that mistakes have been learned from, that NAUT has adapted. Nothing is more suspicious than a coin that sweeps everything under the carpet as soon as a problem is fixed (pssst, Darkcoin)
Don't be afraid about advertising or assisting other coins.