There was an important new development in the Land of Supernet today, prompted by the same slump I've been commenting on recently. James announced a new offering, of
Supernetx2, which will be backed by the funds allocated for the
bonus he would have received had he met the market-cap goal agreed to by the Supernet community. Essentially, Supernetx2 - which will get double the revenue its 5% would otherwise entitle it to - is a bounty-fund Asset. It's not going to be distributed as a dividend, but will be awarded to freelance workers in exchange for work on the Supernet system.
He decided upon this new Asset because he noticed those dumps I myself have been pointing to. He decided, with more inside information that I'll ever be privy to
, that the dumps were caused by some Supernet workers selling (some of) their awarded Supernet for Bitcoin - perhaps for living expenses. Supernetx2, as a separate Asset 100% backed by Supernet itself, will shunt aside the dumping pressure that's slumped the price of Supernet itself.
That decision was good of him, and it did have a small but positive effect on both the buybooks and the sellbooks. Over at Bter, both the low bot ask and the high bot bid rose to over 0.015 BTC: the volume was unusually low, but that quiet could be easily pegged to "Happy New Recovery Day"
On the Nxt AE, both the low ask and - more importantly - the low bid rose: as I write this, the low ask is 290 Nxt and the high bid is 280.1. Unfortunately, it would take a dump of only nine UNITY to thump the buybook back to a low ask of 272.
Really, the price obstacle facing Supernet is limpid demand. That's just part of the altcoin bear market right now; it was nice to see James take a step to muffle the impact of those dumps. But of course, the low demand right now is completely out of his control. Times like these, when speculators' attention is directed elsewhere or nowhere, are made for buy-and-hold.
That said, the trading on the Nxt AE was encouraging this evening (Eastern time) after a previous slump to 272 early afternoon when the first UNITY trade was made. Three buyers wre willing to take nice stakes at the ask, which raised it and provided pressure for a couple of bidders to raise the top two bids above 280.
Both the bumps in both sides of the Nxt AE book and the slight rise in Nxt itself got me adjusting my orderpair for NFDSupeNet upwards. As I prepare to hit the hay and call the end to another day, my offer on the NFD AE is set at 8100 NFD per unit and by buyback order is placed at 7900 NFD.