And after the BTC fork, there will be new excuses why people are not interested in NLG, or why NLG won't go to the moon.
What do you think the problem is for this coin to have such low value?
Biggest problem is the dev is allergic to marketing and refuses to accept any help on that part. He is also not interested in the price himself since he cashed out 650BTC from his community already.
Whales do their due diligence. They know an investment in Gulden is high risk because the dev doesn't give shit about their interests.
I think they want to deliver a proper product that can be used by any mainstream people as an alternative to regular banking systems. Without pow2 and segsig, this is simply not possible.
Sure it is, this is what the devs want you to believe. All you need is tutorials that show how it works. Nothing of pow2 or segsig is any problem for normal users.
Regular people who have not done research about crypto and actually tried to figure out how it works, won't just be touching any vague system that they simply can't understand due to its complexity.
Regular people don't do research on crypto or figure out how it works (I think most of the people in the slack (or forums) hardly knows how it works below the hood). All is open source, so they can investigate it if they want. NLG is based on LTC/BTC (changes are minimal), yet that has nobody stopped from using BTC/LTC. If you're reflecting on the complexity of the code, yes that is one pile of steaming sh*t... which originates from BTC and NLG devs are spending more and more time to keep up with. If you get back to basic block chain theory... it's not that difficult and can easily be broken up into digestible chunks. If the complexity is an issue... why are the NLG devs than implementing pow2/segsig? Which is another level of irrelevant complexity.
You can't expect mass adoption for a wallet that needs hours to sync...
We've got light wallets for that. If syncing is an issue, blockchain downloads are available for most coins. Syncing is slow due to two reasons: 1 is inefficient in-wallet download, which can be improved. 2 is the actual validating of the blocks, which require processor power and is the basis of the security of your chain; so if you want to speed that up, get a faster computer or compromise on your security.
There are many people who would probably give crypto/gulden a try but the bar has to be low and the product has to be working as well as possible from the beginning. People won't easily come back to try your product if it didn't meet its expectation from the start.
I think the poor ways of communicating by the devs has scared a lot of more people away than the current usability of NLG. This whole situation with the new slack is a nice example.
So with that said. Why go into heavy marketing for an unfinished product that is simply not ready for mass adoption (in this case mainly the Netherlands to be begin with)?
Because else it will never be finished and ready for mass adoption. NLG will never be a completed product, nor any other coin. It will just be a tool to keep people bound to the dev team, to make them feel important. If there is a plan it should at least be clear at what point they are satisfied with to starting marketing.
If I'm correct, marketing will come when the time is right. By then, things will become a lot more interesting.
The way I currently see it, everyone who owns gulden now is an early adopter.
I'm already an early NLG adopter since a few years now... and this thing is still in the gutter... at least not where it SHOULD be if the devs hadn't rejected all the help and cooperation they could get in the past few years.
nobody wants to bother with any of that stuff. things have to work and work fast and be an actual benefit over regular banking (if you want to attract more than just a bunch of cryptonerds). no crypto is an actual benefit over real banking for regular people at the moment.
you being salty over not making as much money as you could have is not of the dev's concern. they did not create this coin to make you rich fast. they have their own goals with this coin and obviously (as everyone who has ever been on their slack knows) they don't give a single crap about your roadmap. they care about their own roadmap.
