Someone explain to me why you think nem is so revolutionary in its technology? not give me "nem is da best mayne" or "because of da distribution"
I'd be interested in that as well.
Are there some confirmed FACTS besides awesome positive distribution yet?
IMO, counting technological features is too restrictive view to understand the potential of what are under NEM development. While we do some new stuffs such as POI (essential a new block reward algorithm), peer communication algorithm, fee structure design etc. and many others toward V1 blockchain, there are a few more important aspects that should be realized beyond the feature counting comparison if someone attempts to do so. Firstly, it should be realized that the codes are designed and written anew, that means we control NEM's construction from ground-up. A few changes in the core codes while not adding new features could have substantial impacts to the performance and security architecture of the whole system. Furthermore, that Jaguar's decision to take the modern programming practice such as carefully writing unit tests on every part of NEM codes would give NEM the ease of future maintenance and upgradability not only for today but far into the future. The impact of these decisions should not be underestimated when we go beyond basic Bitcoin functionality. Discussing going beyond basic Bitcoin functionality, the most important example is to implement colored coin concept to enable decentralized asset exchange. In this area, so far we have XCP, Mastercoin patching codes over Bitcoin blockchain and NXT with a new blockchain but none has passed the alpha/ beta status so I guess everyone is still in a fair game. You will see that while we are all attempting the same functionality, different design choices would lead to some drastic differences in security, performance, the ease of uses in each system and that will ultimately decide the technological advantage each system has in the long run.
Secondly, the strategic incorporation of an ecosystem with a certain blockchain will ultimately decide the success of each system. I think everyone fully understand that Coinbase+Bitpay+Gift together probably account for 50% of Bitcoin valuation, so developing an ecosystem is of paramount importance and in this aspect we also have certain strategies and philosophies that in the end may matter a great deal more than any single feature of the blockchain. In this aspect, NEM initial token allocation could play a certain important role. Finally we are in an open source community and it is certain that at some point the complete NEM codes would be open to the whole community. So in the end, no single NEM innovative feature would be as nearly important as the ability of NEM dev. team and community to innovate and evolve.
It's exciting to see progress. I'm interested in seeing the impact of NEM's distribution. Not subscribing to the 'NXT distribution theory was unfair' theory, I still think NEM's approach is an interesting one... I just don't think the 'fair' approach is going to impact value the way many here seem to think it will.