Some updates :
1. This is the NEM stakeholder population statistics compiled by Kooream
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlidWok7hW0DdG1XYWlDemNENl9IaGR5ZHNUNTNhcmc#gid=1 This statistics is up to page 70 of registration thread 2
Basically, we look though the profiles of every stakeholders and group them into three groups: Group 1 : veteran account opened before the fundrasing; Group 2 : account openned during the fundrasing but showed further activity; Group 3: accounts openned for NEM registration only (1 post)
The results are:
For thread 1:
Group 1 : 711 stakeholders
Group 2 : 310 stakeholders
Group 3 : 440 stakeholders
For thread 2 up to page 70
Group 1 : 706 stakeholders
Group 2 : 286 stakeholders
Group 3 : 706 stakeholders
Interpretations of this statistics are up to readers but I believe we should have at least 2000 unique accounts after the fundraising is over. Given the increasing percentage of group 3 accounts, I may require new account registrations going through a verification process first after page 80.
2. After publishing the development plan, our core team has moved to a Trello board. Ideas are being discussed and works are being done in earnest. That board is private for now. I have opened another board for a while: NEM promotion and I would like you to join in if you want your ideas stick. The key difference between the board and this thread is that: the ideas in that board will stick and have people trying to carry it through. I read many great ideas in this thread but without people push them forward they might just be great ideas forever. Furthermore, they may be buried under dozen of pages on different topics after a few days. So a task board for these ideas is a good thing.
So Pm me your email if you want to join the board. Many things are in need of people managing : Reddit, Twitter, websites, charity etc.
https://trello.com/b/GEWEPSZJ/nem-promotion This board will be open to the public but of course only members can write.
Thanks for supporting NEM. We will be a great community.
I'm really surprised by the number on Group 1 Stakeholders. It's significantly larger than I expected. And that's a really good thing because at least they know what a Bitcoin is and are involved in it enough to be members of a forum related to it. Of course I still think new people is also very important, it's just nice to see that a lot of people from this forum are involved and know about Nem, since if it's even slightly popular the vast majority of them will get involved and active. I hope.
I also think it's important for people to tell other about it. The majority of the people that I tell about this just look at me how a cow looks at an incoming train, or reply once to me about it on Facebook, and then stop talking. I've only managed to get five other people involved, because they trust me.
I know how you feel. I tried to get my mates into bitcoin a while back, too expensive they said. Then after I got into nxt they were a little interested but after investigating it were put off by the few holding the majority of coins. I finally succeeded with Nem, being that they could be there at the genesis. The crypto world can be a lonely one when you have no allies in your personal life to share your interests and goals.
Today I tried explaining it to this friend, and I think I did a pretty good job showing her the charts on coinmarketcap, showing her the price at the beginning of Bitcoin, NXT, etc. But she still wouldn't take a chance on NEM. Later on she asked me, "Does your mom know you're crazy?"
Some people get it, others truly don't. My big regret in my current life is not knowing about Bitcoin until last December, because I know I would not have been one of the people who would not get it. I would have been mining away, Litecoin, buying Bitcoins. It bums me out that I want to have Bitcoins, and see the price at $700, $800, and think about how I just did not know. And then I would look at Ethereum, and other interesting projects that look promising and how positive they look, and then think about the Bitcoins that I could have invested if I just knew earlier about Bitcoins. Then I see how fundraising like those basically benefit the rich, because they can throw a lot of money on it. Would it had been a big risk investing a Bitcoin in NXT if you bought that Bitcoin for $2?
And then came Nem, it excites me because of its fundraising style, where a person doesn't feel that they're missing out because it's just so much cheaper and a fairer than the other next gen coins. So I try to tell as many people who I feel are good people, because I don't want them to feel like I did missing out on something potentially incredible simply because they didn't know about.
I'm very strict as to who I tell about the opportunity. I wouldn't tell anyone if I felt they were selfish.
I read the entire NxT thread for example. I played by following the rules, so this is my only share for NEM project.
