NEM is the best designed blockchain platform in existence.
NEM is a long term investment for me. Every time I look at GitHub, I always see some new contribution in the past hours and they've never failed me. NEM has regular updates. M of N multisig just came out. Mosaics will be next. There are also several ecosystem initiatives like CryptoApex, PhotoMead and Makoto's remittance service. NEM will be a longterm winner.
I honestly don't care if the current price slips or capitalization drops: it just means I'll buy more later.
NEM is currently a bad terrible short term investment: see reasons below
* The best short term investments recruited Bitcoin insiders, with connections to capital and cryptomedia, like Pietilä and Buterin.
* Short term investments add PoW, to appeal to the miners.
* Short term investments get added to margin trading and lending on Poloniex. It's easy to buy high and pump & dump when you are trading with other people's money.
NEM did 0/3. NXT and BTS did 1/3 with Poloniex.
If we got NEM added to margin trading and lending on Poloniex then capitalization and volume would shoot up but this would only benefit short term investors who would dump the following week(s). Nor is it necessary as Makoto has venture funding.
Roger Ver is a well publicized successful investor in Bitcoin and yet he only ever had 0.1% to 0.2% of the eventual 21 million Bitcoins in circulation. You can buy 0.1% of NEM for only 4 BTC and 0.2% for 8 BTC. 4 BTC and 8 BTC is $1000 - $2000.
To buy the same percentages in the other 2.0 projects is $10,000 - $20,000 (NXT and BTS) and $150,000 - $300,000 (ETH). These are approximations and not exact numbers Only thing cheaper than XEM is maybe Qora, Crypti and NODE and I already own at least 0.1% of those three projects.
nice analysis
"Long Term" investor sounds much better than "Bagholder." But seriously we are going two years in and we see nothing but failing value. I see the rest of the market shooting past NEM and the cobwebs starting to show. Prove me wrong, I beg you. Not with words, with results.