Utopian's legacy is irrelevant now. Anyway, it never was about Communism, it was about earning more money personally to him. You just don't know what happened right before NEM's "call for participation".
What happened?
You can PM me if you want
I would like to know that too. As far as I know CfB had taken a liking to UP and put him under his wing somewhat and he was fairly trusted in the NXT community. And then..... UP busted out and made NEM. hahahaha
So there very is possibly something more to the story that maybe only CfB and UP know.
UP thought he was so clever his shit didn't stink.
"I'm smart, nxt has bad distro and needs leaders, nxt will fail without me, but I'm not a dev, and don't have a big stake. Set me up as a key NXT insider or I'll make NEM serious. Most people missed out on NXT IPO so a NXT reboot with a better distribution will win. You have 24 hours to respond or joke NEM goes serious"
nobody responded, the rest is history.
For somebody, who you determined he was so "clever", he ended up being prophetic about NXT's outcome without his presence.
NXT did fail. It went from $80+ million capitalization (sky's the limits) with six figure volume at the time of UP's departure down to today's $10 million capitalization, practically no volume, dim outlook, numerous alleged inside jobs and a lack of effective leadership. This is a statement of fact. Whether UP's proposed solutions could had made a difference is speculation, not fact, and I prefer not to discuss it unless you have a time machine somewhere.
Disclaimer: I am not a NEM developer or even a part of the team. So if you want to write a scathing reply then do it in private messaging. UtopianFuture also hasn't even been here for 10+ months. Otherwise yes NXT did fail without UtopianFuture's presence. This is really footnote / historical information and I don't see why it is relevant on NEM's thread: this isn't NXT and UtopianFuture isn't here.