Who is everyone? The three Qora shills on this forum who are always bringing up Qora in every thread, even though most regard it as being a dying $hitcoin? Ora gets more attention than Qora and Ora is a fork, shame on Qora. Don't embarrass yourself by coming out of that rabbit hole to troll a coin that's not in your league (NEM is way beyond your petty stuff). If you're going to troll somebody (in your league of dying bagholder coins) then it's Quark coin, you and digital industry can go sit in a circle and sing kumbaya with the Kangaroos.
By the way, the stakeholder list is available and 1200 people on that list are veteran members of Bitcointalk who regularly post. The rest are newer accounts and inactives. Hypothetically if the non-veterans were socks, a distribution of 1200 beats a distribution of 3 people as per Qora. In before you claim Qora has 100-something, you do realize 3000 is bigger than 100 right or did you fail elementary math? Even 1200 is bigger than 100.
Hell in theory 2500 stakeholders could be sockpuppets and NEM would still have a better distribution than every crypto to date (exception being NODE). Even though in practice both NEM and NODE went through extensive taint analysis and the results were similar (as in busted sock masters, with more than 2 stakes, were otherwise rare in the overall distribution and then they got removed. Nobody gamed a distribution back in January when both coins at the time were worthless forks of NXT, but in months after went onto new code, concepts and innovations and ceased being forks).
NXT coin, although to beat a dead horse, had 8 wallets take 5% each for a total of 40%. Just to match the distribution of one of those people, you would have to create 200 sockpuppets in NEM - that's 200 times of bypassing taint analysis, bypassing the anti-spam features on this forum and hoping you don't get subnet banned for spamming account creation on BTT - not some something a sane person is going to bother with just to get 5% of a coin back in January which was originally a worthless fork.
Retrospective knowledge doesn't apply in real life. If only I knew back in January that NEM would be promising is like if only I knew back in 2009 that Bitcoin would be $10 billion or if I knew the winning $500 million power ball numbers.
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I've been into crypto since Bitcoin in 2010 (I had another BTT account before this one that I lost because I quit coming here for a long time). I've dedicated a large portion of my life the past 4 years researching cryptocurrencies and examining trends in this market. I have experience trading financial assets. I don't claim to be an expert, but I can almost guarantee I know more about the cryptocurrency landscape than 90% of the users on this forum simply because I've been in this space longer and I've spent so much time studying and researching it. As you can see, I'm a senior member of this forum with many posts under my belt and I have chosen NEM as my one and only crypto. I have zero interest in Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency at this point in time.
Bitcoin, in my opinion, will not be the cryptocurrency that ushers us into the next era of global finance. Many other very influential and powerful people agree with me (Mark Cuban comes to mind). There is a reason why I've chosen to back NEM and that's because right now, in the current state of the crypto landscape, it stands out above and beyond the competition as the coin with the most potential to succeed. Will this change in the weeks and months and years to come? Perhaps. Nobody can predict the future. But as it stands right now, NEM is miles ahead of any other cryptocurrency offering and it's only in alpha.
The dev team has proven to be competent as we can all see from the open alpha, the community has proven to be capable of handling large-scale decision-making (with some hiccups here and there of course, which are to be expected), and if the development pipeline is adhered to there is just no competition for NEM right now. Of course I say this as a stakeholder, but I have absolutely zero intention to sell my stake EVER. NEM is the cryptocurrency I plan to use as my primary form of currency when the cryptocurrency revolution comes into full swing, which it will in the very near future.
Trolls are going to troll, but it's obvious that the only reason a troll would exist in the first place is because there is an incentive to cause harm. The reason there are trolls is because of fear and regret. Fear at the thought of not being able to get in on something that very well may change the world and go down in history forever and regret that they were hesitant to get involved and did not act sooner. The funny thing about trolls in cryptocurrency is that anyone "in the know" is aware that the more trolls there are, the better because that means people feel that there is an incentive to bring down the value which in turn means that they secretly think that the coin will be a major success. There literally is no other reason for a troll to bother wasting their time if they did not think that was the case.
I've seen it before and I know we will see it again, but any time you see trolls start to come out in crypto land that is, to me, an extremely bullish signal. So keep on trolling guys, you're only doing us a favor.