for my part, Im not against NXT, I just think they have a distribution problem, that keeps getting worse..
I don't think so. 2000 vs 100 stakeholders seems like a huge difference and I think NEM will profit from a big community but to be honest the distribution is barely better. People will always complain about unfair distribution. I mean what about the other 7 billion people in the world? Life is really unfair mimimimimi....
Also it has turned out that NXT actually benefits from its stakeholders. A few stakeholder with huge amounts of coins are donating more than thousands of investors with little amounts. What I fear about NEM launch is that many people cash out when price is high and in the end the distribution is as bad as in NXT, Bitcoin and others.
Lets assume there are some people with multiple stakes.
They are likely to either dump most but a lot may be motivated marketers. If they were motivated enough to sign up for all the BTT accounts then they will be motivated to help out NEM for the long run. So while we may wish there were 0 sock puppets, they may not necessarily be as bad as people think. They might also be more willing to give NEM out to friends etc. It isn't 100% one sided.
Having 3000 stakeholders would be the best, but having 2000 might be 90% as good if those motivated to acquire stakes are motivated to continually support NEM over their stakes. It is even possible that those sock puppets end up being more valued than the people who came on late once it had been determined to be a very successful coin.
While we are assuming…. Let’s assume that most investors have bought their legal 2 shares (I have). Let’s also assume that 10% of investors have been greedy and have bought 10 or more shares. What does that do to the NEM distribution model?
To me the fair distribution argument for NEM has never seemed any fairer to me than NXT or any other crypto in the large scheme of things. Imagine even 3,000 of the 7,000,000,000 people in the world getting shares and 6,999,997,000 not getting shares. It doesn’t seem like a drop in the bucket fairness wise, does it?