My last handful of points before I get to go to bed, go to work, kids, etc....:
NXT is still doing well, especially if u look at the disaster zone that is the crypto market right now.
A core point of BCnexts slightly mysterious plan is that NXT needs to first succeed as a first generation crypto-currency (ie, buy stuff, trade, invest securely, transfer money) before it can then leverage that success to become a second generation currency (Asset Exchange, DACs, colored coins, games, secure blockchain storage, contract enforcement...etc).
I think that NXT is running ahead of itself, and we need to step back a little bit and concentrate on the first gen stuff for a while.
This doesn't mean dropping any of the work on the second generation features.
The guys developing all of the second gen stuff should absolutely carry on, but the rest of us should concentrate on these areas right now:
Promoting NXT as an complete alternative to Bitcoin and it's clones. Different code, none of Bitcoins current issues.
Getting merchants on board. Payment solutions. Sell stuff....
More big exchanges, more trading. Cryptsy and BTC38, as priority.
Network infrastructure/rewards for running nodes. Network statistics...TPS capacity?
If we can boost these first gen aspects of NXT, we will end up in a much better position to launch NXTs second generation features on an unsuspecting world.
Almost the last point: Buy stickers! Support NXTs merchant eco-system !
https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,4181.0.htmlReally last point: I'm now serious about being a
candidate for the NXT infrastructure committee:NXT FUNDING COMMITTEE VOTE IS COMING MARCH 1Remaining eligible nominees with as-yet undeclared intentions (PM me if you want off this list):
^[GS]^, 2Kool4Skewl, Arckam_(frmelin), bitcoinpaul, buybitcoinscanada
ChuckOne, Cointropolis_JustabitTime, Come-from-Beyond
Damelon, davethetrousers, drevil, EvilDave, ferment, Fry, hughmanwho, Jean-Luc,
jl777, Klee, landomata, laowai80, msin, mww
nexern, opticalcarrier, Pandaisftw, PeercoinEnthusiast, pinarello, Pouncer, Ricot, salsacz
SecondLeo, smaragda, Uniqueorn, VanBreuk, ZeroTheGreat
Something Zahlen said: A candidate does not need to be good at writing English. Some candidates may not have English as their mother tongue. If you're voting, don't confuse lots of writing for ability to judge the worth of a project. Remember that ultimately
the committee's job is to decide which projects get funded.
If you are on this list and want to be on a NXT funding committee, go here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.5280476Background:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.5280786Good luck to these nominees who have declared themselves candidates:
NXTmarketingfund: allwelder, Damelon, Mario123, Asian Prepper, joefox, brooklynbct, CoinTropolis_NiftyNikel
NXTtechdevfund: EmoneyRu, Anon136, l8orre, abuelau
NXTinfrastructurefund: rickyjames, chanc3r
Yeah, you may have seen this before. I'll be putting it up every ten pages or so. It's one of those "legitimate, transparent process" things.
Saved u the trouble, RJ.
So, yeah, put me down as a candidate for infrastructure.I'll post the reasons to vote for me (apart from my winning smile) on the committee thread after i get some sleep and go to work.....about 16 hours from now, i guess.
I think NXT to be successful as a first gen crypto currency is like to go David vs Goliath. In my opinion, I think we should concentrate on 2nd gen capabilities - being the backbone of cryptocurrencies, i.e asset exchange --- facilitating coin exchanges, creating new coins on top of NXT, etc. I don't see NXT being used by the public majority --- that will be bitcoin. Rather I see NXT being used to support crypto-currencies. If we can achieve that, NXT will be successful.
. Enjoy it