Since December of 2013, we have seen piles of cheap scammers, pump/dumpers, fraudulent exchanges, and myriad of fake cryptocurrencies that destroyed trust in the community.
No more.
I would like to say we can find gems in the sand if you look for them. For one, Rofo (aka Jason L. Curby, developer and leader of Noblecoin) has been an honest, open developer who disclosed his identity and worked as a professional in a scene full of anonymous shadows that seem to disappear and reappear under different names for their next schemes.
Mr. Curby's twitter/linkedin/personal financial disclosures
/business number in Australia:
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/NobleCoinLinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jason-curby/27/9b8/994Australia Business Number:
http://abr.business.gov.au/SearchByAbn.aspx?abn=92119945303Personal Financial Disclosures:
https://www.noblemovement.com/public-ledger/https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9250285Yes, personal financial disclosures. I suppose you can always ring up his cell phone and ask over the phone about any questions you have (note the number on the NOXT flier):
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=841741.0;allFrom my point of view, this scene desperately needs a REAL, MOTIVATED people who can approach these things with necessary professionalism and serious devotion that Mr. Curby has shown throughout the whole of past year (he was essentially paying out of his own pocket for maintaining marketplace, Noblcoin itself, and others).
His most recent project, NobleNXT (NOXT), is just another testament to his professional approach to this idea. ANN here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=841741.0;allOver half of it has been sold already though NXT and BTC on poloniex and secureae.
Whitepaper itself is over 100+ pages long
encompassing understanding, planning, and vision that reaches out to realistic plans for coming (some already arrived) wave of regulations, demand for legitimacy, and official PUBLIC business approach to the potential of cryptocurrency. Legitimacy, legal issues, financial backing and proper crowdfunding along with working side by side with established financial/regulatory bodies is one of its chief goals from what I can tell - he has recently traveled to Canberra, Australia (capital of AUS) to discuss setting up think tanks for cryptocurrency itself and essentially taking a very realistic, viable approach to fighting the adoption/influence battles that honestly not many are willing to do so in person.
All feedbacks/questions and attention should be directed to Mr. Curby (Rofo). Let this thread be a public one to bring attention to this project and discuss the its merits. With so many threads out in alternative currency section discussing respective projects, there is little reason why one such thread for this professional project shouldn't exist.
Let the discussions begin