Jeez...where to start ? Let's kick off with
barrabas:
Wait a minute... so they collected 10 million NXT and gave it to EvilDave and Dandelion to pay themselves a (part time) salary and a "marketing campaign"? Well that is just, simply funny... I mean I have heard of stupid things but this one tops everything else... until I hear of someone making Kim Kardhasian a good will ambassador of Nuns United. Wow, simply wow.
Independent of the more than relevant fact that these two are as qualified for the job as Ms. Kardhasian would be, only less so, what are the expectations of the "nomination commitee"? Number one, 10 million NXT is, roughly, 58.000 UNREALIZED dollars (assume less than half in realized, real money). Number two, these two bozos are unknowns, anonymous individuals that, obviously know absolutely nothing about PR... hence the fact that Evil here considers a fucking website "...pretty much the most important element in any Nxt marketing..." And number three: You guys have been, again, TAKEN. For a ride, that is. Evil and Dandelion will be paid for their website design -something easily obtainable gratis-, a pretty penny. The rest, their (part time) salaries. But who the fuck did ever think that this would be anything else at all? Brilliant minds, indeed.
No wonder the price of NXT continue nosediving. It is, after all, a monument to raw, pure idiocy, first and foremost. A brilliant one at that...
Here's the full thread for the
Tennessee fundraiser:
https://nxtforum.org/general-discussion/%28marketing-business-and-development%29-the-tennessee-project-fundraiser/Next time, before you accuse people of anything , do some research:
http://nxtfoundation.org/about/We're not even slightly anonymous, and both myself and Damelon (though mostly Damelon) have worked/work in marketing/PR. We're not getting paid for the website design,
Farla Webmedia got the contract for that, though we will be creating much of the text/content, and that work will be covered by our amazingly generous salaries of €1500 per month (before taxes)
For the rest of your diatribe....meh, no real information there
On to
tokeweed:What NXT should do is open up development and welcome coders build features and services and look for bugs in the system. The interest should come from the builders first and foremost. Until this happens, nothing will ever happen to NXT.
Also have the current features (there are a lot created in a short time span!) been used in a massive scale? How do you know they aren't buggy if they haven't been used in a massive scale? I'm pretty sure the problems will arise when users count in the millions... So how are you gonna market a buggy, unproven decentralized financial system to banks and corporations?
Then there's also the NXT stigma of the unfair initial distribution. I'm pretty sure the banks will be asking 'Why should we allow you to make money out of us, when we're making money out of you right now.'
Think hard about Tennessee before commiting on what direction to take it. I think the only reason why the NXT community is allowing this is because they're getting desperate. I say don't. Relax and get back to your roots. So what if you get a smaller piece of the pie. At least you get to change the world in your own capacity. That will always count for something.
Edit: And all that marketing to banks and corporations for a budget of 10m NXT... You must be kidding yourselves.
Nxt is a completely open system...anyone who wants to work with Nxt can, providing they stay true to the open source ethos.
Nxt features get used, and get tested. Here's the crowd test of the upcoming CoinShuffle feature on TestNet last Sunday:
https://nxtforum.org/news-and-announcements/shuffling-sunday-!-%28testing-nrs-1-7-2e-coinshuffle-13-12-2015-%29/msg203684/#msg203684
On the banks and corporations; again, we're marketing Nxt to everyone with a project, not just to b+c. It's going to be medium to small scale businesses that drive Nxt adoption, big players will just create their own blockchains. They are welcome to license Nxt, of course........
Distribution....after 2 years, Nxt is pretty well shuffled, but you'll always have whales, in any system.
Tennessee direction....TNSSE has a set mandate; to provide marketing/PR for Nxt core stuff, and to improve the user experience for Nxt adopters. We've done a lot in the 7 weeks since we started, including getting the website sorted, a helpdesk set up, PR/media contact guy has been hired...and more, including lots of talking to devs.
TNSSE might not change the world, but it will improve Nxt, and whatever we do is probably better than doing nothing.
2 months ago, everyone was bitching about having no Nxt marketing, now people are bitching about having some marketing. Can't win sometimes.....
This is getting to shady land.
EvilDave and Damelon to support Nautiluscoin projectAt the end of an eventful weekend, we would like to end on a more positive note.
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http://cryptolife.net/scam-alert-nautiluscoin/Who's Brian Kelly? And what's his background?
Nautiluscoin is now a Nxt-based Monetary System currency, so it's essentially a coloured coin running on the Nxt blockchain.
The original BCNext outline for Nxt development explicitly stated that the main value of the Nxt eco-system would eventually be in the subsidiary currencies/assets running on Nxt.....and Nautilus is the first successful example of a PoW coin migrating to Nxt. So we're supporting/helping to organise the Nautilus project.
Here's all the info on the Nautilus/Agistri project:
https://www.google.nl/search?q=agistri+nxtBrian Kelly is:
http://www.cnbc.com/brian-kelly/http://www.briankellycapital.com/Nautilus thread from BTT:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-naut-nautiluscoin-first-coin-wstabilization-fund-digishield-591114The Cryptolife article is pretty much completely wrong about most of it's claims. Agistri was a small-scale trial, and it worked
Lastly,
DE;
Thanks, mate. I've done nothing but work my ass off for Nxt, and this is how you act ? Stab me in the back, why don't ya?