^ Best comment from a NXT supporter imo.
I have nothing against NXT but I've noticed its supporters love to attack Bitshres when what they really should be doing is focusing on advertising their own platform. NXT market cap is falling while the Bitshares people are busy making partnerships and are working hard on developing a new (and hopefully good) product.
If I didn't know any better, I'd think the NXT supporters are butthurt. Sorry for the direct honesty guys...
Yep... you're right on a lot of that.
Nxt has traditionally had fairly crap marketing, but there is a proposal in the works to change that:
https://nxtforum.org/general-discussion/%28marketing-business-and-development%29-the-tennessee-project-fundraiser/Funnily enough, BTS helped to inspire this initiative.
The problem with Nxt and BTS, from my POV: both projects seem to be occupying the same crypto space, have been running in parallel for a long time and there is some overlap between them (not as much as some people think, though).
But: there is a massive difference in core philosophy between the two projects.
It's like having a survivalist compound and a hippy commune next to each other......there will be friction.
Not every Nxter is totally anti-BTS, most of the community have no real ill-will towards BTS......with a couple of vocal exceptions.
Personally, I was always relaxed about BTS, but enjoyed taking the piss a little bit. This changed once BanxShares turned up:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.11655260I knew that Banx was dirty back in June, yet both Stan Larimer and Bitcoinjesus2.0 jumped in to defend them.
I could not f**king believe that anyone could even
try to defend Banx on the trading volume issue, it was so obviously wrong.
Since then, Bitcoinjesus has deleted his Banx defence posts, btw. At least Stan has the backbone to man up and allow his defence to stand.
But he's still wrong on Banx, and Banx need to kicked out of BTS, for BTS' sake if nothing else.
My last point of BTS criticism:
I really do not like Stans marketing strategy for BTS.
It's too much fluff, and not enough real stuff happening, and I will prick holes in it every time I see a problem. Sorry, but that's how it goes. Stan's welcome to do the same for me
I'm happy to go on record now with this: BTS is probably a legitimate project, but they need to be careful about who they enthusiastically welcome on to their platform.
You can't ban projects from an open platform like Nxt or BTS, but you also can't actively defend dodgy shit and expect to not suffer consequences.
I've been through some of this shit with Nxt, and the BTS community needs to figure out where they stand on the Banx issue, for their own good.
And be more subtle with the shilling, please, Stan.