I believe liquidity pools like these have the potential of becoming even bigger than proof-of-work mining pools. The reason is because no expensive hardware is needed in order for people to join the pool. All you need is some available funds that you can use to provide liquidity with. Most people have access to at least some money they can use, so a large barrier to entry in pool participation has been dropped with this technology.

Also, I realize the task of reading the entire Nu forum can be daunting, since there is so much content and history. It's hard to catch up and understand the current state of Nu though without doing this. So I took it up myself to create a thread dedicated to the history of Nu, which includes all the major events in order, descriptions, direct quotes and links to source threads. My hope was that this history would allow anyone new to NuBits to quickly and easily catch up and get involved. This is only a first draft, but I felt it was complete enough to share with you all in case you were interested in learning how Nu has evolved over the past 7 months. It will help bring you up to speed so you can get involved immediately. Here it is...

History of the Nu Network: https://discuss.nubits.com/t/history-of-the-nu-network-feedback-please/2088

Edit: Also here is our animated video describing the system...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_imtRPCKCg