I fully agree with you. Whenever someone mentions marketing you get answered with "we don't need any hype".
Nem is hardly used by any business, so how do you expect it to be valuable in the long term.
No matter how good the tech is, if there is no marketing and no one can use it in their daily life it will become useless.
It looks like nem was just a hobby project or a test project for the Nem team. they are too busy creating some other stuff for real businesses like Mijjn and Catapult. And we just hope that some of the success will flow into Nem. Just pathetic. They have a Nem marketing fund which they do not use and they do not update us about their plans with regard to Nem itself.
No idea why people are so excited with those side projects, currently Catapult that is supposed to come out in August. I doubt we will see any positive effect that causes shops and businesses to implement NEM
They are working on polishing the tech before marketing it.. think of it akin to releasing a video game in a fully finished state versus rushing it out the door and fixing it with patches and DLC after the game is released. They are marketing where it matters.. not on internet forums, but to real businesses, right now in Japan.
Well-reasoned as usual, thanks for getting back.
I sure hope you're right-one big push higher in NEM and I'll be retired!
I have some more questions about Xtrabytes but don't want to derail the thread; I'll PM you.
Happy for ya! I don't have that much, just had a stake, and I've sold 60% of it (around $250K worth) around these levels. I have a good job and already had some stocks but NEM did increase my liquid net worth by more than triple and total net worth by double (not counting my unsold NEM). The rest I plan to hold for NEM's future.
At first I simply didn't trust the exchanges but as I spend more time with em I'm not so rushed to pull everything out into USD. Particularly coinbase and their teaming up with Fidelity, I feel it's safe to keep assets there... perhaps even safer than my local banks since neither of them have 2 factor authentication. GDAX is a nice platform. Kraken has missed out on quite a bit of business that I've given to Gemini, Coinbase, Bittrex, and Poloniex, because of their not listing NEM.