I will admit to a bit of frustration as we watch non-functional vaporware platforms e.g., IOTA, NEO, skyrocket upward over the past week on non-news, while NEM/XEM languishes in neutral despite a steady stream of positive updates with substance. Now NEM seems destined to drift out of the top 10 marketcap, maybe even top 15 near term as heavily manipulated junk like HSR continue an inexplicable rise.

NEM has a three year jump on all the clown coins suddenly cropping up around it, and it shows, hell most of them struggle to even have a working, secure wallet for their user base.  Come-from-Beyond, the great and mighty Dev behind NXT, who recently farted out IOTA with its Tangle? Tangle is an apt description for Come-from-Beyond's creation seeing how the Dev team of NEM, led by Jaguar0625 had this to say about his spaghetti coding skills back in January 2014...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=426303.msg4674869#msg4674869

Jaguar0625
Re: [NEM] NEM -New Economy Movement - No Envy Movement - Updates+Discussion thread
January 22, 2014, 11:23:27 PM

What makes NEM different from all the other NXT clones (like NEX) aside from the 4X more coins? Also, what is the timeframe for this project?

I think NXT can be overtaken by a clone because the NXT stakeholders have too much power and I think their greed could destroy the coin. So, I definitely support this NXT clone movement. The real question is which clone will be the best?

I'd rather take some of NXTs ideas and create a new coin from scratch because the NXT code is spaghetti. (And if we can get away from Java, the better Smiley).

My 2 cents.

And with recent Catapult release the NEM team has fulfilled ever bit of the promise in Jaguar's final sentence.

Frustrating