Thanks for this thread! I've been hodling NEO since the Antshares days. One of my favorite pick-me-ups on a low day is to claim 20-30 gas and go trade them for more NEO. I've been doing this weekly or so for quite a while and you really can grow your NEO stack. I love that you don't need to keep a staking wallet open like with other coins.

NEO has a few problems--it's way too centralized right now, for example--but I trust that they will work this out in time. It's a good project. As someone who creates smart contracts and tokens in various projects, I will say that you really don't want to underestimate the power of robust programming languages like C# over new kludgy ones like Solidity. The devil is in the details, they say, and it's so very true with smart contracts. The little gotchas really slow down development on Solidity projects versus C#, C++, or Java.

I expect that NEO will be the preeminent coin for smart contracts where identity is burned-in to the protocol. I expect that EOS or TRX will come to rule for identity-agnostic smart contract projects. As a developer, I strongly feel that Gen-2 projects like Ethereum will eventually fade in favor of the more robust programming of Gen-3 blockchains. But it will take time.