Quote from: gramufibus on February 10, 2014, 02:12:00 AM

Quote from: Jaguar0625 on February 10, 2014, 12:32:51 AM

The goal is not for NEM to be a NXT copy and paste coin. IMO, there's no value in that. With NEM, we want to take some of the best ideas of NXT and Bitcoin and create something new and, hopefully, better.

Wow that is amazing and exiting news to me. I'm not knocking nxt but the chance to rewrite the rules offers so much.
I have a question which might be a dumb one so I apologise in advance if so. I like the way nxt is different than mined coins, but it is a common criticism, though I think "pre-mine" is an incorrect term.
Is there any way... that without disrupting nem's initial distribution, that it could be made more appealing to the coin miners? Perhaps adopt a model that is based on nodes on the network, versus amount of nem held?
I'm thinking of this purely in terms of what could make nem a more sucessfull currency. And I'll admit I know little of what I'm talking about.

Miners's main activities are mining and selling what they mine, of course they are verifying transaction and protecting the network. But in my POV, the way POW coins have been dominated by mining industry is one of its main weakness. A self-sufficient network would be more sustainable in the long-run since the all the accounts/ nodes within the network verify transactions and protect the network themselves without resorting to an external party such as the mining industry and that would reduce the the cost of operating the network noticeably.

I have some more explanations here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=426303.msg5017477#msg5017477 on why NEM has started the way it was.

Miners are of course welcome to join NEM by selling their mined coins and send in the relatively low fee. In the future, there may be a fund set aside to support the node infrastructure of NEM network.