Quote from: Labteck on February 11, 2014, 08:59:26 PM

Quote from: jl777 on February 11, 2014, 08:20:43 PM

BCNext said something like do not worry about NXT being popular (or valuable). Build a digital economy using NXT. People will use the things we can build with NXT. NXT is like the roads, plumbing and wiring. Not really stuff most people get excited about. We need to build the stores, buildings, movie theatres, even farms (like POPPP has) using NXT. Most people wont know or care that they are using NXT, but of course some people will realize the value of NXT is related to the sum of the value of all the things that can be built on top of NXT.

So the more services we can come up with to build on top of NXT, the more people will indirectly use NXT. As a community, if we can think of things for "normal" people to use built on top of NXT and then making it as easy for them to do this, then the number of NXT users will be much larger than the number of bitcoin users. Also, it will be relatively easy to monetize any significant usage so we can build businesses creating services for people, all on top of NXT.

THINK BIG!

BCNext gave us a platform to build on. Like the Internet protocol when it only supported email. Sure email was useful as compared to faxes, but most people back then actually sent physical letters through the mail! How many protocols run on top of IP today? How many things can we build on top of NXT? What will be the http equivalent for NXT?

James

yes ,good, but what about the clones? who can stop all this future services being cloned in hundreds of clones (FEX,MEX,TEX .....) of next Huh

Which network will you trust your livelihood to? The original and most robust or the unknown quality of clone network?

It will not be easy to get a 1000TPS network infrastructure. This will not be as simple as copying software. gotta clone the network also and I expect all the NXT hubs will have a significant price tag. If there are any bugs caused by mismatched network issues in the clone network, I doubt any of the original NXT devs would bother making fixes for the clone.

NXT is not just the software. It is also the hardware and MOST importantly the community.
What benefit is there for people using the services built on clones vs original NXT? None that I can see. Hence, there wont be any services on clone networks that are not also on original NXT network, but the same cannot be said for the reverse.

Ignoring the giant lead in userbase, even starting from scratch, the original NXT network has permanent advantages. Combine this with the 20,000+ existing users and I cannot even imagine a scenario where a NXT clone network overtakes NXT. Well, maybe one scenario, NXTDOGE might have a chance.

James