Quote from: gentlemand on January 31, 2020, 11:25:41 AM

Quote from: samysamy1 on January 31, 2020, 09:50:30 AM

I notice lately that the Nem culture has changed dramatically after the announcement of Symbol.

I don't really understand this obsession with community funds. It's nothing to do with us. How they're spent is down to the small group that controls them and has controlled them since the genesis block. They saw fit to allocate the funds to the foundation. If we'd all been taxed to fund it that would be a different matter. The only bit that is relevant to the little people is how they liquidate them and the effect on the market.

Am sure if a straightforward hard fork type thing were possible they would've done it. It's vastly less ball ache and work. It does seem dangerous to me. It's possible both chains will sink without trace and I don't get how they're going to combat that. NEM itself has always been basically invisible despite everyone's best efforts. Another one doesn't have much to build on.

As for Alex being arsey on Telegram, I probably would be too if the same old passive aggressive clueless fucks kept needling me with the same old irrelevant questions.

Other than that I don't pay attention to many other projects but I hope they don't run along the same lines. The culture that's developed is well and truly fucked up. I'd say Lon Wong is largely responsible for that. He's the one who insisted on it being closed source. He's the one who operated for a long time without telling anyone effectively anything.

Every now and then the core developers pipe up and doesn't seem to have a clue what the foundation has been doing, or hasn't been consulted about anything.

After 3-5 years there's STILL talk of NDAs and hundreds of companies testing with little to no sign of anything. They seem to think we want to hear about things going on 'behind the scenes'.

Momentous decisions are taken in private and then presented as some sort of choice when of course there isn't one at all. The 'community' then rolls over and submits, or is so numb it doesn't think to question anything. Many of the decisions are good but that doesn't change the fact that they're diktats.

I've seen the core developers moan in interviews that NEM has no community. Since I've hardly ever seen it listened to then they shouldn't be surprised by that. They're a bunch of spectators.

Either be a decentralised protocol open to all or be a corporation. If you try to be both you wind up neither.

Completely agree with you, except from the community funds. The community voted to grant the Foundation a pot of money. so they didn't just have access to it. I'm afraid soon they will come back asking for more while they haven't delivered what they had been so enthusiastic about a year ago. They spent soooo much on marketing but yet nothing to show up for.

By the way super weird that Luxtag is asking for donations for their company Roll Eyes