Quote from: Eadeqa on March 31, 2014, 05:49:38 PM

Quote from: patmast3r on March 31, 2014, 10:59:15 AM

Quote from: Djentriser on March 31, 2014, 10:32:17 AM

I waited what impact will have releasing of NXT code. The community thought that it will drive the price up, but in reality it did nothing for NXT, just many people trying to copy it. They didnt, but I heard those people saying they are not going to copy NXT code because it is strangely written.
Not sure how important releasing of code is, but think we should do something to prevent copying it.

First rule of economy says that resources are limited, thats what gives them value.
NEM must be valuebale. I totally stopped caring for 1.gen crypto, just because how much of them is in existence. Dont let that happend to NEM.

You're right the source release had no positive effect for NXT regarding the price. I think that witholding however did have an effect - a negative one.

Nxt didn't have "negative" start. They had the biggest gain in the history of ALTCOINS, ever. They turned 21 BTC to almost 100,000 BTC. The prices have dropped since releasing the code. If there was anything that had negative impact, it was the fact that it was different and required exchanges to do some work to add it -- not a single exchange that eventually added Nxt cared about code. Cryptsy owners still seem to think it's closed source, even though he added it to cryptsy.

Things have really changed in the last 2 months. It's much harder now to distinguish yourself from hundreds of coins. Every week there are dozen more crapcoins released. I think you will find it will be hard this time to convince outsiders why they should even care about Nem when 100s of other coins are around. If you make it even more diluted with Nem clones, that will be just bad.

@Eadeqa as stated by @utopianfuture on the NEM Promotion Trello board yesterday:

"NEM is not a coin. NEM is more like a new technological platform which takes a huge amount of effort and time from core developers to create. In a technological sense NEM platform is not that different from Android or Facebook except that NEM infrastructure maintenance would depend on a decentralized effort...."

NEM is vastly different from those "crapcoins" you mention. Yes, it will be difficult gaining the audience of "outsiders". But with our community of 3000+ we'll get it done.