Any update about the auction? Has it started yet?
not yet, probably won't start until the open Alpha since we want to avoid scam accusation.
good idea! any plans on how the auction will be run? will you hold off on auctioning a couple stakes until just prior to nem launch? i think thats when you will get a huge amount of interest and much higher price!
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still looking for pledges towards the multipool!
i have a very strong plan but need pledges and a dev still.. it needs to be stand alone nem pool now in order to implement the full plan!
only 440k pledged so far 300k from 3 generous people so i think we can do much much better seeing as we have 3k stake holders!
We had discussion within NEM core dev, and nem core dev* is almost unanimously
against multipool.
but as utopianfuture noted, there is possibility, for getting funds from ecosystem and/or promotional funds.
* and slightly related:
How to understand the role of NEM core dev. team? NEM core dev. team should be considered only one group (albeit, an important one) within the NEM overall community- but not a centralized representative of NEM community. That means I would encourage NEM stakeholders to self-organize different teams/ groups that can operate independently from NEM core dev. team in a truly decentralized fashion, especially regarding to marketing and promotional activities. This I believe will increase the resilience, the diversity and the creativity of the network as a whole.
This should be considered a Prologue to NEM operation after the official launch, not that I ask the community for these decentralized activities right now - It is expected that we will fill the large bulk of all NEM necessary works (marketting included) up until our official launch, and probably extending until V1 blockchain completion as well.