NEM currently has a capitalization close to $10 million on the asset exchange, pretty good for an unreleased coin.   The rush to acquire NxT, to purchase NEM on the asset exchange, was a factor in NxT's recent pump.  No different from how Mastercoin ballooned when people were looking to acquire Maidsafe.  There has been assets which traded slightly more than NEM but they entirely within the NxT system (NxT whales purchasing assets; so no outside money coming in).


I think you all exaggerate the importance of technical innovation.  IIRC - the average person uses less than 90% of the functionality of an Iphone, Blackberry, Samsung Galaxy, et cetera.  Never the less, the image of being innovative is important in advertisement.  NEM may not be as innovative as NxT but it's still comparatively innovative (it has features which NxT doesn't have and it's 10,000x more innovative than all the $hitclones still being made) but it also has that big community and a better reputation.

  Everyone, who isn't a NxT bagholder, thinks of NxT as being that coin which has terrible distribution and that's something NxT can't really get away from.  Many people think Bitcoin is a get quick rich scheme, they'ld have a far more negative interpretation with NxT's distribution.