There is one thing that i'm asking myself.
Why would we need NEM ?
It is absolutely blowing my mind , that there are people who think NEM will be their Bitcoin Rocketstart into wealth.
Why ? Because this time there a new people as Stakeholders ? Because the System is new , developed from the ground up and with another chance for catastrophic bugs or failures ? Is there really a need for another POS Coin ?
Baffles me and makes absolutely no sense in my mind...
(I'm also asking myself why we need NXT, but that is another story for another day.)
in one word - progress
NEM started as an idea to improve what has already been on the cryptocurrencies market. If you look at BTC - it is greatly outdated crypto from many perspectives: distribution, PoW (seriously, why does a global system for payments needs daily electricity like London? - and totally useless except for BTC), slow etc, but it is "established", proven, familiar, first. Challengers are stepping up. Will it be NXT? maybe. Will it be NEM? who knows now, but that certainly doesn't exclude trying and improving.
Have you tried using NXT? I get cringes when thinking of running the Armory for my btc to be sent. Don't you see how important AE (Asset exchange) is? what it offers? it is like asking why do we need computers(NXT) when pen and paper(BTC) work already. and NEM has a potential to be even better than NXT.
It baffles me that people don't understand progress. Don't you have some drive to improve something, make something faster, more efficient, better adopted, more fair, nicer, easier etc?
Alpha client for NEM is going to be as good if not even better than what NXT offers now. That is a great accomplishment. Try getting your siblings to use NXT from scratch or BTC. It is not easy. There is much what can be improved. NEM is trying to accomplish that.
NEM is far away from another me-too coin, or some other coin that is just a clone with something little different (NHZ).
NEM is totally new code, new people, new community, new goals etc. It is exciting, sexy and very popular so far! :-)