Re: NEM Official Thread - Redemption ends on 22 November[Updates&Discussion]

It's been a while. Is Nem launching soon?

Early December, we hope !!!

We hope yes. If not then not. I'm not too worried about WHEN we launch. For me it's important HOW we launch. Launching a stable network that is absoutely bullet-proof and well tested is much more important to me than launching next month or even this year.
Only few coins that have released recently have been written from scratch and they are facing serious issues. I don't know how Crypti is doing but NODE had some outages recently...again. This can't and won't happen to us because we won't release until we're absolutely ready for it.
I don't mean to say we're taking things slow - hell no. We're going as fast as possible but as slow as neccessary. People will be able to be confident in our software and network from day 1 and that is worth a lot more than launching before some imaginary deadline.

Other things - beside devlopment - also take time but as xtester said those things will be announce soon

Agree with pat and rockethead. Quality is our primary goal so we are speeding as much as possible toward that. Though as we all know, quality takes time, a lot of time. At the end of the day our dev team is prepared to invest more time than give up on quality, and NEM is very different because of that. Wink

I agree. I'd rather have to wait a few more months if it means having everything working right from the start, including the added features. I was an early adopter of NXT and I have already lost track of how many times the wallet client quit working on me and I had to do an update by some block that was found yesterday, then download the whole block chain all over again (doing that now, as a matter of fact). It seems each time a feature is added to the platform it requires a wallet update. I understand NEM will probably require wallet updates from time to time, but it would sure be nice if they could be limited to once or twice a year. I'd love to be able to just use NEM without having to think about how the wallet works too much

Not that I'm complaining about NXT, or anything. It was a foundational currency and I knew that even with the technical difficulties I was making history by being part of it. I'm just not too keen on repeating some of that history Wink

Anyway, I'm really excited about NEM's upcoming launch and being a part of that... whenever it happens. Looking forward to the announcements on Sunday.