Below is the statement from the lead catapult developer.

At the end of the day it's the foundation's responsibility to ensure this coin succeeds. I hope they can do it.

I think that ninja nonsense was just something people told themselves to justify the lack of communicating and marketing. Someone said it and it has been repeated a bunch of times since then. Really disappointing how the foundation is handling things. There was an announcement months ago about Lon leaving and a new marketing team being put in place and a big marketing push.. but nothing has really happened other than a few shill articles on obscure crypto websites.

We need something that will truly move the needle or we're totally fucked. In reading interviews with the devs and others associated with the coin, I honestly believe them when they say they don't care about price.. and that much is obvious. Makes no sense to me. We're gonna lose so much marketcap and one more big slide and this coin will be out of the top 20.. and it's coming. Vechain is slowly creeping up while we fall.

Very frustrated with how things are being managed. This coin should be showing everyone else the way, instead they seem content to eat the crumbs left by the real big dogs.

I've noticed that too. It did seem more difficult to really connect with the devs as far as making our own contributions, though they've always been very responsive to technical support types of issues. I honestly think it's simply that temperament wise, the NEM developers aren't really people or relationship oriented. They're very focused on coding and the technology and being personable and engaging is a whole other skill set.

But in the past the core team have rarely acknowledged any community effort and weren't remotely interested in interacting with them or listening to suggestions. That hasn't fostered an atmosphere that encourages people to pitch in.

again ...
in these interviews is got that kind of picture that some activity is expected from the community.

From my point of view I am a little bit disappointed on me, coz have stuck in this site. Twitter, Telegrams, etc, are too new for me
And the biggest issue to "learn" new media is the rush in the civil life. Sometimes the future there matters more than the futures of crypto coins

What hell is up with people and their inability to digest simple groupings of words?

Direct quote from the very same page - Mijin, NEM’s permissioned ledger can ensure over 4,000 tps and supports full interaction with NEM

You can easily test a private chain. There's never been a figure for public Catapult because they don't know yet because it's, y'know, dependent on thousands of strangers. 100 tps has been thrown around as a ballpark.  

They are NOT building a community at all. They don't respond to questions on this forum, facebook, the NEM forum or Twitter.

So basically ignoring us.

Worse thing you can do if you want to build a positive community and that pisses me off big time.

A community manager can easily manage 5 social media profiles and interact with the people

Chief Developer of NEM has not been online since July 2016.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=183319

Press releases used to be frequent but are almost never done anymore.

In the distance, the only thing I'm seeing right now is a half-lit candle with Project Catapult.  I'm skeptical because there's many projects with fast TPS and Catapult doesn't do anything new in that regard.  People in crypto don't really care about security or other things, either.

So the only thing left is maybe ninja news but speculators can't really wait on "news that might happen", especially when everything else is going up 10% a day.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=183319

Chief developer of NEM and has not logged in since July 2015.   

Why is it bullshit number? You already have 25% development stake. Why do you need 50% for the "development"? Plus all the BTC and Nxt collected during the IPO? Puer greed

It's a very bad idea to be messing with private keys or accessing any crypto on a public network.. Try to avoided that at if possible.

The algorythm for account creation won't change so you can create your NEM address already. I can copy/paste it.

I seriously doubt there is any point in discussing it.. It's not going to change. If some one doesn't like that their is 4b nem, they can just send one nem to the nemesis account after launch - problem solved

I agree. NEM and XCurrency are my two largest holdings by far.

Still here, still don't like the comments and don't like you referring to women who would leave because of them as "weak hands". No way am I going to let this thread turn into a gender debate because there is no point and there is nothing I hate more than gender debates on the Internet, but you have to understand that comments like that just are not acceptable in any social context.

If you have to say "don't tell her that" then you shouldn't be saying it in the first place. That's all I'll say about it, and I hope nobody else even brings it up anymore because it's pointless. Let's just leave it at this.

The way you get people to spend their coins is to increase the price of the coin or to give them incentives to spend.  PoI in a way is a lot like those reward points you see in credit cards / debit cards and people love that stuff.

well I'm almost ready with a easier to use wallet than the NIS / NCC combo and will be published here https://github.com/pocesar/node-nem-wallet

did anybody receive emails yet for the redemption?