Bitcoinpaul asked me an interesting question about how I answered an audience's question at the 2014 Texas Bitcoin Conference:

The guy asked: "Whats the difference between Nxt and Bitcoin and how does it work?"
And your answer was something like "It's built from scratch". This was more an answer to the question "What is the difference between bitcoin and all the other crap altcoins".

Shouldn't be the answer more of what Nxt is capable of and where the trade offs are with Bitcoin (Asset Exchange, energy efficient, 51% attack, 1000tps, ...)?

From a sales/marketing perspective, I like to avoid discussing technical issues of NXT because:

1) I'm not technical.
2) Nothing kills adoption faster then confusion.  A confused mind can not make a decision and alienates people and causes distrust.  When I speak in front of a crowd, my goal is  to get the audience to "trust" me first. Once they trust me, then I can say what I want.  I have those videos coming up...
3) I personally try to avoid talking shit about other crap altcoins because a) I don't know about them, b) talking crap about other coins tends to direct the audience's focus and attention on the wrong coins... :-)

This is my first conference... my presentations will get better as I get a better understanding of the audience.

It will get better :-)

Tai Zen

Great DEMO of wesleyh his client !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAhnpfkM0Z4

donation for video welcome: NXT: 12088507821025750338

donations for wesleyh: NXT:  8189784314684138350

Missing voice over and the duration is too long.

These two points made me close the video.

Thanks for the video!

As far as AE goes, and ask/bid orders:  while there is a deadline to put for timing out the transaction if it never gets written to a block, I think it would be even more useable if there were the option of an expiration where if the complete order QTY isnt met by that time, then it becomes invalid.  Is this possible?

Where are you stakeholders ??

Well, the guy seemed to be interested in Nxt and the answer was a little boring and, in the light of the recent discussion, not compelling. Maybe dive into AE and other technical things and ask question here. Then you can talk about the interesting stuff, if someone asks. Nobody cares about "written from scratch".

I don't want you to talk shit about other alt coins either. This would just look premature and like you were not convinced of Nxt.

Don't get demotivated by my critic please. I really liked your appearance. Just a little tweak on content.

Pinarelly is Emule? 

First Satoshi, and now this!

(Also, once again, thanks for the video, Pin! )

Help,

I copied and pasted my coin address incorrectly.

The transaction is: http://blocks.nxtcrypto.org/nxt/nxt.cgi?action=3000&acc=413078656745476628

The correct address is: 4130786567454766284

+1440 + 21 + 1

I'm glad to see people starting to talk about the things that are important to average, real-world people. People get caught up so much in the technical stuff and seem to forget what makes crypto-currency exciting, which is that it solves the problem of sending SMALL sums over the internet.

For large sums, most will stick with credit cards and the protections inherent there. Bitcoin/Crypto solves the problem of how to send someone a nickel, a quarter, a dollar, etc via the internet.  Whoever masters this domain masters all the rest.

And YES, the DOGE community needs to be courted.

Find a solution for SR users and you will see Nxt gain 10x value.