I guess I wonder what YOUR words mean

You SAY nothing is going on. These are your WORDS? What are they backed up with?

Where do you fail to understand the action associated with:



Do you know what Github is?

Do you know M of N is?

Or are these only words to you?

A whitepaper? Just words too I guess lol.

And I guess when one of the devs is giving presentations about NEM, well I'll be damned those are merely words as well.

The high performance node program will probably start a beta test in a month or two.

Nothing guarantees success, but no development guarantees failure. 

Bitcoin does have a full time dev team and good funding now from MIT (even if their codebase is unmaintainable).

NEM is the most successful release since the end of 2014, so I am thrilled that we are holding our own still.
Things are progressing much better than I could have anticipated, as will become apparent in the coming weeks (a lot of stuff isn't yet ready to be disclosed, so watch out for the NEM ninjas).

I trust your claims and that much is going around development in the background. Increasing my stake from day to day.

We know you lost faith in crypto, even Bitcoin, so why come and talk to us about it?

NEM has always been very "avant garde".

 This can be a good thing as NEM is addressing the limitations and concerns of cryptocurrency and is remedying solutions.  This remediation is something absent in Bitcoin and virtually every alternate.   There could be remediation behind closed doors but without transparency then we do not know.  Given the past years of cryptocurrency, my own assumption is nothing is happening beyond bug fixes and foundations cutting fat checks.  The FX debate, and how it splintered the Bitcoin developers, at minimum indicates a chaotic developer regime that could had gone back years.

NEM has always been very "avant garde".

This can also be a bad thing when people come on this thread to whine about cryptocurrency (including all the alts and possibly Bitcoin) is not going anywhere and thus it sets a bad depressive vibe on this thread.  This is an unnecessary distraction and if it continues then it may have to be moderated.  Practically most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies have very repressive and moderated threads or external forums where they absolutely do not tolerate these things.   I don't want to name names but at least one name I have seen here was banned from the NXT forum for being maniac depressive (internet forums, and especially this thread, are not substitutes for a psychiatrist or medication prescribed by a licensed health professional).



  The one exception is Bitcoin and it is because Bitcoin can't be brought down by a few forum trolls or by people suffering from manic depression.  There were people fudding on this forum back in 2011 and earlier and it did not stop Bitcoin.  

This will be true for alternates when they finally get mainstream coverage and adoption beyond 10,000 users.

 NEM is working on it.  XEM is only 3-4 months old and V1 is out soon.  XEM is a 2015 release and it is the best performing 2015 release.    Once users come in, the train will not be coming back to the station.  

NEM is everything you secretly wanted from bitcoin/cp/NxT/BS/dash. It's faster, more secure, and has a programmatic API that is easier to use. Developers should find the NEM API very simple: http://bob.nem.ninja/docs/

Ummm.... No AE, no marketplace, no multisig, no anon features, no Auto-DACs... There's a lot missing from NEM.

I know, I know, most of that is "in development," but its not real until it exists. Can you dig it?

Still... the question remains: what would cause the ordinary human to pick NEM over BTC or a hundred other alternatives? My answer would be merchant adoption. I would try to hammer that area instead of just advertising to the same group of cryptonerds who have been coming here for years.

If I have some spare time, maybe I will start a sports book for NFL (the only professional sport I really follow) that uses NEM to place wagers. It would have been better for the world cup or olympics I suppose.