Nem has at least 1500 unique accounts and a strong community right from start. That's what success means. Sock puppet accounts have never been an issue to me.
Nxt IPO was fair in its own way and nem did not intend to be "fairer" than nxt. You can stop speculating on what nem trying to do because beating some other crypto in any aspect isn't one of them.

I have a question. Who is mining and protecting this coin network when it is 50% premined ?
I am not a miner but I think I understand a miner's mindset very well.

It does take a day for this question pop up in my mind.

Right, this round I think we need people who are inside the crypto circle which believe it or not much much bigger than this alternative board. 

Yes my plan is to ask more people to join in after public auditing and refunding sockpuppet accounts. There will be higher qualifications this round and I am still targeting around 3000 stakeholders. Also anonymity won't be allowed to avoid sockpuppet accounts.

BTW: I have an advertisement in Bitcoin subreddit on 2/28 for the whole day and I plan to get some media coverages to get more people interested in NEM. At this point, my goal is to have people who can bring substantial benefits to NEM on board such as businesses, developers, master promoters or community leaders etc.

We have only ONE CHANCE to get the stakeholder list right. So I would like to ask everyone to look around for people who you think can bring benefit to NEM. And if you find these people, talk to them to join NEM as if they will be your business partner. It won't be easy to persuade talented people to join us though so please give it your best. The fee to join in would a flat 800NXT or 0.08btc until we officially close the stakeholder list.  

It should not be the case. You would have YES but for all others, the condition will change to blank. Thanks for letting me know.

I have to give you credit for being consistent. The concept of "fairness" belongs to a moralistic category which for some philosophers mean absolutely nothing. Debates on the the concept of "equality" is equally controversial and problematic.
The liberal philosophy understanding of "equality" in the phrase "liberty, equality and fraternity" has a limited meaning that everyone should have an equal rights before law.

I has steered NEM fundraising away from any claims of being "fairest" or "most equal". The main goal of NEM fundraising is to build a community and secondary goal is to have a decent amount of development fund. I achieved that by spreading NEM as widely and equally as possible (but not perfectly equal).  We will also focus on the principles of egalitarianism and charity but will also consider other practical considerations. Any competition toward being "fairest" or "most equal" without building community and considering other practical issues is pointless, imho.    

I am curious to read the whitepaper.

I mean a plan may be very different from reality. There could be many colored coin/ asset exchange implementations and it is still to be seen what kind of implementation works best. NEM is different from NXT as much as NXT is different from Counter Party Protocol or Mastercoin and as much as Whatsapp is different from Viber or Facebook is different from Myspace.      

There are two points everyone should understand.

1. The development team did not sell NEM stakes or actively looked for passive investors during the fundraising; This is the purpose of the fundraising "We are looking for active participants that can help NEM in particular and the decentralized network culture in general" . There were fee /promotional condition to participate in NEM and when we have an unified group of stakeholders we will divide all NEM (minus development shares) equally to all stakeholders. In essence, the goal of the fundraising process is to build the community and funding that can help to move the NEM platform forward.

2. This is the disclaimer applying for the fundraising "While we are committed to the idea of "Fair Distribution - Equal Shares for ALL "; the fund raising terms are subject to changes upon the discretion of the development team."

These are taken "words by words" from the fundraising page. If you misunderstood these terms by the time of registration or now disagree with them, you are now free to leave and I will refund what you contributed in.

There are a plenty of associations out there and you are free to leave this one and join what you like, and yes based on the disclaimer the development team has the power to not accept a certain account in our stakeholder list.

Solved. will need to check for duplicate hash though because your hash was edited in on a later date.

The stakeholder list in a google sheet listed in the front page of this thread. Bookmark the front page as the updates will be there as well.

Condition Y = okie; blank = not qualified. As described in the fundrasing process, registration in each page has to send in the fee or satisfy a NEM promotion condition. Accounts without condition =Y did not satify these above mentioned conditions and therefore not qualified.

Did Myspace also plan to do everything Facebook does ?

I have some technical issues with the host site. Should be resolved today.

I guess that is a part about being transparent about the whole process. I don't see it as washing dirty laundry because there is nothing bad to hide and it does not violate anyone privacy at all.
On the other hand, the more effort people spend on the public auditing, the better nem reputation will be. We do it once but do it thoroughly.
I do have a request that all investigations should go to another thread or communicate with each other via pm.
There will be a new thread opened specifically for public auditing scheduled in 3 days.

It is not about nxt community. It is about NEM community. If someone is not interested in being part of the NEM community, he can leave and I will refund what he contributed in the fundraising process.
I have emphasized several times, the fundraising is a call for participants in building NEM/ Nemcoin network. If someone is not interested in that, he obviously misunderstood the process and should leave.

I took it down for 1 day to add some changes. It will be up soon.

Bookmark the front page of this thread, I will put links to all important updates in the update section. Read the plan ahead post, there will be an important update after the public auditing is over.

I temporarily took 2Kool4Skewl from NEM stakeholder list as I understand that he does not want to be there. In the first 20 pages of the fundraising, many people do not entirely understand about the scope as well as purpose of NEM so it was easy just to post "interested" there by a mistake. Contrary to what used to be in the first page of the fundraising thread , NEM do offer refund after the announcement of detail development plan (probably in 2 weeks or so) so if someone does not feel they fit in with NEM community, they can leave voluntarily.

As written in ournem.com, at this stage NEM is first of all a community of which people share a certain ideas and goals and we going to build NEM/ Nemcoin as our decentralized payment platform together as we go along. I see no reason to keep people that are unhappy with NEM and this approach. There are no coins to share yet so it is not like we are taking anything from anyone. If 2Kool4Skewl wants to join back in, just say so before I make the unified stakeholder list and I will add him in.  

The majority of NEM funding comes from Bitcoin and only about 30% of NEM stakeholders appear in NXT discussion before (see an excellent statistics by newcn) so I see NXT and NEM having quite a different demographics, also different technology and purposes. While I think there is a certain aspect of competition between the two blockchain, we can learn from each others as well. Some are developers of both NXT and NEM and they work across the aisle and I think that is a good thing. It will help advancing experiments and innovations in more directions. Compared to Bitcoin and other POW coins, NXT and NEM have more similarity and we can join force to emphasize our strength in a green economical network and highlight the problems with the computational arm-races used by Bitcoin and other POW coins. Let's focus on cooperation and innovation instead of envy and hatred as that are also  NEM's core concepts and principles.

BTW, we appreciate active participants much more than passive ones/ investors. So contact me if you want to help in any way. Thanks.

I like this one which is similar to the one made by norti used in Reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/nem/comments/1w4f4t/announcing_nem_the_first_egalitarian_crypto_join/.

update 2/19 : an unified stake holder list would be made on 2/22 which is three days from today. You need to file a complaint in the stake complaint thread by that day if you think you are a stakeholder but you are not on the list or on the list without Y.
From now on, I will put all important updates in the front page of this thread (in the update section) so please at least bookmark that page to catch up with important information.