Actually, this seems painfully believable.

All this talk about unfair distribution... You are forgetting one simple fact - after the coin hits the market, anyone with enough money can buy up as much as as he/she wants to.
The things we argue about - fair distribution, equal shares, etc are just for us little folks who can't afford to put up a big investment, so we want to make sure our 40 bucks go as far as they can and nobody cheats us.

Just as an example (these numbers are just out of thin air). Let's say we have 200 btc total investment at launch 4k investors and 4 billion coins. So the established price floor would be something like 0.05btc per 1mil coins (just an average). Ok let's double it to be sure and it's 0.1btc per mil nem... what's to stop anyone throwing some 10 btc at the market and buying up 5% of the coins?

If anyone is serious about controlling a large portion of NEM I'm sure they will. We are quibbling about the crumbs while the big boys will always have a larger slice of the pie.

I think that would be unfair. I registered on the forum after lurking for a while specifically to join the NEM.
Is it my fault that I'm not a seasoned "crypto enthusiast"?

I already missed the boat on bitcoin, dogecoin, nxt... and now you suggest this 'fair' condition that once again would leave me out?
not cool

I'm interested as well
Sent 20 NXT
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