Because it is unfair to ask people to invest heavily in NxT when it had nothing to show. The entire distribution design of NxT is unfair. A crypto shouldn't distribute their entire coin supply at day 1. That's unfair, I refuse to invest in any crypto that does that.

There should be a reasonable long distribution period, or an inflation schedule toward a final cap.

With NxT, basically anyone that didn't get in on day one, will have to purchase NxT from an early adopter, instead of simply buying from coin supply.

I believe this is the main reason NxT is often called a scam/unfair. You could look to Bitshare's distribution model for a fair distribution, the distribution was done over the period of several months, with half PoW distribution, half donation based. Also it now has an inflation schedule toward a final cap.

1st, end PoW mining. Because mainstream doesn't like being charged a 10% tax on their entire Bitcoin holding every year.

For trading, BTER is about the best you could find. Though you should look else where if you are trying to trade the BTC/USD pair.

Are you a PTS holder? I bought PTS at 0.02 BTC/PTS back in Nov 2013, and held till the Nov 5th, 2014 snapshot, then sold all immediately after the snapshot for 0.0026 BTC/PTS

So, my total investment cost was 0.0174 BTC/PTS. Now let's see what I got from each PTS:
* 644 BTS from February 2014 snapshot
* 1176 DNS and VOTE from dual snapshot, which now both converted to about 40 BTS total
* another 100 BTS from Nov 5th 2014 merger snapshot

So total of 784 BTS, which is currently worth 0.04 BTC, for my original investment cost of 0.0174 BTC.

Also since I held through the "play" snapshot, my PTS address would still be eligible for that too, though it haven't even been properly valued yet, I'm sure it'll worth something.

I wouldn't really call a 200%+ return in a year, "fucked". If you are PTS holder, I'm really curious what you did to feel "fucked" by holding PTS. Because if you bought PTS at nearly any point in the past year, and held till now, you would have made money (in term of BTC).

Really? PoW supporters are resorting to conspiracy theories now? well that's understandable, since the reality has shown
PoS is superior in every way.

A real protocol can't be forked, it would always work the same way, regardless who's developing a client for it, it's not a software.

For example, if you forked SSH, then it's no longer SSH. If you forked BitTorrent, then it's no longer BitTorrent.

If you forked OB, and it's still OB, then you just proved FBI have a case against the operator, since it's not a protocol. It behaves like a website. Pretty much like silkroad 1.0 vs 2.0

OB is not blockchain based right? how does it hardfork without having a chain?

Plenty of BitTorrent website and companies has been shutdown/arrested over the years. BitTorrent software itself is just a protocol, much like TOR, is not illegal by itself. It's what's built upon it, that could potentially be illegal. The protocol can't control what other people are doing with it.

From what I understand, OB is not a protocol, but THE platform itself, the developer can directly control what goes on in the marketplace by using code. Is it possible for others to develop alternative clients that also works?

Doesn't reallly matter. Silkroad has plenty of legal products on it too.

As soon as one illegal product show up, and OB developer ignore a cease and desist, then OB will possibly become illegal.

Plenty of BitTorrent website and companies has been shutdown/arrested over the years.

Why aren't you building for silkroad then? (or maybe you are, then I'm wrong). Silkroad isn't just for drugs neither, there's plenty of legal products on it, pretty similar to OB.

The FBI can shut it down by arresting the operator, OB is no different. FBI can just arrest the developer of OB, and announce that anyone writing code for OB will be arrested. No developer will touch OB, and without active development, OB is dead in the water.

Creating a website is writing code too, FBI had no issue arresting website operators.

If TOR didn't protect silkroad 1.0, 2.0 etc... what makes you think anonymous code contributors are safe?

FBI is certainly stepping up enforcement efforts. The oldest dark net market "farmer's market", used paypal, and they weren't caught for over 2 years (surprise surprise, they were caught simply by paypal disclosing their contact info to FBI). This was before Bitcoin was available.

FBI is increasingly getting good at busting TOR sites.

Nope, OB can be easily taken down, just arrest anyone who develops for it, it'll easily scare all developers into not touching OB. Without active development, OB is dead in the water.

Not really, you are confusing coin supply with paying for mining expense. If your theory were true, then when coin supply go to 0, mining expense will also be 0? that's obviously not the case, therefore your theory is wrong.

The expense is charged by devaluing Bitcoin, so no one will need to break out their cold storage, the expense is charged by making the coin's value decrease, that's all. As long as there's a need to use PoW to secure the network, Bitcoin eco-system will have to pay an expense tax to the miners, and that tax can not be cheap.

Nope, just the contrary. In a PoW system, once you own the hardware, it cost nearly nothing to attack any eco-system that uses the same algorithm. As shown by many PoW altcoins attacked to death.

In a PoS system, acquiring enough stake to attack will cost you astronomical amount of money, (you can't really hack the stake, since it's illegitimate stake and can be rolled back by community action). Then once you acquire the stake, you could only attack one particular PoS system (which you own a majority stake in, why would you attack it? it's illogical).

Therefore, ZERO PoS system has been actually attacked so far.

I'm not sure why people ignore the fact that tons of PoW altcoin has been attacked, and ZERO PoS altcoin attacked so far, and still have the audacity to claim PoS is less secure.

um, if Bitcoin eco-system isn't paying for the electricity, then who is? Also, it's not limited to the electricity, Bitcoin eco-system is also paying for the hardware, pool fee and miner profits.

If Bitcoin eco-system pays these expenses, then it's value transferred out of the system, of course Bitcoin price will go down. Unless there's new money inflow to equalize it.

If you reverse PoS and PoW in your post, then your post would be 100% accurate and correct

There's plenty of alternative crypto that provides pretty accurate peg to USD. BitUSD or NuBits for example. So when buying things with these, you don't have to worry about fluctuation in currency value.

Not really, many tiny PoW systems have been attacked, actually being tiny increase the likelihood of an attack for PoW systems.