love the new pic on the homepage!!!

thank you.. i dont want to have to split my stake with my bro :/

We could play around with the wallet @ this website. It is unavailable now.

Anyone now why?

http://www.danhgiakpi.com/nemClient/web/index.html#ajax/dashboard.html

Fore those that need a bedtime story

David Korten
http://livingeconomiesforum.org/

My grandfather once remarked "you could take all the land and redistribute it equally among people and the same people would end up owning it again."

The 80-20 Pareto Distribution, where 20% of the population owns 80% of the wealth seems to be a naturally occurring phenomenon. Any coin can be expected to migrate towards this distribution. This is still a lot better than the "1%" statistic oft quoted in the US.

Any attempts to socially engineer some other desired distribution are apt to fail, and worse, yield unintended adverse consequences.

Any update about the auction? Has it started yet?

CfB hasn''t left totally. He is still around, and waiting for DGS and asset exchange to finish. CIYAM is of course still working on AT project. James is supposedly "working" on dozens of things, but they don't involve changing nxt core. These are all his own projects. There are many others working on various projects (like android apps, games ( http://www.nox.am/  )  websites ( nxt.org, etc)

I've bookmarked this. Care to wager a NEM stake on this?

Listen, I understand you're the head of NEM. Respect for you and your team. Somehow, in all the 'fair distribution' talk it's forgotten that CfB, Jean-Luc, CIYAM, James and others are a killer team. We're not waiting on an alpha, or picking out logos -- we're testing features now as I type this.

I wouldn't wager my NEM stake if I wasn't 100% positive.

No luck needed. We're very close.

https://nxtforum.org/index.php?topic=665.msg11906#msg11906

This is not totally true. NXT has a good concept around removing everything but the blockchain itself. Transactions, messages and trade logs are stored in a way, that entries older than XXX days can be pruned. There is nothing decided yet, about the rules ect, but it is not so far away as you say.
As for bootstrapping, that is basically ready for BTC. Not sure why you say otherwise. It is not implemented because it is a nontrivial change, that is not needed 100%. That's why!

Who said anything can be 'done at will'? That's specious. And how is Bitcoin, an antiquated 1.0 crypto, suddenly the sine qua non of what can and can't be accomplished?

Bitcoin doesn't have the advantage of Nxt or NEM... smaller cryptos can be nimble. We don't have $5+ billion dollars tied to our blockchains (yet!)

We're testing NXTsubatomic crosschain exchanges *today*. NEM and Nxt don't have committees and foundations breathing down our necks. Or miners.

Nxt will support blockchain pruning. Not sure of ETA, as Asset Exchange and Automated Transactions are coming first.

This is exactly what's going to happen, no buy support, just like it did with NXT. People are so naive.

Announcement: On behalf of NEM dev. team I would like to invite qualified candidates to apply for the position of marketing manager for NEM.

Qualifications:
- experiences with crypto currency communities.
- familiarity with marketing strategies of different crypo promoting group including Bitcoin, Doge, Blackcoin, Peercoin, NXT.
- good at English writing for promotional materials.

Requirements:    
- can spend at least 20 hours per week on NEM related promotional tasks.
- can volunteer for NEM related works.
- being a NEM stakeholder is preferable (not necessarily one right now but should be one over the long-term).
- can formulate a long term strategy as well as individual promotional projects for NEM.

Benefit:
- This is not a temporary hire but you will be a member of NEM development team (while we can pay for specific tasks) and can benefit as such. You will work in association with me as well as other NEM core developers in our many future endeavors.

Please send me a P.M describing your relevant experiences and I will contact you for further interviews. This is a very important position for NEM, so I expect the selection process will take sometimes but hopefully we will have the position filled before NEM alpha release.

Will there be fee on sending message and how much? I heard that in NXT two people can just ping pong 1 NXT with message, when they have communication. Did I misunderstood?

P.S. I hoped I can have chat with other Nemsters without CIA, NSA, etc.

Noob Question:

What means "secure Messaging" exactly? Can it be used like email/Whats app?

Very interesting.

Ufuture: could you please elaborate

actually I can clarify this.

I am a mod at /r/NXT and I posted a thread on the nxt forum asking what should be changed. And all people there said NEM is clearly distancing themself from NXT so there is no reason whatsoever to link there.

Do you disagree?

Regarding the auction and branding discussion, I think we need to push things forward with the marketing/branding process in order to really maximize the effect of the auction.

In this field it seems Blackcoin si making some real marketing moves.

We can learn from them and in addition to everything we have planned, create an investor's handout where we outline all the important info about Nem.

Here is an example of how that was done by blackcoin.(Download the PDF to evaluate the idea, see what they plan and what they are working on.)

http://www.blackcoin.co/general/meet-black-april-20th-2014-investor-handout/

Update:

- As it seems blackcoin has created a blackcoin card which has almost arrived. http://www.blackcoincard.com/

- Has signed a contract with Coinkite(payment processor) and is about to get listed on 1 June.

- Doing some creative marketing campaigns such as planning to go to wallstreet and inform people about their ideas. They are doing it in such a way to attract a lot of attention and create some real national/international news buzz : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=469640.msg6455841#msg6455841