I wouldn't expect to become very popular among ordinary people very soon. Let's continue our expansion to the world of finance, the rest of the world won't have another option after Wall Street guys start using Nxt.

I thought our team spoke to the Cryptsy team in Miami and then we have sended an email to them. But it's true that we don't see any developments about this.

I'm sure he has many backups.  The current method of transferring shares of Asicminer is to create a thread in the auction section, like this one: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=439392.0

Then private message and/or email friedcat so he can change the addresses on the spreadsheet.

Many times people also use an escrow provider (such as John K.) to escrow the transfers.


This is a ridiculously inefficient, slow, manual process of transferring ownership of Asicminer shares.

If you're not familiar with Bitcoin securities, Asicminer is the most prominent of them all.

One company is already working on a trustless NXT-to-BTC-and-back gateway.

well we have to hurry, i believe we wont be first anymore , XCP is the first DEX , you can buy weed there already

Specifically I want more openness. CfB keeps talking about what will happen and mention BCNexts mysterious future plans as if they are the game changer, yet we, the people, get no knowledge of this until later on.
My question is basically: Why?

Why the need for secrecy and mystery? It simply cause confusion and uncertainty, which is the last thing you need in a new world that is ruled by scams, empty promises and paranoia. Hell BCNext who is so paranoid he wont even post anymore should understand this better than anyone.
NXT needs branding and marketing, it seems finally that everyone understands this, but then it shouldn't be hard to realize that the current atmosphere of uncertainty hurts NXT and lead important people away from NXT.
As someone who has worked in this area of NXT for almost 2 months now I can tell you that the biggest obstacle NXT has faced is to convince people it's not a IPO scam due to the very bad distribution. There is A LOT of uncertainty resting over NXT that hurts NXT.

Like CfB mentions over and over, we the community shouldn't rely on BCNext and that we need to develope ourselves. This is all fine and well, but then he turns around and says that the upcoming secret plans is where the real juice is at and just adds further uncertainty to everything which again lead the developers to view NXT as too uncertain to invest time and energy into. It's just one big mess.

If the reason is that he fears that someone will copy his ideas then that is obviously understandable, but why can't he then state that officially?
I just don't see why it is so hard for him to communicate to the community through CfB and remove all of this lingering uncertainty.

I have nothing against CfB, CfB knows this very well and noone is mad that things take time, but if we had more info on why certain things takes the time it does and so on then it would be easier for all of us to help out with things. It's really that simple.

Exactly!

Soon...Soon!

I reread the original NXT thread and I think one of the key reasons the price of NXT did so well was that immediately after genesis block, a market price of 1BTC per million NXT was established. This was a big premium over genesis price.

I think I saw some price for XCP at .01 BTC on some external site, I like the sounds of that for a starting market price.

If we can all be firm and not sell for below .01 BTC, then that will be the new price.

Someone needs to purchase XCP at .01BTC, I would but I burned all my spare BTC

Any buyer and seller to start the after-burn XCP trade market at .01BTC?

James

Regarding Counterparty's development, we've come up with what we think are good guidelines specifying the limited role of the core Counterparty team vs. that of the Counterparty community at large. We'd love for members of the community to review and comment on this as we see this statement, once approved by our team and the majority of the community, as serving as the guiding principles of the Counterparty project as a whole.

Counterparty Project Principles

Members of the community have burned or otherwise invested their funds into the success of the project.  The core development team will produce and maintain the reference client(s), official website and protocol specification. The community will self-organize and produce products, services, and businesses around these tools, as well as their own.

As a member of the community, you are encouraged to:

• Freely create useful applications around Counterparty technology and be compensated accordingly as people use your product or service.
• Be proactive and take initiative around the Counterparty protocol and in the community which will collectively be evidenced by a rising XCP value.
• Promote innovation by cooperating, sharing and collaborating with other community members.

And cracked by Doctor Evil, no less!

You need to get the idea of having some trusted entity to "back" things out of your head. The optimal solution is to use a DAC to create something like a decentralized credit union. Research it, implement it, change the world.

Patel if you have some particular suggestions, please PM me.

NXT @ bitcoin magazine:
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/9826/nxt-proof-stake-new-alternative-altcoin/

"With the growing popularity of cryptocurrency, the future looks very bright for NXT"