Hi James
I see mention of jl777hodl. I own a few hundred but I don't really get it so to speak they have a current value of between 3/4 nxt, which is bugger all. Can you give any heads up about what's happening with this asset
Cheers Jon
The problem is that the NXT AE's liquidity has really dried up due to circumstances beyond my control. So instead of trading at some reasonable price that reflects the true value of its holdings, it doesnt really trade at all. I warned them. I made a lot of noise about this. I predicted this would happen if they went ahead with their splitting the coin plan, but I was ignored. And I could no longer justify spending my time enhancing NXT.
The split with NXT is what convinced me that I had to create my own platform that I can trust to not be changing beneath my feet if it suits the interests of the primary coin holders. Derived crypto has no protection against the hardfork attack where the devs and large stakeholders agree to transfer value from the addons, like assets.
To solve this I am making assetchains, a blockchain secured by itself using PoS of itself. Now before you start accusing me of starting another project, this one was forced onto me by the NXT situation and I designed a solution that fits into the SuperNET roadmap.
Now the problem with a PoS chain with very few nodes is that it will be very weak and I would not feel it secure enough. So what is needed is a way to enhance the security of assetchains.
Hence dPoW
Before any trolls try to say I did the same thing to BTCD, I remind them that NXT assets had literally millions of dollars worth trading on it before they changed the fundamental future value of what assets are denominated in and without any way to get back onto the main value coin. Of course they are nice enough to support a slave chain at the mercy of the mainchain if you pay a 50% tax. This would be similar to the NASDAQ saying that instead of trading in USD, they are changing to the Argentine peso, except for a while it will trade as it if was (half EUR + YEN), except for the time where it is ...
All NXT asset holders had to become like advanced forex traders and instead of highly predictable currencies like the USD, GBP, lira, peso, they would be denominated in an ever changing base value whose price had no history and was totally unpredictable. It didnt take a genius to realized that to properly price assets in such chaos would be beyond the skills of most the existing assetholders. All they would see is crazy overnight 4x revaluations and 80% drops and that is if the prices did the logical thing! If nobody is trading something and it revalues, then it cant help but be mispriced. And globally mispricing all assets in the market and saying that its the assets fault if they stay mispriced. They are causing financial harm to basically everyone that invested in my assets and I couldnt do anything about it. I just couldnt deal with it anymore and left NXT.
There are no assets denominated in BTCD. Also, even if there was, I would have allowed assets to become denominated in KMD. It matters what currency you trade against.
Oh, the true native DEX will allow trading of all the assetchains directly against BTC, and each other.
So that is what is happening with jl777hodl and many other assets.
I can also talk about why InstantDEX is not yet. Originally I designed it based on NXT, then all the blockchain messages became temporary which is not good for financial records that I wanted to use it for. The permanent messages costs went up 5x and what was already on the high side for fees of 5 NXT due to the number of transactions, would have cost 25NXT. That is more than the cost of using bitcoin!
Rather than release it with an nonviable pricing, I decided to wait to port it on top of iguana. Of course, to get some product release pump, I could have released it, but that is not who I am. If the non-technical aspects of the tech make it non-viable, I wont release it just to be able to say I released it.
