The first book about Nxt
Crowdfunding campaign: 5th December 2015 to 5th January 2016
We need your support
NXT-DE5P-4A5T-6SHU-7FHCV
What is this book ?Initially published as a pdf, it will be the first multi-lingual, tangible symbol of the real-life, global, transformative potential of Nxt.
More specifically, co-published by Nxter Magazine and Plaisir d’histoire (Ludom), it will be the printed (paper) version of the free pdf-book that was published to celebrate Nxt's second birthday. It contains articles written in English, Russian, French, Spanish and Chinese.
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http://nxter.org/nxt-2nd-birthday/Introduction
by apenzl ...............................................................................
............... 4
Чтo дeлaeт Nxt кpиптoплaтфopмoй втopoгo пoкoлeния?
(English: What makes Nxt crypto platform 2nd generation?)
by abctc ...............................................................................
............... 11
The original spirit
by Bas ‘Damelon’ Wisselink .................................................................... 17
Nxt son histoire et son potentiel
(English: Nxt - its history and potential)
by Lionel ‘Ludom’ Jeannerat ................................................................... 28
Three unappreciated Nxt services
by Cassius ...............................................................................
............ 52
Nxt financiación colectiva
(English: Nxt Crowdfunding)
by Rubén BC ...............................................................................
......... 58
Nxt Foundation:
How to market a decentralised, open source organisation
by Dave ‘EvilDave’ Pearce ...................................................................... 73
The Value of 10 NXTs
by ChuckOne ...............................................................................
........ 80
SuperNET
by Cassius and apenzl ........................................................................... 87
中国正在觉醒
(English: China is awake)
by NxtChina ...............................................................................
......... 97
The regulatory process:
if you're not at the table, you‘re on the menu
by Robert Bold, Kushti, Jean-Luc and Riker ............................................ 105
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In summary, our goals are:
- Produce a high quality, limited edition of the English language version of the book in printed (paper) form.
- Translate the book into each of the other 4 languages depending on demand and to make them available initially as pdfs.
- Produce paper versions of the book in each of the other 4 languages either as 'Print-on-Demand' or in high quality, again depending on demand.
See below for further details.
Why we need your supportThis project needs support from the community: morally and financially.
Morally: we need your support to help sustain our motivation. If our project doesn’t have the community's support, we have no reason to continue working on it.
Financially: we need your support so that we can create high quality publications of the book in paper form, starting with the English Language version.
Each copy sold during the campaign will be numbered and signed by Ludom on behalf of Nxter Magazine and Plaisir d’histoire.
Over time, as Nxt becomes established as a financial ecosystem, it is anticipated that the book will become an increasingly valuable collector's item.
Our projected costs are:
- Printing cost: 200 books
(150mm x 220 mm, 136 + 4 pages,
Interior B/W 90gr Premium,
Couverture Quadri 235gr Integra Antalis,
Spine Sewn and glued). - Shipping cost, taxes and custom fees (30% of the book's price).
- Miscellaneous costs: ISBN and Swiss National Library registration of the books, shipping of the books for the contributors (writers, editors and translators).
Plaisir d’histoire will pay the FIAT bills but wants to be reimbursed in crypto-currencies, assets and MScoins.
Nxter Magazine and Plaisir d’histoire need
200’000 NXT or its equivalent in value in other crytocurrencies, assets or MScoins to produce and deliver a high quality paper version of the book in English.
How you can support usBuying e-book and paper booksOnce a week during the campaign, the prices, which are determined in USD, will be converted into crypto value and published on the Nxtforum.
Worldwide delivery will be available.
Tokens to buy e-books are:ebookeng: E-book in English
Asset ID 18310681715601320988
ebookfre: E-book in French
Asset ID 762274092038885351
ebookrus: E-book in Russian
Asset ID 18284118483914201034
ebookspa: E-book in Spanish
Asset ID 2728308106613828176
ebookchi: E-book in Chinese
Asset ID 10707307993124388284
The price of the e-book is 2$ or 2 coinoUSD.
320 NXT0.00538 superBTC
2.8 superBTCD
Tokens to buy paper-books are:pbookeng: 1 paper book in English
Asset ID 7676447843512066742
Price: 20$ or 20 coinoUSD.
3'200 NXT
0.0538 superBTC
28 superBTCD.
TENGB (MScoin tradable, controllable): 3 paper books in English (16% discount)
Price: 50$ or coinoUSD.
8'000 NXT,
0.1345 superBTC
70 superBTCD.
XENGB (MScoin tradable, controllable): 10 paper books in English (25% discount)
Price: 150$ or coinoUSD.
24'000 NXT
0.4035 superBTC
210 superBTCD.
LENGB (MScoin tradable, controllable): 50 paper books in English (50% discount)
Price: 500$ or coinoUSD.
80'000 NXT
1.345 superBTC
700 superBTCD.
How to buy with NXTBuy the tokens that you want on the asset exchange or on the MScoin exchange. Verify the ID of the assets.
How to buy with a listed asset
Send the required amount of the asset (look at the price list on Nxtforum)) to NXT-DE5P-4A5T-6SHU-7FHCV with a message that explains what you buy.
How to buy with other assets or MScoinsWe can accept other crypto-value. For more details, send a message to
ludom@nxter.org or an arbitrary message to NXT-DE5P-4A5T-6SHU-7FHCV.
How do you send the booksWhen the e-books are ready, we will send an encrypted message to the asset holders with instructions how to download the e-books.
When the books have been printed, a confirmatory message to that effect will be sent to the assets/MScoin holders. As soon as each holder sends us back the token with their physical address, Plaisir d’histoire will send the book(s) to their address.
Where any part of the campaign fails to meets its objectives, we will buy back the tokens concerned.
Free donations and account leasingFeel free to make donation to the account NXT-DE5P-4A5T-6SHU-7FHCV. We accept everything:
NXT, assets, MScoins, alias, nice messages and anything-else you like.
During the crowdfunding campaign, the account will be forging all the time, the forging revenues will be part of the funding. You can lease your account to support the project.
Special rewardsAlias systemOn Nxtforum, we’ll organise an auction to sell a special alias: SurpriseAlias. The winner of the auction will buy the alias on the Nxt platform.
This alias will be printed in large font on the first pages under the words: “Discover the link of SupriseAlias”.
Marketplace15 x Early English Bird (17$, 2'700 NXT):The English language version of the book will be sold with a 15% discount. Each Nxt account will be limited to one book at this discount.
You will also receive 1 asset Pbookeng.
If you want more than one book at a discount, please buy the TENGB, XENGB or LENGB MScoins.
4 x Little advertiser (200$, 32'000 NXT):You receive a XENGB (10 books) + a half page of the book for your advertisement.
2 x Big advertiser (600$, 96'000 NXT):You receive a LENGB (50 books) + a full page of the book for your advertisement.
10 x E-book life subscription (40$, 6'400 NXT)You receive the asset NxterSub (1637207859198711678). This asset gives the right to receive for free every e-book published by Nxter Magazine for EVER.
FreeMarketAdditionally, to show our support for this promising Nxt project, we will be selling 15 Early birds and 10 E-book life subscriptions on FreeMarket.
I want to help in some other wayContact Ludom of Plaisir d’histoire:
ludom@nxter.org or NXT-DE5P-4A5T-6SHU-7FHCV
What are the goalsThe main goal: English paper bookWe want to publish a really good quality book in English. We don’t want to use the print-on-demand solution because the print quality is bad and the profits are tiny.
To print 200 books, we need 200’000 NXT of crypto-value. All the NXT, assets and the MScoins are in the “First Nxt book” account NXT-DE5P-4A5T-6SHU-7FHCV.
The campaign will end on the 5th January 2015.
Updates of the estimated value of the 'First Nxt book' portfolio will be published regularly on Nxtforum.
Secondary goals: other language versions of the bookSince there would certainly be less demand for editions of the book in other languages, we are putting forward the following proposals:
20 e-books: translation into any of the other 4 languages: Russian, French, Spanish and Chinese.If 20 assets of an e-book in one of the above languages are sold, we will begin translating it into that language. You can buy as many assets as you want to support your own language version of the book.
50 e-books: paper book published as Print-on-demandIf 50 assets of an e-book in a particular language are sold, we will launch the corresponding asset PbookXXX and the MScoins (x3, x10 and x50). You will then be able to buy the paper book in this language.
Subject as provided below, the quality of the book will be 'Print-on-Demand'.
30 paper books + 150k NXT: paper book 'best quality'After the main goal of 200k NXT has been reached, for every additional 150k NXT, we will publish the book in a new language in the same quality as the English language version.
To qualify for high quality publication, a minimum of 30 copies of the particular language version of the book must have been purchased. Where two or more language versions of the book qualify, the best seller will be the one chosen.
FAQWho am I?My name is Lionel Jeannerat ('Ludom' on Nxtforum). I’m a Swiss. I work freelance in History and game design and carry on a publishing business under the name Plaisir d’histoire. I am responsible for managing this campaign and the logistical aspects of publishing the book. My website is:
http://www.plaisirdhistoire.ch/I’m working with the core team of Nxter.org, the Nxter Magazine. They are responsible for editing and translating the book. Their website is:
http://nxter.org/We are all well-known and, we like to think, trusted in the Nxt community.
What will we do if the goals are not reached?First, we'll all be very disappointed!
Second, I’ll rebuy every asset that can’t be exchanged with the promised product.
The articles are already available to read, so why should you support us?Yes, it’s true. You can already read the articles for free, at least in their original languages:
http://nxter.org/nxt-2nd-birthday/But our ambition extends beyond this campaign.
Our future projectsNxter Magazine and Plaisir d’histoire want to build new projects on the Nxt platform. This campaign is the first of the projects we are planning based on the Nxt platform.
The Nxt marketingAn excellent, beautifully produced book about Nxt is a great tool for Nxt marketing. A PDF or a cheap Print-on-demand Book is a poor substitute for that. And, if we have books in other languages, we can of course reach more people.
We want to print more books than are sold during the campaign. Having a good stock available in each language will enable us to market it, and therefore Nxt, more effectively.
To that end we want to increase the book's distribution via online and physicals books shops.
A new example of the use of Nxt platformAs you can see, we will be using every feature of Nxt in our crowdfunding campaign. Nxt needs its crowdfunding platform to be used in as many different ways as possible in order for its flexibility and effectiveness to be fully demonstrated. The success of our campaign will provide a further demonstration of the power of Nxt.
If the campaign is as big a success as you envisage, what will you do with the extra funding?We won't make any profit until the book is published in each language: English, French, Chinese, Russian and Spanish. And we need 200k + 150k + 150k + 150k + 150k NXT = 800k NXT for that.
If we funded more than that, it would mean that we would have sold more and the shipping cost would therefore be bigger too. Firstly, I would pay the extra cost with the extra funds.
After that, the surplus (i.e. the profit) would be shared between the contributors (1/3), Nxter.org (1/3) and Plaisir d’histoire (1/3). This revenue would be used to reward the writers, editors and translators, and to prefund our future projects on the Nxt platform.
What will we do with the funding?Plaisir d’histoire will pay every FIAT bill of the project. If the costs don’t exceed what is planned, there is no reason to sell any of the fund.
Plaisir d'histoire pays in FIAT and receive the equivalence NXT and/or assets, that's it.
If there is good liquidity to sell them, I’ll do it during and after the campaign. But we don't want to crash the price of any token. If people want to buy some of our assets, they can propose their price. This would be another good way to help us meet our objectives and therefore help Nxt. Contact me at
ludom@nxter.org
