if no one cared why the hell does it have a 3m+ market cap prior to launch.. if you opened your eyes for even 5 mins you would know.
Marketcap is a misleading valuation on a currency and the same could be said about Bitcoin. Let's be honest. If 100 million of BTC hit the exchanges at once the price of bitcoin would crash to almost nothing. All other alts should equally be humbled by this fact as they represent a fraction of Bitcoins marketcap.
I could fork bitcoin, get a few friend together to buy some stake in a new alt and instantly have a marketcap higher than BTC if I was calculating the unsold stake at the same rate as the sold stake.
Are you suggesting people have actually invested 3 million usd into NEM?
Why do I see $ 303,484 ?
http://coinmarketcap.com/assets/nemstake/no im not suggesting that.
3000 stake holders signed up for stakes, sock puppet removal using taint analysis removed a huge amount of socks and then sock stakes were given to people on a waiting list (after thay paid a trivial fee). it was requested that stakes be issued to stake holders on the nxt asset exchange months ago so that people could trade their stakes.. 1000 stakes were issued and only around 775 claimed their stake.. trading has been based on the knowledge that there will be 4000 stakes released(4 billion nem) so the fact that there is 4000 stakes has been, for the most part, priced in.. this can be proven too because as people are redeeming their stakes the sever and rapid drop in the number of stakes available for trading the price has not had any drastic change along with the drop. 1 stake is worth 39k nxt or ~2.29 btc.. ((39000*0.000058)*4000)*350 = $3,166,800
its not manipulation of price either because those 775 assets(stakes) that were issued were sent to 775 (mostly) unique users.
as for how much has been invested into nem, thats pretty much impossible to know unless you wana go through all the history of trading and work it out.. what i can say is that during the day or two prior to nems launch of trading on the asset exchange, nxt saw a 6m dollar increase in market cap and nem, on the first day of trading, did > 3/4 of the trading volume in dollars than nxt did on the same day.
try the tech.. look at the distribution stats and look at them with unbiased eyes and you will see why nem blows every other alt coin out of the water for so many different reasons. if it wasnt for nem i too would probably be entirely invested in only bitcoin as i do not see any long term potential in any other alts but there comes a point when you must realise that better things can and will come.
before you bring up the 3000 stake holders 4000 stakes.. 10% is going to be split between 5 devs, possibly more people.. idk.. 5% to fund ecosystem projects and 5% marketing costs and 5% something else or something like that..
distribution stats can be seen here:
https://forum.nemcoin.com/index.php?topic=2518.msg6464#msg6464that was done just prior to the start of AE stake redemption.