Nevertheless in light of the recent calamities I'm not sure that the requirement of not blinking an eye before throwing money at something is the most prudent requirement for investing. Don't take this the wrong way Domsch, but I sure do hope people do more than just not winking, if I'm not mistaken due diligence supposedly requires lots of blinking. Frugality amongst nxt-ers might also not be the very best of typecasts.
"without blinking an eye" was the wrong idiom in this context. What I'm stating is that from the bottom to the top the Nxt community was very supportive and even though it took some time (roughly 2 weeks) to raise the money, it went through with them. By no means would I want someone to invest in this without even reading our business/marketing plans and thoroughly thinking of it/asking lots of questions (which all of them did). But what I'm stating is that we were not able to raise these funds within the BTS community, and the bounties we were going for were suddenly not able for grabs anymore.
I have a team of 6 guys - some of whom have kids. So I'm not here to be in a waiting game and hope for a brighter future that we may or may not get funds. That's why I approached the Nxt community and luckily, we were able to raise the sum we intended to get and can move forward now
I'm not turning my back to the community as I met some amazing people here, but as I said in my first post, I'm looking for a community (and a management team of a crypto-project) that supports us and helps us in any way they can - I was able to find that in the Nxt community.
If you have any questions, just ask me or send me a PM.
Why is Charles Hoskinson telling people not to work with us anyway? Nxt took donations and based their initial distribution off it just like AGS (for less money, but doesn't seem to be anything legally different.)
He is definitely not doing that. Charles is a good friend and he had helped us tremendously in Switzerland and was very supportive. This decision on helping Nxt out was a reason which I have decided upon myself with no "outside" influence. It was simply not possible for us to operate with our current strategy, so we had to revise and slightly change direction for us to even get off the ground.
And to clear this, yes I am acting out of my own interest and selfish reasons. I want Bithaus to succeed in any way possible, we have a lot planned for the long-term, but for now, it is my duty to solve the short-term, have our legal foundation set-up to expand our team and our products rapidly.
It is completely ok to decide to go with NXT as it is completely ok to decide to not fund it with AGS (because it is no DAC? Or whatever the reasons where).
On the other side it also shows the inability to make connections in the space. I don't even think that funding was what mattered the most. What matters is showing
RESPECT, support, goodwill,interest and encouragement to the other ones project. The invictus team is not very good at doing that! It is essential though for success!
Charles is good at helping other people and at some point they will give something back to him. That is just like humans work. Humans are peer to peer animals,
its called reciprocity.
Another example is the
Truthcoin project. It's not (mostly) about an immediate funding but about showing REAL interest.
Fact is that connections and ties are important. There are things coming out of good personal relations with people which you never thought about.... That is mostly how it goes.
Daniel says he can not do everything
alone. But based on their actions I3 thinks they can do everything alone! Collaboration is ESSENTIAL and good personal relations based on mutual respect is the basis to that.
Encourage and support others and they will give it back to you more than you expected.
I wrote about this often times
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=4059.msg50857#msg50857