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Without activity, this thread seems a monologue, it is the last time I post here. Thanks

Nxter News – August 2018 (II): There Is Nothing Better Than A Friend, Unless It Is A Friend With Chocolate

Community decentralized too much 

This forum still has a value, but it is true that it feels dead.

Slack is useless as an advertising tool: "Hey everyone let's hide in the back and whisper to each other!" It is useful for devs to talk internally, assuming they are in different locations, but leaves no digital footprint, so no one else knows that anything is happening.

Reddit would be fine for price speculation talk with people that have never heard of a crypto-whatever, but I am not interested in that.

Here is my Price Speculation: There is no future for NXT. Would you by Microsoft stock if Bill Gates started a new company making a software he described as MS 2.0? Ardor will generally follow the movements of BTC, LTC, and ETH unless it can create its own awareness in the public psyche. NXT was doing that until the Devs decided to change the name (Ardor) and lock the doors (Slack). There's my speculation. You might as well just buy BTC, LTC, or ETH, even though BTC and LTC are junk-tech compared to NXT/Ardor, and ETH is only half as developed as Ardor (or even Nxt).

Whenever I am on Reddit and I see someone ask a technical question, I see dozens or even hundreds of irrelevant comments before I see a useful response. It is a great place to discuss popular things like video-games or movies, but can you imagine discussing a niche subject like the NBCK on Reddit?

reddit is not just for price speculation... using any other platform, your just fighting against the largest concentration of where crypto users are.... reddit.... the adoption and activity on this forum/slack speaks for itself. if you haven't noticed by now, you can count the number of active users here and slack with your 2 hands. moving to reddit chat and using its discussion threads will greatly improve the "image" of ardor to be seen as an "active" community. As a newcomer visiting this forum's frontpage. What do you see? Go take a look yourself.

This speaks for itself: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/99hd8m/top_30_most_active_cryptocurrency_subreddits_in/

Ardor isn't even listed.... Those that think reddit isn't a major factor in "community activity" don't realize the power of reddit in the crypto world.

This is the similar discussion I was bringing up about getting technical questions posted on stackexchange and not here on the forums....

NXT and ARDOR forging rewards
https://twitter.com/Jelurida/status/1102147299592060929

Check all the details of this long term program at https://www.jelurida.com/nxt-ardor-forging-rewards

Reward system

    ·A contract will run every 10 blocks. It will randomly select one of the last 10 blocks and reward the block generator with 20 IGNIS (minus a small transaction fee).
    ·Two separate contracts are deployed: one for Ardor and one for Nxt.
    ·In total, around 5760 IGNIS will be distributed every 24 hours, or around 170K Ignis per month. In the current market, this is worth €2200 / month in total rewards.
    ·The program will run for 3 months, then its effectiveness will be re-evaluated.

To participate in the program

    ·Setup a full Ardor and/or Nxt node and start forging.
    ·If you forge on Ardor, login with your forging account, navigate to the Ignis child chain, and set the account property "ForgingReward" (without quotes) to apply for the Ignis bonus. Set the property recipient to the same account. The property value does not matter (it is ignored by the contract). More information about how to set the account property: https://ardordocs.jelurida.com/Account_Properties
    ·If you forge on Nxt, set the ForgingReward account property on the Nxt blockchain. The rewards for forging on Nxt blockchain will also be paid in IGNIS. To access your IGNIS tokens, log in with the same account on the Ardor blockchain (Ignis child chain).
    ·In addition, to reward people running nodes and forging on Nxt blockchain, [Jelurida will put a buy offer on the Nxt Currency Exchange for 150 000 NSC at a rate of 1 NXT per NSC. NSC is a Monetary System currency on the Nxt blockchain created in the past by community members to award those running nodes/forging and NSC rewards are still distributed periodically to NXT holders.