History of the Nu Network (Feedback Please)

[masterOfDisaster]

Impressive work and a good read.
It soundly pictures the partly radical changes that Nu went though, sometimes driven by shareholders, sometimes driven by the development team and often due to economical reasons - but always decided by the NSR holders!

Be it the NBT burning, the open sourcing or the funding of B&C Exchange - NSR owners act quickly, courageously and responsibly to further the business success of Nu.
…even if that requires short-term setbacks to pave the ground for long-term success.

The decisions, which the NSR holders made to date, clearly point this out:

Nu is here to stay!

[woolly_sammoth]

Really well written and very informative, well done.
How did all this get fitted into six months?

[tomjoad]

Very well done Sentinel! A couple months back I had a plan to create an infographic that showed the history of Nu, but I think this collection you wrote is better. You’re our unofficial Nu historian now.

What do you think about adding an illustration for each “chapter” (bolded title)? It could be a combination of still images from our infographic video, or entirely new ones we make with our designer. It would make the whole thing feel more like a story, and make it easier to chunk up the information into easily-digestible sections. I’d be happy to work with you on that project if there is interest. A central GitHub area could be maintained as @CoinGame and @Ben suggest, and we could then copy/paste it into a new section on nubits.com that turns it into a story.

[creon]

It could be a combination of still images from our infographic video, or entirely new ones we make with our designer.

This would be awesome. As mentioned before, this can be very quickly achieved using Timeline JS (for example) which then can be embedded on the nubits.com page.

Of course an own design would be even better in the end, I just wanted to suggest it because its easy and generates very nice content.

[tomjoad]

This would be awesome. As mentioned before, this can be very quickly achieved using Timeline JS (for example) which then can be embedded on the nubits.com page.

After a quick look at the Nelson Mandela example on that page, I think it would be perfect for this project. All we’d need to check is the ability of Timeline JS to handle larger paragraphs of text. Nice suggestion @creon.

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[CoinGame]

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[Sentinelrv]

Guys, thanks for all the positive comments. I just wanted to let you know that the last 2-3 nights I had about 6-7 hours of sleep total and had to crash after posting this thread, so that’s the reason for my delay in responding, plus I’m currently at work. I promise I’ll respond when I get some time.

[creon]

I just started to copy and paste @Sentinelrv’s content into a google spreadsheet to create a timeline JS. I absolutely did not do this with the love it deserves, but just want to give an impression how it more or less could look like:

http://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline/latest/embed/index.html?source=0Av6tg9jQbFzqdHlvSGszSjBRbVJtMnhCYXgtZ1ZvWUE&font=DroidSerif-DroidSans&maptype=toner&lang=en&start_zoom_adjust=2&height=980

Here is the link to the spreadsheet (readonly): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Av6tg9jQbFzqdHlvSGszSjBRbVJtMnhCYXgtZ1ZvWUE&usp=sharing

Just copy it or PM me for write access.

[woolly_sammoth]

That looks really good @creon

[Sentinelrv]

@Sentinelrv - if you don’t have one yet could you please set up a Github account (free is fine) and send me your user name? I have an idea for this awesome work.

I already have one, but I have to admit I don’t know how to use it. I only use the account to post issues sometimes and comment. Here is my profile…

Sentinelrv (Randy Vittorini)

[Cybnate]

Just like to say that I really value this piece of work. I hope that it gets picked up as it deserves a nice place or at least a link on our website.
I like the proposal with the timeline as that mitigates the text wall effect somewhat as this puts off many people used to digest many small pieces of information in an ocean of data. Curious about what Ben is after.

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[Sentinelrv]

Thanks for the tips guys. I personally would rather read it in a format similar to what has been proposed for our newsletter…

Maybe without it being so scrunched in width. As Cybnate pointed out though, not everybody would like this format. The average newsletter would be much shorter than the length of this history, especially since it will keep growing as time goes on. Therefore if you put it into the newsletter format, it might start to look like a book (extremely long page) at some point. Splitting it into bite sized chunks or chapters that are only viewable one at a time like proposed may be less off-putting to many. However, to others like me, I feel like it would be a hassle clicking on every single chapter and would prefer getting it all at once and reading it top to bottom, only needing to scroll without clicking anything. What approach would be more successful though, thoughts?

[cryptog]

Tks for your hard work.

[crypto_coiner]

Impressive - txs @Sentinelrv

[crypto_coiner]

My quick remarks, on the fly:

• Talking about customer acq. : as a former peercoiner, I was dissapointed that Nu purported promise or commitment to distribute dividend in PPC was not kept.
  Needless to say, peercoiners must be even more dissapointed to see peershares based B&Cex plan to distribute div in btc.
• I d love to see a TLLP section that mentions the risks and the profitability odds for the custodian - This could then also justify in economic terms B&C with its purported lowered cost of liquidity custodianship.

[Sentinelrv]

My quick remarks, on the fly:

• Talking about customer acq. : as a former peercoiner, I was dissapointed that Nu purported promise or commitment to distribute dividend in PPC was not kept.

I believe the changing of the design here was necessary. Nu will be a lot more sustainable because of it. This doesn’t mean though that we can’t still distribute Peercoin dividends when shareholders find ways of making consistent profit for the network.

Needless to say, peercoiners must be even more dissapointed to see peershares based B&Cex plan to distribute div in btc.

This was disappointing, but I at least understand the reasoning why it was done. I will personally sell these dividends immediately and buy Peercoin or NuShares. The dividend coin can always be switched back after Bitcoin dies out.

• I d love to see a TLLP section that mentions the risks and the profitability odds for the custodian - This could then also justify in economic terms B&C with its purported lowered cost of liquidity custodianship.

This is more of a history of events that have happened. I don’t know if something like that would fit or if it would be better placed somewhere else.

[desrever]

Bump. I haven’t heard about this excellent material being ported to PDF/HTML/EBOOK and communicated/promoted outside this community. Any updates?

PS: @Ben, can we edit the template of the “welcome message” on this forum to include this thread? Will be useful for newcomers