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You missed out on the boat. So did I (a developer as well). So did many others (developers or not). Learn and move on. No need to be bitter (because it is so blatantly obvious you are when you say things like 'they decided to dump their life savings into this stuff knowing nothing about it')

Who cares if you know everything or very little about it? They saw something that you with all of your 'vested interest and expertise' didn't - they saw that this thing would be a great investment.

So what next? You make a good point when you champion the technology itself. I love the tech as well and I'm learning all I can about it.

However, I'm also going to be dumping a significant amount of my networth in the next bitcoin which I believe will be Antshares/NEO.

BUY IT ASAP I tell'ya. Don't miss the wave again. Never again.

Why Antshares/NEO? Its chinese roots for one. The support by groups such as Microsoft and Alibaba. And for me, the reason why I champion it over all others is that as well as the aforementioned properties, NEO could be bigger because, they've created a platform that supports programming languages that all developers already know. Developer take up could be huge, especially in China and then the rest of the world.

Also, if you truly believe in Bitcoin as a technology, why not buy now? I still think that if it indeed delivers on its promise, it will be way bigger.

> Who cares if you know everything or very little about it? They saw something that you with all of your 'vested interest and expertise' didn't - they saw that this thing would be a great investment.

Just like Bernie Madoff's investment fund or any other Ponzi scheme.

> BUY IT ASAP I tell'ya. Don't miss the wave again. Never again.

It's always the green accounts that post this. I wonder why?

> It's always the green accounts that post this. I wonder why?

It's because when making strong statements I don't want to be shunned by people like you. I have feelings too you know.

That aside, you can mark this comment for a couple of months from now when ANS is worth $2000 +. It is so obvious to me that NEO will be big.

14c7DSHkWmcEZ7kiQ6sBL5YwzSqT6orU8r

Is the BTC address you can use to thank me for turning you on to this.

I've read on it and continue to read on it. There's enough material on the internet on it. Start with a quora search for a general feel of what is being asked about it and get a feel of why it is in such demand.

Then validate the solution once you've determined there's sufficient interest in it. Read the recently translated(Chinese to English) whitepaper on ANS https://github.com/neo-project/neo/wiki/Whitepaper-1.1

Finally, don't get bogged down with stifling analysis paralysis - invest in or develop on the platform if you like it. Don't feel angry at others nor be jealous of them for previous misses. Make a bet - if you win, you win and if you don't life goes on. Start again.

> They saw something that you with all of your 'vested interest and expertise' didn't

No, they gambled. There was nothing to 'see'. It was reckless behaviour. Don't run around and spread retroactive financial advice that was unwarranted without the now available posteriors.

Thanks random person, I just cashed out my 401k and bought this. Hope it works out!

It's not for everyone. Some people have the appetite for risk and others don't and never will. You can invest or watch and complain while others become wealthy...all the while claiming to be highly technical and that everyone else is an imbecile who happened about their new found wealth by being careless.

Risk often appears careless to those with a weak stomach. Risk is typically very ugly. It's not supposed to be pretty. If it were, all and sundry would be participants.

Risk wouldn't be risk without risk is all I'd leave you with.

I flagged your message because you gave a financial recommendation without any support to discuss it and behind a new user in HN.

In your opinion, what makes ANS stand out from ETH?

Actually, I place ETH in the same league as ANS/NEO technically with a few differences here...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Antshares/comments/6gsso4/what_is_t...

But like one of the contributors on the sub points out, ANS/NEO has some govt support (I use support lightly because there have been discussions with govt about NEO but nothing officially announced yet). Therefore, if this turns out to be the case, then undoubtedly, you'll find that NEO will be the crypto that wins in China. I think that this alone would make it very very big in terms of market cap.

Finally, technically, contract writing in ANS/NEO aims to be as easy as possible compared to ETH where unless you learn solidity, you cannot immediately jump in and start writing code for it. ANS/NEO aims to make it easy for any developer anywhere in the world to jump right in.

EDIT:

I think that many crypto-variants will exist simultaneously but that there'll be one or two that win because they implement ease of use quickly and well. Let's consider the internet in the early days; it was only useful to a select few who could withstand the pains of getting up and running with it. Crypto is the same way today. Few are willing to withstand the pain of its use - be it devs or regular users who may or may not double up as speculators.

If a coin can't be stupidly easy to use, then there cannot be mass adoption. ANS/NEO seems to have figured that out - making onboarding devs easy and attempting to reduce the energy required to run the network.

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