**Is maidsafe the next under-promoted antshares/NEO?**

(Sorry don't click on the picture but where it reappears below as the actual video. I did it as a picture as well so it would show up on the left of this post)
Here is a video from Wild Promotion describing a crypto I invested in last autumn that many people will know about. It is a parallel internet embracing everything that Golem, Sia, and ethereum try to do in a single network. It is distributed hardware and processing supported infrastructure made out of spare resources on user' computers. It is fast because it uses a special kind of consensus algorithm ( it is not strictly speaking blockchain but like it in many ways). The decentralisation provides privacy. It has a finite amount of cryptocurrency that are paid to users for providing their computing resources, and redeemed against applications and is recycled..

They have an alpha test already so I keep going to forums to find out when launch is and why people on forums aren't more excited. There is some fatigue from early investors as this has been a 10 year project or something. But a string of posts on Maidsafe's company forum in the last week makes for interesting reading. There is an entire thread of some employees and keen investors arguing about whether they should be promoting maidsafe. The gist is there was huge resistance because they only had an alpha and nothing yet to give the end users because that wouldn't come till 2018 and they didn't want to over promote something too soon. The push back was "but you've accomplished so much more than most other blockchains that are almost all hype today.

You've already produced something amazing today and it is already in alpha....and launch is next year" (Paraphrased by me). I feel this approach is similar to antshares (about to be rebranded NEO) who put their heads down and developed and developed till they have something that sounds quite impressive before they started promoting it in the west - even now westerners on reddit and elsewhere have been left promoting it for them in the absence of much good material from antshares itself!

Here is the thread discussing whether to promote maidsafe that I found on their forum and refer to above:
https://safenetforum.org/t/we-should-be-more-active-on-reddit/14520

I'd encourage people to look again at Maidsafe if they haven't for a while. I sense this might become a reality next year and to date the modesty of the team means the market cap doesn't reflect what they've achieved in comparison to other cryptos with much higher market caps and much less to show for the development.

I reckon @jerrybanfield should approach maidsafe for a fee to promote them if the implication in the discussion thread above that they are just a year or so away from launch is true. It must have one of the highest reality: hype ratios of all the cryptocurrencies.

Update on 9 July: Maidsafe competitor to launch in Q3 2017
Maidsafe appears to have a competitor launching end user applications in Q3 2017 called Skycoin. I've just written an in depth post about this. https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@katythompson/skycoin-the-new-internet-launching-q3-2017-for-end-user-use If you get in quick maybe you could up vote it?! Thanks so much!

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Check out my criteria for picking a long term portfolio https://steemit.com/crypto-news/@katythompson/5-criteria-for-choosing-a-winning-long-term-crypto-portfolio It isn't too late to tip me or up vote me as you have a month from publication I think. Those that saw the post complimented me but as I only had 4 followers at the time hardly anyone has seen it. I would hugely appreciate you sharing it or upvoting it. Thanks