I missed the QA session yesterday but I just read it, and feel something should be said.



Some people seemed to feel anxious about the risk that Jean Luc and Riker get more involved in private blockchain than in Nxt/Ardor. Someone even said he feels "investors" where fooled..

But there never was investor in devs production. There was no commitment like : buy my coin/asset and that will fund me to work on it. Never. Or at least some donation funds that are probably close to be emptied. Those people forget that JL has been working for free as pure activism since.. when? yearS. Riker came to support as an "employee" of the donation funds.



Jelurida is just the natural way for them to try (no guarantee here!) to recover their investment by licencing their assets (copyright) or renting their competence.



They see private chains projects as an opportunity because that's where the big money is for the time being... behind closed doors.. and because making money is about working where the money is, and because private chain builder have a need of core dev knowledge. But, if they can work for interesting projects on the public chain, why would they not to? Although, in this area, there competence is probably less of unique interest and there is no licence fee to be collected.



Nxt is a great tech. BCNext and CFB "gave" (or sold it very very cheap) the invention to the world and those who've then work for years to industrialize the product (make it a full working one + quality source code) are now organizing to get return on investment.. for profit.. Not more. No surprise here, the GPLv2 appeared years ago.



If you are afraid that their time and energy will be sucked by banks, find funds and give them public projects for which they will be the best to work on.



Personally, I prefer to have them still be involved this way than seeing them be forced to quit or try manipulate trading with rumors...



Ardor is pure speculation of where crypto would required to be in many years, the value of your coins is in the use people make of them. Nxt tech has great value as is and to fully reveal, it only needs to be used with what has been already achieved. No more feature required. Building Nxt value is more than ever in the hands of its users than in the hands of the core devs..



For decentralized supporters, this must be a good thing if you do not mix up between price discovery dynamic and intrinsic value.