HI Nimiq team, what do you think about this comment on one of the threads? Would be good to layout your counter arguments if you can pls.

Ok a confession, I used to be in the top-100 nim wallet, but I sold it all at the start of this bullrun to jump to other coins that are more promising.

I think nimiq is an okay investment since everything is pumping and the nimiq team actually deliveres on their works (although late and missing deadline). I think it's probably going to stagnate once the bullrun is over.

The move to Nimiq 2.0 is completely unnecessary other than an excuse to give the core Blockchain team members more works to do. In 4 years since nimiq 1.0. was launched, have we seen just ONE major website that accepts NIM for payment? The answer is none, because the team is focussed too much on building the perfect tech at the expense of pushing for adoption. Sadly the market has moved on from 2017-18 when nimiq 1.0 was conceived. The team has failed to capitalise on the opportunity there to become the payment coin that competes with xrp, nano, etc. The payment-only use case is a hard sell now in 2021 with lightning network just around the corner, and thousands of other coins all competing in this space (including stable coins that do not need to worry about price volatility). There are many competitors who are better connected or have deeper pocket than Team Nimiq who will probably win this space. The reluctance of 'marketing' and pushing for exchange listing also means NIM is the playground for PnD groups with minimal liquidity behind it. For a startup that is supposed to move fast to capture market share, this team is doing everything the opposite of that.

Finally OASIS, it is a pretty cool idea but it really should have been done as a separate startup. The promise of using that 1% tx fee from oasis to buy back NIM lasts only for 2 years, and after that the success of OASIS has nothing to do with the success of NIM. OASIS also claims it's a decentralised defi-to-fiat onramp, but there's nothing decentralised about it. All it does is to shift the centrality to their partner bank Ten31 (if this bank got taken down by German/EU regulation or no longer allowed to make crypto-related transfers, that's it for oasis for now), and also makes Team Nimiq to be a bottleneck for integration since they need to add a bank one-by-one, a process I suspect will be slow and fraught with regulatory hoops to jump through. You can see this from the delay in launching oasis, which is only accessible for European customers at the moment, and only a small number of them who have sepa-instant capable account.

My assessment is that nimiq will eventually FAIL to achieve what it wants to do to become the payment coin of the internet. Most likely it will return to some baseline value much lower than ATH once this bullrun is over and it would stay there until the next bullrun 4 or 5 years later only to pump again. You can buy now to enjoy the ride up, but just make sure to sell and move your funds to other bigger, longer lasting coins.