Hi mate,
I have also read the news about the hacking of NEM coin. But in Wikipedia I have got a solution for this--->
The hack only involved NEM, because the security breach was caused by the lack of strong security measures of Coincheck with regards to their implementation of NEM, lacking the use of mutlisignature support or a cold wallet[citation needed]. The NEM #DevelopmentTeam refused to conduct a hard fork. Instead NEM is created an automated tagging system. This automated system followed the money and tagged any account that received tainted money. The result of these actions was that NEM stopped tracking the stolen coins approximately mid-March 2018, after concluding that enough data was provided to the law enforcement authorities.
The history behind NEM is very interesting.
Here it is --->The NEM developers are pseudonymous. NEM was started by a Bitcoin Talk forum user called UtopianFuture who was inspired by Nxt. The initial plan for NEM was to create a fork of NXT, but this was eventually dismissed in favor of a completely new codebase. Starting on January 19, 2014, an open call for participation began on the Bitcointalk forum. The goal of the call was to create a community-oriented cryptocurrency from the ground up.
In April 2016, Tech Bureau, the operator one of Japan’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Zaif, formed a partnership with NEM for a new blockchain engine.
People like NEM due to some useful features. They are--->
- proof-of-importance (POI) algorithm
- multisignature accounts
- encrypted messaging
- Eigentrust++ reputation system.
What is Eigentrust++ reputation system?Ans: EigenTrust algorithm is a reputation management algorithm for peer-to-peer networks, developed by Sep Kamvar, Mario Schlosser, and Hector Garcia-Molina. The algorithm provides each peer in the network a unique global trust value based on the peer's history of uploads and thus aims to reduce the number of inauthentic files in a P2P network. It has been cited by approximately 3853 other articles according to Google Scholar.
Hopes, that is why NEM is popular.