Take a look at the charts. While other coins are "mooning", NEO tends to just keep steadily climbing. Holding NEO pays a GAS dividend. ICOs such as DeepBrain Chain are just now coming out, and there is a lot of action going on in this space.
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Buy it or don't, but it is starting to seem like it won't matter if China accepts it or not, as they provide a smart contract platform that can be developed on with common coding languages.