Few things:
For anyone worried about Ethereum... remember that when they initially launch they are not actually going to have a UI. We are miles ahead of them.. though they probably are better known.
But, look at this chart regarding Nxt, in November they had a a bunch of new people join. The reason is because they gave coinmarketcap $2000 to run a banner ad across the top of their page.. and we are much less known than they were when they ran that campaign.
Think we could crowdfund one? Any thoughts regarding what such a banner ad might contain?
Nothing at Stake(NaS) is a theoretical attack typically talked about for Proof of Stake(PoS) systems. The general idea stems from the fact that since PoS mining/staking requires negligible work, users can vote(mine) on as many chains as they want with their full voting/mining power, unlike with PoW where their mining power would have to be split to be used on multiple chains. Some people argue that this property weakens the system as smart miners should mine every chain instead of just the one they think is best, as it costs them nothing to mine on the extras and if the other one happens to win they stand to gain, or that someone wanting to attack a coin could pay miners to multi-vote. Users multi-voting this way would reduce the amount of hashpower required to do a 51% attack. As far as I know this has never caused problems to a coin, but it is an interesting and commonly discussed property. This applies to all PoS coins, and it also applies to Burst.
He is criticizing the fact Burst requires work to be done in it's mining, and NaS applies to it, saying it's taking an undesirable property each from PoW and PoS. He's not wrong and I've previously discussed NaS in this thread, however both of those undesirable properties do apply less then than they do in their normal implementations(the work while mining limits the amount of multi-voting you can do, and the work you do is far less than mining PoW coins). Personally I don't see this as a problem.
Thanks for the clarification. So I guess we can only hope no bad actor attacks BURST...?
It would still require that 51% of the network were bad actors... so not too worried about it. We might still want to implement some extra protection though that just guarantees this isn't happening.. but nothing to worry about and I don't see any rush.