Forging? or do you mean that side of it is not really important anyway?
It's important, but u mentioned only mining and said nothing about other Nxt features.
NXT is a masterpiece make no mistake, the concept is way in another league over the clones here.
However, the initial distribution seems very concentrated, and sadly because of how it works (which is great) it makes the mining concentrated.
Surely you can see this coin should have been more widely distributed than it was?
As soon as the source is revealed you can be sure this will be cloned and a much fairer initial distribution will be done. NXT is cool but i think it will always be criticised for the very concentrated initial distribution. This also leads to more concentrated forging...this can never be fixed now with this version of the currency. So for NXT to succeed people will need to buy in at more and more inflated prices since those with multiple millions of it will hold on to it forcing price up. You can't even mine around this like with other coins since not only do they control the coins they hold they control all of the forging too.
Really anyone looking at this from the outside will see it as the biggest ponzi of any coin yet. Sad because really it was a very great concept.
Although it looks good now on coin market cap, this is not showing a correct picture for this coin, nor a lot of the others either.
Coinmarket cap needs fixing because a lot of new people do not understand really how it works.
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