Yes, they are obviously scared that NXT will take over Bitcoin. And they must be taking Bitcoin too dear to their heart to let that happen. There is no other explanation.
Show me the code. I'm just very skeptical. Don't see how people would be paying 400,000% over original IPO value without seeing any source code. It's not that hard to develop a Java webapp to handle a few transactions on a network. Creating a fully decentralized currency from scratch, however, is not a piece of cake. Look at freaking ripple, and they have over 25$ million invested by Google Ventures and others. And their returns? Not much. We'll see. My prediction is comes January 3rd, there is no source code. And then selling commences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oFXCXQpJXI