Please don't pay attention to any trolls. We can't block them from posting here as that would be anti-freedom but we can reply to intelligent people instead of wasting time/space/organization of thread on trolls
Please ignore this troll called eightspaces.
It's so obvious, that this guy is trying to bring bad mood in the community, for whatever reason (maybe he invested in some copycats and dont want us to expand to fast, because the tempo atm is enormous in my opinion)
-1 all round (and I don't give that very often)
It's very easy to point at anyone posting negative (or percieved as negative) comments about our beloved NXT and call them a troll, but by doing that we are simply sticking our heads in the sand. How are u gonna define 'intelligent people' ? Is someone who doesn't share our happy, smiley vision of NXT therefore stupid ?
Negative feedback is useful, it helps keep people motivated and shows us exactly where the weak spots are, so they can be sorted out.
If someone is simply being abusive, yeah, call them a troll. But I'm seeing reasonable criticism here from eightspaces, bitcoinforumator and others, even if I don't agree with them.
Even emule sometimes makes sense....but his repetitiveness and lack of originality is getting on my tits.
It is also possible that guys/girls/whatever posting a concern here are trying to express themselves in English and getting it slightly wrong. Not everyone is born speaking Gods own language
TLDR: stop shouting 'troll' every time someone criticices NXT.
On to the "what is NXT" debate:
Actually as a currency Nxt can and should be compared to other alts. Absolutely. POS vs. POW.
It is a poor comparison - if you want to compare NXT to something then I think XRP is a much closer one.
I agree NXT functions like XRP, but it is also a better store of value because of its lower circulation and the control it gives you over the network.
Just because NXT "could" function like XRP on Nxt, doesn't mean it will only function as such. Ripple has no one promoting it as a currency. Nxt has hundreds who already do. This isn't going to change anytime soon.
No one is saying it will only function like XRP. It is a multi-functional currency.
Like the man said, NXT is multi-functional. Its the Swiss army knife of cryptos.
I see no conflict at all between using it as a simple first gen currency (driving the base NXT price and market cap) and implementing all of the 2nd gen features.
NXT can be used as the user/group/whatever sees fit.
It's a financial ecosystem: it has trees, insects, rats, birds, bacteria all existing together and all contributing to the whole.