BCNext intended it not to be a coin to be used as currency (I think it is in the first or second part of his essay, rather than in his post history).
But you can't control how people will use it. So, sell it to them as a coin if you want, no one can stop you.
But the chances are, a better coin will be built of top of Nxt (to suit your needed use or world view of the creator). I doubt the value of the Nxts will be derived by its use as a currency in the future, more from how important it is in supporting more useful services.
I have a lot of respect for BCNext getting the ball rolling but HE HAS BAILED OUT OF THIS AIRPLANE THROUGH THE COCKPIT WINDOW. What his intentions were about not using NXT as a coin are now IRRELEVANT. And if we build a new coin into the NXT blockchain to be our primary unit of value as a coin (nodecoin?) then I truly believe we are going to kill NXT. NXT will be just a token used to buy access onto an exchange. There's money to be made in exchange fees. There's LOTS more money to be made being an asset. If we relegate ourselves to being an exchange fee token instead of a cryptocurrency asset, we are in big trouble.
I completely agree, the community needs to land their plane already and get back to reality.
We are talking about a huge market that can be over taken by NXT, but only if it's done the right way.
I have personally bought shares of some exchanges (alcurex being one of them) and I know what I got myself into, I bought shares of a company.
I don't have to explain this to average joe, because he understands I bought shares of an exchange.
When average joe thinks of NXT and seeing it on the coinmarketcap chart he automatically think "COOL! Another coin like Bitcoin that I can buy!"
He is not thinking "Shares of an exchange or tokens"
The fact that the main guy has bailed out and CfB is about to leave also, makes me doubt the whole project.
I don't even think it was supposed to be this big, for all we know this actually might have started as a get rich quick scam by BCNext.
If it is, then the guy is a genius at convincing a lot of people to work for him for free. I just don't think he thought it was going to be this big, so he bailed out before things got serious for him.
I will be busy for the rest of the day, so call me what you will but I have tried to bring awareness to a huge problem the community needs to agree on to fix or forever hold your peace.