If I can keep rambling here, XCR needs to address early on another of NXT's key weaknesses - fiat exchange. Bter has a NXT/USD exchange but it is low volume and American users can't use it. Cryptsy has not implemented NXT/USD and this is a big problem for NXT.
Please, XCR: push Bter, Cryptsy and anybody else you can think of to offer XCR/USD and XCR/EUR and XCR/CNY as soon as possible.
This is important. It is a grave strategic weakness to let a coin be primarily valued in BTC. Bitcoin is going to fail sooner rather than later. On that day, it will drag down with it all other coins that have their primary value expressed in BTC.
Bookmark this page, it is Bitcoin's deathwatch. This cannot go on skyrocketing upward much longer (months, maybe, but not years) and it will result in a sudden and epic fail.
https://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rateCoinbase has BTC to USD conversion, and it is based in San Francisco, so Americans can use it. There is a 4 day wait for payment, and you have to prove your identity, BUT, you can convert USD to BTC and back. I have used them for over a year, trading in fiat and BTC.
https://coinbase.com/?r=52a4dba52aa57999d30000de&utm_campaign=user-referral&src=referral-linkThey have 2FA for any login, I prefer the test to cell phone method.
NOW, If we can just get them to deal in alt coins as well..........
Bter has USD integration with several other coins. It whould be simple to get them to integrate XCR as well