Why buy a $hitcoin like Monero when there's good quality code like NXT?
The only three projects i have really been involved in is bitcoin, nxt, and monero. I was very active in the nxt community, if you were than you probably recognize me. This is not a fair characterization and not a reasonable dichotomy. Both are really great projects that deliver serious utility and really stand apart from the crowd. Perhaps instead of trying to fight against monero in favor of your pet project, you should own a little of both. I still own a pretty substantial amount of nxt and now i own a pretty substantial amount of monero too.
Distribution doesn't have to be perfect, but it has to be reasonable. NXT's absolutely horrid distribution of 1billion coins to under 80 *people* makes it almost worthless in my book. NXT is more like a platform than a currency anyway, to which things like Bitshares or Ethereum outclasses it in regardless.
*people*= NXT had no sockpuppet screening, so we can infer that there were sockpuppet accounts
I whole heatedly agree with the concerns about nxt's initial distribution problem, in fact they understate the problem because many of the bitcoins used to purchase stake could have been the dev sending bitcoins back to himself. But if you understand what nxt accomplished, how revolutionary its consensus mechanism is, you cant help but be enamored with the project despite its glaring flaws.