... which would take about 5 seconds to verify. It's public info (in fact in the blockchain) and 3rd grade math. No user could have had close to 10% of the stake.
It is a premined ICO with only ~70 participants. The original blockchain explorer reflected granularity from 10 million to 100 million instead of 1 million to 1,000,000,000 as shown here:
https://nxtblocks.info/#section/blockexplorer_distributionI was able to calculate that between 4-14 individuals control 51% stake in NxT at the time which indicates there could be a few people with over 10% stake. In fact it would be surprising that a couple of the developers didn't hold onto at least 10% of the premine.
No user could have had close to 10% of the stake.
How could you possibly know that?
This isn't a research paper refuting the previous work but just a statement just like below:
https://nxtforum.org/consensus-research/multibranch-forging-approach/?PHPSESSID=qi7nicmsk2cmc6ri87mtrstcd6 And I agree, all Proof-o-Stake currencies share N@S concern. Even more, they share much more. So it will be cool to share research efforts as well.
Or are you just playing a semantic games and claiming that a little effort is expended in performing a N@S attack therefore it technically shouldn't use the word "nothing".