Bitcoin guys, it's time to wake up!
BTC has Multisig, Cold Storage, third party apps like Openbazaar, Voting (
http://www.bitcongress.org/) etc. Ethereum will have Smart Contracts. Namecoin has a DNS system. Dogecoin has fast block times and a strong community...
Nxt has all that stuff and much more (will have Smart Contracts too), and they are all IN the standard client. No third party service needed.
- You can sell physical items on the Nxt marketplace
- You can issue shares of your company on the asset exchange
- You can issue your own currency on the Monetray System
- You can crowdfund a project (If the funding goal is not met, funds are automatically sent back, no trust needed)
- You can connect Nxt Aliases to Hyperboria (=decentralized DNS)
- you can cold-store Nxt
In the very near future, you will be able to:
- Cast decentralitzed votes with a vast possibility of options (like who is allowed to vote, how votes are weighted etc.)
- Set rules for your account (e.g. my account is only allowed to spend x coins per y blocks)
etc. etc. etc.
Just try the demo here:
http://nxt.org/demo/I'm open to the potential of NXT, but it just doesn't strike me as a system that's adopting a very "unix-y" philosophy, of which I'm suspicious.
Whenever I hear people talking about NXT, I can't help but think of a TV-VCR-DVD player combo. Sounds great if you're aiming to directly lure in consumers, but not what you want in a platform...?