Blimey that's a blast from the past.
I've no memory of what attracted me to it. I wonder how many people on that thread were either exterminated or blew it long before the present day. How far it's come. What was going to be a NXT clone now looks poised to spurt into the cosmos.
there was a demand for NEM or similar crypto.
We had several debates about forging and its fairness in the NXT forum.
Although NXT was clearly better than BTC (POS > POW, power consumption), there was some "anti-whale-discussions", and "richness-decentralization" needed. I.e. something more equal was needed....