In my capacity of lead Nxt developer, I can assure you that no core Nxt developer is supporting the scamcoin called NAS.
NAS is a pump and dump coin. It has nothing new to offer. Even calling it a clone or fork would be a compliment they don't deserve, because it is not, it is a quick and dirty copy and paste job. And believe me, it is dirty - I actually took the time to look at the source, out of curiosity what they did with my code.
NAS have taken a test version of the new Nxt UI, developed by Wesley, which was not yet ready for production use - but they don't care, it is a get rich quick scheme, nevermind that it is other people's money this software is supposed to handle. They have also based their release on a Nxt version with a known critical vulnerability, which was fixed in Nxt long ago.
The NAS marketing guys are aggressively trying to bribe various people in the Nxt community with "giveaways". This is a thinly veiled attempt to make their "software" appear sanctioned by the Nxt community. They have also approached me with a similar offer of a generous donation, but I am ignoring it, because I do not want my name to be associated with this blatant scam.
Never confuse copy and paste jobs like NAS with legitimate Nxt alternatives. NEM and NXTL are trying to innovate and improve on the ideas brought by Nxt, they are apparently re-writing and re-designing everything from the ground up, and will be a healthy competition to Nxt. So they have my respect. But NAS... I hope I made myself clear.
I do understand Jean Luk, but it doesn't matter. By the time Nem and Nxtl are launched Nas will bring lots of money to people who are buying now. As for pump and dump, every coin is pump and dump: Nas, Nxt, Bitcoin, every one of them. Prices are different, pattern is the same. All you can do is watch and try to catch a wave. There are certanly some very little number of people with ideals and 99,9% of them are programmers. All other people just make money, lose money, have fun.
Nas works, it's on exchanges, it has nice wallet, nobody give a fuck about its uniqness. Also I disagree with Jean Luk. As more clones Nxt has as better. If there were 100 Nxt clones then Nxt itself would costs 10 times more.
This is not about uniqueness... PoS survives on innovation and utility - NAS has none, the NAS network is currently a handful of nodes (I can find 20 live nodes if I try really hard), how do you expect to protect people's holdings with that...
J-L as much as said this is a 'bad copy' even a 'dangerous copy' - the NXT Dev's don't normally comment on clones, the fact that one has, and done so very clearly should mean people think twice about this coin... and then buy something else...