Re: [ANN][XCP] Counterparty - Pioneering Peer-to-Peer Finance - Official Thread
Dividends are possible as a third-party service running on top of NXT right now, and will be in the core of NXT in the coming month. Dividends are naturally paid in NXTs (because NXT is the accounting unit), and NXT AE runs on NXT network, so those two red checkboxes are irrelevant for NXT, but sure look good for XCP marketing 
NXT is not built on Bitcoin so you can't pay dividends in BTC. Similarly, you can't pay dividends in NXT on Counterparty. That particular comparison was meant for the projects that were built on Bitcoin's blockchain.