On the Nxt forum there is a stat that 509 was the most online ever , but because of the severe decrease in volume and market cap adoption may have reversed.
Adoption has definitely reversed.
18 months ago, there was a brief wave of hype. That hype and pump are long over. Since June 14, the price has been plummeting.
http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/nxt/#chartsThe conceit that NXT has any permanency and is
Here To Stay is absurd.
SuperNet, the scam platform built on NXT's scam platform, is likewise dying because its hype and "investments" never produced anything of value:
http://coinmarketcap.com/assets/supernet-unity/#chartsThere is no likely scenario where this trend turns around.
Every day Bitshares, ETH, and rootstock.io spend coding is another day NXT's status as obsolete abandonware is confirmed.
I can appreciate your statement. I would agree with you.
Unfortunately, NXT was initially distributed to poor minded and lazy people. First investors had a great chance to rise into the large scale financial platform, but they missed the boat. First mover advantage was destroyed. Take a look to Come-from-Beyond, NXT ex-core developer. There are only some facts:
1) Come-from-Beyond has zero NXT.
2) Come-from-Beyond left NXT core developer team long time ago.
3) Come-from-Beyond does not love NXT ancient whales.
4) Come-from-Beyond predicted shrinking of NXT market cap until 1M in near future.
It's enough to abandon NXT as unsuccessful platform. Many of outstanding and talented people left the project. Whales (LSUM and etc) do not stop to unload bulks of becoming useless coins. It's time to face the truth - NXT is dying.