Oh wow, and doesn't GEMZ or some new thing use email addresses?  What a coincidence that the newly-discovered secret to getting rich with an altcoin has just been implemented in an altcoin!  Let's all buy GEMZ so we can get rich!

Was that too fast, or should I have waited til the thread was a little longer?

don't get me wrong, i support bitshares too but that article sounds so desperate you can smell the shill.

In Bitshares users vote for a pre-defined number of delegates (forgers in NXT terms).

In NXT it's a randomized process of who forges the next block and there is no pre-defined number of forgers, no voting.

When TF is enabled, the system will be able to predict who forges the next block, but it should still stay randomized as to choosing a forger. Predicting the next forger makes it possible to implement Instant Transactions.

Well, obviously, decentralized is better, because that's the general and primary purpose of crypto currencies, isn't it?

In designing a crypto special emphasis should be on keeping it as decentralized as possible, keeping it as close to peer-to-peer model as possible instead of designing something similar to server-client model, which leads to centralization, but gives an advantage of short block times.

BitsharesX is not designed to be decentralized, that's why their block time is very small, only 10 seconds. Just like Ripple has a 15 second block time. In fully decentralized systems block times with less than 1 minute result in a high number of orphan blocks.

As far as I understand Instant Transactions depend on Transparent Forging, which is promised to be fully implemented before the date of the first anniversary of NXT at the end of November.

Here is the development roadmap (Instant Transactions are still in design phase):
https://nxtforum.org/news-and-announcements/development-roadmap-update-2014-07-05/