Thanks jl777 for your efforts on these initiatives, really like the energy, I'll help wherever I can.

I think the idea in general was pretty good... but as we can now see it´s only useful for the lucky few
who own several million Nxt.

how compact a full featured client (inluding distributed application/smart contract features) can be?

i tell you: 665kb / 406 kb zipped, yeah!. even if i would add a complete chart engine for AE, the size wouldn't pass 950kb for the executable.
(compared to other alt coins clients which are between 20-50 times larger by less functionality)
the client is sdi based, means only the center hup starts folded, subcategories unfold on demand. all others windows can be arranged as desired. this saves screen space.
atm i am re-composing the gui to adding a native screenshot function to the client, means every important form (like send/balance etc.) has an screen button, dumping
the whole dialog content into a clean rendered png image. here is a send funds png created by this function.

http://www.nxtexplorer.com/download/send-screen.png

here is a 1:1 screenshot with offense coloring from the complete app-hub (including a small gui bug) ;-)

http://www.nxtexplorer.com/download/nxt-hub-screen.png

the user can change the colors later via textfile. atm i am using the dark color scheme, just prefer high contrast and good viewable fonts
when acting with funds. some screens can folded or doing this on demand. the client is not ready yet but i am working hard to finish the dev asap.
the distributed application/smart contract logic took me 5 days which was planed for AE but i am simply eager to show the first real running protoype
by nxt while others concepting. with release, a fully functional quoteboard DNA prototype will be included. 
during test, the remotly executed and sandboxed DNA sourcecode will be hosted on blockexplorer node but could be located everywhere. AM is used
for payment and access signaling. not every workflow is solved for DNA, this needs a little more brainstorming but i am confident nxt will run the first one.

There's one guy at one address with 50 million NXT, creating block after block... not really fair I guess, but neither is Bitcoin mining.

And when a stakeholder is actually doing those things? Copying, cloning etc? isn't that the case with all those clones?

I think its cause no one got how to do.
With an step by step how to it would get more drive...

Alone again? do you have time?

we have three people willing to help.

I'm still not sure I should pay 1M for something that I could do by myself.

+1

At the moment it makes no sense. The risk is way too high. Besides, there are many ways they can make money once they launch, such as with their own exchange or other software.

A 5000-10000 BTC limit with 50 BTC limit per person (at least for the first month) is more sensible. Assuming BTC doesn't collapse, that's $4-8m even at current prices. In six months there is a fair chance that will have doubled. Appreciate that 'a person' is imprecise but it's a start. This way everyone knows what they are getting. This also allows people to share the coin pre-mine which I think is better pr and better for the market post launch. If month 1 goes by and the limit is not reached, then remove the coin limit for month 2.

To flip it round, any investor has to assume a 30,000 BTC valuation, making it already a valuable coin. The upside is immediately limited to the coin being a major success. Anything else and the money is lost. Factor in the minting model and the clones that will appear immediately, which may be a better gamble for those so inclined, and the investment is too high risk.

Note: The 50% pre-mine is not for the coin creators. That's for the coin investors, i.e. Potentially us. The rest is split between year 1 miners (not enough I would say), creators, and funding for dev. Correct me if I am wrong.

I want to support this and like some of those involved, but the fund raising model is wrong. That doesn't mean they won't manage to raise it, but it's raising too many eyebrows amongst investors I work with and it's a poor start to a good concept.

Please stop trying to talk up Nxt at every opportunity in this thread. You forgot to mention Nxt is vulnerable to nothing-at-stake attacks, poorly implemented in Java (known for security!), you can't store anything in an offline wallet, and the currency is owned by 71 people who sell it to everyone else. Just get real if you want to talk things up.

How will the ZeroCoin project benefit from being implemented on top of Nxt? Let's build a compelling case for them to join forces.

We just need the 288 byte zeroknowledge proof mechanism

I can send him a proposal with bounty offer if you would like to put some text together regarding what you want.  

I like it. No kidding. If that's really u, then u solve the main problem of Nxt - distribution.

Edit: I want to see 0.05...

In my search for a crypto algo reviewer, I was referred to a crypto expert named Matt Green.  He did get back to me yesterday and said he was currently advising Zerocoin but might have some time to review our code.  I did mention to him that we were interested in implementing Zerocoin with Nxt POS and would like him to review our code if he could.  Here is his blog, seems like a really nice guy; http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/

Also, I've had a hard time getting crypto people to review the code, they would rather review a protocol design document instead of code.