For what it's worth, I own some NXT and think it's a crying shame that it's worth less than trash like Dash and Doge. Those in charge of NXT aren't trying hard enough. In crypto, bullshit and buzzwords drive price, not fundamentals. Gotta step your game up if you want the price to rise! Take some lessons from eduffield and company.
There's a little more to it than what you posted. "Nxt is a platform." "Nxt is the Linux of crypto."
"Nxt Is The Linux Of Crypto." That mission statement explains what's holding Nxt back, for now. Until it took over the Internet-server world, Linux was a fringey alternative OS and nothing more. Oh sure, it was and is an great subculture chock-full of helpful folks, but its adoption ratio stayed more-or-less stable at 1%.
That's why James et. al. are on the right track. Linux took the server world by storm for solid business reasons. Until a similar dollars-and-cents use case takes off by making/saving real $$$, Nxt will remain "The Linux of Crypto" - pre-server.
So once again, I counsel patience. The development of the Nxt core is as energetic as usual; leaving aside API-related squabbles, the core devs have set a really good example for the ecosystem developers. There are actually several ecosystem-building projects extant that aren't associated with James and the Supernet cohort. Right now, Nxt-as-Linux is at the "throw something at the wall and hope it sticks" stage. One of these days, a powered-by-Nxt business is going to break through and make some serious money for someone: enough $$$ to wake up other moneyed folk and provide a real-world example of how using Nxt pays. I believe it's only a matter of time before that real-world use case clicks.
That said, Horizon - the crypto I'm associated with - is an intriguing outside-chance. It's actually a plain clone, running on volunteer effort, whose reason for being is its distribution model (now coming to an end.) Thanks to it getting a nice bump recently, the value of one HZ is more than 4% of the value of one NXT. For a plain clone, that's almost unheard of. Essentially, a bet on HZ is a bet on HZers like me growing the ecosystem by our own efforts or the efforts of the Blocknet.
