I agree that speculating on NEM is just for fun at this point, so we'll have to see. But, NXT has a lot of vulnerabilities. Losing BCNext is not good and Cfb may also leave. NEM has 5 devs who actually communicate with people. I also like the branding of New Economy Movement better than NXT. NXT wants to do all these huge things, which is great, but they are all over the place and can't get basic things right: Lots of people, not just newbies, lose money because their "brain wallet" gets cracked. A huge flaw was discovered by Dr. Evil which doesn't give people confidence. The address format sucks. NXT needs to get it together.
BCNext never planned to stay on the project, so we didn't really had the chance to keep him
C-f-B will stay atleast stimm summer.
Our main dev Jean-Luc is going strong as always.
James and Cyiam are 2 C programmers working on protocol layers.
Wesleyh and Nexern work on Testnet and .exe clients.
We have 5 other very competent cleint devs.
Overall we have about 20 people working on the core and very corerelated projects. Nearly all of them are very responsive in our new forum...
Yes we have some flaws, but we always fix them fast. BTC had way more flaws in its first year!
All clients warn about weak passwords, I know most people don't give a shit about that, but it is the same with wallet.dat's left undecrypted on dropbox by newbies. Our Offspring client uses a wallet file for that, so use that if you are worried.
Address format is ok, it just lacks a checksum imo.