I will help you, here is quote from JL777Hodl.
"This means the active liquid NXT is probably around 250 million total, which is still plenty especially with the normal trading volumes of 1 million NXT per day."
And? The active liquid Bitcoin is probably 1 million or less, the rest is hodl'ed and never leaves wallets, what does it have to do with anything?
It has a lot to do with anything. First and more important stakes dont matter in POW currencies while in POS they are the only ones that matter. So if a couple of people control 75% of network its
EXTREMELY important.
You do know that
a) James is nót a founding member of Nxt as you state. He came to Nxt after the IPO in december.
b) Salsa is not the end all of all information on Nxt
c) The numbers you quote there are 'guesstimates'. Here's the link to the article, by the way:
http://nxtcoin.blogspot.nl/2014/06/how-nxt-changed-our-lives-james.htmlI have no problem with you disliking Nxt or its distribution (why should I), but methodologically it's suspect when you promote the sources of your links to greater status than they have to boost their believability.
That's just not done.
Also, yes, stake ís important, but so is distribution.
Have a look at the charts:
http://charts.nxtcrypto.org/cDistribution.aspxhttp://charts.nxtcrypto.org/cDistributionTopAccount.aspxThe Top
100 hold 730 million of all Nxt. You can hardly call a hundred people a "couple of people".
None of these has the power to attack the network. They just don't hold that much stake. Neither is it in their best interest to do so.
Of course, there is the preference that you may have for a network with a "better" distribution, but frankly, over the past months, those kinds of discussions have yielded little real solutions, and tend to default to "fairness" instead of "viability" and "security", which is a pity.