Im in my 50s not my 60s, alas, so retirement for me is a decade away unless NXT hits a dollar a coin.  I am a grandpa with a couple of Mossberg Maverick 88 shotguns stashed away, tho...

If they see no benefit with checksums, then they must have a reason. Why do you assume they are being irrational?

I found some interesting stuff about poker games:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_poker
http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/04/poker-is-hard-especially-for.html

which lead to project CHARM http://charm-crypto.com/Main.html.

@nexern : Will your client have plug-in interface available? so we can develop any poker game via AM?

 

Shall we take some deep breaths here?

Nxtchg at least is worried and cares about his product.
This is something that's valuable in itself. I'm glad someone is looking out to protect his future customers.
Give him that, at least.

~6 months, but this is a rough assessment. We don't need to hurry, copycoins can't outpace us anyway, coz not all details of TF were revealed. Asset Exchange, Alias System... none of these features r ground-breaking, only Transparent Forging is a real improvement.

If you are ready to take the red pill ( http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_pill_and_blue_pill ), read theeconomiccollapseblog.com daily for two weeks.  At the end of that time, add zerohedge.com to your daily reading for the next two weeks.  At the end of the month, go pour yourself a glass of whiskey and sit on your back porch staring at the woods for an hour and ask yourself just what in the hell is going on.

Could we achieve msg per. day limit of a few million after that time...

See those *.asc files in the http://download.nxtcrypto.org/ directory? Those are GPG signatures of the corresponding zip files. If you download both nxt-client-0.5.3.zip and nxt-client-0.5.3.zip.asc in the same directory, you can run "gpg --verify nxt-client-0.5.3.zip.asc" to verify my signature of the zip package. This gives you one independent way of checking, and a hacker cannot provide a signature for a modified zip package without somehow stealing my private GPG key.

The nxt-client-0.5.3.zip.sha256.txt.asc is again a GPG signed file containing the sha256 sum. You can run "gpg --verify nxt-client-0.5.3.zip.sha256.txt.asc" to verify its content, then run "sha256sum -c nxt-client-0.5.3.zip.sha256.txt.asc" which will say "nxt-client-0.5.3.zip: OK" if the sha256 sum matches (ignore the warning about the extra lines, those are the gpg signature).

Finally, the value of the NRSversion alias on the blockchian contains the sha256 sum of the last stable release.

That gives you quite a few independent ways of verifying the package.