Is it normal that nxt client blockchain downloads couple of hours?

I posted this in the NXT forum as well:
https://nxtforum.org/news-and-announcements/(poh)-proof-of-honor-jean-luc-come-from-beyond-both-have-been-nominated!/msg135068/#msg135068

Congratulations to the both of you having done some amazing work to acquire some great support. Jean Luc you have made it to the voting round as of today.

Great work guys, this shows how more than one person from a community can go through our Proof of Honor voting round. It just shows how strong NXT is as well.

Cheers!

Twitter
https://twitter.com/ev0k3d/status/538021854360129538

Thread
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/855130.msg9673449#msg9673449

BCNext currently has ZERO votes  


If you haven't voted in this yet, we need 15 of our loyal Nxt-official-thread-browsers to go over to....

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/855130.0

...an nominate BCNext. Only THREE days to go! Remember, if you have nominated already then you can't do it again. We need silent members to speak up 


Then Nxt will have the most nominations of any crypto platform or coin in the vote: Come-from-Beyond, JL777, Jean-Luc and BCNext (if you count BCNext as a Nxter...)


Then we need a decide on who is most likely to garner the most votes in the actual voting... we made our point with the nominations but we don't want to split the Nxter vote to the point where a Nxter doesn't win! A pre-vote vote is in order (consider this the pre-announcement to the pre-vote vote...)

Stay tuned...

Consensus Research published it's first paper on Multibranch Forging https://www.scribd.com/doc/248208963/Multibranch-forging (scroll down to view) and just open-sourced simulation tool behind! https://github.com/ConsensusResearch/MultiBranch 

So you can play with multiple-branch forging and see it's model in action. For example, being implemented for just future predictions, multiple-branch forging == Transparent Forging. Being implemented for storing past & current blockchain state, it's also subject for Nothing-at-Stake concern. Our next paper will be about N@S, with concrete details, not just unclear statements, as previous studies.  Then we will start to work on proposals to improve proof-of-stake at whole & concrete implementations.

This work is applied not to Nxt only, but all proof-of-stake cryptos.

Please support Consensus Research by providing feedback, spreading the word around, contributing to work, and donating.

We have own subforum on Nxt forum: https://nxtforum.org/consensus-research

Bitcoin has about 25GB blockchain now, how long does that one take to download?

Got 30 posts now - but still a Noob. Not gonna be Jr. in time I fear.

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/855130.msg9680136#msg9680136
 

You should decide which of the NXT candidates we should vote for in the final round. So that we won't split the votes.

Vote Nxt! 

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/873251.0

I have a 100MB internet connection though, but it took almost 4 hours to download the NXT blockchain. I have used blockchain.info wallet and that shit is working like a magic compared to the NXT client.