If I can keep rambling here, XCR needs to address early on another of NXT's key weaknesses - fiat exchange.   Bter has a NXT/USD exchange but it is low volume and American users can't use it.  Cryptsy has not implemented NXT/USD and this is a big problem for NXT.  

Please, XCR: push Bter, Cryptsy and anybody else you can think of to offer XCR/USD and XCR/EUR and XCR/CNY as soon as possible.

This is important.  It is a grave strategic weakness to let a coin be primarily valued in BTC.  Bitcoin is going to fail sooner rather than later.  On that day, it will drag down with it all other coins that have their primary value expressed in BTC.

Bookmark this page, it is Bitcoin's deathwatch.  This cannot go on skyrocketing upward much longer (months, maybe, but not years) and it will result in a sudden and epic fail.

https://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate