Nxt History

September 28, 2013
Bitcointalk.org member BCNext creates a forum thread announcing Nxt, and asking for donations of Bitcoin to help fund development of the cryptocurrency.

September 29, 2013
The very first version of the Nxt software is released by BCNext.

October 19, 2013
Stakeholders vote on which advanced features they'd like to see developed next. "Colored coins" is the winning feature.

November 14, 2013
BCnext stops posting directly to Bitcointalk.org, and goes underground.

November 18, 2013
Fundraising for Nxt is closed, with 21 BTC raised.

November 24, 2013
Nxt is created, and the genesis block reveals that 1,000,000,000 coins were distributed to 73 stakeholders, with the proportion of coins received dependent upon the each stakeholder's portion of the original funcraising total. Nxt's original market capitalization was $800,000USD.

December 11, 2013
Software developer Come-from-Beyond announces BCNext's intention to release Nxt's source code on January 3, 2014.

December 20, 2013
With the release of software version 0.4.0, the implementation of the alias system is released. The network will begin to process alias requests when the block height gets to 22,000.