I dunno.
Taking a look at the wallet, it seems pretty much the same as all the others, but with some centralised links to resources. The issue of centralisation of this coin bothers me - the core wallet shouldn't specify where you should buy your coin from, or where you should talk about it.
It's sort of like telling people that Tescos is where you need to spend your Visa cards, or Walmart is where you can buy your bananas.
I get the links, and the integration bit. But it seems, I dunno - a bit "faddy" to me. Also, this PoS stuff really has me troubled, because if it takes off and gets a serious market cap, then the security of its PoS system will be Properly tested. And honestly, PoS makes me uneasy.
I look at this coin, and all the others like it that were released around the same time, and since - and I think, why would I want to keep any of these coins longer than a few weeks and hope for a quick pump or release of new features that makes the price go up.
They don't seem to offer any actual practical value that I can tell. They just serve to take value away from the existing other coins, with their temporary short lived "features".
That is because you are thinking "inside the bubble" and obviously not "outside of the box". If you were you would have found long ago that
in any investment, you bet on
the people, not on any particular product or service for it is only the people manning the boat who will take you places. Especially in the long run. And the people here are NOT the community -it will quickly disappear, no matter how "faithful" if price doesn't move up, much quicker if it moves down in a few weeks, a couple months at most-. The
people at the helm are the one that count. The ONLY one that counts. And, in this particular coin, and responding to your pointed question, it is not the "features" or any of that shit that differs only slightly and in some cases lacks and in others is ahead from other "similar" coins. It is, again, the people: No other coin offers you a developer who is on the payroll of Microsoft. No one. Think of that what you want but no other developer can even remotely come close. I'd say that right away distinguishes VRC from all the others. They also were the first to come out of the anonymity closet, and that brings with it transparency that before was unheard and unthought of... the transparency going to the extreme of stating the amount of the dev teams ownership in VRC. No other coin has done that. And the bar keeps on going higher setting the standards for other coins to follow, like their "controversial" action in the recent theft that they thwarted.
So, as you can see, there's still a distance -quickly growing larger- between VRC and other "similar" coins.
And that is probably why, at the time of this writing, the price is starting to reflect it... in spite of "the controversy". Already 10% from lows of minutes ago after Mintpal's reopening the trading. The traders/investors DO get it. Hopefully you will too.