But why are we talking about BTC here? Did I ever say BTC is going down? Perhaps re-read what I wrote. BTW BTC is not stable it's up 100% in just a month or two. Not sure what your definition of stable is but that doesn't seem so stable to me.
Network effect takes years to develop. Just go on meetup.com and see how many Ethereum meet up there are, sure not as many as BTC, but way higher then say CounterParty - wonder why that is? Maybe because... wait here it is...
You misunderstood both "stability" and "network effect'. Network effect doesn't mean how many people are drinking coffee together, it means the hash rate and network that secures the chain. And stability refers to code stability, not price. Whether it costs $1000 or $1,000,000 a day to compromise a system, is a big difference. Whether there are 12 dimensions of exploits on a novel system vs. 1-2 in a viciously tested one (over half a decade) is also a large difference.
It is more than clear that your only intent is profit, but I believe that to be a bit short sighted. There are absolutely plans to implement the EVM once it is
stable enough for production. Quitting on that would be PR suicide for literally everyone involved in the project.
But don't be fooled that price has anything to do with merit or long-term viability, people made that mistake with Paycoin and Bitshares before and look how that turned out.
Also, the XCP devs have not 'dropped their work'. There are commits every day and Symbiont is funding development. I'm betting they have enough on a private repo to surprise you.
ok if you choose to assign non-standard meanings to words you should inform readers of that. generally "network effect" is number of nodes in a system. system being any complex.
so regarding code stability, code becomes more "stable" (using your definition, but I think you actually want to use the words resilient and secure) not by age but by having more eyes on it and fingers poking at it. if there is a private repo, that means there are not many eyes and fingers involved. it reminds me of the way we used to do product and software development decades ago when months would be spent without getting market feedback or involvement ("if you build it they will come" mentality).
thus while ethereum itself may be younger temporally its' experience variable has such momentum which with the right trajectory will propel it to a velocity that allows it to escape the gravitational pull of obscurity.
these things are platforms, platform marketing is no piece of cake.
also it behooves no one to attack a project from which code is being taken.