unfortunately two months without any real progress can spell death for a coin, especially if volume tapers off. it might be a better idea to lead with smaller, more manageable updates that can be easily implemented over the coming weeks rather than leave everyone waiting on one big reveal at the end of september.
while you may have the best intentions, it's a bad idea to ignore that news and activity goes a long way towards keeping new alts on the PR radar.
The team has discussed your post, and we agree with everything you say.
We are developing a plan to rearrange the roadmap a little (keeping the release date for StealthSend fixed). Our plan is to move up wallet enhancements to fill the gap. Also, it's not on the roadmap, but we have fairly aggressive efforts to establish markets. We don't really advertise that fact, because we can only try to seed market building. The actual market has to take care of the rest. Hopefully, we will provide an instrument that facilitates a growing market.
To address the time frame, we know that 2 months is a long time in the altcoin universe. However, we are working on implementing new cryptographic technology that will address the biggest issues with current anon implementations. These changes are unique, so we aren't worried about price dips ourselves. In the end, the price will reach an equilibrium based on the technology we ultimately release, which is exceedingly likely to be unique at the time of release.
We understand that investors in StealthCoin are more concerned with short term price fluctuations. We are sensitive to these concerns, and that's why we have decided to implement wallet improvements while we work on the anonymity tech. The other core developers and I are more focused on anon and infrastructure rather than on the cool bells and whistles we hope to see the wallet. For that reason, we are going to find a good Qt dev to work on the wallet features while we crank away at the anon tech.
Once we settle on a plan (and find a good Qt dev), we'll update the roadmap.
--Hondo