First off the thread is 90% useless ignorant trolls.
I just started looking into monero b/c it appears to be the best anonymous coin and the value that can provide is what made bitcoin what it is today. For those of you that don't know what I'm talking about, you don't need to know.
But there is a legit beef. I'm an IT guy and it is NOT TRIVIAL to do transactions. The wallet is called "simplewallet" it runs via a command line interface (CLI). I tried to use some third party gui "lightwallet" but that is a total joke. It wouldn't even write the config file. After 30 mins screwing with that piece of junk, I gave up.
1. There is no desktop GUI client wallet. I find that pretty poor planning. If you have no GUI wallet, then you have no usage. Someone badly needs to step up to the plate and get that built.
2. The fact it doesn't share bitcoin's codebase is both a curse and a sparkling diamond. B/c it doesn't get some free code from the bitcoin project, the client and updates are slower.
Going back to #1.
MONERO GET A GUI CLIENT UP NOW. The coin is worthless if it requires a CS degree to use a CLI wallet to use the damn thing. Consider who your target audience is. Also explain right off the bat what the viewkey is, the spendkey, and the PAYMENT ID (which I understand is mandatory for some merchants in order to verify a transaction even existed). mymonero.com is nice but you understand the entire purpose of this coin is super privacy. You can't have people viewing transactions on a website b/c there's no GUI client. Bam there goes privacy.
That should be priority 1 while you continue to work on the infrastrature. Get some usage, feedback, and more merchant support. Please. Otherwise the entire effort may be in vain.
https://forum.getmonero.org/8/funding-required/2476/the-official-qt-gui-project it is worked on... and it was funded in less then a day.
I always laugh when trolls claim that monero is a scam or a pump and dump, because what con artist in their right mind would create a technology to rip off noobs that requires a degree of technical prowess to use? Yeah, the Monero Devs were like," Hey, let's spend all this time building this coin so only technical people can use it, then we'll dump it after we've invested so much time and money building it that we lessen our potential profit."
The pump and dump handbook reads like this:
1. create coin with minimal effort
2. create simple GUI that a grandma could use
3. hype coin
4. wait for peak
5. run
Here's how Monero has developed:
1. fork coin with messy code
2. fork it from stubborn developer who is bent on doing things his way
3. ignore pleas for GUI and keep fixing and developing messy code
4. develop things like openalias, a research group, a video game, a gambling site, a DB and confidential transactions (still no GUI)
5. run? (that doesn't make sense, but good luck trolls and dash fanboys in spinning that yarn to anyone with a brain)