Most rational cryptocurrency experts would not consider 2 minutes particularly slow, if anything it is on the fast side.
2 minutes is fast compared to Bitcoin yes, but let's not call 20 minute confirmations the norm. Anything above few seconds has no use as a daily currency, see cash payments. Rational experts according to you.
Sure, no one disagrees with that. If and when Monero has any chance in hell of being used for retail payments (which no crypto is today to any significant degree, including Bitcoin) it will have some layered solution. At this point such a thing would be useless, and the technology to do it right (not some candy-for-speculators "instant transactions" that only works because no one is seriously trying to break it, or because it has latent centralization) doesn't quite exist yet.
I see no evidence it has proportionality more bugs than any other codebase. You're talking out of your ass unless you have specific metrics.
Monero developers spent the last year fixing bugs mostly. Github is proof.
'Mostly' is not true when you consider major efforts on things like LMDB support, performance, cryptography for RingCT, etc. Bug fixes are usually small so there are many individual commits. I don't see any difference compared to other coins with active development and that actually discloses individual code changes on github (some projects do bulk commits to hide their work -- we don't). In a similar conversation recently with a Dash supporter, I pointed out that nearly all of the last 20 commits on Dash are also bug fixes. That's how software development works.
Either way, you haven't shown that there are more bugs in the code
now than other coins.
This is wrong, people are using remote nodes using lightwallet (gui) or simplewallet (cli) regularly. There was just an improvement committed to this that speeds up first-sync by orders of magnitude.
Still slow and the tech is way behind some competitors.
I've not seen anyone complain about the speed, other than first-sync. When I tried it (once -- I usually use my own full node though), it was pretty fast. Certainly fast
enough for current uses as a leading edge experiment and speculation given that significant point of sale usage for any crypto doesn't exist and won't exist any time soon (see above). And for that matter, 99.9% of what little point-of-sale stuff does exist today is usually unsafe Bitcoin zeroconf which you can do with Monero as well.
Maybe. Somewhat subjective but in any case the inflation is certainly declining rapidly.
Seems high to me considering any rise attempt gets dumped back since the existence of Monero. Either the inflation is high or botnets dump monero constantly (and they have low to no costs of mining) or people simply don't believe Monero should be higher. Seems currently Monero is on it's way to 0.0014 again thus even losing the battle of "store of value" compared to DASH and it already lost the currency title (see previously).
The market decides the value, I don't, and I don't really care either. The work on the technology continues, that's what most of our community is interested in (with some exceptions who are pure speculators and want to trade swings sure). Nice how you admit that you have no idea what the inflation rate is, or how it compares to other coins. You simply comment on the price, which is a pretty silly criticism considering the price is higher than all but 9 or 10 of the other cryptos in existence (and the market cap is higher than at any time in the coin's history except the very recent peak).
Certainly misleading. There have been major improvements over two years since the fork. I wouldn't consider the original to have a viable solution, only the outline of one. It is certainly no longer at all competitive with Monero in terms of delivered privacy (and that's not even including the upcoming RingCT improvements).
Improving shouldn't equal to creating something.
No, it is often worth far more. Are you are aware that most important products today are built from pre-existing software, usually open source but sometimes not (iOS -- XNU/BSD/KHTML, etc., Android -- Linux/Java/KHTML/etc., countless others), which are then combined, repackaged, and improved to make them more useful. Monero has done much the same, combining Cryptonote with LMDB, libunbound, probably a few other libraries I'm not remembering, and stuff we've developed on our own (OpenAlias, MRL improvements, RingCT, etc.) That's how software is done.
I'd apply this to Vcash too, by the way, if your scumbag developer didn't
lie about using Bitcoin's code. There is nothing wrong with using Bitcoin's code and building on it (like say Dash), if the end result is good, just don't misrepresent it.
I would rather see a new currency released by the bytecoin/cryptonote team, with fair distribution. They seem way more knowledged in the field.
They did release some. Most of the other Cryptonote clone coins were run by them. They all lacked the development and community support of Monero and died. The whole game for them was trying to scam us with a hidden 82% premine. When that failed, the torch passed to Monero.
