@yelllowsin. The Monero development team will argue with you on that one and at the same time the vcash development team will argue with the Monero supporters for their choice. As an innocent bystander, how will I know who is telling the truth. My technical understanding of cryptography and programming is very limited. I do not understand most of it in fact. The people who are qualified to comment here are very quiet except for iamnotback. I wish he will comment with this issue. Or maybe he already has so it might be good to check his post history.
I see that this poll has many vcash that voted. Are there many silent vcash supporters here?
Most of v.cash supporters are not here on BTT, rather they are in the ,v.cash community forum or in their slack chat channel. I am here because i have investments in multiple coins, so i care about BTT eventhough it is a place with a lot of FUD as you can see. Anyone here is trying to pump its own coin poiting only the positive aspects and not telling you the negative ones, of course.
I am not an expert in the cryptography field, and yes you are right that maybe iamnotback could help you on this, eventhough i am not sure he knows all the technical details between XMR and XVC. What i can tell you, is what i have gathered so far from XVC community forum, and these are not my words...it is said that the XMR uses a Cryptonote base code that doesn't scale, it is slow and that lite clients are impossible due to their anonymity technology, and if this is true it is a really big problem for XMR (iamnotback technical comments would be worth here). Something i know about the scaling aspect, is that the XMR blockchain will be huge in the future as the size of the blocks are not small (you can do the calculations for yourself of how many GB are needed to perform a certain number of transactions in the BTC chain and compare it with XMR, for example). XMR supporters counterattack saying this is not a problem at all because in the future the internet will be very fast and the storing price/size will not be a problem. I disagree on this, as XVC performs an average of 20x better on the tx size aspect than XMR using Chainblender anonimity.
XVC has Zerotime technology which locks a transaction to perform it in less than a half second, something that is not done by any coin as far as i know. Poloniex audited the code and it is working so requiring only 1 confirmation on their exchange. Also ZeroLedger is about to be released, making it sync in a few minutes, which will enable it to work on small devices like, smartphones, raspberry PI devices, tables, etc. Differently from other coins, XVC uses incentive high speed nodes and a mix of POS staking with POW mining.
I personally believe on this approach of having high speed nodes to perform transactions, it is something that is being done with Lisk, i believe with WAVES using LPOS (lending staking) and now with Komodo (which will be BTCD 2.0). You would also need to look at Zcash anonomity tech, there are again a lot of people fuding about it here on BTC, but it was stated for many expert users here it is a better tech, and i really don't believe these MIT researchers would develop something shitty as some people argue here (eventough it might be released only in 2017).
Well, what can i say...it is really hard to find the facts, more harder when you don't know the technological aspects of every coin. And finally yes, the XMR pump is all about the use on dark markets, which i don't know is only fud or real as i haven't seen any implementation of it. In the short time, it looks to be the "moment anonymous tech", eventough i doubt it will scale as better as some other coins out there.
The price also went down to $.45 per ETH. That was considered a gift from most people and the jumped at the opportunity to buy a lot. Look where it is now.