I just finished a late night overseeing the introduction of Monero on Mintpal.
While anticipating the opening of trade at current market value, i.e. around 650k satoshis to 700k satoshis,
it's still always interesting nonetheless to see how the market and traders will respond.
Traders like a coin they can profit on. They're only partially concerned about the long term. Cryptos to them are a high turnover, short-term market and 'quick buck' to be made!
After the inital opening of trade on Mintpal.com, however, the market response of Traders has been to pull the price down to levels where Traders can make some profits on it.
In short, Monero is overvalued and too technical at the moment in my opinion. This is a technical Cryptocoin and Wallet system. It's not for mainstream use right now in its current form.
If a Trader wants to hold on to some Monero during a trading lull and/or quickly wants to move it to another exchange, they are going to need to invest TIME in learning and working with the
Monero command line wallet. This wallet requires manual command line creation and syncing setup steps before Monero can safely be moved to an offline wallet or moved to another exchange, or another wallet.
The Monero installation and getting started notes are not currently clear or detailed on its own website:
http://monero.cc/getting-started/index.htmlA Windows user 'tutorial with pictures' is handled on ANOTHER website:
https://monerotalk.org/t/bounty-create-a-useful-tutorial-on-how-to-setup-monero/13On this Tutorial page/website, some users are experiencing unsuccessful results after following instructions.
So until the Wallet install process in simplified, GUI-fied and improved upon, Monero's price will suffer so long as traders (who are time & patience short) continually realize that generally setting up the wallet will require special command line-based learning and operation.
This makes the Monero wallet currently usable for the mainstream public who may be used to Bitcoin, Litecoin or Dogecoin wallets/apps, and even ATMs by now.
After its first pump and dump initiation before Trader profit taking, Monero's value may be restricted by the realm of tech knowledge and inconvenience until made easier to use.
portdavenportTrader