On the other hand i agree that a gui and some bugs fixes should be fixed before we hit mintpal. At least we need that wiki. Wasnt to be made today?
Look - I'm an IT professional of 20 years. Been coding all my life.
I'm sitting here having just spent 1 day getting the wallet working, blockchain downloaded, finding out where it needs to be installed, doing all over again because I forgot to type 'Save' .
Now I'm onto phase 2 head scratching - trying to receive funds into my wallet and send them and work out how this 'Payment ID' thing works. I'm absolutely clueless - the 'help' command just shows the syntax for the 'payments' command which seems to take a 'Payment ID' as a parameter, but how that fits in with an actual payment I've no idea. There's also a 'transfer' command that looks like the one to use to make transfers except that it doesn't have a payment ID parameter.
On top of all that, I've already lost about 100 XMR because I transferred exchange to exchange 'the normal way' and it's now disappeared into the 'ether'.
If anyone thinks that traders are going to do anything other than dump this coin IMMEDIATELY they start encountering any of this quagmire then they're living in cloud cuckoo land. They'll just keep it on the exchanges and sell at the first sign of a gain.
This stuff isn't remotely ready to be traded on any kind of scale. It's probably quite an interesting technology underneath, but you can't just chuck this at people and hope for the best - the market will spit it right back out. It has to be digestible for ordinary folks - in particular, that payment ID thing is a huge banana skin, it needs to be thought through and the exchanges need to have a safety mechanism to stop people losing their funds.
P.S. It's all very well saying Bitcoin was 'flaky' at the start, but at that time it was the state of the art. This on the other hand looks like junk compared to what people are used to. The look and feel needs at least to do justice to the advanced state of the underlying technology.
