People, do not get overexcited about 1st position of XMR on Mintpal voting list. On this thread
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/639308.0 you find a post of a guy who advertises That he/they can get any coin, which pays something to Mintpal.
I have checked last 5 added: MyCoin, EntropyCoin, InformationCoin, YellowCoin and XXLCoin. It is obvious, there was no community behind them and that they could not get as many votes normal way. Monero has relatively strong community, but it got as high in voting only because of paid votes. Devs of theese above mentioned shitcoins paid some BTC for that "service" pumped a price and cashed out by the time coin was added to Mintpal. All of them are dead now - I mean coins, not devs
BTW -I have not seen a coin as dead as XXLCoin
I believe Zimstake is the next one to be promoted this way and it will be interesting to see how the "voting bot" will fight XMR bagholders.
The question is also why Mintpal did not add XMR as their choice yet. It has great volume for several weeks. Maybe they want to cash paid votes for this coin, maybe their insiders are not bought into it. Or maybe they see XMR as technologically not prepared.
I was quite frustrated from using Monero. I have lost some coins in transfer between exchanges because I was not sure how payment ID works. Then I downloaded wallet, but it took 2 days to sync it, because of some strange problems. And the wallet itself - it is really for geeks, not for normal people. Many people will be discouraged all of this if it will be their first contact with this coin.
It is quite frustrating to read from devs, that they do not intend to improve wallet and make the coin more user friendly soon. I support XMR, but I have found Boolberry coin (BBR), which is also cryptonote based, but with many improvements. It has nice and working graphic wallet, it was synchronized in few minutes (block height of BBR is 1/4 of XMR). Moreover its marketcap is 1/10 of XMR. The only problem is that there are not enough investors yet.
