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Two thoughts on this.
First I see this as an interesting glimpse into the perceived value of Monero and other alts by a very important player in a very important culture. This should give those in our community who are bent on marketing the marching orders they need. Though I personally fit in with our naturally technophillic navel gazing culture in Monero there are some of us who are gifted to tell the story of our project. These folks are important. But by 'marketing' I do not mean a focused barrage of lies or 'pumps' as folks like the idiot duck are always talking about, but instead shaping the organic conversations and narrative WE are responsible for as the frontrunners in the monero project. We see for our Chinese markets we need to clarify our tech, and explain how Monero mitigates risk.
This chart is a goldmine if we see it as an opportunity rather than a judgement. Honestly I see it as a reverse engineered list of poloniex's top traded alts, basically in order of volume recently. Then someone ranking coin aspects to try to make sense of that order. Not so scientific but pretty revelatory of opinions.
Second... are you guys seeing what i am seeing? The big player exchanges are starting to realize alts are important, and just about all of them have monero either publicly on their radar or there are rumors of it. C Lee's polls, coinbase rumors. Bitfinex and Kraken addidions, and now one of the serious leaders in the Chinese market. Feels like a critical mass to me. We better be ready.
What I find very interesting is the very low technology score for Monero. This tells me that the Monero technology is not well understood in the market place at all. There are two critical technological aspects to Monero that give Monero its unique selling proposition.
1) The fungibility, privacy and anonymity aspect of Monero for which there is some explanation. This is of course includes ring signatures, stealth addresses, ring confidential transactions, and the upcoming Kovori I2P router and how it integrated into Monero.
2) The adaptive blocksize limit combined with a minimum emission of 0.6 XMR and fees set by the protocol. An proper understanding of this would have not only a profound impact on Monero, but also on the whole Bitcoin blocksize debate. This is especially the case since the vase majority of POW coins have a fixed maximum number of coins for which the "Monero Solution" would not work.
What this tells me is the need to explain the technology in a way that is both understandable to the layperson and at the same time provide a technically savvy person with the information needed to make a decision based upon the fundamentals. Benefit based marketing designed to appeal to emotions, and generate pumps and dumps, is actually totally useless here and is in fact a serious hindrance to person wishing to evaluate Monero on tis merits.
