We don't even have competition that's worth worrying about.
Um what? Need i really point out the elephant in the room? Monero...
I mean don't get me wrong, i don't care which wins because i own both. I'm just saying.
I'm in the same boat with Anon136...
Monero has lots of support from the older accounts, Shadow has lots of new accounts... I'm worried that the Shadow supporters are not that serious and might be weak hands.
I think that motherboard article pulled in a few dozen new faces to SDC/crypto really, which I think is a really good thing overall. But I hear what you are saying. The overriding factor for me is that it looks pretty damn obvious that the talent working on SDC is potent, and they seem to be capable of working at the crypto-cutting edge. Literally we are sitting on a bitcoin fork, POS coin that rammed ring sigs into the mix, that you can switch between ring-sig anon, and BTC POS standard blockchain visibility without trusted nodes. Think about that! Is any other project even on the road to putting this out there as a working product? Maybe I am not paying enough attention to what else is going on, but it almost sounds too good for a coin that hardly anyone notices. Yet its here, I'm looking at my wallet right now...