It is essential that the merger happens. We need , at the very least, encrypted video conferencing and encrypted multi-file transfer capability, by the half of this year.
There will be spectacular movement in the BTC market, before the fall, in which case the entire P2P community, at that, will be attracted towards alternative technologies, fleeing from untrusted and/or untrustworthy software.
I am counting that the merger will see us out of the little league, bittrex-esque, not through the usual fraudulent pumping but with economical REALITY bringing us closer to our goal of replacing SKYPE and other multi-billion-$ spy-affairs.
Make war not piss.