Shadow's videos and images, logo, graphics, color scheme etc all totally kicks ass, very slick, very professional and clearly had a lot of thought and effort put into it. All other anon coins...? Not so much.
Disagree. The website even doesn't function correctly in my Chromium browser on Linux.
All that circus stuff (dog & pony show, clowns jugging flaming objects, etc) is for n00bs who want to lose money.
Android with its cruder looks kicked ass on iPhone so resolutely that in a few years it went from 0% to 80% global market share.
What is actually most important is network effects. ShadowCash is following the Steve Jobs philosophy of a walled garden that is optimized. If they can do everything themselves they can make it more perfect, more complete, and better. Wrong! Network effects trumps all.
If you want to facilitate SilkRoad, then you need to fix I2P and/or Tor (or replace them with a fixed network)! Thus enabling 1000s of flowers (sites as hidden services) to bloom.
Building some proprietary market place on top of broken anonymity networks is masturbation.