Wha?! Promotional thread? Please notice how I wrote in all CAPS, "MIGHT" be better than bitcoin. The jury's still out with me. I haven't decided yet. I didn't say that it IS better than bitcoin.

Anyways, I've been thinking, money has several properties;
medium of exchange; a unit of account; a store of value; and, sometimes, a standard of deferred payment.

Bitcoin's biggest problem is that it's a lousy standard of deferred payment due to its volatility. However, Maidsafe's coin value is a direct derivative of the cost of hard drive space. That should give it a stable value and should solve the volatility problem, HYPOTHETICALLY (dunno if this would happen in reality because they haven't rolled out Maidsafe, yet).

As regards to Monero, I don't see any clear SUBSTANTIAL advantage over all the other countless alt coins out there.

Maidsafe seems the most promising but until they roll it out and I've downloaded my first file from their network, it's still vaporware. I'm gonna keep a close eye on that one, but I won't invest just yet. Of particular interest are;
1. speed of network.
2. speed of confirmation.
3. privacy or anonymity of expenditures.
4. stability of price of the Maidsafe currency.

Bitcoin has problems with 2, 3 & 4. Dash seems to have solved 2 & 3, but 4 is still a problem with Dash. I want to buy just a dash of Dash and keep my eyeball on Maidsafe for now but not invest yet.