[...]Monero [...] i like a lot of what I'm hearing/researched about the coin.
Did you research my thread speculating that the technologies in Monero are a waste of time:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1211093.msg13143507#msg13143507Cryptonote (even RingCT) can't obscure your IP address. Zerocash can. That was painful for me to admit, given I had expended a lot of effort to design a technology similar to RingCT based on the more compact CCT.
None of those can do microtransactions. Even Dash Evolution's instant transaction feature is afaics highly flawed and can be reverted by an orphaned chain (where orphans are a normal occurrence in a PoW coin).
And afaik none of them have any viable plan for attaining million user adoption.
Comparing coin plans and features can turn into a war. So that is my 2 cents. I will not continue. Suffice it so say that investors are relatively blinded and uninformed, because they don't understand the technologies (which are always changing too because we are still in R&D phase of cryptocurrency).