[...]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 fee is afaics highly flawed and can be reverted by an orphaned chain (where orphans are a normal occurrence in a PoW coin).
You raise a few valid points, but then again, there is currently nothing better out (yet). Better with respect to anonymity.
Also, regarding bolded, you are saying this because you assume both I2P and Tor (Monero will have I2P integrated, but you can also run Monero over Tor) are "flawed" and don't protect your identity (IP).
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Btw, stop opening these kind of threads please. They are nonsense anyway.