2) Monero does support mass TXs and has a market based solution in place to allow the main chain blocksize to grow to accommodate them.
Are you referring to block chain compression or some variant of pruning?
Afaik, Monero can't handle very high TX/sec for the reasons which are same propagation versus orphan rates issues that plague Bitcoin if the block size is increased too much.
4) Lumping "IPO or mineable by speculators" into one makes no sense from a US or global regulatory point of view.
My point was the two have the same target market demographics of speculators.
I will link from that point in the comparison table to this post so readers can find your elaboration, and the
extended discussion.
I do not know what issuance model is being proposed by the OP.
Giving away coins for free, thus not a MSB. Not a centralized virtual currency, because the protocol is decentralized PoW (with a twist). Also not an unregistered investment security, because not being sold to nor significantly obtained by investors.
Note it has been brought to my attention that most of the Auroracoins were dumped to speculators. Obviously I don't plan to repeat the mistakes in their marketing. Remember marketing is very nuanced. You have to get the details right. Just one detail can totally change the outcome.