ASIC-resistant pure-PoW coin with many independent miners, fair launched, healthy distribution (objectively shown by high available liquidity), vibrant and inclusive open source project that demonstrably attracts developers, integrated into a privacy-centric development effort including the privacy-enhanced cryptocurrency and I2P router development, deployed and proven dynamic block size scalability, 2-year project and code maturity, well-defined governance, strong experienced core team with diverse skills, proven forum funding system (crowdfunding).
Very nice summary. The Monero difference.
The current consolidation phase seems quite healthy to me. It will be good for Monero long term if we can finally say a permanent farewell to the sub 200k price dips. Having said that, I should have some more funds to divert into crypto in the next couple of months. Sub 200k would be a big buy signal as usual.