...It is totally preposterous and dubios to claim that monero needs no marketing.
Beside the fact that marketing was and is already a part of Monero. But it is expendable. I really dont understand why some people here are ignoring totally basic factors and than wonder why we haven't had a price explosion.
Marketing is a key function for success. Most people here are holding monero because they hope its somewhen more valueable as today. To believe monero itself will do this job is simply wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing Too bad this comment was, no doubt, disregarded because of the source. But I have to hold my nose and agree with him here, and strongly.
But there is little point expending resources before Monero is usable by the average person - therefore the GUI needs to be released, and soon. It may prove to have been a great folly to await an Official "All Singing, All Dancing" Bells and Whistle GUI, instead of just releasing a simple but functional one, but in time to gain some meaningful adoption. If "some other" privacy oriented crypto launches before Monero has an official GUI, and it becomes synonymous with privacy in the public mind, and therefore gains acceptance as THE privacy coin, it won't matter how flawed it is compared to Monero. It will have won, and Monero will join the club, whose members, Beta, myspace, Napster, are remembered, but largely ignored.
The race is on, and some are already running with old ratty sneakers from W***mart, closing in on the finish line, and some are STILL awaiting the delivery of Energy-Rebounding Compressed Argon Traction sole HyperCrocs, SOON.