The more people will use the wallet and understand the advantages of byteball the better. Hence the merchants are indeed a good idea.
What is missing though is more Marketing and adoption. So that people actually talk about it. This coins is likely ONE OF THE BIGGEST successes in 2017 - yet it is hardly talked about. More us tech guys know about it.
I believe in Tony and that longterm the price will be up again, for sure in coming weeks as we get closer to the full moon.
I was a big believer of this project. But when I used other wallets of Ark, PIVX and Decred, I stopped believing in Byteball wallet's superiority. Yes, the chatbot function is nice. But that cannot be enough to think Byteball should be in top 30 or 50 crypto.
Blackbytes may have some advantage in privacy, but PIVX's zPIV looks better in terms of ease of use, as far as I can tell.
Maybe it's just I don't fully appreciate technical attractiveness of Byteball, but for the time being, I am comfortable with investing in other nice projects. When price uptrend is back, I may come back to buy some bytes , though.
I'm sorry to tell you that the superiority of a cryptocurrency depends on the protocol, not on the wallet.