I've been mining and holding ANC for several years, nearly from the start. I agree potential is there, but it will require zerocoin integration, basically following the roadmap. It does not matter to me if the timeline is long.
It is my opinion regular communication is needed beyond I2P for publicity for the coin to ever gain popularity and real value (bitcoin talk, twitter, slack), the very thing people trying to avoid attention loathe. Further, with a very low value per coin as we have now, it cannot ever serve it's intended purpose to be an anonymous exchange of value until awareness is achieved. It is again my opinion, somebody -at least 1 person who has some level of connection to the devs- will eventually need to officially attach their real name and face to this project to achieve its end goal.
I mostly agree, zerocoin integration is needed and i too do not care about the timeline.
Just some work and progress, perhaps a news letter, monthly or even bi yearly.
And yes, we need to gather a community on slack, i mentioned it a couple of posts back.
Although it is very good with the i2p irc chat for those who want to, we still need a mainstream alternative.
Real name and face is way less important than above, but still a good thing to have.
A name/face won't be important until zerocoin is integrated, and I agree it's not as critical as just having a slack,etc. Then the question is who would step up to do it...doubt the devs, and I understand why. Even to drive a slack, would likely be better if the devs aren't the moderators.