Not sure if it's too late but development speed would have to accelerate significantly in order to compete with BTCP. They probably have a lot of resources available to get BTCP where they want it to be.
We have to consider both short-term and long-term races, what you said is for short-term race. It's good but not enough.
Not sure if I agree with you. If BTCP starts with a huge market cap (big if here), they would have much more resources than BTCZ. And if deployed efficiently and effectively, those resources will make them win the race.
BTCP is not even live yet.
When it will be live, it wont be comparable with BTCZ. BTCP will fight with all other 21mio btc clones but not with BTCZ. BTCZ have unique supply and price targets, which btw are much more usefull in daily shoping.
As a shop who offer crypto payments, I can confirm that in mid time (at least until shops cant also buy goods from our vendors with crypto) we need fiat processor, this is a top priority for mass adoption. It was the same with paypal, our country was not supported for paypal->bank account until recently, so it was useless for us. More and more of our suppliers use paypal now so we can use it now, no need to transfer funds to bank account, because we can spent paypal funds buying goods from vendors.
Same with crypto, until whole chain dont support it, we need crypto->fiat generators. That will be needed for couple years max I think. At the moment we can do manual payment (customer send crypto to exchange, we manually convert and withdraww to bank account), but it is unconvinient and volatile.
Best would be not a custom BTCZ->fiat, but included in allready established payment generators. I know Coinpayments and Coingate, but there must be others for sure.
Also, if you want to go wide among miners it need to be included in whattomine calculator. I think that btcz dont need to be low level anymore (it was good not to be included in mining calculators for early miners, who allready loaded up untill now). Now diff is rising and profitablility is on pair with other coins, so it is best to go wide and thats where whattomine comes handy. 2/3 of miners know shit and they check this page, or use nicehash