I really liked the ideas and philosophy behind Bitcore.  However, the execution is deeply flawed.

The BTC dev team have close to zero merketing skills. They also seem to suffer from lack of self-awareness of their weaknesses. Just because you are good at one thing (here: developing a great crypto coin) does not mean you are good at everything.  Leave the marketing to people who know how to do it.

• Sorry Ivo, but the team need a front person who is able to communicate eloquently in English and get the key message across without sending the audience to sleep
• Cooperation with emerging ATM vendors, such as Trilliant, rather than a homebrew approach
• Getting listed at major exchanges - if that requires a fee, do a fundraise or sell some of the BTX in developers hands
• Create professional promotional materials, videos, collateral - sorry but a low quality video of a few geeks standing around an ATM speaking in broken English just does not cut it
• Launch a website for easy conversion of BTX to/from local fiat
• Promote BTX to the overseas worker community (Filipinos, Mexicans, Indians, etc.) as a means to easily and cheaply remit funds bck home

These are just a few suggestions.