On the notes that it will be a privacy coin, is the plan to mainly to follow what is being done by other coins like dash, or do something else.
No offense -- but where are you getting this from?
Where did you get the idea that this was a privacy coin? It's kind of the opposite because of the notion of aliases, and as I understand, it's one-address-per-invite-token.
I do think that this might be the main competitor to DASH. Maybe this is DASH 2.0. But, dash has no security/privacy features do they?
I ignored that original comment as a spam/bot post - since it made no sense for Merit at all. Sad there are so many fake posts.