I don't care about any rumors or issues but I can put my faith in Verge as a payment currency in the cryptoworld. Once it's popular as like as bitcoin , I think everyone will use it as a real fiat in very near future. Just collect some XVG coins when it's cheap now.
it will never be as popular as bitcoin my friend, bitcoin is simply too big, so no matter how good verge develops it will always be another altcoin. The thing is, i havent heared a lot of good about verge in a long time