I can't say that Artos' recent post, that he's only working on the mixing service when he finds some spare time, reassures me at all about the future of this coin, considering what others have said about Anoncoin and Zerocoin having teams of devs working on it and so likely to get there first. I'm not even sure it would save SBC if it did get the mixing service first, as now that people expect other coins to have the same feature soon they might just decide one of those other coins has a catchier name and wait for it to get it's mixing service. After all, if they've got the same features, what else separates coins except for the name and the confidence people have in those behind it, which in the case of SBC is just Artos and he hasn't exactly been going out of his way to make people feel confident?

It might still have a chance if it gets the mixing service first though but that's a big if considering Artos' limited time and that we don't even know how much work he's done/still has to do, so I'm really hoping a team can be formed to try and get it done before any other coin manages it, although I appreciate it's not an easy task.