I have read the "18 Myths" article and they seem to brush it off, but I was wondering if that is true. Is it slower than BTC and if so, how much slower?
Sending and receiving XCP is the same speed as BTC transactions, because they are BTC transactions. Trading on the decentralized exchange is slower than centralized exchanges, and most other features take longer than centralized approaches. This is a necessary sacrifice for the security and reliability of a decentralized system.
Also, would my coin be offered on the XCP system only and is that community large enough for a successful coin? I understand that it can be on an exchange (Poloniex) if, I assume, some sort of criteria is met. Are there other exchanges possible as well?
Recently XCP has experienced an upswing, as Overstock has begun cooperating with the Counterparty team. You can be part of the rapidly growing Counterparty community, but your target demographic could include anyone, and you can create gateways to even let people buy tokens with non-crypto currencies.
Finally, as hard as I have tried, I cannot seem to find a straightforward (and believable) answer regarding that Reddit post of a couple of days ago. This one:
http://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/2iu5xc/caution_counterparty_team_warns_of_fincen/Could someone either tell me the story on this in an easy to understand manner or point me to somewhere where it is addressed in such a way. 500 pages on this forum is quite a milestone, but it is also tough to pin down specific answers.
The Counterparty team never issued such a warning. And if I remember correctly, the blacklist is only there because of the WAY data is encoded, not because of what is encoded.
P.S: Counterparty is not a company, nor an organization. XCP is essentially an open-source community that never raised any funds, or sold any product.