It just feels like you are all creating talk here to keep alive a thread. What innovations? There are none of them note worthy. It could be a very nice coin but it is not flying high for now.
As for the stewardship under Neutraltc it was not all rosy so please take off your sunglasses (paying a dev before anything done!!!).
I don't usually talk but I'm quite annoyed to see so much back patting for nothing above average.
whether the innovations are note worthy are debatable however I'll list them. Also, Chedigital and Golden have both developed Incognito coin outside the main wallet by working on the front-end and back-end of a web wallet, brain app, website, merchant API, and forums well before a developer was ever payed. The brain wallet app for Incognito coin is somewhat innovative as few if any coins besides Bitcoin has automated generation for brain wallets. I would like to point out that Hectortilla had never requested payment for the ATM API developed for Incognito coin which utilized point-of-sale (according to thread history). In hindsight there could certainly be room for improvement but I would argue that PR was handled quite well as Desil volunteered to make promotional videos of ICG while the Incognito coin twitter account garnered over six hundred followers. Beyond the earlier mentioned features, There's already a web wallet, mobile wallet, and a full API for web merchants to accept ICG.
I think that you may be missing the big picture in that the ICG ATM API was independently developed as a closed payment solution by directly exchanging coins through Bittrex and several Hot-wallets without the dependencies of other APIs owned by a company. Meaning that there's no propriety restrictions in it's usage allowing it to be ported to ATMs, cash registers (hypothetically), Web merchants, and other instances where point-of-sale is required. Essentially, it's unique in that a third-party hot wallet is not required for its usage meaning that the whole transaction process is more decentralized with less single points of failure. There's only a handful of alt-coins which use ATMs (Gulden, Bitstar, Doge, ETC) however all of them require a hot-wallet operated by the ATM service provider. I realize that my post is long-winded but I wanted to emphasize the differences in Incognito coin and how it's innovative in at least one way.
Good post, although you forgot the anonymous tx system when you listed out the features. Ultimately a coin's value is determined by its utility and actual practical usage in the real world. I've seen many coins with significant development and innovation isolated to one key function eventually be forgotten due to a lack of practical usage beyond the speculative trading in this forum. The fact that ICG already has been extensively developed upon for the purposes of accessibility and usage contribute to one of the reason why I personally invested in it. Most coins fail to articulate their actual purpose and proposed usage and typically never reach a stage to be considered widely adopted. I see this as an exception with Incognito coin as it's main slogan states: "IncognitoCoin's mission is to create a simple and intuitive anonymous coin through the concerted efforts of a decentralized community." The growing list of merchants and real-world usage in ATMs, web merchants, and physical payments using paper wallets is a testament to this.