This situation is retarded (no offence to retards)

The main competition as far as I can work out is DarkCoin which is currently experiencing massive difficulties with DarkSend, and Monero which does not have a working GUI wallet and based on their recent "fireside talk vlog", which I watched, they have a great deal of work left in front of them.

I don't doubt that fluffypony and smooth are "smart" but their statements have undoubtedly affected the price of SDC without justification IMO. They have not studied the code properly and have "reached" to their conclusions based on a cursory look at the paper. If this analysis is wrong please correct me.. Given the time of year Ryno has been mostly unavailable for comment, which has not helped the price. It would be nice to hear from devs who aren't in direct competition with SDC regarding the merits of shadowsend v2.

As far as I can tell Shadow offers the best anon solution in crypto today. I'd add that the use of a disappearing Shadow token in this model speaks to the name of the currency beautifully.  

Where do we go from here? Continue to build the marketplaces, the crypto, the anon and the Community.