At first:
Opinions can be changed if the experience and the knowledge change.

Second:
In the early time of a coin, or while the distribution is not widespread, an public ledger is giving everybody the safety which is missing since low spread. (This costs anonymity as well) When the coin is spread around the world, the safety does come more and more from the spread and the won in safety can be invested in anonymity, which can, of course, result in an private ledger. Not all trades will happen on private ledger, i think it will always be possible to see how much is private, or public. But i am not developer of this coin, so its up to the devs?! - I expect they try to find the best golden middle way.

So some more self-explainig "Errormessage" would be nice. Something like "This game is based on donations. Currently there are not enough funds, please donate to XXXXXX." 


This seems to be a general problem for all verge-things, not enough user interface development/interaction/clearness. - For software developer it is mostly clear why and what is happening, but endusers usually turn on the microwave with 1 button (setup the time with the same button) and go away until its hot. They are used to have clear signals like remaining time to heat and at the end some BING. On verge is missing mostly both, so user always feel insecure whteher the problem is on network, on device user or beeing hacked. (This is the opposite of the feeling i have had on another coin. I am not telling which coin, since i dont want my post do be understood as fud, since i just wish/want to get verge UIs improved to give more everything-fine-feeling to the masses which are waiting to use verge) 


Otherwise, great development and programmers and nights of programming. You got my deeeep respect for that project! 

Drilling little deeper into crypto makes clear that 1$ is far away from unrealistici expectations.

Ripple hast a current supply of >= 38 billion (38,000,000,000) which is 38% of max. supply 100 billion,  (100,000,000,000)
Anyway the price per coin is at some stable 0.2$

Verge hast a current supply of >= 13 billion (13,000,000,000),  max supply of 16,000,000,000


Where it will go...
Compared ripple to the lower coin supply of verge (38/13=~2.9) (or max. supply 100/16=~6.25), verge can reach without any doubts 2.9 x 0.2$ within same timeperiod like ripple did (3 months from 0.006$ to realistic 0.2$). If it will take longer time, the better for verge. Will result in much more stable coin. But i guess we all expect some nice pumps in near future, since the privacy-attribute from XVG should give some extra arguments for buying verge.


Actually...
Latest invitation to buy some xvg was the 197 satoshi peak. If china would not have shaked the market, xvg would have corrected back to stable 185 satoshi and preparing to pump to 210 satoshi. 210 satoshi was at that time 0.01$. Due to fallen BTC and fear about china it is back again on a great entry point of 0,006$. So lets be patient, until the market calms down. Everything is just postponed. Its going to be listed to 3 new markets, binance, HitBTC and nakamotox in near future. (Is this nakamotox official?) (i guess within 2 weeks.)

I just have send today from online wallet to windows wallet some coins. It was received <10 seconds.. completely confimed as well after 1 minute or two.



Symbol         Circulating Supply
XMR - Monero             18,000,000 ... but teoretically infinite... Its like the USD, printing new when needed.   
DASH - Dash             18,900,000
XVG - Verge      16,555,000,000


Somewhere here at bitcointalk i read a very easy understandable post regarding marketcap and stability, can not find it... but here is what if have taken out from that post:

The stability of a coin does not come through the market cap, the stability comes through the relationship between market cap and coin-supply, naturally.

Regarding the price of XVG, its underpriced. Do not know exactly why, might be because of the fork from DOGE to DOGED and then additional rebranding (That gave it a new brighter future). The coin would be now much more ahead, if it would have been forked directly from DOGE to Verge. Compared to BTC, if XVG would have same supply like BTC, then XVG would be at 5$ right now. (You can calculate this very easy). Just the high supply of coins makes it growing slowly, but it will grow continously its way.

Distribution...
Mostly all coins are distributed like this... coins with ICOs are worse! ... on the other hand, somehow development must be done. If there is a problem for you, do not invest into any coin. Watch the stealthcoin (XST), Top100 wallets own 81.64 %. Verge has multi-algo which supports a wide spread. Last ICO i wanted to be part of was the viberate-Token on 5th of september. It took less than five minutes to sell 120 million (60% of max supply) token. Number of contributors was 657, together they paid almost 11 million $. So here we have 60% issued within 5 minutes to 657 owners. Does this mean viberate is an bad idea? I keep this decision up to you, but i am sad that i did not get any, since the idea of that coin is nice as well.

Verge is targeting on a most forgotton thing of todays behavior of people: Privacy! We all need to get back our privacy, which we gave in last ten years out of hands. Of course, this is somehow the target of all coins, but Verge is the most privacy one with the idea of stealth, multi-algorythm, Tor, I2P and wraith coming up. Permanent development with strict focus to get as much as possible of our privacy back, without harming the health of itself. This is what made me support exactly this coin.

Spooky...
Did you recognize that it is enough to search with google for something... lets say condoms... a few days later you will find an advertisement with the headline "You also might be interested in...condoms" while scrolling on  facebook. Teoretically you even would not need to enter you address or your credit card number... the whole network of google, facebook, amazon and microsoft (others as well!!) knows all this already. If you are using some partneship-service on the web, they would also know at which time would be good to offer you those condoms, maybe send them in advance! Imho this is spooky! And the only answer to this can be to spook back!

Wraith...
Every child needs to have a name. If everybody is calling his child for example John, do we all need to call ours in the future John? No! As a good developer (father) you have to find a descriptive and nice name. I am programmer since 2005, i started to give my projects and program-codes Nicknames, so they become more bound to human thinking. Sometimes those codenames find its way to public by just the marketing. Since every marketing agency wants to personify a product. This is why processors have codenames. What made windows XP that successful? It was the name. Windows 2002 would have beed replaced by 2003, 2003 by 2004... WinXP survived more than a decade and just got updated with SPs. Its in the name.

Wraith/Stealth...
... honestly, Wraith is simply descriptive to a thing which comes out of the box with Tor, I2P, stealth and gives you the choice to behave like a ghost and simply disappear. This is simply like paying cash and never meet again, without any trace, withou showing your face.

The implementation of wraith...
All i worry a little about regarding verge is the impelmentation of wraith as a new protocol into an running network, but it is of course possible, with enough effort. In our company, we build our own testing area to test everything before giving it to customer. Today everything is possible with a couple of virtual machines, and if the current base or protocoll was planed to be extended, than this is without doubt possible. We did not redefine the internet just because http is1994 was no longer enough. Https came up and all we have had to do, was to download new browser. Today https is some default. So lets see!

I transferred before a moment from online wallet to XVG wallet, it appeared within <10 seconds and confirmations (6) within 2 minutes... after a few minutes it was >80 confirmations.