Shadow certainly is going to be something really special. Even in its current state SDC is miles ahead of the vast majority of coins in terms of technology and vision.

Congratulations on doubling your SDC gems

Great explanations guys. There is also a slideshow at http://shadow.cash which explains the anon system in visual terms.

Someone unrelated to the dev team said they will be building a localshadowcoin.com type platform that would act means of exchange for SDC - FIAT and vice versa. That'll be pretty damn awesome.