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I agree with most of your points. But this is again directly tied to how many people got an incentive to make sure that it gets adopted in more places. For IOTA it is not meant to be used by merchants in stores. It's meant for machine-2-machine payment and real-time compensation, so the goal is to get it adopted as the standard IoT payment method. This will require several enthusiastic activists working together to achieve these goals, and in that case it is best to have a good distribution.
Although I think having a good community surrounding the project is very important, I don't think you can rely entirely on the community to promote adoption of the coin.
It looks like you'll end up raising a decent amount of funds, why not put some towards some dedicated marketing. Or even hire someone whose job is primarily sales. As in day-in day-out reaching out to the types of companies that could utilize this software and pitching them on iota.
This has already been described in reasons for why we go for crowdsale. Of course we'll do our part and work hard, which is why I am saying that the IOTA community that we'll establish will exclude all speculators, as it's just a distraction from the actual goals. Speculators have 100% right to form their own community of course, but it has nothing to do with IOTA the project. The roadmap is ready for the next steps on our end.
But you can have millions of dollars ( Ethereum is a fine example ), but without a great community ( which Ethereum has established ), no amount of funds will change anything. This is just the nature of all innovation.
Correct. I would however argue that Ethereum is (so far) a blazing success both investment and progress wise.
Question Much, just kidding, wish I got on the train sooner
