The amount of delusional people in this thread is staggering. Sunerok said that their 'partner' did not choose Verge because of their 'optional privacy' (even though plenty of coins offer optional privacy without bragging about it).
There are dozens of other altcoins that are far more suitable for (micro)payments compared to XVG. Coins like Litecoin, Viacoin, Vertcoin and any other SegWit/Lightning Network coin can handle scaling issues much better, have a better development team and had less technical issues in the past. I am trying to be objective here so please give me 1 reason why a company would partner with Verge instead of Litecoin (that already has a solid foundation, has a bigger and more professional community, is more well-known, offers numerous mobile wallets/payment gateways etc.)?
Look, i'am just answering here trying to be absolutly objective taking neither side, but there are a lot of arguments you do not consider that are/should/must be important for whatever deal and partnership.
1.) Talking about suitable coins for a given partner. We do not know who the partner is, neither its requirements. This said, we have no idea what suits a given partner better. IF its indeed a real deal (not sure about it yet), but lets asume there will be a real big partnership deal. Than someone should be sure that their riskmanagement, investement managed and who knows whatever else in that company checked a lot of things that they came to such conclusion.
2.) About other coins like litecoin .... Not sure, i personally do not think that a high valued (over 20 USD) coin is good for micro business. Its just not comfortable to divide all the time a given coin. Lets say a given price is 0.0325 LTC or lets say 13 XVG, 2 XRP, ... . The laster is for sure more comfortable for the masses.
3.) Developement team. I agree with you here. There are a lot better teams around, no doubt even about this argument. However, maybe its not the actual priority of the partnership or after a deal this gets massivley improved, adopted or whatever improvement. It could be, we do not know again about future plans or changes/additions in the dev team.
4.) Solid Foundation. Its up what someone understands under solid foundation. In all fairness XVG is around for some years now, this makes it at least better than 90% of the shitcoins that vanish as fast as they appeared. XVG has good exchanges as well, i again would say at least 95% better than most other coins around here. But most important here and for an eventually partner, the huge fan base. Its enormous, obviously. This attracts sponsors and partners. The more followers/members/fans, the better for a given sponsor/partner as it saves a huge amount of money elsewhere needed for advertising/marketing to make a given product public and well known. Seems many of us underestimate this value.
5.) A good indicator of that fan base is that all these "technical incidents" had 0 impact, neither on the exchanges, nor elsewhere. For another coin this would had been eventuall the end.
6.) From a the POV of an investor or partner i personally as a learned in economics, believe that they look for currencies that are centralized or semi-centralized, just for more easy business relationships. I personally, if i had the choose would prefer a currency where i have to talk to only some people that take decisions than a whole community, referendums, or even no real organisation behind it. A business partnership just needs business partners, at least at these date. As said, just my opinion.
So in all fairness i think there are or better, their could be some arguments making Verge attractive for a partnership. Seriously, i try to be fair and see all points of view. While the whole thread here was based on technical issues it seems that investors, traders ..... do not care too much about these, but others, as the mentioned above are more important.
Just as a side note: What i lately see more and more is some fanatic stance from one side vs. another. Blind posts without even considering other arguments, apsects and so on. See GPU miners vs. Asic miners for example. Given coin haters vs. coin supporters. I think every fanatism is bad, be it pro or negative. While i personally still think there will no partnership announced on 17th i'am fair enough to admit possible arguments for such partnership.
