Not impressed.
1. After repeated attempts to load the block chain, the client gets stuck on the very first block and I cannot fully load and use the client. (I tried 4 times- three last ngiht and once today)
2. The GUI looks cheap and playful.
3. I'm not seeing much QUALITY innovation. It looks like the profiles, chat, and messaging system were just thrown together so that they can say they have it.
4. It seems like the true innovations (ones we really need so we don't get goxxed/seized by the feds) were not included in the Beta, and are not developed yet (Distributed P2P exchange and Distributed market place.)
Summary/Warning to investors:
So, what we have here is another IPO coin promising very ambitious projects. Will one of them (or all?) actually be able to complete a project of this magnitude? I am skeptical they will all succeed, I feel like there's certain to be some failures along the way. I just wanted to make note that investing in this is not a sure thing and there are a lot of variables that you or I cannot control, which will ultimately lead to the success or death of eMunie and other IPO coins. Although it is technically a "gen2" cryptocoin, it is stripped of its most valuable features. Assumingly so because they do not exist yet.
As the dust settles, it seems that eMunie will be second or third to the holy grail of a distributed p2p exchange. Mastercoin is supposedly a month away (
http://www.mastercountdown.info/). This does not bode well for eMunie or their investors. I would venture to bet that Mastercoin is way ahead in development of the exchange and will definately be first to have it... well before eMunie and Nxt. If there's one thing I've learned about cryptos, it's that the first mover award can be great (the network effect). If Mastercoin completes their distributed exchange first, it is likely to be the most popular for the immediate to near future. Being the most popular exchange will bring them a lot of money, to further improve on the protocol and exchange. This will make it harder for the likes of eMunie and Nxt to catch up.
Basically.. eMunie is playing catch up, and this time unfortunately I do not think slow and steady wins the race. Not in the world of cryptocoins.
My two cents,
Ch