In all these posts about how to make this coin successful with it's technology, I'm not reading something like... I can't buy anything but Bitcoin with Potcoin (excluding other crypto), but I can buy goods and services with Bitcoin. Why bother with Potcoin if it can't be used as a currency? This will be answered with "well, when it matures and the community promotes it and we get retailers to start accepting it...". Not seeing that but plenty about SHA, Scrypt, this pool, that exchange. Nothing about this or that retailer/service accepting Potcoin. Again, why bother when Bitcoin is already the standard and being used?
That kind of talk spooks people, thats why no one brings it up
In order for people to use potcoin instead of bitcoin its going to have to be able to do things that Bitcoin can't do.
People need to see real advantages to alt coins in order to use them instead of the exit currency (bitcoin) directly.
Why should people jump through hoops to cash out and pay their expenses?
The only reason a dispensary would use PotCoin is if the marketing is strong enough to where they would think that potcoin would bring them more business than using bitcoin.
So essentially you have these options:
-Improve technology
-Improve marketing/usership
-Improve features to give people incentive to use Pot over BTC.
-All of the above
Until that happens, All alt coins will just be about as useful as trading cards, people trade for whatever coins they think have the best prospects, and thats why its important to have discussions on how to improve the coins you are rooting for, because if you dont have those discussions, then nothing gets done and you endup with a stagnant coin.
The best thing you can do for the future of a coin is point out its flaws and help correct them.
Marketing works great, but it doesn't work miracles.
If I had to pick ONE/few thing to put all the focus on to make potcoin a success:
Point of Sales system development combined with heavy marketing campaigns.
Everyone should pool funds together to develop something BETTER than an ATM you need a complete point of sales system and some kind of way to exit to fiat without the use of BTC (Pot/USD) Online (so that the volume is there to support the transactions that people want to perform).
I think the potcoin community is more than ready to face those challenges, recent progress is proof enough.