@gamey
there is a big difference between a product which is not on the market yet, and one that is on the market and officially trading - even being an alpha version with bugs..
it does not matter to 'be first - before the competitors' with an important item as a new virtual currency.
even if many good products will pop up over the near future - I as a customer/user/investor might try out a few - but I will eventually pick the one which is smooth, stable and revolutionary.
why would a developer release a product - for official trading that is - and risk lose potential customers due to too many bugs?
a few bugs I can live with, but missing stability will turn me away.
At the time of release the last dry run was "stable" and there were no known bugs. Developers cannot catch all bugs on all platforms prior to launch.
As a developer running a client every single day and performing transactions, market operations, etc with my client I have not experienced ANY crashes of my desktop GUI.
I had many successful software company CEOs tell me "If you are not embarrassed at your first release, you waited too long". Many things that we are trying to test require money to be on the line (ie: how do you test market dynamics???)
Bugs are temporary... and rapidly being fixed. Polish will come.
So what is BTSX good for today? It is good for early adopters to use to get involved. It is good for developers to test integration. Sure you shouldn't be using it as your day-to-day crypto at this point in time.
All of that said, I was pushing to hold off on launching. But with open source that isn't my call and DAC Sun thought it was ready. Over all I think they were right despite the bugs.