Agreed....

Thanks for doing this invictus.  It makes it nice for noobies to ask questions. Wish i could attend but maybe i can make it onto the server sometime at least to say hi.

being turing complete is far bigger than any mining algo etc dumb money would dump it based on a miming algo.. smart money is waiting fir features that matter thrn extrapolate

Imagine someone knocks on your door one day and begin telling you about how amazing this new vaccum is. He tells you it its going to do all these different amazing things.  In fact he has now sold you your own amazing vaccuum. 
So he takes you money, goes to the car, take out a peace of paper and draw said vaccuum.  Then he delivers this to your door:
"We will get this magical vaccuum to you soon" he explains. "It might be completely different from what i described because we havent actually designed anything...but we'll promise that we have the best talent and they will build your magical vaccum.  And we'll get one to you as soon as its completed."

Then he leaves...

Now you are on the forum of another vaccuum manufacturer who actually has released a product that does much of what was promised by your ethereal vaccuum...

You are holding your sheet of paper with the crayon-drawn Magic-vac, waiving it around and telling people this beautiful creation is going to blow their world away. Meanwhile they are using their real, designed, engineered and produced products to do the actual job a sweeper was meant to do.  And you are waiting for your picture to serve you toast and tea.

Look at the crayon on that paper now.  Feel the power of its colored wax and take comfort in the fact that the salesman insisted it will make you supper and do pretty much anything else you want.  Unfortunately...the competition (i3) is actually vaccuming.

So of you are having a hard time with your claims being accepted here. Try rolling up that sheet of paper into a cone. Then speak through the little end with the open end facing us.  And most of all be patient:
..everyone here is busy cleaning house with real, powerful vaccuums that actually exist...and its so powerful that it is very loud.

Real vaccuums make a lot of noise.

what to expect?

in the first announcement both sides Overstock and Counterparty are as far away as possible. So i am thinking they have already problems in their realtionsship.
Medici will not be open source - i could bet on that.
It is nice done from Counterparty to take this big fish.

This is an easy task since xcp is the only 2.0 that doesn't threaten bitcoin and the mining cartels.  How many moves ahead is byrnes and team thinking in this game of chess?