Let me start off with, I registered on the Monero forums just to complain about this, so that should tell you how upset I am. The Monero desktop wallet (Version: GUI version: release, which doesn't mean anything, I downloaded the monero-gui-win-x64-v0.10.3.1.zip file) has serious problems, despite its' fancy look and promise. If these problems can be addressed, then I can see Monero being used in the future. If not, then I do not know how Monero will achieve market saturation and significant market share in the crypto currency world.

Just to get any arguments out of the way, I am using a HP Compaq Elite 8300 USDT with Windows 10 Home (x64-bit), the CPU is Intel i5-3470S @ 2.90GHz, with 6 GB of RAM (5.88 GB usable). I'm using the Compaq's integrated graphics, not that it matters.

First, the Monero blockchain uses a separate Windows thread to download and synchronize its' blockchain. Kudos to the programmers for that. The problem is, it still days hours and hours to synchronize the blockchain, even daily. I literally started off with "Blocks remaining: 4434", which went up to 4500 blocks in the next hour, and have gone down to 3948 blocks as I type. That is atrocious and unacceptable.

Second, the "monerod.exe" daemon for synchronization wastes too much memory. On my system monerod.exe has while I write used 780 MB and is climbing even higher. Which means, if I am running Firefox at the same time, the memory on my system is above 90%, and any YouTube videos are going to have problems playing. "monero-wallet-gui.exe" uses 97.2 MB, for comparison. What is the daemon doing that requires that much RAM? Or is this just a memory leak?

The actual wallet appeals to the average user, with lots of controls for Send and Receive, History, and the possibility for mining Monero under Advanced. (But the controls for mining are very basic - you type in the number of CPU threads you want to engage.)

And the daemon just crashed the main program on my computer as I typed this message. I had to End Process "monerod.exe", which kept the wallet running, but of course now it shows "Disconnected" unless I start the memory-hog daemon again. Not today.

So how about the programmers fix these problems with the wallet, while the price is going up ($139.45 on https://coinmarketcap.com/), before customers grow disgusted with the wallet and dump Monero as a crypto currency? Because I believe Monero still has potential, especially with it's "anonymous transactions" premise. And, no, I'm not the programmer to do this, and before I get some script kiddies with nonsensical comments let me ask the developers of Monero to sell some of the millions of Monero that have already been mined (15,002,029 according to https://coinmarketcap.com/) and hire some real programmers? Rather than sitting on the Monero coins like a blue-chip CEO waiting for his stock portfolio to mature so he can bail out to the Cayman Islands.

From the web research I have done on crypto currencies, Monero is being exchanged back and forth on several on-line exchanges, rather than kept in the Monero wallet. So it's a currency exchange hot potato, which explains the rise in price. But I have not heard anyone keeping Monero for the long-term, like Bitcoin or Litecoin or Ethereum. The Monero wallet is not encouraging long-term use, either.

jhpace1 in North Carolina, USA