Very nicely written. Good detail! I must look into this ORCH of yours. Honestly though, I'm more than happy enough with NEO, it's a truly brilliant platform and the major part of a smart economy that has no parallel.
Your last statement is why I have been holding privacy coins for a while. While not yet ultra fast, I consider my ZEC and PIVX to be good enough for now.
RE: Intergalactic Money: The deep impact of a self-evolving infinitely-scalable general-purpose realtime unforkable public blockchain federation