He cut off none mineable coin Ripple. And Litecoin got back ahead of Monero. Litecoin will go back behind Monero market cap and stay there forever.

For ripple is easy, since is not mineable they can just print few billions of ripple and their market cap raise. You cant compare market cap of BTC and XMR with Ripple.

If that is the case, then most active users of the Monero threads will be rich. I think they own a few Monero at least.

Anything can be a liability.

The purpose of the viewkey feature is to allow the user to decide if they want to be transparent to whomever they choose to be transparent about their transactions. It empowers users to choose who gets to see their transactions or not, despite a court order. The freedom of choice whether it is "illegal" or "against the law".

Not all laws are just in our world...but i digress...

Shouldn't one be willing to work with authorities assuming there is good reason to?

"Caught"? Caught doing what?...assuming there is no illegal activities going on or no reason to believe that a user is using it for illegal/nefarious reasons, why would they need to prove their transactions other than a general audit?

I would imagine the micro payments have nothing to do with monero, but simply the pool software/settings/payment policy.

Bitcoin works the exact same way. When you receive many small payments, the transactions to spend it are much larger and cost more.

Yes with mixin 0 it was still high, about 80% of my monero is the fee.
Anyway, im pretty sure they will find a solution for those affected when the price skyrockets further.

I know there are others with far more monero than me that were affected.

I did not know (as did many pool operators) at the time, hence it took some a while to make larger payouts to miners instead of trickle amounts.

Because of the network effect, DASH has far less functionality than BTC.

One example of this is the difference in mixing times and efficacy.  BTC mixing is faster and more effective than Dash's, due to the much larger number of participating individuals.

Bitcoin has critical mass.  Dash does not.

Dash doesn't even have a legal opinion on whether or not Masternodes are illegal unregistered HYIP securites.

Dash is also afraid to put up a bug bounty.  Say what you will about ShadowCash, but at least they embraced the known best practice of rewarding people for looking at their code/crypto.

DashHoles don't want to know if their money-laundering HYIP is illegal.

DashHoles don't want to know if there are massive flaws in their code and roll-your-own crypto.

That is not "far more functionality."  That is just cargo cult bullshit.   

Yes those are very good points you have made