1. On anonymity hype:As Richard Stallman said,
1. You may want to support anonymity of most payers/donators generally,
but you may not want to specifically supporting anonymity of receivers/services, including evil ones/gun sellers/....
2. Most of the technical foundations of blockchains aren't all new.
Important are the social developments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ_3MKomQzY#t=220Transparency VS AnonymityIf society had to chose one it would keep Transparency.
but there is no Transparency VS Anonymity knock-out
(Neither Direct democracy VS 'blockchain immutability' to make another example)
Each thing exists to some degree anyway. Bitcoin supports annoymity as far as you an fun an account anonymously.
We (society) have to go for the best/safest design to define their scope and co-existence responsibly.
There is always advantages/convenience to be unlocked, yet more importantly we do not want to enable dangers.
- If something represents anonymity only in exchange for transparency that does not represent what supporters of anonymity generally meant,
and it will not be used widely, when most people and legal behavior will stay out for good and all remaining users may be under general suspicion .
(Similarly: If something represents 'blockchain immutability' in exchange for direct democracy, then it also does not represent the pure original point/relevant, but much rather the specific trade-off to favor immutability against direct democracy.)
But of course you actually want to come up with a solution carefully sorting out the safest combination of everything relevant
2. Beware of the ongoing Monero pump. 
-Trollbox calls for buying or selling are more often false than true.
-When shortsqueezes happen the market is in perpetual motion up for a short time but can crash any moment and the risk/reward ratio is worst. Every money you throw on it may end in the pumper's pocket. They may also control spikes up and down in interest rates and thus trigger waves of waiting orders.
-Once people calm and stop falling for the hysteria, the order book and trading volume vanish ( alone with the sneaky pump&dumping opportunity they triggered),
but before that they are not afraid to trade their >= Bitcoins in circles, wasting tons of fees, raising irrational FEAR and FOMO equally.
-Other cryptonote based currencies did not jump a lot
- I correctly alerted several pumps already:
Especially Monero and Factom pumping on the same day happend before
(and was noway sustainable)
