The first question is answered.

Hi to All, I am new to the crypto world. I would like to ask kindly for your opinion if Monero still a good investment as of today?

Thank you for you honest and frank answers. It is highly appreciated.

FUD from well known Troll.

Yea sure all fud... look here for a nice blockchain analysis.... monerolink.com
Oh wait isn't that supposed to be impossible? Hmmm....

Nice web site. Very clever how their dataset ends just as the current version of the protocol (not susceptible to the methods at all) begins, and how they make no effort to explain how the effectiveness of these methods (when they worked at all) was plummeting since early 2016 (as documented in their paper).

Weak trolling, mate.

Still waiting for someone to point out how many coins are in what wallets ... now unlinkability is only one fundamental of all the secret gems monero has... what useful is it if you can predict outputs but your not able to tell even to which adress it went, thanks to stealth adresses or how much is in said adress.

true. so basically for all practical purposes Monero would be the perfect place to store value in right? what's holding it back? why are more people (ie. marketcap) on dash than monero?

Without a premine it is tough to manipulate the market as these other coins do. Remember before Dash mooned 500 masternodes disappeared? Well we know what they were used for now don't we? A lot of us were even pointing it out right off the bat.

It is not ready for mass adoption yet. We understand that this is a currency not a speculation tool and therefore know that when rolled out to the masses the system needs to be polished enough for the average user. that is just good business. Staying above the P&D scam coins is essential for the coins credibility when it finally can be rolled out. There are no credible accusations against XMR, the closest thing to that is fluffy's poor choice of a troll which doesn't amount to a hill of beans in the end. Compare that to the other top 10 coins and you will see why this is important for the future adoption as a actual functional currency. Most alts are nothing more than speculation bubbles, XMR is different and the price does reflect that, just look at the increase when the DM's adopted XMR and the fact since AB disappeared the value has been tapering off. As soon as the adoption rate increases again for use cases and not bag holding them we will see a nice steady increase again. I'm not sure about seeing another spike though. Did that answer your question?