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The price of XMR in bitcoin has dropped a lot more than its price in Dollar.

I personally wish for smaller values than 0.0014 but it's been at it for about 24h now and can't make it lower. I counted what? 3-4 bottoms with the current one? The way I see it we're oversold; but something holds me to buy more right now. Hope for a (short or long) BTC rally actually which (IMHO) is imminent. I might be wrong, but if this is the case, I'll have my chance for cheaper XMRs.

Anyway. It's been a nice ride down so far, let's see how it evolves from now on.

That is still aroun d$0.35, not dropped a lot.

Same here. Now I just observer, and wait for some massive dump for the price to go below 0.0014 and lower. Where are the dumpers when you need them?:-)

For now...

Who knows where bitcoin is going... Probably higher given all the monetary fundmentals of banks printing funny munny constantly.

In order for Monero to succeed in awareness there is a pretty good likelihood it will have to be with bitcoin gaining more acceptance/usage, more bitcoin business regulation compliance, press, etc. basically letting bitcoin be the trailblazer and monero will be around for those who want more privacy when (not if) that becomes an issue of importance.

If bitcoin falters in any meaningful way (i.e. massive exploit etc) most of crypto will take a huge hit collectively. But as I see it the technology is out of the bottle and can't be uninvented.

Most people are looking to bitcoin as a guage of where cryptocurrency is going. This isn't a bad thing as it is like a temperature gauge of the technology and where we are at and where we may be headed.

One thing I've learned is that when the majority is focused on a particular topic/asset/market it usually means there are others nearby that are in the stealth accumulation phase. I believe Monero is one of those asset/markets/networks.

Litecoin was one of these back in the day although litecoin did not have as much protocol difference as monero has to bitcoin currently the concept applied still despite many nay sayers saying litecoin would go to 0. Maybe it will in the future but that is another topic.

I'm still going through the monero 0.9 source code for myself and consulting with the developers and those with a better understanding of the inner workings of monero and thus far I must say I am very impressed. The code needs work of course as fluffypony mentioned by "libraryzing" (mispell?) the code into four major sections for ease of use as well as the numerous additions they have planned in the pipeline.

Although I wish I knew everything there is to know about Monero, I'm learning new things each day by digging into the source to see what is under the hood. I am no expert and likely will never claim to be one.

In respects to speculation, I see price going to 0.0011 to 0.0013 bottom and rebound to 0.0017.

I disagree, Bitcoin rather than US Dollars is the key currency for this market. The market has been waiting for the 0.9 tagged release for over 10 months. In the meantime the bears get to play.

Thanks for your outlook. It's nice to see you around here Smoothie.

Don't hate.

I think of the price more in USD than BTC terms, but I don't know how common that is. Also, I'd prefer to use USD rather than BTC to buy XMR. Can someone please provide status updates about any XMR fiat exchanges (such as the three exchanges rpietila mentioned in July, at least two of which were expected to be online already by now)?