Yes, this is a frequent source of discussion: this is not a stock - this is fundamentally a new form of money itself.  It is a new financial universe that must expand to be useful, and for it to expand it must go through a speculative tier where people are "buying the colorful beads" because they predict others will eventually want to use them to transact with.  Obviously, the potential for cryptocurrency goes beyond a simple stock.  At it's best, a stock will only achieve dominance of the speculative tier - there will never be a transactional economy using stock certificates, and on the flip side: a cryptocurrency almost certainly needs a transactional economy to emerge in order to maintain legitimate long-term value if it is initially backed by 'nothing'.  
  
As well, I make sure to mention many reminders of the risks involved and that money transferred into crypto-assets is "as good as gone" (so pretend you've already lost it).  

 
  
Thanks for the tip.  

This is exactly why margin trading is dangerous. It has the potential to increase volatility.

Not sure about that.  I've always believed derivative markets smooth out volatility via various mechanisms, such as transfer of information about future prices to the present.

Only in a crony capitalist situation where gambling is encouraged by bailouts would options be dangerous.

I think gui should be releases in summer. And mid next year there should be a hard fork of monero. But not sure if this is correct though.

A GUI already exists, but it's external. Works fine even with the latest beta binaries (tested).

Link: http://monero.org/monerox-client/

As mentioned, there are GUIs available. I actually prefer jwinterm's light wallet.
https://forum.getmonero.org/20/general-discussion/166/lightwallet-a-lightweight-monero-gui-account-manager

I really, truly, do not understand the "official" GUI thing. How many people use the official bitcoin GUI? The best I can muster, I think the GUI thing is at best a red herring or at worst something monerians tell themselves for comfort regarding the price.

If one is truly concerned about price, then the best investment of time is probably into merchant integrations. Hell, the reason monero isn't on ALL of the exchanges is because 1) the "official" binaries eat your memory and 2) in general its so different than bitcoin these exchange sharks don't want to deal with it. If there was a detailed, step-by step guide on how to accept monero deposits *and* execute withdrawals *and* the official release only used 50 MB of memory, it would pop up more places.

Ultimately it takes so much more time because its not really important,  - so exactly what was said about prioritization. And as I've mentioned before, the prioritization chosen has direct effects on the security of the network. Imagine if the core team *had* continued on its work with the GUI as its #1 priority.... presumably, based on the logic of everyone that pines for a GUI, the introduction of the GUI would cause a massive surge in adoption. THis surge in adoption would then cause the blockchain to grow at a much faster rate than it already did. So now the blockchain is 10 gigs, and 5 people can run nodes....

the move of the blockchain to the database increases the security of the network by increasing node count and distribution (read = not datacenter), and as this is a financial network, this is *the* most important thing.

Focusing on the GUI is like if Ferrari spent their time focusing on the steering wheel. They don't.

Double bottom at 0.00097 or deeper?

My moneys on deeper.

The name of the game is Crypto Kingdom. Soon open to new players again

Because nobody's working on one.