Ignoring the real and present risk of keeping tokens on an exchange, if/when Monero margin trading is extended to longing other coins (and assuming a healthy XMR market), those who have decent amounts of Monero to lend out are going to find out the true meaning of 'wealthy'.  They will learn that magic sensation of having their money work for them to generate new money with little risk.  Those who still hold a whale's share of Bitcoins already understand how good this feels (>10k bitcoins).  Of course, the phrase 'little risk' is compared to things like chasing Piggycoin pumps - the global risk of keeping money on any exchange, no matter how reputable, is still significant.  
  

Americanpegasus isn't a whale. He's essentially the "one direction" of the XMR world in the sense that he commands a few noobs with questionable intelligence.

20,000 XMR isn't whale material.

So who's making the birthday cake this year?

when it becomes true? 

So we had our healthy correction, support remains strong despite btc up again and volume still pretty high. IMO we're going to break the 0.0043 top and reach new highs this month. I also think it's pretty interesting that the forum picked up on "DarkFlarb", somebody is lurking in our little community

Posted some additional evidence. Posted in that other thread fwiw.

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/1414944.msg14397850#msg14397850

^ Most of that is already present in the thread you linked.

Let me guess: dynamic blocksize and tail-emission  . Or would it be the opaque blockchain? The build-in every 6 month hard fork maybe?
Nah.

I was born into the worst poverty America has to offer, a shabby trailer park and government food handouts.  Through good decisions, I've crawled my way up to middle class in my adult life.  Now crypto will allow me to take the next step and become wealthy.  
  
It's a shame I don't already have a few hundred thousand USD to put into Monero (I would if I could), but I'm quite proud I have been shoving all the money I could into it for over a year now. (including that 30% APR loan I took a year ago and used it to buy my initial savings with).  It might not seem like much to you, but that money represents all my savings and more value than I have ever held.  I don't think there's a better asset in the world for it to be in, either.  It's rare that you find something so profitable that has the power to make the world a radically better place.  
  
I may not have been given very many math perks, but I decidedly have the gift of gab.  I think it's probably fortunate my energies have been directed at an actual worthwhile asset, vs allowing them to fire randomly into shell alts and premine scams.  

I appreciate you a lot. Taking risk at times when it looked like XMR community had near death experience (coin price 0.001 each) and hardly anybody commenting here and hyping.
Often bets like these will not pay but when the pay you off they pay big time. Monero has quite good odds IMO. The only thing basically XMR is lacking is marketing team, but I guess once the price starts rising (yes, the price has not even started rising, it is around the same as it was when I purchased my first coins back in early June-August 2014). Risto told us Monero will be trading between 0.002-0.004 range. I find this being quite accurate price range. It is hard to predict the future so there has to be some forgiveness for predictions like this (after all, the periods at sub 0.002 has been less than 2 years so it is nothing).

BTW 30 % pa sounds quite interest to loan money.. It is like 10 times higher than I would pay. One way to cut interest payments is to refinance the loan with a collateral (perhaps a car, appartment, real estate etc). If there would be a way to do a collateralized loan overseas I for instance could lend you the amount for 10 % interest pa with a sufficient collateral.