It's hard to grow when you want to compete with bitcoin and other 100000 bitcoin clones, each of them with their own small changes over the original claiming theyre best. Wannabe crypto payment monetary system is saturated in crypto scene, it cannot grow further than this unless it's heavily pumped but then you need to be lucky enought to exit in time. Projects that intend to have more usage than the simple monetary system will have much more success, like ethereum, biggest of them at this moment. And even if their primary goal isnt to be used as a monetary system, their added value from real projects will be a boost for it's usage as a payment system aswell, which will kill bitcoin and anything alike since, let's be honest, a cryptocurrency will never be able to hold it's value only by being used as a payment system against projects with real value from real tangible projects. What do i mean: 1. People claim bitcoin can be used as digital gold payment system. Okay, but this all depends on it's perceived value, since, unlike gold, it has no usage at all if people lose their faith and dump it ( gold is used in industry, jewelry and so on), therefore it's perceived value will decrease to 0.
So, let's imagine what would happen: ethereum grows, alot of projects work on it's chain, therefore the token value is will grow alot, let's say 50$. Why would anyone bother to use bitcoin as a store of value when they can use ether, when it's value is backed by the amount of projects that work on it and not pure faith which currently holds bitcoin value high ?
I do believe monero will continue to exist, price will fluctuate but it'll remain the average joe who aimed low,  same as litecoin. Or maybe not aim low, but lacking a bigger and better development team.
Leadership in crypto scene matters alot unless you aim to be a bitcoin clone. So far i'm impressed by ethereum development team. Don't get me wrong, i'm aware that they're getting rich while doing this, but atleast they deliver. Would be nice to see other crypto projects to aim higher and to be more ambitious, most projects out tehre don't deserve to exist, they're just a milk cows for devs.

current crypto like steem or ethereum is all in danger of being crushed by bigger more aggressive competitor the size of facebook or google.
monero on the other hand is not something that a corporation would want or actually could compete with.

A marketcap should be minimum one order of magnitude higher than the wealth of the person it is sold.
Now the marketcap is in tens of millions so people who have 1-2 million networth are the ones Monero might be sold these days.

I really dont know what you are talking about. Monero market capitalization is $22 million. You dont believe that more that $22m will will choose anonymity way?


To me that is extremely ridiculous. Low price of monero is solely because of high inflation in last 2 years and slow development first year. You need to understand that developers that worked and work on coin development did nto plan it in advance but jumped in soon after was started. so it took soem time to optimize processes. all this beside the fact that there was no premine or ICO or whatever is nowadays popular. So no budged that Ethereum could afford.

Of course you can be totally right. And monero will newer be worth more then today. But on my opinion for that should be needed some not fixable security flaw or some way that society would be able prevent monero from running.

But chances for this are about same as to have $1000 Monero in a year or so.

I think the weakness of Monero is the constant inflation. The idea of coins being mined for ever doesn't incentify adaption for people who want to preserve their wealth.
Monero is much like Doge coin but lower inflation percentage. To maintain any value people need to buy coins on constant basis (like in fiat - to maintain the value there need to be economic growth which hopefully exceeds the rate of inflation).

again ? i have btc, i trade it for eth. btc demand goes down, eth demand goes up.

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I think the weakness of monero is that it answers a use case which a lot of people either don't understand or don't care about.

Its a dilettante's coin really.

I have no idea. Mainly it is traded back and forth in exchanges, and it is very unlikely to see the ATH anymore. Do not get me wrong, I want to see it but it is not probable, only very few people are trading here with Aminorex (that can be seen on the trading volumes).

The weak hands need to be shaken and they need to have cash so that they have money to buy their coins back on the Moon.