I speculate that Aminorex will return soon. Within 2 months for sure  

Yeah I did that before with the "pre-beta" GUI version that was posted about a month or two ago... worked fine, but for this "real final" release I want to try and use it as it's intended, i.e. with the daemon and everything...

Anyway, it's up to 314276/1145819 now... so gettin' there... slow and steady LOL

You know I just thought of something.

The more Bitcoin goes up in price will inevitably cause a lot of push back on the devs from doing anything like Hard Forking anything in or doing anything of the sort to improve.  I mean in a way, Bitcoin is being bought up for absolutely no reason at all.  That's kind of like a kid being rewarded for not doing his homework... what do you think he is going to do next time when home work is assigned?

When I see Bitcoin's price and network effect grow up, I just see people looking at Bitcoin's price as a reason for validating it's usefulness and "success" (it's been happening for a while).  If that's the case, I just feel like something has got to give to where there is so much back up on the network that people will get insanely aggravated with it and probably start selling which possibly cause panic selling.

This is why I believe the "mandatory fork system" that Monero has is so awesome... Keeps everything "fresh" just like in Linux.

... When we will have a node in the North Korea, then we could say that network is really secured.

Not everyone gives a shit about anon.....

Xmr fills a niche, it ain't no btc tho....

my guess is that most of the spotty teenagers will be bought out of btc in the $3-7k range and large funds,financial institutions and government money will take it over before the 2020 halving ........
these sort of mega corps will not be blackmailed or held over a barrell by people like core and they will ultimately take btc throug the 10-100k range and beyond

i think the current  core devs are not as important as they think they are and they will either conform or get their wings clipped when btc gets really valuable ......

being stuck at 3.3 tx per second maybe allright for now but i feel that when the real big money moves in they will swat away the neckbeards core devs like mosquitos and replace them with with their own guys ......

a govt ,nation  or financial group  with deep pockets could simply buy up the mining farms and steer the project in the direction of their  liking ,if btc ends up being a valuable financial instrument for international trade the fiat used to buy  control over it at todays prices  will be insignifigant .........

the next few years will be interesting ,i like it both ways
im invested in honeybadger and honeypony but i think badger will rape the pony in the next 6 months  

people like greg who may be slowing down progress...

Sell orders keep decreasing and price of XMR is almost at 10$. With BTC calming down and Monero getting RingCT the 5th of January, feels like good times ahead!