Certainly who owns Chinese projects coins like "NEO" will not be excited lately. Then I did not say that it will be the end of the world, surely I think it is an unexplored market, and I think all the hypotheses that we make will be exact or wrong only when they will happen. For the rest, I think the Monero have more gear than others. But no one can be certain that the benefit of anonymity is not a disadvantage in the future. As far as the current one, it is to be said that the cryptos are currently playing alone ... without legislation it is easy to climb suddenly. I hope that the ETFs will arrive at once and hope that important countries will begin to regulate the cryptovalutes with intelligence without getting hurt.

So...tenas monero

...and  the only certainty so far is that Tether in dumps and pumps will always be at $ 1

I agree with a lot of that.  I don't particularly want anonymity. I would rather have transparency and proper regulation, and many would agree, especially in the interests of security.

The main question is of trust in the various regulators and competing financial system actors.

Exactly my thoughts as well. I considered sending a small amount and grabbing those and converting it to some shit coin just to take a gamble but i'm still in a short that I want to keep open. If it's still like that next week then I'll do it.


My experience with that is I have called BTC drop correctly a few times and have converted to fiat and rebought and it worked out gret until it didn't! I converted to fiat when XMR was 1.37 figuring I'd buy back in a month or 2 and I was correct but I had a bad run IRL and had to use those funds (850 xmr) and when it came time to rebuy I didn't have the funds available and was not able to re-enter and it was less than a week later that alpha bay hit out of the blue. So that is the Major issue you can run into. Things can happen over night. Also a problem doing this not is the fact that XMR is often tied to USD (it was much more so when the DM's were running) so even if btc tanks XMR will not reflect that as much as the other coins and has been known to rise with btc dip.


Nice try at the soft troll but no-one believes a word of this, trying to accumulate?

This.  Absolutely.

Seems like a little more bear-ish sentiment around this thread than usual lately but that may be a good thing: keep our feet on the ground a bit more as it were.

However, and I'm far from being any sort of 'sage' like some folks here, I don't trade, I only HODL really: so nobody should pay any attention to whatever the fuck I think, LOL, but seems to me that despite not really wanting to ever say "this time is different", umm, heh... this time IS different!

Compared to bull/bear sentiment we've seen in the past, lately it just "feels" to me like it's stronger now. More widespread. More new blood finally starting to think that all this crazy shit all of us lunatic-fringe, pre-early-adopters have been harping on to our skeptical and resistant friends and family over the last 4-5-6 years, maybe it is *finally* starting to take hold, even just a little bit.

How many people here have at least one friend or family member who have recently -- out of the blue -- asked you to tell them again, "Hey what's the deal really with that bitcoin crypto currency stuff you were telling me about last year?"

How many people have a very conservative friend who recently finally opened a coinbase account and put in even just a hundred bucks, to just START learning for themselves how all this stuff really works?

I've had BOTH of those things happen to me recently, in the last month or two, and if it's even slightly representative of what's happening overall in a macro scale of adoption, then we are only at the very start of a really significant hockey-stick curve ramp-up coming over the next year or two.

Could be wrong, though, of course... this is crypto, any damn weird thing can happen LOL -- but that's how it feels/looks to me

Same here. after a lunch at a friends house. % days later i had a whatsapp message saying he spent 100 in coinbase. If the movements are anywhere near normal some of that BTC, LTC and ETH will flow to other alts. I did my part talking about monero...

Times change but human behavior does not. How many folks in this thread were certain the Bithumb promotion would catapult XMR to new highs?


I do think a crypto armageddon is coming, and I think 80% is an optimistic estimate (for a market cap loss for the entire sector). When the dust clears, only a few projects will remain. Of course we can only guess when it will happen, and to what degree it will affect XMR.

Idk if there will be a correction I have a feeling that this is the beginning of the new age for crypto there is so much news so much awareness around it that it would seem "almost" impossible for it to crash again like we saw last time. Like a previous poster stated there is a 50% increase in the awareness of crypto the fact that, that alone caused the prices to jump to all time highs for the longest length of time we have seen I think maybe your just being pessimistic....

I suppose you could call the dot com crash a "shakeout" as well. How quickly did that happen?

Do you see the current "ICO fever" as something that's here to stay, or a point in cryptocurrency history that eventually comes to an end?

I'm betting it will survive. I don't necessarily think it will be unaffected.