Only in 2017-2018 when XMR is mostly mined can begin to sustain a long-term uptrend.
Untrue.
Enjoyed yours BTC EV analysis thread, do you have something similar for XMR?
Yeah, in 5 years XMR is about 18 million coins. The scenarios are really a matrix of [crypto total marketcap
x XMR's share of it]. If we make the most positive case a 1000 times higher marketcap ($4,000 billion, 5 times Apple's marketcap) and work from there making each order of magnitude a scenario of its own, we get approximately the following for
general crypto:
1) $4000 billion 5%
2) $400 billion 15%
3) $40 billion 25%
4) $4 billion 30% <- this is the current size of crypto, at the bottom of the pit.
5) $400 million. 25%
This is a very rough but useful classification.
Then, again very simplistically, XMR can command a large or small share of the market. Let's say:
1) 3/4 of the market (domination) 1%
2) 10% of the market (second coin) 4%
3) 1% of the market (alive) 10%
4) 0.1% of the market (unsettled) 15% <- this is the current position of XMR
5) 0% of the market (dead) 70%
Now just go and do the numbers

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I did it myself, put all the 25 scenarios in a matrix for A) their probability B) their outcome.
By multiplying the outcomes with their probabilities we get the
EV: $191/XMR.
Since we are now trading at
$0.30, the EV is "large enough" to warrant the use of binary Kelly:
In this kind of situation, a rational gambler invests as many % of his kitty than is his chance of winning. About 25% of the scenarios are profitable, meaning that it is rational to invest 25% of the stash, unless even higher EV projects are competing of the money.
Note: 75% of the scenarios are losing. Still, this has a higher EV than Bitcoin, and is indeed the best investment that I have calculated the EV.