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Board Speculation (Altcoins)
Re: [XMR] Monero Speculation
by
aminorex
on 29/02/2016, 18:55:47 UTC
Very much agree on the technical superiority. But what good is that if not enough people know about it? Based on market caps, Monero's technical superiority is not enough to overcome its marketing inferiority (sorry, it pains me to write this). We are the 98 pound genius weakling at the beach. We are still going to get sand kicked in our face. We need to be all 'round good, not excellent, or even the best in some areas, but pitifully deficient in others.
You know where github is, right?

Anyhow,  rushing it would only poison the well.  You don't want to get a reputation as not-ready-for-prime-time, because when you are ready, with all the UX issues nailed, then its too late to catch the next big event-based market need, as everyone has moved on to a lower-grade solution, which has become habitual, stolen the mind-share, gained the network effects &c.

The impediment to marketing is not lack of marketing.  It is lack of readiness for marketing.  To solve that you can fund a project on the forum, and/or provide pull requests.  Personally, I figure the big market need comes in about a year from now, when financial repression gets serious worldwide.  Being ready when that happens will be important.

Meanwhile, we are accruing early adopters on an ongoing basis.  The community is definitely growing.  You can buy more stuff, liquidity is rising, technology and infrastructure is improving in many areas, and not slipping in any significant area.  Prospects are very very good, fundamentally.  

I frankly appreciate the price here.  It's a wee high for accumulation IMO, but I keep dribbling, because, hey, you never know when it moons, and FOMO.  DCA means nothing if you start timing it.  And I've proven to myself that I can fail massively when timing it.  My only really good timing moves (other than buying OTC before polo) have been when I had inside info (or more accurately, public info which I believed while the market remained skeptical).