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I was disappointed and pleasantly surprised at the same time. Pleased the price had appreciated, but disappointed that in 2 years so little seems to have been done in terms of adoption and software. Nothing seems to have really changed, XMR seems only to exist as a hedge to BTC(and has done it so well that it appears to have dethroned LTC) while daily usage has not really made any real headway. The wallet it still clunky, needing the daemon to be sync'ed before opening a barely improved wallet. Maybe I am being too harsh, but it has been over 2 years, not 2 months or even 6 months.
I was pleased to see that Risto, Smoothy, Icebreaker and a few old names are still here and supporters of XMR.
So in summary, over the past 2 days I have bought 945XMR at an average price of about .0104BTC. I am adding them to the 55XMR in my cold storage wallet.
My only question is... should I go away for another 2 years before checking on XMR again?
I was disappointed and pleasantly surprised at the same time. Pleased the price had appreciated, but disappointed that in 2 years so little seems to have been done in terms of adoption and software. Nothing seems to have really changed, XMR seems only to exist as a hedge to BTC(and has done it so well that it appears to have dethroned LTC) while daily usage has not really made any real headway. The wallet it still clunky, needing the daemon to be sync'ed before opening a barely improved wallet. Maybe I am being too harsh, but it has been over 2 years, not 2 months or even 6 months.
I was pleased to see that Risto, Smoothy, Icebreaker and a few old names are still here and supporters of XMR.
So in summary, over the past 2 days I have bought 945XMR at an average price of about .0104BTC. I am adding them to the 55XMR in my cold storage wallet.
My only question is... should I go away for another 2 years before checking on XMR again?
I would use Monero as a method of payment if there would be more places to use them (sure I could have done it via xmr.to) but it would be simpler just to use btc directly.
The other thing, I order quite little online because I need pretty much nothing and my costs are quite minimal. Together with my wife we spend around 1000 euros/month and that includes everything from housing to toothpaste.
However, it is nice to buy a gold coin or two a few times in a year and I see this a good opportunity to spend Moneros (last time I tried to figure xmr.to out it was not in use) - why not. Anyway I need to pay the gold coin so why not use XMR and replace the spent amount from Poloniex.
When Monero skyrockets, perhaps Risto will re-open the gold window and accepts Moneros directly...?
Perhaps there is a niche for ebay-type of service in Moneros? In my case, I would not care to sell the coins into Poloniex when the price rises but buy directly with Moneros from a trusted source. DNM are not the way I personally buy stuff because I have very limited need for the products/"services" they offer.