Risto created a massive bubble in XMR with his incessant pumping which caused many to buy at nosebleed high prices and then XMR dumped down to very low prices for a year.
You ascribe way too much power to Risto. Risto didn't
cause anything. Risto is not god.
Stop idolizing men. Fools. Do your own due diligence.
But you are the one who is idolising Risto. You think he can
cause things to happen.
At that time, he did. Check your facts. I was around when he was incessantly preaching to all the n00bs on the forum about Bitcoin to $1 million, about how he went from $100,000 to $10 million in BTC and that XMR was the ONLY ALTCOIN worth considering (meanwhile Dash and then Ethereum kicked its ass). He can't have that impact now on XMR, which is why (and because) the price is now finally higher.
I congratulate Risto on his excellent investment in Bitcoin. And the eventual rise of Monero has been great because finally "those Monero guys"[1] stopped berating everyone of the forum, which they did because they were so pissed off that their investment had sucked for such a long time while Dash and Ethereum raced ahead.
But let's not rewrite history and fool the readers.
What I disliked about Monero's community is they think they are superior to everyone else. And they think that they are entitled because they think they have the best cryptographers and set of open source participants outside of maybe Bitcoin's ecosystem. The whole "we are holier than thou" crap really alienated me from the start.
Exclusive clubs are for losers.
We are building an inclusive ecosystem. You are welcome to join. But I won't berate you for not joining. This is a free world. I claim no monopoly nor entitlement on it.
[1] Manny, Moe, and Jack to be specific. Obviously we can't hold every member in a community responsible for what some vocal members from that community do/did.