Quote from: kurious on January 22, 2017, 10:34:59 AM

Quote from: TrueCryptonaire on January 22, 2017, 10:00:23 AM

I couldn't disagree more on this.
You are saying in indirect manner that everybody who needs Monero will found it.
You are forgetting that the most people are not like you - they are average Joe's watching TV, drinking diet coke and eating processed food and when they go to pick up the daily mail they take a car/rollator to do so. Still, they might have a need for Monero.
Those people are going to find Monero only when they hear it from the sources they are following. Despite the project might speak for itself, the problem is that people who need it cannot hear the speech.

There are different ways how to get publicity... One way is to pump the price and people start discussing about Monero everywhere and even mainsteam media starts to pay attention to it and the community will grow.
The second approach is the way the Dark coin community does: They have hired "shills" to make sure people speak about it.

Respectfully - paid shills is beneath Monero - so I disagree with this. And we don't 'pump' Monero, it responds to market sentiment and news.

As for funding - whenever the devs have requested funding for development projects it has been funded pretty quickly by Monero supporters this far.

I am sure specific marketing efforts will be similarly received and supported in future, too. We are not exactly struggling in terms of what the devs have done to develop Monero. Anyone who bought more than a few months ago has seen an appreciation in their net worth because of it.

This cannot be said of most coins. And even the rise in BTC was not as good in 2016 as the rise in Monero.

Let's count our blessings, eh?

Partly true and partly untrue.

The true part: Responding to the sentiment and some news.
The untrue part: some news are already in the price so when the news come out, it will not rise in price. When ringCT was official the price was prefertably declining slowly rather than rising because it was expected thing to take place. In the same manner, I am not expecting kovri to have any impact on the price when it is actualized.

The news that Monero price responded were D.N.M. acceptance because it came all of sudden without pre-warning.
Kraken had very short term affect on the price as well as bitfinex.

2016 was very good for Monero - will 2017 be similar to Monero as well - that's the big question mark?
Chances are btc will reach ATH which might bring some extra demand for Monero as bitcoin maximalists start to diversifying. Let's hope they will not diversify into Dark coin though.