Interesting discussion. I have always noticed something weird with Monero. They speak like is the best crypto in the world creating FUD and accusing of scam for all others altcoins in the world with only exception of the coins developed by their affiliated, and when you check the code after so much time progress are embarrassing, years of development and no significant improvement with wallet still unstable and with code that seems written by some amateur nerd teenager. It's a pity that there is so much silence from original Cryptonote\Bytecoin developers and doubt about its future, they are clearly on a different league in terms of skills and ability to continue to develop code compared to the Monero noisy copy\pasters.
Dude, this thread is 2 years old. I mean there's posts up to this past December, but a lot of this information is irrelevant now.
Monero is thriving and if you look at the charts, it's likely to stay on the upward trend over the course of this year.
Sure 90% of my posts are Monero so I won't talk bad about it, but I actually like this crypto cause its not a scam. It has real potential.
I'm sure not every person cares about being 100% anonymous, but I know a certain market of people who use bitcoin and are getting arrested, and those people will definitely flock to Monero when more arrests start happening. They already have the option to use it, but most haven't cared yet. I think they will care soon enough, but that's all speculation.
Also, about the code thing, Monero is open source. Nobody is sitting there with a ton of money. People don't have all day every day to spend on this shit. The community funds the projects. The development is a little slow, sure, but if it is already $10+ at this point, where will it be when RingCT is mandatory, when there is a mobile wallet, when kovri is implemented.(Although I realize that price does not determine if the coin is successful) You can say whatever you want, but I truly believe that Monero will succeed.
Hell if coinbase adds them, I'm gonna go around to everyone and say I told you so. But I don't know if they would do Monero or not. Would be huge news though.