So speaking of on topic, WTF is going on? I really expected a rebound by now.
A friend of mine and I were talking the other day about just this "WTF" situation overall in the crypto world lately. He's the only other person I know in "real life" who is into crypto and we bounce stuff off each other all the time just to keep some semblance of a "reality check" in all this batshit crazy, LOL
And even with this "two heads are better than one" situation in theory, we both agreed that with respect to bitcoin, at least, we have no idea anymore what the hell is really going on. Things have gotten so far beyond what I ever would have expected "normal" to be, that we cannot make much heads or tails any longer... on any of it.
The large-block small-block segwit pro/con who is right who is wrong blah blah blah has just gotten so fucking stupid after over three years of who the fuck knows what real "manipulation" or control may or may not really be happening "behind the scenes" that we both decided we just know fuck-all for sure any more. I'm pretty much giving up trying to "understand" anything anymore, past all the forum posts and etc, blogs, reddit (LOL) and etc.
On the other hand, to cope with this I've now gotten to the point of pretty much deciding the only way to deal with it is just HODL and hope for the best.
So, my overall mix of crypto portfolio is fairly balanced between bitcoin and alts, and one of the only things I still feel like I know "for sure" is that IF the overall idea of crypto currency is really worth *anything* at all in the long run? Then -- barring another competitor showing up with even better or more secure tech than XMR some day -- MONERO simply MUST be a large part of that future, due to it being the only coin that's actually fully SOLVED the fungibility aspect, so far.
If this is true then XMR at $40-$50 today is still a steal, and if it's not true and if instead ALL crypto is doomed if bitcoin's gonna fail? Then it doesn't really matter what we try and do today: the only way OUT from here, in that case, would be to dump ALL cryptos and go fully all-in back to fucking FIAT money, LOL.