Thanks for sharing. We are generally on the same page here.
I am curious though, how do are your thoughts on Mimblewimble, the first implementations (most importantly GRIN) and the chance, that MW might get implemented on Bitcoin. <- Definitly high hurdles for that happening, but assuming it will happen, how do you see XMR - does it still have a usecase?
Thinking about filling my bags of XMR, too. Just curious on what a self-proclaimed XMR whale has to say to the "threat" of other real-privacy/fungibility cryptos emerging.

This is a long term perspective and irrelevant in short to medium term. My trades are usually medium term (e.g few months to a year). Admittedly I've not studied the Mimblewimble technology in great detail, but from what I have read it doesn't excite me all that much. Interactive payments (needing to be online) is pretty inconvenient,
but the emission curve for GRIN is ridiculous and gets insta ignore from me for probably a few years. Similar to zcash, which I also put on automatic ignore for many years. It simply means there is no urgency for me to look into it.
I hear you, I'm quite surprised it has held as long as it has. there are some serious whales propping that shit up and the dump is going to be epic and then it will be a nice long hold. Well thats as long as they can get the chain to transact again, funny they didn't set the version checking well enough and development outran their protocol so fast they killed their own eco system. A good sign I guess as it really does prove the Dev support is there for the long haul. I was thinking 1 and a half to 2 years before grabbing any but now I'm thinking possibly only 1. It's interesting to watch and do me a favor, PM me when you think entry is imminent. I value your opinion.