Someone merit this man.
Sad to see this old thread nearly dead.
I sustain it was (nearly) killed more by the anti-maxi hoard and "the state" than by anything wrong with Monero.
Bottom line though has not yet changed. Bitcoin is evolving to be the thing Satoshi meant for it to be.
Monero still points the way in areas Bitcoin has fallen short.
Both will exist for some time.
Eventually? Tech built on Bitcoin could rival Monero's privacy advantage?
Until then...

Oh.. I forgot to mention... somehow XMR hashrate seems to be organically climbing to all time highs? Perhaps?

Monero is not doing bad at all given how the hashrate doing, in essence, for a coin to be dead mining must cease.
It indeed suffers from a lot of FUD by some people yet only those weak of mind or conformists will listen. Im not sure tech built on bitcoin could compare to monero.