I just got a new convert.  A rates trader at Metlife took a few thousand from me as a tail hedge.  A miniscule position, but I suspect he will become a repeat customer and tell his friends.

I will be meeting with an fx option market maker later, and a hedge fund manager when we can work out a mutual time.  Also looking into contacts with a rather largish fixed income fund for meetups the next time I hit nyc.

So far I have made at least 8 monerists of potential size by p2p networking (counting Risto, who I solicited and supplied with a bootstrap allocation, but not counting any other btct or crypt regulars who I may have stimulated to investigate).

One thing I notice is that they fall in two buckets: 1. People who know me, respect my opinion and defer to it, rely upon it, and 2. very intelligent people who can understand the compellingness of the case I present, financially expert professionals, who recognize that XMR fills a gaping hole in their portfolio strategy.  The ming- cost / mining-reward trend plays a role in their new views, but I am careful to observe the inferrential limitations of this statistic.

I might line up a presentation on monero at one or more btc nyc meetups or at the nyc bitcoin center.  Not by me, but by a friend who is better suited to the task.

In future I may line up some seminar groups in London, Hong Kong, and or Shanghai.

Oh and I will be having beers tomorrow after work with an SVP from Two Sigma.  XMR will not be neglected.

Like Mr. Blankfein, I feel I am doing God' s work.