This thread was created towards the end of May, and as you can see from
http://monerochain.info/charts/transactionsthat's where it began to get a bit of traction. I agree this scene is so fast moving, and agree it definitely had an affect, but it still doesn't seem such a huge gap, especially taking into account the lower price and less-steep emission curve of BBR
This thread was created
because because Monero was
already getting enough speculative interest to attract rpietila's attention. Look at the graph on the old OTC
thread. There was a day in mid-May when 50K XMR traded at a price of about 0.001. That's 50 BTC which is a huge amount for a coin not even trading on any major exchange at all! On May 20 (6 days before this thread), it traded over 100K XMR.
So yes that early period played a huge role.
I know this is not probably possible but in the world of my dreams CZ would unite with Monero team and Monero will overcome Bitcoin...