Quote from: iourzzz on August 14, 2014, 11:04:52 PM

Quote from: smooth on August 14, 2014, 10:23:00 PM

Quote from: Anotheranonlol on August 14, 2014, 12:24:58 PM

This thread was created towards the end of May, and as you can see from http://monerochain.info/charts/transactions
that'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...

Not remotely possible IMO.

People have suggested that zoidberg joining Monero would make a "dream team" but the Monero team and zoidberg are not on the same page, development wise or philosophically. They do not see eye to eye on the same issues.