HAHAHAHA really? You are going to quote one of his "predictions".... ">10,000 people using the software", really? Show me 10,000 crypto users that want to try and use that command line wallet. I doubt there are more than 1000 people using the software.
You forget, that you (as the discreditor) must bear the burden of proof (much like I now have to do with anything I've tried to discredit). I accept that there's 10,000 people here, and eagerly await you to prove me differently .. not the other way around. Also, there's a GUI here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=683365.0Volume, little to no new signs of XMR support in and chat box, and lack of new users showing up in the XMR forum.
Volume? What volume? It's as if you're convinced there's only 600 BTC, and 200k XMR in the entire world. This is the same fallacious reasoning behind people saying their little project is going to directly displace litecoin. I don't understand the logic - there's trillions of dollars .. and it seems like people are constantly under the impression that what they see on coinmarketcap is all there really is ever. There are many new users showing up in the BTCtalk forum .. few if any of new people directly show up on any of the advertised XMR forums .. and I don't blame them. Darkcoin had almost nobody going to its forum until it had a significant value. Often times the individual coins forum can be thought of as the 'coin graveyard'. Interesting that you actually want people to go to the coin graveyard .. ulterior motives .. is it true? Hypothesis accepted!
Back to what we were talking about - there's plenty of signs of new support - the hashrate has been climbing steadily, we haven't made a new ATL that was lower than the previous ATL before a major uptrend started .. plenty of new people appear on the btctalk threads. If you're not seeing it, it's called 'confirmation bias' and you should look it up please.
This is what is on the books. There are a lot of XMR off the books. There were 40,000 XMR sitting at 450k the other day. It was pulled after several people started talking about it. This was at the same time rpietila showed up.
It's still only 213k XMR, 7.1% of the currency in circulation. We now have 1% of the people, 7.1% of the currency, and 3.2% of the marketcap in demand on PLX. That's like saying the entire United States is going to secede from the union because colorado wants to split into north and south colorado. Just not seeing how you can get any worthwhile information from that.