It seems now that one altcoin, Monero (XMR), is under a constant barrage of attacks against its network + against the community.

It is especially remarkable, because:
- the coin is not in the TOP-10 marketcap,
- does not have a very large or very fast growing usership, and
- its price is not growing very fast.

According to the price history, almost nobody has made any money with it, because the all-time-average price is BTC0.004, and the price today is the same, with very little variation.

I am challenging everyone to find a reason what is behind this attack and hate. Note I am not saying that the attacks and hate are widespread as percentage of forum activists, but the people doing it certainly are very active.

Further, is it possible that the sea of shit in every Monero thread that the trolls leave behind, is giving such a bad impression to a casual reader that they buy into some other coin in its place. Can it be that paying for trolls and sockpuppets actually pays off?

Is the code in such condition that is can be defended against all attacks? Unfortunately it seems that the recent one could only have been pulled out by a person with much better understanding of the Monero code than Monero devs themselves. This is not very flattering towards certain people. (I write it out because not all are in the know: Monero is a community takeover coin that is based on CryptoNote protocol. Other CryptoNote coins are managed by the original CN developers, Monero is the one whose developers did not code the protocol itself.)

Moderation policy: This is an XMR-friendly thread. Any activity that is not furthering the discussion topics of this OP may be deleted and trolls banned. Don't even come if the reason of your coming is to wage the attack that we are discussing how to defend against.