Quote from: Wandererfromthenorth on December 24, 2014, 04:32:51 PM

Quote from: aminorex on December 24, 2014, 04:10:22 PM

Quote from: Wandererfromthenorth on December 24, 2014, 10:41:19 AM

Monero is junk.

I am convinced, by facts and logic, that it is the best investment on the planet at this time. If it goes lower, it becomes even better.

Fact: U.N. estimates global black market at 2 tn USD in 2012.
Fact: PQ=MV
Fact: Cryptonote is the only dark transaction protocol providing useful levels of unlinkability and untraceability.
Fact: XMR is the leading cryptonote coin by orders of magnitude in liquidity.
Fact: XMR is not usable by non-technical persons without trusting a web wallet today, but will be when GUI, DB, and multi-sig are officially released.
Logic: Dark markets will adopt the best usable privacy and hence PQ is assured to approach some fraction of 2tn
Fact: Multinational corporations require to maintain secrecy in their internal cross-border transactions.
Logic: When XMR liquidity is high enough, it will be adopted by multinational corporations for internal cross-border transactions
Fact: Nation-states and the central banks which own them seek to enslave the planet, taking control of financial assets at will.
Logic: Wealth will migrate to dark storage, and when XMR has sufficient liquidity, it will be the dominant form of dark storage.

There is a clear three stage path from miniscule to gigantic, each step of which bears a fundamental inevitability. It is possible although unlikely for an alternative dark ledger to take the lead, but until then, XMR has the most asymmetric risk/return in the history of finance.

The points you made and their relevance are questionable, but even if we accept them all:

-Dark Wallet is being developed for BTC. Once that works there is no point at all in adopting a lower liquidity lower confidence altcoin that will basically be a clone of BTC.
-Monero shares the same problems of Proof of Work coins (including BTC of course) so if BTC dies because of that (or any reason at all intrinsic to BTC), Monero is no different. If BTC survives and Dark Wallet can be used for anonymity on BTC, Monero will not have a purpose anymore.

I'm not certain dark wallet can provide the same level of anonymity as Monero does.