It is still reasonable general audience advice. In one interview, I heard fluffypony add something to effect of "If you are an extreme speculator then sure go ahead and speculate". For anyone else, the advice is perfectly okay. This is not a proven asset, it isn't in a proven asset class. There can be bugs that completely destroy the currency.

As for "extreme speculators", I question how many people really are that. Extreme speculator to me, means that you know that your investment has a significant chance to lose all or most of its value and accept that when buying in. That takes significant financial and emotional preparation and resources. How many people here on the speculation thread raise a stink and declare XMR dead every time the price drops by 20-30% (still 70-80% less of a drop than the the full-loss scenario)? What happens when we see a 90% drop, as has happened to XMR before, and to BTC multiple times?

How about, "If you are going to be upset when your investment loses 20-30% of its value (not to mention 90% or more), then don't buy Monero"? In practice that's going to be the same thing for most of the audience.

After Alphabay, what other darknet market places accept Monero today?  I'm pretty sure some are at least thinking about accepting it.  It's the more private and the safer option obviously and that prevents the feds from knocking on your door.  I also heard that the Alphabay staff were paid in Monero?  How true is this?

This went viral - it shows 30 pageloads per second. I think the song  is about XMR tbh

See how fast the Global Repeats is growing when you hit the Your Repeats (such as letting it start again).

i'm not sure but i guess it's cryptodromeda's works. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=641696.msg13706044#msg13706044
if yes it's in the public domain

And you can bet any money in the world, Joel Valenzuela (aka Ass Clown of the Year) is already tapping away at the keyboard preparing another follow up piece for the CoinTelegraph.

cmon man, we all know who is rpietila and you dont want to mess with him, i guess he alone can crash Xmr price to half of todays price, besides he also makes everyone  rich here.
we better to serve him well and obey anything he wanted.  he is totally truely the most vip investor in xmr land. and nothing you say can change that.

Ready for the next leg up?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUwszL6J81I

wow , what happened, just woke up.

... pumping a stock that has no activity outside of themselves is meaningless ...

The question is: Which strategy is demonstrably more successful? Amanda B Johnson is a paid PR employee who's job it is to project Dash in a certain light, which is a form of "truth processing" for the purposes of growing a community and encouraging investment. Fluffypony on the other hand, simply tells the truth at the obvious expense of investment evangelicalism. In fact, he specifically says "Don't invest in Monero. It's a risky project that is still in its infancy". Any criticism of Dash is simply an extension of his fearlessness of the truth, and the understanding that if a project is a scam then it should be called out as such. The irony is, that despite these approaches having been in existence for a few years now, the Dash community is now far far smaller than the Monero community. Dash was once considered the "go to" privacy-orientated coin, while Monero was a relatively smaller project. These days, Dash is lucky if it can get more than 15 subreddit users online at the same time, while Monero is averaging 50-60. The IRC stats reflect the same ratio, with Monero averaging around 300 users online which is on a parallel with Ethereum. Dash IRC stats on the other hand are still only averaging 80-100. So yeah, Monero's approach may well deviate from the text-book model of marketing, but the fact remains, it is demonstrably the more successful mechanism. In this cynical age, people have a far greater affinity for truth and for telling it how it is, while rejecting the finely polished aesthetics of marketing overkill. The proof is in the pudding. My only criticism of FP's video about Dash, is that it actually was targeting the wrong coin. He really should have focussed on ZCash, because the longer that the Monero vs Dash debate goes on, the easier it is for Zcash to quietly ride off into the sunset and steal the prize.

4. Kill them all

aeon is feminine ?

IMHO the anonymous CryptoNote creator/author "Nicolas van Saberhagen" may very well himself BE Satoshi (S.N. / N.S.) as Satoshi "disappeared" to go and "work on other things" just around the time CryptoNote appeared on the scene, I believe.