by the time this topic was created XMR was the hot coin of the day and there were lots of profit opportunities there to take advantage of. and i actually still think that XMR will rise again in the future when this pump is done and over and after a period of silence.
Yeah I agree, there was a bubble when the thread was created, I heard that XMR is pretty popular in some trades, though there are lots of controversies regarding this coin that somehow hurt it. But well pump always happen in the least time expected. Probably after the accumulation of whales, this coin will be pumped again.
What controversies? I've been in this community for over 2 years and witnessed no controversy at all. But you'll find a lot of negative aspects if it's your desire, or fits an agenda... I advice to read up on XMR, its rock solid cryptography, and see how devoted this community is. All attacks on Monero so far, on a technical as well as on a political level, have been refuted succesfully. Those 10 BTC in XMR wouldn't bother me. ETC for the moment is just a P&D and has to prove itself first, we'll see if it can form a bottom here.