and 3 posts? merge it to 1 omg
Actually its far better to have three posts since all are on different topics and make replying easier.
If you don't understand why Monero news is very relevant to our coin consider the following. Monero (XMR) is one of the only major coins you can effectively mine on a CPU, so they are in direct competition to us in that realm. If the ASIC Miner had come to pass, you'd have a lot of CPU hash power looking for a new home, and prior to this update, it was estimated that 50% of all XMR was mined by botnets. Since we had issues with a botnet or botnets or at the very least were very vulnerable to them, having a bunch of botnet hash power roaming around looking for a home is a bad thing for us. The upside is PoDC and UTXO Staking seem to mitigate a lot of that risk.