But on the other hand I could say next 2 years will belong to Monero since emission finally started drastically slow down. Monero is becoming scarce. After hardware wallets kick in, there will be only few left on Poloniex. Price will go $1000+
What is supposed to happen in the next six months for Monero, because I don't see anything interesting happening in the pipeline that I know of. Is something big going to happen at a technology level like a big update of sorts that could pump the price? Any improvements in privacy?
From what I have noticed from past events, the main reasons Monero, and most, pump, is because they get added in big markets (like Bithumb) which bring a lot of liquidity. In order for a coin to have a solid pump from technology upgrades, said upgrades must be something big (like segwit) and I dont see any segwit-tier improvements being made in Monero that I know off.
Monero is already most private coin of all. Next fork that will happen this month will increase that with mandatory mixing and i think also increased. Not sure when we will see Kovri. Kovri in Monero build TOR. Sinc eis open source project you never be really sure when things will be done and well tested.
But what I am saying is not really privacy, but things that makes Monero easier to use, like mobile wallets, Hard wallets, multisig, ... Things that will even usability wise Monero with all other Bitcoin copy/paste clones. And for this I dont think we will even need to wait 6 months but much less.
Not to mention GUI will after almost a year of Beta finally get an official release.
Wow mandatory mixing. Price of monero surely will grow.
New release will be named Helium Hydra.
It should contain:
Only RCT transactions will be allowed
Minimum / uniform ringsize
Range proof size reduction
....
"Only RCT transactions will be allowed" will basically be no change since 99.9% of all transactions is already RCT.
Helium Hydra. Nice naming they have :-D