This is an ongoing process. Can you point me to a current discussion that takes into all the coins and their varying approaches on a day or week-to-week basis? I know where Monero stands, but other coins have changed their approaches, and like some other people, anonymity is the golden grail for me--so the most anonymous wins if two or more coins aren't equally anonymous.
And that bugs me. I know that Monero stands mostly for that, and only for that. It equals Bitcoin in each and every aspect when you just look back onto Bitcoin's timeline. Bitcoin once wanted to be mined on desktops by literally everybody and their wifes, reaching out onto the internet and these myriads of participating online people.
Was anonymous internet money, once upon a time.
What is left of that now? Recently even the Bitcoin hashrate and difficulty declined, people asking if a big mining cartel was shut down (Butterflylabs was supposed to run a huuuge collocation, funded from customer's moneh
). Mining is centralised, there are some big cartels and perhaps a slightly bigger number of mining pools. P2pool practically never gained ground (how about XMR p2pool ?). If you tell people you just bought ASICS they do give you pityfull looks.
This coin is not changing the approach so how could it change the game?
Totally exspecting Monero to be what Bitcoin is today in some years. And I dont mean that it will reach somewhat 300$ a coin, which it may or may not reach in value. Instead pointing out that Monero will "just be like Bitcoin" and somehow I doubt that will be enough for the holy grail (it isn't "golden" you infidel
) of crypto, the "mass adoption". If we are honest with ourselfes, goals, targets than it isn't merely about value, it is all about adoption.