Topic: [XMR] Monero Speculation - page 227. (Read 3313084 times)

The largest upside we see in the entire cryptoasset market is in the Privacy sector. Although Privacy networks are newer entrants, we believe the network effects seen from the likes of BTC earlier on will be repeated within dominant coins here. Not only do these coins target the same large and lower velocity store of value market as BTC and Currencies, they present a much deeper value proposition within those markets. As we stated above, the largest drivers of adoption within these networks will be continued pressure from capital controls, currency devaluation, and broader global turmoil. The use cases within the Privacy markets are incredibly sticky and feed on adoption, especially when regulators and law enforcement are making efforts to increase forensic penetration into public networks like BTC. Privacy networks do lack liquidity when compared to more commonly used Currencies, but they excel in and push the extremes of each use case within Currency networks. Recently, we have already seen early signs of adoption by some of these cryptoassets; ransoms being posted to large corporations where even BTC could be tracked and was not the preferred method, money laundering, and asset shielding. Looking into the space, we believe the use cases that target the largest end-markets will primarily use XMR (~60%) and ZEC (~20%). Despite developers and executives associated with these projects declining to comment upon illegal use (to avoid legal ramifications), the largest opportunity within the Privacy networks will be unlawful activities. Considering the nature of the use cases, the Privacy market user base will most likely rely on networks that have more active codebase development, more resistance to centralized control (possibly through mining), a growing ecosystem, and growing user base. Not only is XMR far more active in codebase development (prior report, pg. 20) and resistant to centralized mining efforts, it is fungible. While ZEC has an easier time being traded in regulated markets (since it has privacy features by request, not by default), we believe this will be a setback to adoption by darker markets, which prefer networks that are fungible (where more addresses use privacy than those which do not, making it more difficult to track down/blacklist tainted addresses). Only ~5% of the ZEC network uses “shielded” (or private) addresses currently, with the rest of the addresses being used for transactions functionally and technically no different than BTC.

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According to that Satis report that's floating around, ZEC will do pretty well.



But if that means $6,500 Monero in three years, I'm good with it.

ZEC was pumped from before launch with insider trading on tokens before chain launch and has been artificially held up since. It will die a slow death but it will die as any non trustless system will.

Yes, and masternode blinding.

monero has been up almost 40% since 3 months ago

Haha - Charlie Shrem is associated with these scammers. Maybe they met in prison?

Probably soon (2-10 days). But we will see if the higher price will last. I am no expert in TA but it seems like they have pretty similar support levels (around $90-$100) so we will see which one will be stronger.
What do you think the consequences of this "flippening" may be?
BTW. Just saw this article today explaining how private ZCash really is.

monero has been up almost 40% since 3 months ago

ZCL is going to introduce ring signatures?    lol

So the Bytecoin/Minergate/Changelly/CMC/Cointelegraph pond gets even deeper:

https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@somenotesand/russia-s-changelly-atomic-wallet-changenow-guarda-ink-one-evercode-lab

First person to connect the dots all the way back to BCN wins.

monero has been up almost 40% since 3 months ago

the fluffening

Wouldn't it be cool if someone used the exact same privacy tech as Zcash, but launched it without the founders tax nonsense, and made it so all transactions were private by default, so the coin was actually fungible and usable as digital cash.

Someone did!


https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annpirate-chainarrr-a-zk-snarks-only-blockchain-secured-by-dpow-4979549

We're getting there.

Someone should launch ZCash without trusted setup to be useful. I believe that will be soon possible. So expect gazillion such coins.

I made a post here on April 22, 2018 where I recorded that the price of XMR > ZEC - at least on CMC. Didn't last long though.

Wouldn't it be cool if someone used the exact same privacy tech as Zcash, but launched it without the founders tax nonsense, ...

So the Bytecoin/Minergate/Changelly/CMC/Cointelegraph pond gets even deeper:

https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@somenotesand/russia-s-changelly-atomic-wallet-changenow-guarda-ink-one-evercode-lab

First person to connect the dots all the way back to BCN wins.