Yes, who the heck would give you this much return on your investment? This wouldn't be sustainable at all. Some pyramid scheme that would last limited amount of time maybe, but a legit business to pay you 10%, I don't think so!

assume we live in 2020, BTC is a stable and trustable currency and the BTC bank is insured for losses. Would you trust your BTC to a bank with an annual 10%?

There is no difference with  real money banks here...

Don't all those things factor into what it means "to compete"?

Agree somewhat. Supply considerations play a role. This is obvious in the case of PoS coins which pay interest. It is expected that the price per unit will drop over time even if the value of a holding remains constant (increase in units). It is less obvious in the case of PoW, but I'm still not sure the metric of market cap ratio isn't as important as or more important than price ratio, although both are imperfect certainly.

Not really no. What makes commodities tied to USD? Volume. Once USD is no longer being traded for said commodity, it renders it irrelevant. Now take a look at the volume of monero. It's pretty much all in the XMR/BTC pair, the volume on XMR/USD is almost zero. That makes BTC the most important comparison.

thanks for posting that question as i too was interested in knowing the answer (i posted it on the Dashtalk forum yesterday and got a reply)

https://dashtalk.org/threads/dash-evolution-discussion-thread.7231/

What makes you think that would be the end?

There is a small group of insiders who appear willing to keep the effort going a while longer, regardless of how absurd a direction it takes or how many times stated development goals are hyped and then largely or entirely abandoned. They most if not all seem to have accounts created within a month or two of Xcoin/darkcoin/Dash launch (excluding obvious later sock puppets), with early posts on the Dash thread immediately or almost immediately. Likely most knew each other already from other "ventures" or perhaps many of those accounts are just sock puppets, it is hard to say which.

Yes, there are a few exceptions, before anyone pops up and claims to be neither an insider nor a sock puppet (not that such claims could be verified anyway), but they are just that, exceptions.

Maybe we'll know in "12-18 months"  

Price alone is not good enough. We had price over 1000 before, and Bitcoin wasn't in its 'full potential either. If we reach over $1000 once again it will spike caused by traders, trading bots and speculators.
After that price will go immediately go down, because most of us will sell at $1000, me included.

I will explain you something, theymos is the owner and he can do whatever the fuck he wants and if you don't agree you can leave, no one is forcing you to stay here.

You can't until you know for sure it's a ponzi, instead with the sub forum, ponzi operators come clean and just by posting their site, system, there they are admiting it's a ponzi, people know the risks.

I've had similar trying to -resynch a bitcoin-qt 0.11.0 full node.
It resynchs for a couple of days, only needing two or three reboots and restarts without -resynch,
and then at seemingly random times through the past year or two worth of blocks, it hangs and the next restart won't get past "Activating Best Chain" before it hangs with "Error reading from database, shutting down".

I eventually found that it would -reindex from block 1 in 2009 but that takes days and has crashed every time eventually.
I'd be supporting the blockchain with a full node by now, a full 10 days after upgrading, if it would.

What do people think of some coding changes so that
on its own, -reindex does what it has always done; reindexing from the start
and new code can accept an =integer after -reindex
such that -reindex=280000 starts the reindexing from block 280000
and gets it a little further before it crashes again.
from a crash at 342000, you could for example
bitcoin-qt -reindex=340000
and eventually get synched and up to date, going over errors if necessary

If I see three ++ comments then I'll find a suggestion box to copy this post to.  If not then its just my grotty old computer which has a problem so it is not worth bothering the devs with it.

For me, only the balances matter..

If you only put the hash of the txns in block a 1MB block could have (roughly) 1,000,000 / 32 = 31250 txns (hashes) in a block. You wouldn't even need to make the blocks bigger. 1MB would be loads. The txns sent out earlier will already be stored at all the nodes, and the delay propagating them doesn't matter anywhere near as much. You only need to have them all together once every 10 mins. (you may lose the last few txns every 10 mins, but most would be there just fine)

I understand that you can run a full node pruned soon.. BUT only after you have downloaded from a non-pruned node. We need it to run without needing non-pruned nodes.

nope, nothing there, i actually do know a bit about data recovery so i have a habit of wiping unused devices clean as i often handle sensitive data

one and only chance is some old backup, but it is quite far away and i'm not to sure if it is from right time...

i will know tomorrow for sure, but my hopes are very low

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Works for me.

Learn to read and stop twisting shit around to suit you.

Dave posted an apology with police involvement with talk of a Monero marketing company.
ALL i did was post what he said.
All the rest of that moronic bullshit you accuse me of is pure lies.

back up your mouth or stfu..

PS: Innocent people don't apologize.