Well you did pick on poor little Monero first, old chap!   Had to even up the score.  Fair's fair, eh?

Yes, Fluffypony while generally respected is hardly as good looking as whatshername - Amanda B Johnson - I will grant you that.

Mind you, she isn't popular with everyone:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1740313.0

Calling all whales - Polo wants you:

"We are lowering volume thresholds for fee discounts. To reward more of our user base for high levels of trading activity, we'll be lowering the 30-day volume thresholds required to access fee discounts. Fees for makers will go to 0% when they trade $7,500,000 in a 30-day period; fees for takers will go to 0.10% when they trade $30,000,000 in a 30-day period."

Form an orderly queue, now chaps...

I try not to do predictions - been wrong to many times before. But...

I might as well try a prediction. I am bored, so I will polish my crystal ball and give it a go.

I hate to say this, but it's not whether .024 holds, it's whether .02 will be breached.  Got a feeling it'll be a grim summer.

Whatever we drop to over this summer (July might be brutal) will be at least doubled by the end of August.  The snap up will be huge and fast.

I am hoping to see $500 or 0.05 region prices by end of August and a place firmly in the top ten CMC.  TA pulled out of my ass, so YMMV - but it's not entirely guesswork.  Historic patterns suggest hodl tight, save some powder for the summer dip and be ready to buy if / when there are trolls galore and it looks grim.

Spot on, masternodes might be different addresses, but not all different owners.   It is one of the least decentralised projects out there.  Evan is clever but also the de facto king of the castle.

Well spotted! Merited for bringing a smile to the start of my day.

Yep, lacks Masternodes too... Oh noes!

OK, the slow death of Dash must be painful, but the best solution is surely to get out while you still can rather than lash out against another coin for simply being... better?

The hatred and advocacy of genocide is the evidence of his borderline insane, definitely sociopathic turmoil.  He's been a staple of this thread for years - yet he constantly rants irrationally anti-bitcoin opinions (despite accepting crypto income on his blogs elsewhere).

So, he will die alone I am sure - his level of hateful antisocial and frequently misogynistic bile is only matched by his disgusting advocacy of simply killing millions of people he racially disapproves of. Oh, and he's an open apologist for a certain Mr. Hitler. Who could live with that?

I have him on ignore and anyone who quotes him casually or otherwise is similarly treated.  Mostly because I am appalled by people who are not as offended as they (IMHO) reasonably should be. I have been to Auschwitz/Birkenau, seen the 'banality of evil' - I know how I feel and I feel strongly it's important to fight and speak out against this toxic, dangerous and increasingly normalised shit. The 1930's was not that long ago, right?

Why do I care?  I care because this thread (with his posts tolerated) must look pretty shocking to anyone checking Bitcoin and its advocates out.  It is arguably the most important thread in the Bitcoin world, and the lack of objection, lack of challenges; of freezing out - means we are culpable and liable to be tarred because of the company we seem to keep and apparently (largely) tolerate.

OK - free speech is to be defended, I subscribe to Voltaire's dictum, so he has the right to speak.  But that means people here have the right - arguably the duty... to speak up and object when someone is quite plainly a total narcissistic, hateful, deranged fascist cunt.  Please let's prove you don't have to be racist to be into Bitcoin?

I hope I am part of the (silent) majority here, and not the minority. I trust I am not hoping in vain. 

'and then they came for me'...

Hard to spend XMR directly (outside dark markets, where I understand it is appreciated, as Bitcoin once was)

BTC is a little easier, but still not a ubiquitously accepted method of paying for things. Try paying off your mortgage with it...

When I had Monero (before the unfortunate accident), I traded it into BTC, sent BTC to a reliable exchange and drew fiat out. Tax treatment, where I am domiciled is a little vague. I am hoping to just be taxed for capital gains (20% I can live with), but it's not certain if the authorities will say it's 'trade', and therefore income - which will take it to a 45% rate for me.

I won't know until after 2019, as I only started cashing out non-negligible amounts late last year, which will go on my tax filing for 2017-2018, due in after the turn of this year (and contestable until one year later).

I guess I will find out.  So far I have declared everything and been totally 'by the book', but if by chance I found those Monero on the sea bed and I knew I was going to lose almost half, I might well change my country of legal domicile or consider some other appropriate options. 

Of course, I stand corrected, Sir. Followed OP and should have spotted it. 

We won't ever know who had, or has XMR.  But it's no issue for me, I lost all the ones I once had in an unfortunate boating accident.

Ah - yep - that is more like it, yep.  Different hat, but I'd pick this one in an identity parade.

The one on the right looks like the guy I remember, if a little less well-trimmed on the beard front. I can't say for sure now and I would not have recognised him them, although of course I was aware of his chess and what a stellar name he once was - he was certainly intense and sharp-eyed.  I don't have any doubt though, and given he was effectively exiled there and it is a very tiny population it's not that incredible to have crossed his path - just wish he'd been the kind who would have chatted and been personable so I had a better story to tell.  He didn't rent the flat in the end.

I stayed in Iceland in a friend's place while it was between rentals once, about twelve years ago.  He called while I was staying and asked me to show some guy around who was interested in renting it.

An old, slightly shambling, bearded American turned up and I didn't realise but another Icelandic friend with me that afternoon sussed it immediately, took me aside and whispered 'it's Bobby fucking Fisher' (of course he was pretty well-known there). 

Very weird, he wasn't really friendly and was a little nervy and mumbled kind of obsessively about the ceiling lighting, which he obviously was not happy with.  I talked and showed him around, but there seemed little point in trying to ask him about his career, since we were supposed to be helping rent the place out and he really didn't look like he wanted to engage in talking much. Very odd, sort of sad, too - given who he was.

I fancy cheese and pickle sandwiches.   Preferably emmental, thematic craters.

EDIT: wrong cheese

Thank you for your enlightening post and wonderful thoughts which will no doubt widen and deepen the level of the debate here on this thread... 

The interesting links shown in your signature made your post all the more welcome.

Yes, that double bubble effect...   I know what you mean.   To see BTC rising and a good coin rising against BTC too?  Bliss!

I am not sure there are many investments as good as crypto in a lifetime.   Those who bought in, believed in and hodled something this ostensibly risky and 'out there' probably deserve their rewards.  The pain of 2014 / 15 was a tough ride.   2017 was a decent recompense, not an unjustified bit of luck.

Indeed, I am guilty of alt trading, too.  I guess I was lucky in those I picked, but it made far more for me than Bitcoin itself did trading alts, although the profit was cashed out into BTC as well as fiat.  I still have far more in USD value terms in alts than in actual BTC in my crypto assets, but it's purely because alts are more volatile and ultimately simple to convert into the one coin that rules them all.

Anyone who bought Bitcoin before 2017 could probably have sold 10% recently to reduce their net exposure to zero.

After this the % of portfolio it represents is a little less of a problem, stress-wise - and it's merely a defensive move to diversify and /or lock in profits made.

It's on their main exchange page in the Notices section. Unmissable if you visit.   

Glad they aren't supporting it, but the notice will actually promote the fork, of course.

The price movement indicates there isn't so much interest, perhaps there will be few places to actually sell it.

Agreed: a naïve fool.  And that is being charitable.