At least Ben-Sasson and Gabizon were IDF.  I have no dox that they were SIGINT, but would be surprised if they were not, given their academic proclivities.

If anyone has more facts on the ground in this, I am very interested.  I am just going with what I have, and drawing central tendency inferences, which have wide credible intervals.

Looks to stabilize around 4.20 usd maybe. (Coincidence? Ha!) Expect some vol.  Good place to resume market making, but plan for more spikes.

Edit: I estimate a good working range as 3.85 to 4.65 right now (8pm Eastern US) but most of the risk is upside, on short covering, so don't get caught offsides!

It has been pointed out elsewhere that the Mossad is sponsoring ZCash.  If you want to trust your privacy and substance to the transparency, honesty, and restraint of the Mossad, well... I don't even...

Not the funniest thing I've heard, but probably the most heart-warming: Monero for all mankind - To the BOON!

Who can cook up a legendary BOON gif?  AP?

Monkey told me to close my shorts, so I did, for an 8bp loss on the position.  Monkey says up for 8 to 12 days, then down for the next month.  And THEN the big one.  Of course Monkey is guessing, but he seems to guess a little better than I do.

Nobody knows, because it is private.

The fact that monero does not require you to entrust your secrets and substance to the kindness and transparency of the Mossad seems like an important differentiator, and worth emphasizing if the Mossad ever gets around to releasing zcash.

Looks like president Trump is back on the menu.  y'all should get him to plump for bitcoin while he needs your votes. 

March 20th saw 680000 xmr move on poloniex at 0036, so yeah.  New high volume.

Big move up on strong volume... Can it get more bullish?

I don't see XMR borrowing demand.  Probably needs some sign of weakness to attract short interest.

Did I mean 2014?  They blur together in my mind, the years of pain.

mega-satoshi, or bit-cents, I think you mean.  And I would agree, contingent upon actual end-user uptake.  Merely having the option available does not constitute actual use.  If XMR takes 5-10% of the DNM monetary load, 0.05BTC is quite achievable this year.  That would be a relatively rapid adoption scenario, however.  Vendors really don't want to support multiple currencies, and deal with pre-release software in the state of Hydrogen Helix today.  For that reason, I think it is a lesser probability scenario.  I would estimate that it will take about a year to get to that level.  The only thing likely to accelerate the schedule is increasing AML/KYC restrictions and block-chain analysis by both exchange sites and LEOs.

Among the first.  I think, by default, that some of the early miners and original core are still holding in size.  The ones who supplied me my first tranches OTC.  But I don't really know.

Don't forget that in crypto discounting factors are generally inflated by a lot of idiosyncratic  event risks.  That seems like a pretty good equilibrium estimate for a year from now, if it sees actual use - and I do expect that it will - but under crypto-scale discounting, the NPV is probably closer to 3-4$.  

I would be unsurprised by an overshoot, say 5-6$, in the next week or two, but followed by a pullback, maybe as low as 2$.  Then a less dramatic but rapid rise to a 3-4 trading range, followed by a slow glide up into the 10-15 range on decreasing volatility - unless more markets add XMR, in which case additional, but smaller, spikes will keep volatility high, even while they push prices up faster than in the baseline expectation...towards a 20-25 range in 2 years.

I've been holding XMR in size since April of 2013 in anticipation of this event, and intend to continue holding until Monero has displaced bitcoin in all of the use-cases for which it is technically superior.  That would include most of the current uses of bitcoin. (And a price in the hundreds of 2016 USD, around 2020-2024, assuming no monetary systemic reset.)

I will slowly sell 5% of my holdings (a market making stake) on any near term spike close to $5, and try to get them back cheaper on the correction.  If that fails, I may or may not chase them uphill, depending on my ability to analyze the events of that time.  Although... I am beginning to question the value of continued market making because of the implied risk of underperforming the market.

This is my current speculation, and subject to prompt change (nonlinear) upon receipt of new information.

Hmm... Lots of folks asking me how to buy XMR lately.  I always start with "first, get some bitcoin..."

Will XMR reverse bitcoin's slide?  

I always end with "or just buy them from me at market rates.". About half prefer the exploration, and the other half prefer the trust and convenience of buying from me.

I am not a lawyer.  It is insane to think that lawful transactions are somehow made unlawful by being performed confidentially.  That said, the government is batshit crazy, and the variety of regulation is beyond human comprehension, and hence unpredictable.

I think it would be in the interest of any XMR holders to cultivate any transactional venue offering support for xmr-denominated transactions, with lawful trades being of priority.

68% of the valuation of XMRBTC is theorized to consist of dark market energy.

The level of discourse in this thread has restored my view of humanity.

So confident!  Are you shorting it large yet?

You might prefer Monero in that case.  It cannot be traced or linked to you -- unlike bitcoin, where everyone can see who sent funds, how much, and who has them now.