These words from early bitcoiners are like music to my ears. Do I hear the mountains tremble?

I am talking currencies in general.
During the past century or so the most of currencies are fiat currencies. Also fiat currencies are not unknown before that.
It is fiat currencies without any real packing that dies because of hyperinflation created by excessive money printing.
Gold is very good  example: it is a real asset and never has lost purchasing power. You were able to buy a new suit with 1 oz of gold 200 years ago. Also today you can buy a suit with 1 oz of gold.
Credit cards are not destroying the fiat currency (perhaps one's personal finances but not in general economy's finances) but the money printing which is used to finance the public sector deficits.

You are making the mistake of comparing Monero to currencies that have central authority. The currencies die because of hyperinflation when the central authority starts to print money big time at some point.
Monero will never have hyperinflation. It is the ultimate save haven just like gold but in digital form, therefore the storing costs are lower and it is more convenient than any physical product (it is easier to carry a trezor full of Moneros than bricks of gold).

Hardly.
I don't agree with you.
Why should it be so?

Yes he seems to like drinking (watched a couple of his vids).
Anyway, he has written also here that he sees Monero having significiantly higher price tag than Bitcoin ever had and I think the odds for that are pretty significiant (hardly over 50 % but relatively high still IMO).
Especially the current rise has shown it is possible to pump the price of Monero 1000% in a short period of time which is pretty encouraging to me. Why should the rise stop? I see no reason for stopping the rise. Let's keep on rising. As long as there are bids supporting the price we can go pretty much anywhere (and if someone sells it has to be punished by pumping the price even higher so that there will be no incentive to unnecessary dumps).

I guess bitcoin can also go to 10 usd.
Obviously anything is possible but I think at this time 1 usd for xmr is very unlikely and the probability of that is less 1-2 %. That requires some very serious bug, otherwise it is heading to the Moon (10 000 + usd). If you want to read where Monero is going, just search for American Pegasus, he has pretty clear vision of the future of XMR.
These 20-30 % dips are heaven sent gifts so take advantage on them. They are like free money out of the holes in the bagholders' bags.

Can we say the rise of bitcoin was due to the dip of Monero, not the other way around?

Here is why: many people with fiat (wether in darkmarket vendors or normal people) looking for entrance point to Monero. When the price of Monero started to drop they bought bitcoins in order to buy Moneros....?
With these level of volumes who knows.

I give 10 % probability of this view.

Buying Monero is a smart move now. The dark markets will absorb tons of moneros and the longer they continue doing so the bigger XMR scarcity there will be in open markets.
Therefore any amount of Moneros will be a god investment if you ask me. If you can afford to buy Moneros for 10 btc, then go for it. If you can afford to buy only 1 XMR, go for it.
Just treat Monero in more valuable manner than bitcoin, and hold it the longest time. I suggest to hold until 2030 Moneros. Then we have minimum blockreward, the Monero economy probably consists a lot of people, not just criminals and junkies. I'm a normal person and I prefer Monero over bitcoin, and I am sure there are billions of people like me.

Hello,

I noticed xmr.to is not available.. I was thinking to deposit some bitcoins to my btc trezor via Monero but the service is not available for some reason.

That's true. Mainly the shorters are selling. The Great Wall which probably according to conspiracy theories Donald Trump built behind the scenes of anonymity, was for the purpose of accumulation. Accumulation is done by putting some thin bids under the wall and waite for the shorters to dump into them.
If that scenario is what happened, the shorters need to cover. They wish to find someone who wants to sell even lower. If they are unable to find any greater fool they need to admit they lost and buy higher which put buying pressure and accelerates the growth both with price and adaption.

Still holding my bags.

Some shorts were just closed as well as long positions. Saw it from the lending markets.

Withdrawal can be madee in parts. Just withdraw every day the max amount. Sure it takes time but the earlier you start the more coins you can withdraw.

No problem.
I am happy that you are satisfied with the ROI.
That being said, I think there are changes it goes to 10 000 usd or more per coin. Bitcoin has not been able to do it but that doesn't mean we need to follow the path of Bitcoin in that sense. After all, bitcoin failed to grow partially because it was not anonymous enough.

Therefore, if you think like I think it is not too late to buy some more coins. Even 0.1-1.0 XMR is better than nothing if bought on constant manner like a robot without emotions.

Welcome.
Just buy and hold.
It is Bitcoin 2.0.

In late 2014/early 2015 the bids were less than 100 btc (aroun 80 btc if I remember correctly). Those were the days of all time lows. Good old days I guess.

A new nice video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sphThz3cmgc

Chances are this happen already this year. All it needs is 3 legs when the price rises under 100 % per leg.

However, if this will not happen in 2016, my advice is not to be disappointed but just be a bit more patient and waite to 2017 or 2018...

Personally I do not have any goal for the price of Monero but I want to buy 1-5 ounces of gold coins to reward me when it breaks 100 usd/xmr.

I can easily see Monero being worth ~ 10 000 usd/XMR and bitcoins being traded against Monero with the rate of 0.02 XMR/BTC.
Dark coin I do not see future anymore. Only one anon coin should survive IMO. Being it XMR or DRK. Looks like it is going to be XMR.

Thank you.