I was among the folks who was disappointed that we chose to add the tail emission.  In fact I was FIRMLY against it.  And still recognize it came at a cost.  The biggest of which was the change to the social contract, and putting Monero among the cryptocurrencies that have shown that unlike Bitcoin, the more centralized leadership can change the financial contract thereby putting a dent in the store of value property of Monero.

So this year is proving to be rather interesting. We are witnessing the end of the petro dollar and quite possibly the beginnings of a hyperinflation event. Additionally, we are starting to see food shortages in the US, particularly in meat products. This is reflected in reduced availability, increased prices, and buying restrictions that have popped up long after the "COVID-19" measures were implemented back in March. It's also worth mentioning that consumer staples are generally the LAST products to be affected by inflation, which means you're less likely to notice any discrepancies during your weekly grocery store visits. Don't get caught with your pants down, and don't assume this bubbling of the stock market represents any kind of value-add to the economy. Shares are likely increasing only due to the rapidly eroding buying power of fiat.

Because of this, I no longer think it's wise to track Monero prices in USD or other fiat currencies. Moving forward I'm only concerned with its value measured in precious metals or maybe soft commodities like coffee or cotton. We've sat around for the last two years waiting for some action in the crypto space but this year we're in for a hell of a lot more than we bargained for.

My short-to-medium-term prediction is that stocks and precious metals will continue to rise due to the eroding USD and shaky market confidence, respectively. Many investors will continue to remain in cash, but as businesses begin to reopen it will become painfully clear how much the purchasing power of their fed notes has deteriorated. Further, surviving businesses will likely be in considerable debt with lost time to make up for, and will pass on the costs of these obligations to their customers. This will lead to a transition of capital into the precious metals market, with silver seeing the bulk of that movement, perhaps even returning to its historical 1/15th price ratio to that of gold. Savvy investors looking for other opportunities to side-step the inflation will see crypto currencies as the natural "location-independent" alternative to precious metals.

Monero is currently traded at roughly 4X the spot price of silver. I see that ratio doubling to 8X by end of year or sooner. That would put us at around $480 if we see silver hit $60 in the coming months, but again I expect fiat prices to become increasingly meaningless.

To be honest, I tend to forget which interest owns which popup faux news sites now, there are just too many. i need a easy to referance chart. That would be a nice thread i would think.
So is there a thread on Bytecoin/Minergate/Changelly/CoinMarketCap connections. i remember Bytecoin/Cointelegraph and Minergate/Bytecoin being connected in a thread somewhere but I didn't know about the others, is this conjecture or do you have some links. Aren't these same russians connected to coinhive.

My memory just keeps getting worse.

This is the pain and FUD we've been waiting for. I predict we will hit a new USD ATH within 90 days. That means end of September.

Reasons for XMR to potentially to overtake BTC. I'm not predicting this just throwing out reasons why it could happen.

1. Pure stupidity of crypto markets i.e. anything is possible. e.g. Verge could overtake BTC.
2. Tail reward comes to forefront as a confidence crisis over stability
3. On-chain fungibility advantage recognized as crucial
4. RandomX is a huge success (large and widely-distributed mining network becomes a clear advantage, contributing to a confidence flip)
5. Flexible blocksize results in significantly better on-chain scalability without a bloat explosion that destroys decentralization.

It won't matter for most of us if it's still down vs BTC, cos most of us bought XMR with BTC.  I'm actually down a lot tbh.  It would've been way better for me if I just held BTC.

+1 4u but...

We are back to valuing in BTC.

People buy XMR with bitcoins, not dollars.  That chart isn't so cheerful.

Long ago it was decided that Monero would take an alternative route, wherein having those wheels available to prevent the bicycle from falling over is good, and the tradeoff of having an infinite supply of monero is acceptable.

It probably still reach a lot of people, which is good to attract new people to get to know Monero. [edited: 1740 views of this article until now, which is not really a big number IMO] Probably better then other media news. And of course in the end it all comes to price. Maybe Cointelegraph has lower theirs due to smaller demand.
Anyway, good to see development on making using Monero easier for average user and on increasing it's utility.

Saw this in tweeter also. How the fuck are they tracking number of active addresses in Moreno?

Multiply hash rate times transaction volume and divide by emission. Extrapolate linearly.