You know what?
I can feel it again. Can you guys feel it? It's strong at the moment. It's getting REALLY strong.
I am like an animal that knows an earthquake is coming... I am starting to get that feeling again. And yeah, I am sober. But I think Monero is about to fulfill what we have been sitting here knowing would eventually happen for 6 years. And yeah. I am talking about price. But price is just the symptom. People are starting to wake up.
Bitcoin is 12 years old now? Something like that. And when it was new, those who saw it, began to understand it. Just began. And they started playing with it, and hoarding it, and reading about it and thinking about it, and over time understanding it. It took a while. And then some of us saw something interesting. One of the tradeoffs bitcoin made created a ledger that was completely transparent. Uh oh. Silk road came, and then went. Ross went to jail. And Bitcoin, which had cut it's teeth on the dark net began to be understood further. It was not safe to use it for that... only a few got it at first. More darknets came and went as law enforcement figured out how to trace Bitcoin...
And along came Cryptonote, Bytecoin and Monero. Yeah we all know the story. Some of us were HERE for it. Risto (RIP?), and his castle, and his God complex. A coin with no GUI wallet forever. Little by little the code was cleaned up, improved. Quietly the foundation was built... stronger and stronger. But it was still hard to use. And the same folks that could not figure out a CLI wallet didn't really understand the WHY for monero in the first place. They were more interested in a "World computer", Cryptokitties, or the newest acronym the herd was chanting as the makers of those scam dumped their bags on the masses. But Monero just kept going. Step by step adding more and more iron clad privacy. Some saw it early on as a compliment to Bitcoin. The private ledger. A different trade off. Doing one of the few things Bitcoin just could not do. Some saw it as what bitcoin was supposed to have been in the first place.
But still. 99.99xxx% of the world did not REALLY understand Bitcoin, much less the nuanced difference that Monero brought.
Yet more darknet markets popped up primarily using Bitcoin. And they kept getting busted over and over... some began to use Monero... but it was a minority player. And would end up in the reports of the takedowns. Somethng like:
Alexandre Cazes was arrested on suspicion of operating the darknet marketplace AlphaBay. The deceased alleged dark web kingpin possessed 1,605.05 BTC, 8,309.27 ETH, 3,691.98 ZCash and an unknown amount of Monero, according to his financial statement as revealed by the authorities.
Here in this thread we all danced that day... We knew what that meant. "an unknown amount of Monero".
It was working. It was doing exactly what it was made for. NO. Not being used to buy and sell drugs. Being used as private, fungible cash.
Fast forward to today. The biggest DNM is now Monero only. And it's still trucking. Because Monero works. It works as money, and it works in the absolutely most dangerous and hostile environment possible.
And now we are *JUST* on the dawn of the beginnings of the Bitcoin revolution. "In hindsight it was inevitable". Remember when you first understood that? Well before 2021. But still it took you a little while. You had to digest what Bitcoin was. AND what it was not. But NOW the WORLD is waking up to Bitcoin. It is understanding that it offers something completely new at exactly the right time. And just like a few of us began to see back in 2014. There are some things it does not do. There NEEDS to be a private bitcoin. These people will come to that understanding much more quickly. Take a bow gents. It's your shoulders they are standing on. You were the ones that ran Monero up the first bull market.
And you get to watch as the new blood starts to trickle... then pour... then flood into Monero like a torrent. Because people are going to realize it offers something they need. Not only should they buy a little because it might get more valuable... but they NEED it. Not to buy weed, but to protect their financial privacy.
Monero has been undervalued for a LONG LONG time. It cannot remain so.
They are coming. And the team behind this project has made the protocol and the software as ready as they possibly could have.
I can feel it, my friends. It's really strong. And this is still the calm before the storm.
Can you feel it?
