I was a fan of $XMR , until knowing most of the pumps were made by hackers groups and then liquidated ( they are not interested in holding it) , It's not sustainable and cannot be as store of value ( as no max cap , and no regulation ), Hackers needs liquidity where victims can buy XMR , if no liquidity available then it won't be used as payment method in future, the rule is to let the victim to pay easily They will look into other crypto ( more private and more liquid) what happened after each pump is simply a liquidation to USD , XMR fans riding the wave , thinking this is the new money and it will go higher and higher , yes it could , but all factors are bearish , only the criminal demands which is going to change When few people transacting the coin and you have 16 ring signatures , then the pattern matching can be made easily to identify criminals I studied both $XMR and $ZEC , not interested in any any of them Actually this coin is better than both @ObscuraCoin because the anonymity set is global, quantum proof ready roadmap , when more nodes joining it becomes more anonymous , it was launched with 100% fair only mining , no pre- allocations