Sort:  

Privacy coins are the future as people get frustrated over corrupt governments... Europe will be the test bed for new exchanges that focus solely on listing privacy coins. Nobody really knows if Monero can keep the position as base currency as recently some users have criticized the constant hard-forking to fight ASIC miners. Instead of killing the performance gain of ASIC miners, it seems Monero is slowly killing CPU mining and focusing on developing GPU-optimized algorithms.