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BitTiger | 1 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 IMHO no. 

If bitcoin is gold. 

If litecoin is silver.

Then monero is either platinum or palladium.

It serves a purpose of my money is none of anyone's fucking business. 

That being said. I don't own any. 

Tried to solo mine unsuccessfully. No exchange I use offers it. So unless some monero bag holder wants to be generous donate some of my first monero to me. I don't think I will realistically go out of my way to add it to my portfolio.
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Cykros | 5 hours ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Monero is more like stacks of non-sequential $100 bills. It's an awful store of value.  But it does provide privacy, which beats bank accounts, and can be transferred without physical travel, so there's some value add. All depends how much you're willing to pay for that in devaluation while using it. Given how much fiat gets wasted muling money around in the conventional financial space, this seems to suggest that monero is here to stay -- it just shouldn't be mistaken for a great savings vehicle.

Especially when the tools from Samourai Wallet (and the now forked Ashigaru Wallet) do a lot to close the gap using bitcoin-native methods.