Monero’s price profile: Why it matters
summary
Argues that Monero needs higher price for liquidity and security, noting a $4B market cap and roughly ~20,000 tx/day; shows a live-market example of 9% slippage on $1M market buy versus 0.1% for Bitcoin. Explains miner pay as ~150 XMR per block era totalling ~100,000 XMR/day and models price with log regressions and transaction‑per‑day normalization, producing a fair‑value band and a projection near $400k by 2025 (log regression) with code available on GitHub.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 1:35About Me
- 2:04Motivation
- 2:52Overview
- 3:31Why do we care about Price?
- 4:32Liquidity
- 6:04Security
- 8:52Becoming Digital Cash
- 9:34Charts
- 10:26Price & Transactions
- 11:23Price / Transactions per Day
- 12:22Models: Log Regression Monero Total Marketcap Log Regression
- 14:53Models: Days Since Genesis
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