How is Monero viewed right now in the cryptocurrency community? Is it just another asset class or can it actually function as a currency? I have been disillusioned by all the offerings out there but I'm intrigued by Monero.
The dark net market space has been going through a lot of upheaval in the past ~year (lots of markets going down etc) but there is a meaningful shift away from bitcoin to monero going on.
The creators seem to be Esperantists -- "Monero" means "coin" in Esperanto, and their implementation of the I2P network is called "kovri" which is the Esperanto verb "to cover".