As I am sure many have you noticed, August has been one of the most positive months in terms of price action in Monero's history. For long time holders, we are on the cusp of exciting times, with a significant expansion in growth almost certainly to arrive over the next several years, and of course with the release of FCMPs, Monero will easily hold the throne of the consensus privacy option for cryptocurrency. But with these movements in price come the herd, of moonboys of course, and this will have a significant impact on Monero's culture. I'm not sure what to expect. I gave the recent Monerotopia a listen and there were some extremely bullish comments from Bawdyanarchist, some of which seemed partly delusional to me, but then again, I don't know what can happen, and it got me thinking that if the price of Monero does move up violently, bringing us to the four digit territory, that a lot of things are going to change.
So my question to you is, how will you help preserve Monero's culture?
For myself: I don't think there is a secret formula and for the most part I am going to keep doing what I do best, which is making creative privacy and tech focused content which doesn't waste time looking at price charts. And, I will keep using Monero every week. But what will change is a growth in my fanbase of complete noobs, so I will also have to prioritize making educational content for beginners. I am also going to start trying to improve onboarding from the privacy companies still dragging their feet with Monero adoption. Utilizing the monero shame list, I believe it will be easier to convince companies when Monero is starting to receive mainstream recognition. Lastly, what I am not going to do is directly engage with moonboyism. There is no point to have gatekeeping. Instead, I think "leading by example" is the way to go, and making educational content with my seasoned advice would be the best way of doing this.
