Hello, it's time to have a serious discussion about Masari on the impending release of the Blocktree whitepaper, and Masari being near bottom, if not already there as of this moment.
Masari is the real deal, and in a year or two, people are going to look back and be quite upset it was right in front of their faces. Most of you can't wait that long. I get it. However, It's not a simple block size difference. There will be 2 entirely new protocols with their own white papers. Because of this bear market, how many Cryptonote forks are out there, Grin and Beam, people are highly underestimating Masari from a tech standpoint, as well as purely return on investments. It's had a bad shakedown from its $2 ATH, and currently dipped well below $1M market-cap. Here's the things though :
Blocktree Protocol (in which the whitepaper gets released for, in the next 2-3 weeks, if they stay on target) will be the crowning achievement of the MSR developers. This will allow Masari to scale to high TPS while remaining fully Proof of Work.
Uncle Mining (in which MSR is purely responsible for) is a cryptonote first that rewards miners for work done on abandoned blocks that were not the first to be written to the blockchain. This adds more hashpower and 'weight' to the network. The code is already written and deployed on a Testnet. The purpose of Masari is to research and implement new scaling methods that XMR team will never dare to try to implement.
Furthermore, and most importantly : Masari is close to averaging 1 transaction per block, or 1,440 transactions per day.
Time will tell if this is truly the “LTC to XMR”. Either way, it's being used, and that's the name of the game here. You could do a lot worse than betting on Masari for 2020, and if you enter now, for the love of God, don't go selling a 2x or anything, as when it truly picks up, it's for adoption reasons, and you'll hate yourself in short order.
Stay safe out there.
-MSR Maximalist for 2019 & onward.