"Monero will continue increasing in price" tail emission inflation though? there is no cap to monero, but it will self regulate a price based on demand and supply for the FX. So it can "continue increasing in price" but that's just inflation, which is good.

Not my friend, just hanging around the same BBS that time. Internet was smaller, got even smaller to those talking about shady tech. Authorities, criminals, crypto academics share the same tech circles. In 2009 there was nothing. No mining pools, no exchanges, nothing to use "bitcoin". Just solo mining and a lot of CPU burn, sure I've done it. Was a fun concept, but was far more profitable to write daytrade bots and skim stock exchanges in those days. Crypto coinage didn't appear overnight out of thin air at some public forum or mailing lists. We'd be testing and breaking whatever others would post there.