Think about how e-transfers work—you send money, and the recipient needs a password to complete the transaction. This simple two-way interaction ensures that only the intended recipient can access the funds. Grin operates on a similar principle but in a much more powerful way, making it the closest thing to real digital cash in the entire crypto space.
Meanwhile, people are still obsessing over flawed crypto networks. Even Bitcoin, despite its status, can never function as true currency. Why? Because its transparency means anyone—employees, competitors, or random onlookers—can see your balances and transactions. The same goes for Ethereum and every other chain.
Even so-called “privacy coins” have critical flaws. Many let you send your coins into the void by accident, with no way to recover them. That’s not how money should work.
Grin stands alone. It’s private, interactive, and truly decentralized—everything a real digital currency should be.
Grin was hard to miss back in the day—it had a lot of buzz and was ranked pretty high at one point, if I remember correctly. But back then, it wasn’t really the right time to invest because of its high early inflation. That was just part of its design, though, and now that inflation has leveled out, Grin is in a much better position. I’ve been actively involved in the community for about a year now, and the more I’ve learned, the more I see how unique and underrated it really is.
Hello, I am new to this project as well. I do recall back when it started, and most of the people were happy until it was declared grin’s privacy to be broken. Once this is fixed and the community will see it- that is when price shall deliver.
I remember Grin trading for > $100 soon after it was listed on an exchange. There was a news article about a mining company that planned to invest millions to mine Grin, but later changed their mind to stick to Bitcoin after Grin’s price fell.
A local friend of mine wanted me to buy him $5k worth of Grin at around $115/each and I denied his request. Instead, I chose to enter his order at the historic ATL ~$5, which filled some days or weeks later. He later sold his bag when it fell below $1.
I paid iPollo for 5x G1-mini ASICs when it was trading in the 80¢, launch price was $800/unit.
Another friend was in since 2019, he gave Grin a target of $20 by 2020, & he recently sold his 101,914.751 Grin on June 16th, 2025:
“Again you told me all this about your beloved Grin! But I don’t care because I am not going to mine that crap! I am done with Grin and I am soo much happier! No more stress about waller, coustody, exchange support, liquidity etc! Not for me! I sold around 3 cents ($0.03)”
I had offered to buy his bag for fiat but he said no need, he can just use an exchange, so he didn’t actually have any real world wallet/exchange/liquidity problems w/ Grin. 3.5 years from now is Grin’s 10th anniversary, when it’s annual inflation rate falls below 10%. That could be a significant milestone that translates to a stronger price.
@Krypticon Grin’s privacy was never broken. A dude just showed that when you would listen with enough nodes on the tor network, that you could in some cases connect a tor node to a transaction kernel and its outputs. But here is the thing.
This was always known and not a discovery of something new
If you can potentially link some outputs to a tor address, and you do not know who owns that tor address, nor what the amounts are in the output, you basically know nothing.
It probably was someone who wanted to get some attention or someone who simply wanted to dump the price by creating FUD. So there is no killer feature or upgrade Grin needs, although there are many on the horizon (MWixnet, Payjoin) that will strengthen Grin’s privacy even more.
@Neo-Geo I never get people who sell their coins at a major loss, especially if that coin would be Grin . It is like a binary bet, either a project works out, or it does not. In the case of Grin the long term potential is infinite. Selling to get a few pennies back, instead he should have doubled down and increased his investment over time (dollar cost average).
And yes, I speak from experience, I bough my first Grin around 0.5$ if I remember correctly
@Krypticon Grin is so low because of the constant selling for more btc. I can’t wait till btc shits the bed and everyone goes in alt coins.
Grins privacy features are extremely strong! Absolute trash tokens have ripped up to the moon, so the idea of “utility” being necessary for price increase is laughable.
Grin’s issuance is constant @ 1x Grin/second, but the inflation rate is always falling, literally block by block, and will continue to fall to 0.02% by year 5,000 post genesis block. That’s how inflation is calculated, take the annual issuance / total supply = inflation rate.
I might not understand this or idk, but you still have to push the same amount of coins in the market regarding of the supply. Now it might look small relative to the supply if it is 1B or only 1M, but what is the difference to the market pressure?
Edit: I was saying its small relative to the 1B supply in an ideal scenario, that meaning the 1B supply is not moving.
And this is not true in concordance with the forum post which was stating “The closest thing to Digital Cash” which could be true as it will inflate forever. Then FIAT inflation rate is also falling, someone must tell them.
Grin is permanently deflationary, in the sense that its inflation rate is always falling, forever, and at some point I believe the supply will decrease on an annual basis, when coins lost/year exceeds annual issuance, a mathematical certainty given the prevalent self custodianship of privacy coins. But unlike Bitcoin, Grin’s issuance never reduces to 0/nothing, rather it’s fixed at 1/second, forever, a prudent/wise choice in regards to a sustainable PoW blockchain.
Until the public can scrutinize an audit of a central bank, we don’t know the true supply and issuance Vs. destruction of fiat at any given point in time, but we do know that central bank currencies fluctuate between inflationary and deflationary, at least in regards to the liquidity that matters for oiling the gears of commerce, since they control the money supply. It’s how they create these artificial booms and busts. Must be nice to sell the tops and buy the bottoms (using free money), referring to the private owners of the central banking system.
Think of it this way @emi22n , if you drop drips of water on a table, with every drip the puddle grows noticeably bigger, now imagine taking that same drip speed, and dripping it in the ocean.
So to with grin, it started as a puddle, and will eventually be an ocean. So even though the rate of blocks stays the same, it gradually becomes insignificant to the total supply. Not so with Fiat currency. Fiat inflates at variable rates and will eventually and predictably collapse via the inevitable hyperinflation. All fiat currencies do this by design.
As the kings debt becomes insurmountable, he inevitably inflates the currency into non-existent in order to fill his coffers.
Wouldn’t Binance relist Monero/XMR first? Seems Binance is complying with the wishes of the powers that shouldn’t be by not supporting privacy. Would be great if they pivot from that, but they likely don’t have a choice in the matter. The US extradited and locked CZ in a cage, and slapped Binance with the largest corporate penalty in history, over allowing user privacy (wasn’t enforcing KYC, could use VPN to circumvent).
It’s very easily to look at the current situation and extrapolate it into the future, but the reality is, things change. CZ was extradited to America, and all his charges stem from American laws and American bank regulations.
The thing is though. that the western world is very much completely reliant on mass immigration to pump up their numbers, Americans don’t produce after themselves and the population has been artificially propped up by an endless supply of fresh bodies to fill homes and pay taxes etc.
China on the other hand, seems to be doing just fine. Binance has Chinese connections (CZ is Chinese-Canadian), and so does the company behind the gi minis, and even grin coin itself seems to be fairly popular in the east (I notice a healthy amount of Chinese language speakers on this forum as well).
So although you are right that the current situation doesn’t seem likely that GRIN will be listed - a month ago no one would have thought grin would be approaching 10 cents a coin either.
. It is like a binary bet, either a project works out, or it does not. In the case of Grin the long term potential is infinite. Selling to get a few pennies back, instead he should have doubled down and increased his investment over time (dollar cost average).
in alt coins.