sooo monero is what bitcoin should be in the first place?
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Tough pill to swallow
This to all the Bitcoin maxis out their claiming superiority.
There is a reason why THEY are pumping Bitcoin and suppressing Monero.
If you can't see that, you are worse than every buttcoiner (bitter), shitcoiner (misguided), nocoiner (unconscious) ever could be.
You are willfully accepting the demise of many in the name of your own fiat NGU greed, which is evil.
Monero can't be decentralized at scale because its cryptography is very costly for nodes to run, which is why it will never work. Learn how to use Bitcoin anonymously.
I have spun up a Monero node previously on inexpensive hardware. Why do you think it's very costly to run?
I might add that I am generally a BTC maxi, but I do have respect for Monero, it's the only other coin I consider relevant. I've used it and would use it again. Since the demise of Samurai, privacy on Bitcoin is not so straight forward any more.
Agreed that Bitcoin privacy should (and could one day) be much easier. You can run Monero on inexpensive hardware because Monero use (and therefore value) is a miniscule fraction of Bitcoin's. Running Monero's extra cryptography is very inefficient at scale.
Nothing personal against Monero people but I notice how none of them I've talked with take the time to understand the tech or its implications. It could end up costing many good people time and money. TBF, I'm not an expert either. Here is a video talking about it:
Ah good to see that Matthew Kratter has another Monero video, I'll check it out 👍🏻
That's not some forgone conclusion as some like to pretend especially with FCMP enabling L2s
Tech progress relies on fiat masters allowing it to happen and help you.
Bitcoin is permissionless.
Minimum reqs for sovereignty = clearly superior
Learn to use BTC privately and build it better.
"Fiat masters" have existed this whole time yet tech continually progressing kind of throws a wrench in that thesis. Bitcoin relies on fiat tech too btw.
Permissionlessness isn't unique to Bitcoin.
You can run a Monero full node right now for less minimum reqs than Bitcoin. Clearly superior according to you I guess?
If your goal is private transactions, an encrypted chain with an offchain L2 will always be superior over one with a transparent base.
Monero only runs faster because nobody uses it. Don't trust, verify. You can't verify shit with Monero. The bottom line is you are sacrificing the money part of money for your privacy, when you don't even need to. Have fun staying poor
What exactly is the money part? 99.9% of the people still rely daily on unfungible, unauditable and inflating by decree fiat "money".
Monero is x1000 better than fiat.
Bitcoin is better than gold.
Use both.
Can't verify max supply, can't scale with increased use, and I'm sure there are other things. Meanwhile, you can use lightning btc p2p which is very private. You can buy p2p which is anon. If you have to switch out of BTC to use it, you're defeating the purpose.
Anyway nothing personal but it's not my job to educate you. Do your own research homie
I am completely against CB and social credit scores, but you are assuming the battle is already lost.
I would think you are against it, as am I, but just showing what lack of privacy enables bad actors to do. This wouldn't be possible if Bitcoin was private.
I'm not assuming the battle is lost, because it isn't inevitable, just pointing out examples as they happen.