Good questions. Monero’s done solid work, especially with inflation audits. I respect that. My concern is more about its smaller dev base and node centralization compared to Bitcoin.
Bitcoin’s supply is fully transparent and auditable by anyone without complex cryptographic assumptions. That level of trust minimization is hard to beat
but tbh
nobody actually verifies the Bitcoin supply themselves.
they trust the code to do it for them.
yes Monero has additional complexity.
but it isn't really THAT different for the end user
and also, the Pedersen commitments that guarantee Monero supply are old and well-understood.
not really arguing, just a different perspective.
as people become more used to the idea of Bitcoin
they will become more comfortable trusting cryptographic primitives.
Bitcoiners now are just like precoiners from 2014,
willing to trust certain specific primitives they don't understand. but not others.
The key difference of trust is big for end users
