I've been critizing "Bitcoiners" for years. Most people are retarded.
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So, why would you stick in a culture that has moved away from its origins on focusing on Technology as a means of liberation, why not move to a group of people that's compromised of a lot of 2009 to 2016 Bitcoiners that realized key issues that needed to be improved.
I am genuinely asking this, not looking to debate but it just seems like you'd be better in The Monero community which promotes things like Degoogled Graphene Phones, and Purism, SimpleX, Session, Threema, Matrix, etc., that use VPNs, and I2P, Loki, & Tor.
And sure there are normies, and plebs (like myself) in the monero community who are opsec noobs but the overwhelming majority seem to be very careful in their practices, whereas like you admit, people like you, and DarthCoin are the outliers.
Now don't get me wrong, I fully support Ashigaru / Samourai, Coinjoin, Silent Payments, & Zeus because they are great tools that make Privacy on Bitcoin good but why oppose people who promote everything else you support.
Even if Bitcoin appreciates more than Monero, the community promotes the cypherpunk values, so at the very least working on that front would be important.
Before I was a privacy noob but everything I learned about Bitcoin, Privacy, and Monero, etc. was primarily thanks to the many Monero users out there.
1. What makes you think i care about 'cultures' and 'groups'? None of those things matter to me. Bitcoin is for the individual(me).
2. Opsec protects my family and my sats, it's necessary for my sovereignty. Most Bitcoiners don't worry about those things, it's their problem, not mine.
3. Monero doesn't improve Bitcoin—It has a shit name, shit logo, unlimited supply cap, hardforks every year, and inflation exploit risks. It also has a shit community just as bad as Bitcoin, filled with drug consumers and young anime girls as profile pictures.
I understand your concern for a inflation bug in Monero, and that is a very real potential problem but as we've seen that can be an issue in both transparent, and private chains.
To date, Bitcoin did have a supply bug.
Whereas Monero has yet to have a detectable incident yet:
https://www.moneroinflation.com/
However, if you look at the code of Monero, Monero can also be audited, and its supply can be verified, while I acknowledge Bitcoin is easier to audit, Monero can also be audited.
So, that is a trade-off, I am willing to accept the supply trade-off since it helps make Monero more cash like, which is my intention, and I understand that you might not accept that trade-off.
I see value in both technologies.
Maxis of any coin can be annoying, I attest this to you as someone who's interacted with many different cryptocurrency groups.
That being said Drug users are everywhere, most prevalent in fiat, I've maybe met one dude in Monero that is probably a stoner at best, Monero-Chan is a legal adult 😉👍.
There's also Bitcoin anime girls but anime girls shouldn't be an issue to someone who references an old cartoon about talking animals.
Don't talk shit about anime girls