It's a useless shitcoin
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All those people who elect to use it at coincards, shopinbit etc, such that Monero is the most used coin there, sure seem to think otherwise.
All the darknet markets buyers and sellers, who really need the privacy and anonymity in their payments, sure seem to think otherwise.
All the governments who ban it, either explicitely or behind the scenes, sure seem to think otherwise.
It'll never cease to amaze me that self-professed believers in free market and individual liberty somehow manage to blind themselves to the truth when it's not convenient (i.e, not congruent with their unchecked assumptions and dogmatic beliefs).
How am I supposed to use it if no one I know accepts it? They are not even familiar with it.
You might be right about darknet usage but I don't need anything that requires payment there.
In my business, I'm paying my supplier with bitcoin and he doesn't accept shitcoins. Are you telling me in order to use monero, I actually have to convince him to accept it? Sorry, I don't have the time or energy for that. And how will it be more private if my supplier knows that it's me who's paying him.
In addition, and this is a VERY important point, how do I go on about purchasing it KYC-free? If your answer is that I should exchange my bitcoin for it, then you need to seriously consider how crazy you sound.
You expecting me to let go of bitcoin and concentrate on monero is a shitcoinologist's wet dream.
Blah blah blah
You woulda said exactly the same thing about bitcoin in 2015.
Everyone is really happy to collect the benefits of increased adoption, privacy and education but dont want to do the work.
Your logic makes no sense. What's the difference between paying your supplier with bitcoin and replenishing the bitcoin you used to buy monero?
Money is something you earn, spend and save, whether that's bitcoin, monero or both. Are you sure that's what you do?
My supplier doesn't accept and doesn't want monero. Should I change my supplier just to please you?
And in what way will monero provide me with more peivacy if my supplier already knows the payment is coming from me?
No, it is your logic that doesn't make sense because it's basically shitcoin logic.
You're the one who sounds crazy. You're scared to exchange a little of your Bitcoin for a few minutes to make a payment. Listen to yourself. Scared of your own shadow.
What do you think? That XMR/BTC is immediately going to drop 99% the second you get it?
LOL 😂 thats hilarious
Once upon a time your supplier didn't accept Bitcoin either, and be either researched it himself and adopted it, or someone orange-pilled him.
It's understandable you don't have the patience to educate and redpill people on privacy. Although I would say that is unfortunate, because lack of awareness about its importance is exactly why we are where we are today, and it was all so predictable and avoidable.
Also, to you and anyone else who happens to read, get into your head that most Monero users are not maxis, we care about PRIVACY and ANONYMITY, and we believe Monero is the best financial tool for that purpose at the moment.
I won't go into the pro/cons and up/downsides of Monero vs Lightning, so I will just say to you, I am just as happy if at least you use lightning when you pay your supplier.
Help normalize privacy. That's all most of us (also most of us use or at least hold Bitcoin too, often at a 90:1 or even bigger ratio, by the way) are asking for.
It's the normalization of reckless transparency that criminalizes people like me. We just want to do our thing and be left alone. Nothing shady (mostly lol), nothing special, but I have a right to do my business and my transactions without doxxing everything to government, corporations, and on a transparent chain, literally to the whole world in perpetuity.
It's not too much to ask. Right?
I can understand that argument with almost any altcoin (though I'd disagree) EXCEPT for privacy coins. There's an objective usecase for them, even if Bitcoin is your preference.
Then go and shitcoin yourself, I'll concentrate on bitcoin. Win-win for me.
You want me to give up all the advantages of bitcoin just so I gain more privacy (if even that is true)? I don't think so.
Some hard love
If an asset can be seized from you at any point by force
In what way do you "own" it?
No privacy no wealth.
They don't even need to seize it. An IRS audit is all it takes, and they just make shit up that puts you in the poor house, or jail.
Monero has most of the advantages of Bitcoin, with more privacy (which is a *massive* advantage in and of itself). I'm not saying Bitcoin doesn't have a purpose, because it certainly does. The bulk of our wealth should be concentrated in it but when you can see every transaction a person has ever made, that's a major problem. That's where privacy coins can be incredibly helpful.
It sounds to me that whoever created this shitcoin is much smarter than Satoshi himself, I wonder why wasn't this shitcoin available before bitcoin?
SMH y'all realize that this insufferable, cultish mentality that some maxis have is exactly what turns people away, right?
Most of the cultishness has well articulated reasoning in my experience and most would acknowledge the privacy difficiency but would argue that one can get that level privacy with lightning, ecash, or fediments. Others are just ignorant of a world outside of satoshi. This guys entire line of reasoning is "My master doesn't feed me in anything else thus everything else is irrelevant universally". We don't ask him for advice cause hes a walking logical console error, we just like his memes.
It's common sense and there's nothing cultish about it. I'm not going to take a financial risk by moving away from bitcoin (check price history of btc/your shitcoin) just so you'll be pleased with me.
What's it to you what currency I use anyway? Will it really satisfy you more if I just agree with you? 🙄
If this "mentalitt" realky turns people away then how come you're still here?
*"mentality"
I'm not telling you what to do, I'm simply saying that there ARE genuine use cases for some altcoins. Just because you choose not to use them, that doesn't make them useless.
They're useless to me, hence why I don't use them. Stop shitcoining already!
This is the problem I take with your stance. Use BTC only, if that's your preference. That's all good! However, when you're effectively telling others they shouldn't use altcoins because they're not Bitcoin, that's where the problem lies. I'm not telling YOU to stop using Bitcoin and I'm not insulting your choice.
If I think it's a shitcoin then I'm going to come out and say it's a shitcoin. It's not like I MUST say something positive about it.
If you still have a problem with that, then either do something about it or fuck off.
Little to do when you've successfully played the victim, the superior, the fool, and the smartest person in the room all at the same time. Bravo
Ironically, I bet Mr2MB still uses fiat, the largest shitcoin of them all, more than they use even Bitcoin and doesn't think twice about it
Larp
Nice try FED 😂
💯 It is indeed a shitcoin.