Monero is a paradox in relation to Gresham's Law.
Because it is both a better, and worse money than Bitcoin.
It is more spendable due to Tails Emission but also more scarce than Bitcoin for 16 more years.
It also has price stability due to the lack of speculators, and real world utility.
Monero is Bitcoin Perfected.
Monero defies Gresham's Law: The Monero Paradox
Gresham’s Law states that “bad money drives out good.”
When two forms of money coexist, people tend to spend the one they perceive as worse and hoard the better one.
Classic example: when gold coins and paper notes circulated together, people spent the paper and hid the gold.
That’s where Monero’s paradox appears.
Monero is, in many ways, better money than Bitcoin:
─It’s more fungible — every unit is identical and untraceable.
─It has default privacy, making it genuinely usable as money.
─The Tail emission ensures long-term stability and miner incentives without risking collapse.
But it’s also worse money in the speculative sense.
It doesn’t attract traders or funds because of its #privacy, and its price doesn’t skyrocket during bubbles — its value lies in real-world utility, not hype.
So #Monero challenges Gresham’s Law:
people neither hoard it out of greed nor spend it out of fear — they use it because it works.
For the next 16 years, it will even be scarcer than Bitcoin, yet its design favors circulation over accumulation.
In short:
Monero is Bitcoin perfected — money stripped of financial fetishism, restored to its true purpose: the exchange of value.
No, it's actually the epitome of Gresham's law...
Bitcoin is worth more (in a speculative sense, it is scarce) and is being left out for the less speculative asset.
Monero becomes the default Mean of Exchange, Bitcoin solidifies its position as a Store of Value.
This law isn't about ease-of-use value, but purely speculative value.
A binary pair, really
Plus privacy in transactions and wallets.
Monero is just one of many good tools to increase your privacy.
Monero is simply the best tool for financial privacy. Do you know of one superior?
Financial? Superior? No. None.
But swaps via Trocador/Tor or Cake/Stack… or Mullvad, Signal, Syncthing, uBlock, Tails are other great other tools on the privacy focused list.
Oh yeah great info, we're in complete agreement. I'll add to the list GrapheneOS, I2P, Kickstarter, QubesOS, SimpleX and Retoswap as some of the most powerful projects on the web right now.
