Whats opinion of this community about monero? #asknostr
Discussion
There are many communities with varying appreciations, likes and dislikes. You'll find some that like monero, some that despise it, and some ambivalent
Many OG's are now in Monero, personally I think it's a waste of time but it's ok for everyone to spend their time where they want.
If I were them, I would use my time to develop a BTC L2 (private etc, like monero) instead of a side project. IMHO 🤓
Is so secure but … it’s not Transparent
"Monero is a very good privacy complement to Bitcoin" -Nick Szabo
"Maybe you need a Monero" -Michael Saylor
"For really strong privacy, Monero is much better" -Andreas Antonopoulos
"There's a lot of advantages to using Monero" -Matt Odell
"Monero is the only goddamn currency that's used!" -John McAfee
"All fiat systems and all tokens outside of Bitcoin and monero (to my knowledge) have middlemen you cannot get rid of" -Adam Curry
"I would say Monero is not a shitcoin. I think it's a very innovative and new research project that works." -Max Hillbrand
"Monero; Just use it. Objectively it's better than Bitcoin [for privacy]...it's obvious" -Amir Taaki
"Monero is closer to our hearts than whatever Bitcoin is turning into today" -Samourai Wallet
"99% of cryptocurrencies are complete and total garbage, but even among the upper echeleon of real ones, Monero is in the top percentile, so it deserves our respect" -Paul Sztorc
"Surprising number of Monero lovers on #Nostr. It’s the only altcoin that I consider has a community of actual cypherpunks with similarly aligned values as bitcoin." -Guy Swann
"Monero has always been the altcoin outlier for me, never a shitcoin because I have a valid use for it that I can't achieve with #bitcoin." -Peter McCormack
"I have an issue when Bitcoiners get so closed-minded and says Moneros a shitcoin. No it's not. There's some brilliant people there and there's a lot to learn...I'm a fan of Monero." -Nicholas Gregory of Mercury Layer
"Cashu isn't an alternative to Monero. Monero is cool." -Calle
Much better alternative as money than BTC. In the end, also a better store of value when you think about it longer
Mine is that it's the least shitty shitcoin but still a shitcoin.
Love it. Fast, low fees. Services like mullvad, ivpn, njalla, 1984.hosting accept Monero. To get monero, you can spin up a LN node (behind tor), fund it with non-kyc btc and then swap LN to Monero (there are exchanges operating on Tor).
Extremely rapid initial distribution favours founders, just like a shit coin. Tail emissions forever dilutes store of value. Good to swap Bitcoin into and out of for privacy. Shit store of value. Once Bitcoin gets decent privacy it is dead.
Once.....
> initial distribution favours founders
> infinite supply = bad store of value
pick one, how can founders benefit from early rewards if the number doesn't go up?
I see btc as a store of value and monero for everyday buying and selling
It pumps and dumps initially but stagnates long term. 
Stagnates against gold, but it has to complete with Bitcoin
that seems like a pretty good stability even in the face of regulatory uncertainty, CEX delistings, it already competes with Bitcoin in usage but not for the investment case, but every cycle will continue to get harder to ignore it as the chart shows it doesn't stagnate lower than it used to
Yeah, Bitcoin needs better privacy. Just ask Roger Ver. If Bitcoin gets mimblewimble it will be hard to justify monero
It'd be better to advocate for a z-side (zcash sidechain/drivechain) than for MWEB as mweb has worse privacy and is harder to get into the consensus, but at any rate Liquid already has confidential txs but has 0 txs per block, (1 being the mandatory coinbase tx https://liquid.network), so in a privacy sidechain/L2 world, split coins create small anon sets which is a world where XMR is still undefeated
like how its been impossible to store value in gold for the last 2000 years because of supply inflation?
Bitcoin will never get decent privacy. The core devs have and will continue to work hard to prevent that ever happening. Bitcoin is a state backed currency that requires you to use business owned custodial off chain wallets to give you the feeling of privacy that still does not yet exist.
Absolutely fucking fantastic. I came back to Monero after five years of not being in crypto at all due to the Bitcoin block wars and high transaction fees. Many businesses are beginning to find that Monero is the one that people use, such as coin cards.
Monero4life, bruh. it's the main currency I'm using
What bitcoin was initially meant to be. Bitcoin is to get rich, monero is for freedom.