If your primal objective with crypto is become rich rather being anonymous then something is wrong with your principles
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Primary objective is to be sovereign. Which includes running the node I choose.
I know how to use Bitcoin privately when I need to, it's truly not hard. Sometimes I zap in public, sometimes I buy in private, it's my choice
How can you be "sovereign" if you value your BTCs based on fiat speculations, like most hodlers do?
Does Monero not have a market price? I fail to see how this applies to Bitcoin but not monero
Do Monero users not make purchases based on the current exchange rate?
Are you asserting that if you participate in the market you are therefore not sovereign?
But to answer your question directly, I am sovereign because I hold my own keys and I broadcast my own transactions and I audit the supply of coins without any third parties, using node software I've selected. If Bitcoin core updates to a new version tomorrow and I don't like it, I am not forced to use it
Yeah, it still does have a market cap / price, however Monero has been delisted from almost all CEXs. This a great indicative that mainstream fiat markets don't like the Monero's privacy features but this is no problem for us as we can trade only in P2P.
My point is: most Bitcoin maxis just care about hodl and nothing more while most Monero users want to engage in anonymous commerce using solely XMR. Darknet markets is shifting from BTC to XMR
https://livedarknet.com/p/is-bitcoin-losing-its-place-on-the-darknet/
anonymity is not a goal, anonymity is a tool. What you said is exactly like saying your primal objective with woodworking is using a hammer. Doesn't make any sense.
"anonymity is not a goal, anonymity is a tool"
As expected, Bitcoin maxis always relativizing the natural right of privacy inherent to all humans
As expected, people with too much ego passive aggressively assuming that if you disagree with them you must be fit in some made up group they despise!
Sorry dude, you couldn't be more wrong with this "bitcoin maxis" thing :-D
I'm just trying to make a point: anonymity is a natural right to any human being, therefore half-privacy is contradictory. When Bob and Alice make a transaction there's no reason to an outsider entity (like a government agent) know about this transaction
I see your point but its more than that I think.
without private wealth you don't really *own* your assets. because they can be taken from you by force.
Privacy is a necessary condition of ownership in a hostile environment.
as Mr nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ex2mrfw3jhxtn0wfnszynhwden5te0wahhgtn4w3ux7tn0dejszxthwden5te0wdjkuerfwshxummnvekxzun99e3k7mgrcp7e2 has pointed out ad infinitum, no privacy, no wealth, no wealth no freedom.
So if *sovereignty* is the goal, privacy is a necessary prerequisite.