Bitcoin is the hardest money ever minted.
Monero is (equally secure) dark money.
Some forks of bitcoin are shitcoins.
Like Bitcoin Cash + Litecoin
but Monero is not one of them.
Monero is a fork of Bitcoin that guarantees absolute privacy (which BTC does not). All the talks of privacy here, and why it’s important, but all the hate for Monero doesn’t make sense.
We save and HODL in Bitcoin,
But go can complete ANON using Monero when we need to. It’s simple + effective.
#unpopularopinion
#monero
Good thing no one forces anyone to use any of them. To each their own. But I'm with you. If I need absolute privacy... Monero is it, all these other btc gyrations of coin join, swaps, whirlpools or what the fuck ever... Just swap to monero and send it.
To some extent there is privacy via lightning network, but for small transactions - as it’s hard to find people with large open channels that offer liquidity for substantial purchases
It's unpopular opinion here because you can have complete anon with Bitcoin. This Monero is useless and the anon set is getting smaller every day.
How can I go complete ANON with BTC outside of coin-joins, whirlpools, or other acrobatics to avoid being seen on a public ledger?
Ask satoshi. He didn't do any of those acrobatics. All that's required is a nym and good opsec.
Bitcoin was not designed to be completely anonymous, but for every transaction to be recorded and transparent, it’s the reason BTC is being embraced and legitimized by legacy finance: because the ledger is public and transactions/gains can be taxed.
I think money should be completely separated from state control, and I hate taxes, but Monero’s anonymity is not built into BTC.
Instead, that code for ring signatures and privacy are isolated to the monero fork.
I'm with you on this and it may sound like an *ACHTUELLY...* but #monero is not even a #bitcoin fork. It's codebase is completely separate afaik.
How is it not a BTC fork?
It has it's own codebase and whitepaper called CryptoNote (https://web.archive.org/web/20201028121818/https://cryptonote.org/whitepaper.pdf)
it's not a fork because it's a completely different codebase.
I'm not sure if this is true. I would bet there's some overlap in the codebase. If so, I'd say when you redesign a whole codebase and use some of it as it was originally, that still counts as a fork.
