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Doubt it if you look at core. Idk about lighting either, right now Bitcoin seems pretty confused about what it does, let alone what problem it solves.

Until we find a real use case for it, it'll remain speculative and a greater fool theory.

If you want cash, use monero.

If I want digital store of value, maybe Bitcoin or PAXG

Contra 8mo ago

Bitcoin isn’t confused…the observers are.

It’s not trying to be everything to everyone. It’s solving the hardest problem first: absolute scarcity and decentralized trust. That’s the foundation. Every other use case, from Lightning to custody to censorship resistance, is built on that bedrock.

Monero? Great privacy, but no credible decentralization roadmap or supply audit. PAXG? Issued by a centralized entity with counterparty risk.

Bitcoin stands alone: unforgeable, unprintable, unstoppable.

It’s not about finding a use case…it is the use case. Now it’s on us to build, teach, and prove it.

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Hanshan 8mo ago

decentralization roadmap? huh?

what is your compliant with monero centralization?

also supply inflation is audited with every block.

details at

https://www.moneroinflation.com/

Contra 8mo ago

Good questions. Monero’s done solid work, especially with inflation audits. I respect that. My concern is more about its smaller dev base and node centralization compared to Bitcoin.

Bitcoin’s supply is fully transparent and auditable by anyone without complex cryptographic assumptions. That level of trust minimization is hard to beat

Hanshan 8mo ago

but tbh

nobody actually verifies the Bitcoin supply themselves.

they trust the code to do it for them.

yes Monero has additional complexity.

but it isn't really THAT different for the end user

and also, the Pedersen commitments that guarantee Monero supply are old and well-understood.

not really arguing, just a different perspective.

as people become more used to the idea of Bitcoin

they will become more comfortable trusting cryptographic primitives.

Bitcoiners now are just like precoiners from 2014,

willing to trust certain specific primitives they don't understand. but not others.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 8mo ago

The key difference of trust is big for end users

S!ayer 8mo ago

Monero is more decentralised with the least amount of barriers to entry for people to earn monero. That's the thing too, Bitcoin earning is exclusionary. If you can afford a miner, that's one thing but then also having cheap electricity benefits you as well.

The more I think about Bitcoin these days, the more I really look at it, the more I start to see these snags