ahahha that sounds like it was allegedly quite a shit experience

weird that they’d just flat out stop supporting 12 word seed phrases without having some amount of backwards compatibility, or some sort of conversion of some sort? 🤨

i don’t have any direct xmr experience yet - but, they did mention on the podcast that the hard-forks (and such) are good for keeping up with the latest privacy developments, but they do come with a trade-off of backwards comparability (amongst other things)

felt like that during the podcast they were tending towards advocating for keeping smaller amounts in xmr, like a hot-wallet for spending, but they mentioned that some people in xmr community would disagree with that and treat it just like bitcoin as a long-term store of wealth

you’ve got an interesting anecdote non-the-less tho