Bitcoin maxi nowdays is areligion, they do not care about privacy and that most of people use Bitcoin via ETF and censored custodial wallets.

Currently only monero provides privacy and an easy wallet to selfhost

I'll personally never use monero.

Also i'll never openly fight against it.

I simply think bitcoin is generally better.

That said...if anybody likes spending monero for privacy or whatever reasons that's ok, but i don't think there can be such thing as an alliance between the two, only peoples who use it and peoples who don't.

Time will tell pros and cons of each choice

P.s. i'm on the verge of muting the word monero 🤙

My point against the "multicoin" scenario is that normal people don't want to mess with multichains, different change rates, different onchain formats etc. They do want to receive, spend, save. Monero is fundamentally different from bitcoin and sure has privacy at the base layer, but that wouldn't work at the global scale either.

How am I supposed to spread the wealth? 90% bitcoin and 10% monero? Why should I hold monero for a long period of time and risk to reduce my purchasing power?

If not holding it for long periods, what's the alternative? Is it to swap in and out from monero only when I need it? In such a scenario, i pay double the fees, it takes ages for enough confirmations on bitcoin + the 10 confs in monero.

I like monero and if someone gives me that I'm fine. I like the adversarial behaviour of monero users.

I'm not sold the idea that a global consensus blockchain could work in a decentralized way if used by +1B people.

Monero’s strength is privacy not spending imo— especially since exchanges have begun delisting it. But even if you were to say bitcoin spending and privacy is poor, there are solutions in the works for both, eg lightning, mimblewimble, coinjoin, fedi, those ecash nut things I think.

If one agrees both have similar function, I’d go with the one that is auditable (bitcoin) and has the largest network effect (bitcoin), personally.