People like you have gotten me truly curious about Monero. Maybe I’m being fooled but I’m learning and value your argument.
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Thank you. I am trying to make people aware of Bitcoin since 2010. In the last years I started to focus more on Monero.
It's borderline comical, that Bitcoiners are now almost as resistant to Monero as nocoiners were in the beginning to Bitcoin.
What I value most is...
freedom (the ability to follow my life as I see fit),
choice (market seeks choice over one ring/coin to rule them all, even if that means one thing dominates for some time),
honesty (there are tradeoffs in anything).
There are two really scarce assets in this world. Time and privacy.
Bitcoiners value time (hard cap that stops the dilution of stored energy/time/value) more than privacy. That doesn't mean privacy doesn't get scarcer by the day.
In the end we are all spiritual beings that get transcended by death. And neither striving for time nor privacy will change that. But that shouldn't stop us from aligning with higher principals in the meanwhile. Both Bitcoin and Monero bring new order from a level or two up.
The world belongs to the curious.
It's the open mind that looks at things before dismissing them.
The issue that the Bitcoin community has IMO is that they see BTC as the only valuable crypto and don't want a spare wheel like Monero.
not a spare wheel if it serves a function
and theres no good privacy on bitcoin
But bro, lightning bro. Its good enough privacy bro. Trust me bro. Can you see i just zapped you bro? See? Its good enough privacy
they think it's a fixed pie, and when you buy anything besides bitcoin it means you are personally stealing from them. the entire cryptocurrency marketcap sans bitcoin was personally stolen from them. that's how they think it works.
They need to think harder
The way I see it, not a blockchain, not a coin. In other words everything that's a smart contract I'd a shit-token. Then there is altcoins and among those there is some "currencies" with a valid right to exist.
From there the only question is if you have utility / use for one of those currencies. If you don't then don't buy them cause that is speculation.
People are overthinking stuff
Monero is the only other coin I wouldn’t call a shitcoin as privacy is real issue in the digital world and should be taken seriously
follow your curiosity and than make an educated decisions for yourself. At the end of the day, you're the only one responsible for your future. Just don't buy Monero because others tell you that you should. You should have a better reason than that.
Yes, I do own some Monero beside Bitcoin. For years.
Agreed. Monero has its purpose for when you need it that's about it.
I don't have anything against it, more their community lol