After the knots vs core and all other shenanigans I'm not sure Bitcoin will out perform monero over the next decade.
Monero does not have a limited supply and there is no guarantee that there is no hidden inflation, so it is not suitable for long-term savings.
In any case, Monero is a privacy tool and is not perfect either.
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No one knows the future, but I don't save in monero given its characteristics.
Neither BTC nor XMR are established store of values fit for average people savings.
BTC could become that in the near future. Monero is a hedge in areas where BTC is weak.
Savings, speculative investment and hedges all serve different purposes and at times each of them will come out ahead vs the others.
how does thay make monero better
The weakness in any cryptocurrency is it's social concensious. If you can influence the majority of node runners you can influence the code. Bitcoiners have demonstrated that they are tribalistic and decided. Compare that with the average monero holder and they are generally better informed. Privacy is going to become increasingly important. The security budget is a problem. Lightning favours bankers over plebs and doesn't pay the miners. I think these issues are prevalent in Bitcoin because it's being influenced by bad actors. The only way to heal it is to be threatened with irrelevancy. And I think monero is the only real option that addresses these issues.
but when you look at the fundamentals of the protocol. monero is not better.
and if it scales destined to be less decentralized because of the fact that it would take more disk space and processing power to run it.
many dont realize it but bitcoin has a disk storage issue even with its block size limit. 800gb is way too much.
and monero doesn't fix that, makes it worse.
Monero doesn't address those issues of security budget, scaling with L2 channels, and social attacks/bad actors
Tail emission basically completely resolves security budget issues. Monero has been at its end of its emission curve for a while now. It's been proposed for Bitcoin but was never adopted because the 21 million meme is held to the standard of religious dogma.
No L2 scaling yet bus is unneeded for now. Main things devs are focusing on are FCMP++ next year then quantum according to Jeffro.
Monero being delisted and niche makes social attacks much less of a threat than the banking cartel controlled Bitcoin or Ethereum.
This debate was harmless and useless because it has changed nothing