Good sir, you must know that’s the last thing I’d do. Note my OP, I convinced my friend to sell all her “crypto” for Bitcoin and buy a cold card. She downright refused to sell the Monero (and fwiw I’m not all that convinced that Monero is a shitcoin... from my limited knowledge, it strikes me as a bit closer to cash in terms of default privacy, at least under certain threat models. A strong contrast to some silly/scammy token that ignorant people buy into, to increase their fiat net worth. But that’s a different discussion, lol)

In any case, and regardless of the above, since she was choosing to hold some, I really really don’t want her using Ledger Live for it. My understanding is that Ledger tracks every action, click, balance, etc., that one does in their app. So for someone I care about, who is using Monero for its privacy benefits, I worry about her compromising her security.

I save in Bitcoin. I encourage my friends to do the same, and to sell everything else, any time they ask. And plenty of times when they don’t 😉

But I worry that *not* talking about general best practices when relevant - usually due to social fear around discussing “he-who-must-not-be-named” (ie anything that isn’t Bitcoin) — will put people we care about in situations they can avoid.

Ya get what I mean?

Also, love you too homie 🫂

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Thanks for that Holmes. I was worried about you for a minute.

When I first got involved I mined using the Equihash algo because I didn't know any better (ZEN, ZEC, HUSH, etc.) but then the light of Satoshi shined on my and I sold my earnings for Bitcoin and the rest is history.

No need to worry here, my friend 🤝

I do maintain a healthy curiosity about Monero, if for no other reason than that the people who I see support it are about as Bitcoin-y as it gets, with a strong penchant for privacy, libertarianism, “the works”.

My day to day life doesn’t really require a perfectly anonymous digital cash, and I’m technically competent enough to use Bitcoin in a sufficiently private way. So it’s more of an intellectual curiosity and feeling like I don’t know enough about it to hodl a strong opinion.

But I can imagine a world where Monero is something that retains its use case. Especially considering absence of all the numb-nuts “wen moon” wiz-idiots that you see with all the crypto tokeny crap lol

At the same time, it’s not something I feel drive to put energy into, because Bitcoin is the thing that fixes the world, if we all do this right.

Also I have never even heard of these tokens 🤣🤣🤣

Ledger Live doesn't support Monero. She can run Monero on her Ledger with Feather.