So, it appears the primary reason bitcoin Maxis don't like Monero is because of issues regarding supply.
I totally could be wrong but I don't see any other real argument that can be made against Monero that isn't also applicable to bitcoin.
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Also, if you’re after some pills or a few machine guns does it even matter?
Privacy matters because it's a principle.
Imagine you had to buy an embarrassing medical cream, or pill for your genitals, or anus.
Or If you want to buy sexual content, or toys/tools.
Or if you're buying your partner something for Valentine's day, and don't want them to know what it is.
Or if you make drastically more money than your friends, and family, and don't want them to guilt trip you.
Or if you're a celebrity that's whole life is public.
Or if you're a political dissident, sexual, religious, or ethnic minority that's oppressed.
Or if you just want to buy your gas, burrito, pizza, and burger in private because it's no one else's dang business.
I’m all for privacy. Its more a quip on how people die on a hill for their preferred privacy option.
Truth is you can likely but bum cream with either and maintain your dignity.
That's true but generally speaking it's harder to obtain privacy with Bitcoin.
Now yes, it's possible but the amount of effort put in to get privacy results that are ≤ Monero's.
Bitcoin's privacy probably won't exceed Monero's unless something like Zero Knowledge, or Burning mechanisms were implemented.
The supply is def what stops them from pulling over all privacy improvements to bitcoin and making Monero irrelevant. they are too sold on the 21M idea to consider it
They don't like it because it's not Bitcoin. Like a religion or some football club or your favorite beer or something.
Their peers are also maxis, to fall outside of the groupthink would make them outcasts.
After years of repeating the same nonsense, it would also be highly cognitively dissonant to admit that yes, there is good stuff in crypto beyond Bitcoin too.
In other words, a very hard case of ego grasping and attachment.
tbf
there is also a strong argument to be made against asic-resistant mining algos
the amount of energy protecting the Bitcoin chain is several orders of magnitude larger than Moneros
Realistically mining is kind of a moot point since neither community has been compromised yet.
Yes, Bitcoin has come close to being compromised, and is at risk of it, and yes Monero's network is hypothetically easier to compromise as far as hash rates but really in both cases it's impractical to do a 51% attack.
It all comes down to game theory and indeed asic mining works since there's incentives and the cost to run at play the problem is when the state intervenes, i.e. China was number one until it was banned, it would be much more decentralized by now if not but nowadays the incentive is for blocks to be made in the US™ and that sets a dangerous precedent, meanwhile on Monero it's harder to ban and easier to run from anywhere but also like you said brings the question of how easy it is to spun up the 51% needed of CPUs
Mining is probably one of those things we'll never know the real answer to since to know what's most resilient we have to wait the a very powerful force to attack it but it could never happen, or like some bitcoiners say the state will stop existing and those problems won't exist anymore, who knows