Respect!

My savings are in Bitcoin only — hardest GFY money ever and all that — but I’ve always been curious about Monero, from a philosophical/ethical perspective.

My sense is that Monero users have a similarly strong and overlapping set of ideals to the Bitcoin community, perhaps most notably the absence of the fiat-shitcoin-hype nonsense surrounding pretty much every other cryptocurrency.

Monero also sounds objectively better from a privacy perspective, all else held equal (but my education here is limited).

Bitcoin provides decent privacy from a “leave me alone” perspective — the legacy system isn’t tracking your every Lightning transaction with cookies and pixels and GA4 and all that. (Or are they? Idfk)

Monero strikes me more as a “secrecy” money — like “I’m doing whatever the fuck I want with my money and you can’t find out even if you want to”.

Ideologically I respect that. Not sure I need it for my day to day, but I get the ethos.

Those are my cognac-infused musings. Curious your thoughts, Ava 🤙