Weird I just used monero to buy long underwear and a bunch of MLB gear for Christmas presents
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😂 that’s merchandise, ser. but I’ll approve
tbh via gift cards
So what do you mean when you say "most places will never take either"
something like take out your wife for dinner and pay with monero you know 😃 pleb stuff
Around me there is people which are buying Bitcoin and be amazed because their portfolio gain in value, they understand pretty nothing about Bitcoin, crypto, CBDC, Monero. Using Bitcoin as everyday money is a bad idea, there is no privacy on the base layer, which is making every Layer up useless because it's the entry and exit point. KYC on-chain is coming, we need something where transactions on base layer is anonymous, then we can add Layer 2,3,4 etc etc 😃
The good news is with Bitcoin we'll already be more poised than before to not allow such overreach. They won't be able to enforce kyc well as they'll just drive black markets.
I like Monero for the tool it is but think it unnecessary for everyday spending. Nobody will be doing everyday spending on the base layer. Nobody even does that now. Other layers have already proven useful for relative privacy when needed.
"They won't be able to enforce kyc"
Are you sure ?
The vast majority own Bitcoin for fiat gain, 99% of Bitcoiners don't care about privacy or freedom ^^
Future will tell, I hope you have right anyway
Seems unlikely to ever happen with monero or Bitcoin
or at least
with non-custodial, censorship resistant bitcoin
There is no point in paying with spy money when you are on camera
paying with spy money means they have to access the camera and look at the data
youre just saying
"everything is already surveilled so seeking privacy is pointless"
avoiding easily traced on-chain payments is obviously preferable
Keep in mind the low liquidity of KYC-free coin. There is simply not enough to pay for everything with it. I believe that over time the market will mix up the coin for it to not matter. Cashu and the like will create gaps in traceability, but at the moment, I’d just not spend whatever undoxxed coin you still have. Their value is above market
All my utxos have CJ history
and i havent sent any since Whirlpool went off line
except the change I have in LN
but over the long term i dont think thats correct.
without good privacy tools the number of non-KYCed UTXOS only decreases
So the anonset gets smaller and smaller and they get harder and harder to use because nobody will accept them.
theres probably a sweet spot before that point where they are valuable above market price
but on a long enough timeline they are likely worthless.
Exchanges might say no to the coin, but I don’t think that people care. It’s still number-go-up bitcoin. Just that some database still remembers a story about them for a while.
if Bitcoin is a successful threat to the bankers that run the world,
self-sovereign use will be highly discouraged.
and it wont be "just some database remembers a story"
it will be the entire chain is mapped and a score assigned to each utxo. it will be extremely difficult to use poorly regarded utxos.
or you can just use "BtcBucks™ Backed by Bitcoin!"
and have a nice user experience with something accepted everywhere.
and 99% of people will do that and so much for privacy.
(btw it isn't "remembers a story about them for a while." its forever for all intents and purposes)
You being a shitcoiner just makes so much sense now.
Hat off/
💩
because I use the tools to make purchases?
and am not a NGU simp?
guilty as charged.
enjoy chasing fiat gainz
don't shitcoin, its bad for you.🌼
There's nothing about Monero that makes it a shitcoin.
lay down some facts or GTFO
Greed is the only real excuse for those who advocate for “BTC only”.
Simple as that.
And you can clearly see how they have a giant fear of #XMR being more useful than #BTC.
even more than greed, theres this smug self satisfaction of knowing something special and being part of an elite group.
then that feeling is rationalized by the greed. because NGU Good.
"if giant fiat institutions are buying Bitcoin it must validate all the ideas Saife wrote in that book I read that one time? I am very smart.
people who criticize or point out nuanced tradeoffs are very dumb."
pretty normal groupthink bullshit.
Just out curiosity, how much monero do you own? 2 digits or 3?
I've tried a million times to explain to maxis that the path they are walking down right now is scaling via custodians and it ends in banks controlling everything and nobody except ultra rich people having any sovereignty. all the benefits of the technology are completely nullified at the end of this path. they never give a rebuttal and they don't care what happens at the end of their path as long as they personally get rich, but they will pretend to care about these things if it draws in more suckers.
Don’t know the shift coin
But do know #StackSats
#btc #bitcoin worldwide will be standard
If you compare it to Bitcoin, it's definitely a shitcoin.
- Unlimited supply
- Constant hard forks
- Less secure
- Less scalable
- Offers little to none actual privacy benefits
-Unlimited supply
A known and constant tail emission is not "unlimited supply"
-Constant hard forks
Hard forks are not "constant." Monero forks in new features when they are ready.
There has never been a contentious fork.
- Less secure
This really is a matter of perspective.
Bitcoin could be "less secure" because people can see you use it.
But its true the amount of energy protecting the Monero chain is VASTLY smaller.
- Less scalable
Monero txs are indeed larger and the chain grows faster. However L2s are also possible on Monero if its ever a problem.
- Offers little to none actual privacy benefits
This is just straight up false.
Monero protects the sender, receiver and amount in an *extremely* secure way while still providing a good user experience.
You can literally download a wallet and send to an address and have good privacy guarantees.
Anything else?
bitcoin has unlimited supply if you have unlimited time to find a SHA256 hash collision. see, I can say retarded things too!
All of these have counter arguments, but that last one is just dishonest
Amounts and addresses are completely hidden
(not merely obfusctated like the optional rube goldberg workarounds for Bitcoin "privacy")
How is that "little to none actual privacy benefits"?
To be honest I don't know. But I know there is only room for one and that is #Bitcoin
Rest if they don't fail would be not attractive
Agree Monero is the only other interesting crypto because it essentially solves through trade offs what Bitcoin lacks and that is anonymous transactions. I don’t think we will ever see anonymous transactions on layer 1 bitcoin therefore there will always been a need for an anonymous crypto and currently the best is Monero.
What is the supply cap of this monero shitcoin you speak of?
Why am I not surprised that you're one of these types?