#Monero dethrones #Bitcoin #payments in ‘Europe’s biggest Bitcoin #store’
https://finbold.com/cryptocurrency-dethrones-btc-payments-in-europes-biggest-bitcoin-store/
Again I have to say.. INSANE that lightning is such a small percentage of the total Bitcoin transactions!
Also - great that so many people understand the need for privacy in finance and choose to pay with #monero
https://www.moneroinflation.com
Sure we do!
Jews hate this one trick.
ok, spicy joke but just a joke 😂
(that's your npub)
I get your point tho.
But to get better indexing and searchability into a search engine like google it makes sense that it's done through a frontend site like njump; it's not a perfect analogy, but imagine nostr is the sql database and njump the frontend - what gets indexed is the rendered frontend pages, not the database itself, although of course the rendering will map to what's in the database.
Unless I missed a finer point?
Got it, so monero is a shitcoin because monero is a shitcoin.
I bow to your superior logic.
Yes!
Now can I have my bugs and soy order, please?
Black and white thinking as always.
You refuted exactly zero arguments from the very well-written website above, which by the way is what always happens when the matter comes up. Because you don't actually have any valid arguments, and therefore devolve into ad hominem attacks.
It's cute you believe in digital scarcity as an absolute thing, meanwhile Bitcoin has actually had an inflation bug in the past, which if you would stop regurgitating dogma for a minute you would understand the implications of that as it applies to your argument.
But tempered rational thought is not usually the mark of a religious zealot.
Moving further, in a classic display of projection (because it's an all or nothing, black and white thing to you), you imply that any other project that addresses a shortfall of Bitcoin has inherently as its goal the overthrown of Bitcoin.
I'm not even going to list the many alternative interpretations (and there are many, believe me),I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader.
You also seem to conflate scarcity in Bitcoin (let's for a moment assume it is bug-free enough that we will never see something like that happening again, an assumption I would like to hold true btw, unlike you, who resentfully desires us "shitcoiners" to be rekt because, essentially, we don't follow your church) with digital scarcity in general.
Seeing as this is all open-source and the cost of copying digital information is essentially zero, it is no surprise we see many cryptos nowdays. And honestly the situation is a lot better than it used to be (even though there are a lot more projects), because there is a lot of really cool technology being developed (and yes, I appreciate that you don't and can't appreciate this, since for you by definition anything outside Bitcoin is a shitcoin, therefore you never really look outside that box, therefore you could never really know what you're talking about).
However, it still seems rational to me that for the explicit purpose of protecting oneself from fiat debasement, Bitcoin is the best choice.
Unlike you (because I'm not a zealot), I don't think that could NEVER change, but I do find it extremely unlikely (and have allocated my resources accordingly).
To finish, your assertion that "there is no limit to the supply of a digital object that moves on the internet in a private way" is just that - an assertion, and a faulty one at that. I would suggest you actually read and study the site linked before in order to reach a more nuanced conclusion.
Furthermore, you're also assuming, once again, that it is an all-or-nothing proposition, when it isn't; having a blockchain that is opaque and therefore vastly superior for the single purpose of transacting anonymously and privately is a valuable tool in the arsenal against pervasive mass-surveillance.
This does not mean, and does not have to mean, that it is a better tool for everything else too, and it does not mean you should stake your fortune on its fate and unlikely success as a replacement for Bitcoin.
More than anything else what annoys me about you maxis is that you can't seem to grasp those elementary distinctions because your minds are polarized and you seem to live in a bubble of people who think the same things. And then unironically refer to others as NPCs.
Bitcoin is just a tool, Monero is just a tool. Relax. Use the best tool for the right job, don't be a religious nutjob.
Or don't, but then at least don't murder the truth.
See, this exactly the kind of thing that I mean.
You see black and white only: if I use Monero, then I must not have any Bitcoin, or so your faulty reasoning goes.
It's really very simple, as a hedge against fiat world bitcoin is probably the best bet there is out there.
But for real world spending with the assurances that a L1 provides, it's not, at least not yet.
You can believe both and allocate accordingly.
But to discount everything else for the reasons you do, is quite frankly intellectually dishonest. And I'll point that out every single time.
lol no. We don't talk about it because there is no hope for a decent privacy solution on a transparent chain and other than acknowledging this simple truth when someone who can only see black and white yet again puts out false information that will inevitably lead less knowledgeable people astray, there is generally no point in doing so.
Because such people are not open to rational arguments.
Try to pay for a house with payjojned coins and see how it goes (you've tainted the seller's coins now), try to deposit to an exchange and see how it goes.
And yeah sure, you can do this and you can do that, a dozen things, and you can avoid using this or that service as a workaround for the inherent and inescapable flaws of the underlying technology. How do you think those of us who've tried to manage all that complexity found the alternative?
Payjoin is ridiculously underwhelming compared to ring signatures in Monero and ring signatures in Monero are ridiculoualy underwhelming compared to what FCMPs will bring in the medium-term.
You'll find a few hard-headed stubborn Monero maxis that are the mirror image of toxic bitcoin maxis minus the dramatic gains and the strength in numbers. They are just as deluded in seeing no value in #bitcoin as the bitcoin maxis are in not seeing the value in #monero
It would be better for everyone who cares about freedom and privacy if this constant nonsense would stop.
#monero #bitcoin #privacy
Monero being #1 in a payments scenario doesn't surprise me, but damn that lightning is so low on that list is truly disturbing - you'd think people would want more privacy and less fees, but somehow...
That all life is sorrowful is not what Buddhism teaches.
It teaches about attachment as the cause of suffering. Pain is not optional, but suffering is.
It's not about never having fun and not having anything or anyone, it's about realizing everything is impermanent and you are not what your ego thinks it is. It's about understanding that the suffering is optional. This sets you free.
Think about the example you gave: do you think it's all about being free from the algorithm™, when you will get old and sick and die, and everyone you know and many of them before you, will get old and sick and die?
Nothing lasts, it all crumbles to ashes. It's a delicate balancing act - not distracting ourselves and never thinking about the truth of reality and ignoring the facts until inevitably, sooner or later, reality asserts itself (the good times never last) on one end, and not being paralyzed by fear and dispair on the other.
In my opinion and experience nothing else comes close to the teachings of Buddhism to help burn those truths into the core of your being.
It's not what they say, it's how you (not) react to it.
And then most of those sane women divorce them and take half their stuff.
I would argue that it is an alternative in the sense that it offers private, anonymous payments too.
The details and tradeoffs differ, yes, but if you're someone concerned with not contributing to the surveillance machine, both would be good choices.
Highly recommend the podcast "New Discourses" to learn more about this.
Only if you believe it was ever about those things!
Nonsense.
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