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gsovereignty | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +4 
 Monero is orders of magnitude less menacing to central bankers than Bitcoin. 

Central bankers care about control of humanity's resources and productivity on a global scale, they don't care about a few nerds hiding under the floorboards. 

The reason Binance delisted it has nothing to do with central banks. 

Regulatory risk almost certainly factored in, but they delisted it because the trading volumes are too low to justify the overhead. 

It's not like an erc20 shitcoin where you get all the security and infrastructure for free because it's set up for 20,000 other shitcoins already.
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rafael_xmr | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +5 
 > trading volume is too low
also binance: 
> withdraws suspended every other week because we do not have enough Monero for everyone (https://moneroj.net/withdrawals/)

They delisted it because they wanted monitorable transparent addresses, and coins like ZCash avoided this by releasing a "super transparent address" in order to stay compliant, while Monero has and will always have unlinkable stealth addresses for all transactions by default.
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brito | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 Basically this. Monero was always in high demand, as seen everywhere on the Internet with this announcement.

We'll keep buying, just moving our business elsewhere.

Don't really care. Just bought a few more monero on sale price.
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JohnBennson | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 lol

I remember in 2010 when Goldbugs told me the exact same thing you just said when I promoted Bitcoin on their forums.
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SparkCrz | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Bitcoin as implemented today is not a menace because it can't replace fiat.
The remaining dev team all work for blockstream and they kicked the main dev that didn't (Gavin).
And blockstream works for DCG, which is owned by the FED, mastercard and blackrock. DCG also owns Bitfinex (Tether) for price manipulation, owns Lightning Labs as a fake competition to blockstream, owns Foundry USA which is the largest pool and requires KYC.
BTC is not a menace because it has been captured.
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Agustins Carstens | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
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