hahah that photo is so good 

 I very much enjoyed making it just say “nah” 🤣

It’s very versatile 

 When you have the truth, you have no fear. If you truly understand bitcoin you aren't afraid of Monero bros. They are just future bitcoiners.  

 Oh man, can’t wait for the monero bro response to that 😂🍿 

 lol. I like the ideas behind the project. But they are compromises that will doom their project.  

 What exactly are those compromises in your eyes? 

 I'm just recently learning they are walking amongst us.  

 It’s a weird thing with monero, some people identify as bitcoiners/bitcoin maximalists but then shill their pRiVacY coiN all over the place 

 Monero is a freedom tech 

 100% agree, but….

To play devil’s advocate,

I’ve heard of two scenarios that I was kind of like ok I think I get that. 

1.) mining shitcoins to buy nonkyc bitcoin 

2.) using monero itself to buy nonkyc bitcoin

Mind you, neither scenario involves actually HOLDING a shitcoin 😂 and I’ve never done either, but it made me think. 

Don’t come for me. 

 Totally yes. I am not denying there are niches for monero or other shitcoins. But bitcoin is relatively simple with potential to be a universal currency. Add even one shitcoin with its respective extra steps to the mix at scale, and ain’t nobody doing that shit 

 The real point is we’re in an era where we can buy bitcoin with cuckbucks, and anything that seems to distract people from this incredible opportunity, i meet with skepticism 

 😂😂😂 

 Of course 

 There are only two currencies I'm interested in:  bitcoin to whatever extent it works, and whatever else is optimal for the rest (I'd choose monero)

Bitcoin is optimal money, but a very suboptimal currency.  Flakes of gold were similarly untenable as a currency FWIW. 

 I assume you mean exchange rate volatility. It’s not bitcoin’s fault there are dumb fucks 10x leveraging fat stacks at every turn. Over time it should settle down. Definitely does not merit digital bimetalism imo 

 No I don't mean exchange rate volatility; I mean the costs of using bitcoin P2P (without a third party involved and all the metadata that creates) are too high for most transactions which are small.

Bimetalism may be exactly what we need.  One currency that acts as commodity money (scarcity heavy, SoV), and one other to act as credit money (settlement of debts, MoE).  I don't think we can have our cake and eat it too with a single asset.  For two schools of monetary theory, two sets of constraints & tradeoffs seems sensible 🤷‍♂️ 

Fiat Central-Bank Monopoly Money certainly ain't the answer 

 It's OK, when they figure out that nostr is about as private as bitcoin, I'm sure they'll make a centrally controlled, completely opaque communication protocol. 

 I’m having trouble decyphering the sass here ngl. It seems like you might be using nostr to bitch about nostr and bitcoin. If true that almost deserves a zap… of bitcoin… on nostr 

 monaros are so irritatingly superiond and so clearly trolling here

that's why i call them monaros, because they are dumb as the bogans of australia circa 1990 who were obsessed with this model of car

https://classicsforacause.com.au/holden-monaro-through-the-ages/

classic but so bogan 

 Shitcoins be everywhere  

 The shitcoin I hate most because it is the one able to scam not-totally retarded people like most inexpert, confused newbies 

 You use monero to pay mullvad, ivpn, njalla, 1984 hosting etc. fully anonymous, what is the problem. You can't do that with BTC. Use the tools wisely. 

 lightning network today works better then monero, I think it makes it totally obsolete.
But I understand other point of views, and that monero, as all things, can be used for good by well informed people.
This doesnt confute my prior statement: newbies are being scammed by monero shitcoiners thinking it has property that makes it usable in the long term and so it is valuable to hold. They will learn the hard way as other shitcoiners, they are not better then ethards for the "muh privacy" meme. 

 That's why everyone uses Lightning custodially. Because it works so darn well.

https://zapalytics.com 

 exactly 

 are they hanging out in global 

I never see monaro maxis 😂 

 I don’t think there is such a thing as a monero maxi. They all seem to consider themselves bitcoiners. Take @Ava (respect) and @50c5c98c (still muted/gfy) for example 

 Respect ✊ And, indeed there are Monero maxis. It's a thing, just not my thing.

Example:

https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/monero-maximalism-or-how-bitcoin-is-a-coin/ 

 TIL 😂 

 ;) 🤙