Understand one thing: true bitcoiners moved to Monero years ago.
There is a reason why they are true, they were looking for cryptocurrency that gives you, and everyone financial freedom. This freedom does not exist without privacy, since otherwise you will be persecuted as seen recently with the btc donations in Canada.
I'm talking as someone who mined bitcoin back in 2009. It was never about the money going up, it is about cryptocurrency. You know, the crypto part of it means "hidden", "private". Please learn the difference, it might save your life one day when the world suddenly changes and you finally understand why privacy matters.
I understand that privacy is important but bitcoin is so much more than a tool for privacy. It’s Austrian economics in action.
Sure. Keep repeating that to yourself as they come knocking on your door.
Then you'll understand that without privacy there is no freedom in modern times.
Is gold no tool for Austrian economics? And if it is, how is Monero with half of golds inflation no tool for Austrian economics, while thanks to its fungibility and portability it's also a better medium of exchange than Bitcoin or gold?
You know that tail emission is not something Monero devs came up with because they think inflation is super cool and necessary for money to work? You know that, right?
Monero devs figured that fee markets are a novel concept that have never been tried before and therefore from a conservative engineering perspective introduce future security risks. Tail emission is a trade off between chain security (mining incentives) and the economic costs of inflation (hidden tax).
From an economic perspective it's more important to know the supply of Monero at any point in the future. Which is a given.
I dont understand why you talk badly about inflation like monero would be Zimbabwe 2.0 when Ethereum or Solana exists.
You also talk about gold inflation and saying Monero is half of it. So are you saying gold is hidden taxed ? Yes there's inflation but a very low cost to keep people incentivized to mine.
The more Bitcoin halves, more there's miner capitulations and now there's also speculators who can spike fees to more than 100$ for a single transaction.
I do think Monero's little inflation is a feature.
No they didn't, Satoshi invented Bitcoin, not Monero.
We moved to Monero. Same as most of the underground years ago.
If you didn't understood nor mined bitcoin 10 years ago, the probability is that you still don't understand nor mine monero now.
Ask yourself why western governments are forbidding monero to be listed on exchanges, and at the same time are buying/promoting that fedcoin.
Really, just ask yourself.
You move to underground for transactions, but as till keep bitcoin. Got it.
Do a self-reflection on this topic. Think deeper.
Why is a specific coin being censored hard by governments while the same governments support other coins.
Think.
Perhaps you can DM me a few pointers and I can review it?
We wouldn't know for sure if Satoshi did. They were both nyms. But it's definitely plausible.
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Likelihood of a common identity can probably be ascertained through stylometry & other methods of behavioral analysis— I'd be surprised if it hasn't been done already, to be frank
hal finney wrote both the bitcoin whitepaper and the cryptonote whitepaper. they'll prove it someday when they remove him from the freezer.
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