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Kanzan | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 No.

My monero stack is up an average of 250%
sure my BTC stack has done better.

but not so much Im upset about it.

monero stores value fine.
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mheinlen | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +4 
 Shouldn’t baseline be btc and against that metric you are losing purchasing power.
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Kanzan | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 no.

bitcoin price (and all commodity prices) are mostly measurement of speculative interest and shouldn't be baseline for anything.

obv theres more speculative interest in BTC.
that makes me LESS inclined to take it seriously, not more
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knicalvario | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The answer is actually “yes”