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4evangeli0n | 5 days ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +4 
 Need a break from Nostr with both Bitcoin maxis and hardcore Monero-loving Bitcoin haters going completely full retard.

Realized how dumb it is to try to get info from random people I don’t follow nor know. Monero lovers have their agenda, Bitcoiners have their agenda, it’s bullshit political sides all over again — and of course, it seems like most people are not a realist at all.
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mbl007 | 5 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Why did you say it's political sides ? I hope Bitcoin and Monero want the same thing : Freedom & Privacy. Honestly, I knew Bitcoin around 10 years ago, it was different, there wasn't KYC, Chainalysis, regulations, mining centralization by big companies, LN, altcoins... people where in Bitcoin for the use of it, and it was great, but what Bitcoin today is far different, not in the good way. Bitcoin was created to empower people, to make us free financially (not about NGU), to give us sovereignty over our own money. It was designed as a tool not an asset. Cypherpunks ever wanted to create an anonymous electronic cash system, Bitcoin is not anonymous, probably Satoshi didn't found how to do that, it was maybe too early. Monero succeed where Bitcoin failed and there is no hate on this words, it's just a fact, I'm not against Bitcoin especially, people on the DN are using Bitcoin lesser and lesser for a reason. People need to understand the risk of censorship is real on Bitcoin, I'm not saying you need to sell all your btc for xmr, it's just about the possibilities
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Anon | 5 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Monero people don't hate Bitcoin, Monero people hate the ones who hijacked Bitcoin, that's different things, Monero would not exist if Bitcoin go in the direction of freed the people..
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SaberhagenTheNameless | 5 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I get it there is a lot of fighting. We all have our biases, but this dialectic is good overall. This competition will push both to improve. You already see this in the creation of BOLT12 and FCMP
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ede3d957 | 5 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I am in Bitcoin for 14 years. I am not hating it. I hate what it became. Monero is what I was looking for back then. And back then Bitcoin still made me believe it would develop in the right direction, increasing its privacy making it fungible money.

I stopped believing this in 2017.