Oddbean new post about login | logout What's the most underrated feature of Monero that you think more people should be talking about?
The tail emission? I don’t know if it’s an underrated feature but it’s certainly one that the #Bitcoin maxis see as a con versus the fixed supply of #BTC. So it is certainly one that is misunderstood.
the fact that it requires reliance on cryptographic proof just to audit it's supply. Lack of transparency, lack of direct verifyability.
Cryptohraphic proof is math, the same type of math that protects your coins from being stolen. If you do not trust Monero math to audit the supply, you should not trust Bitcoin math to keep your coins secure.
This response is reductionist. It's like saying "a gun is a gun, so when you hike in the country just carry a 22 with you. Shooting a bear is shooting a bear, right? No, not right. Math is not just math. Not all cryptographic functions are equal. Bitcoin keeps the coins secure in a number of ways. Being able to transparently audit the ledger is a powerful tool. It's a tradeoff for privacy of course, but that tradeoff was intensely debated in the early days. There are other things that get compromised by mixing cryptography into the transaction's inputs and outputs, it's more than just auditability you sacrifice for your privacy.
It's private by default. But most people don't realize that this feature is very important.
I suggest "Bulletproofs++".
Dynamic block size
Anyone can setup and run a full node relatively easily.
I don't know about that. I have been syncing my node for two weeks and it's not fully synced
Tail emission