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Ronin | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Because in practice currencies compete, and because people usually don't want to jump through layers with money, it introduces friction, if you save in BTC and i save in BTC, why would i want you to pay me in another coin like monero? It's a lot easier for everyone to use the same base currency.
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isolabell.art 🎨 | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 For privacy.
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SaberhagenTheNameless | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 What? Aren't layers literally all Bitcoiners talk about? 

You already do this with lightning, ecash, liquid, etc. Those all introduce friction.

My on-chain address doesnt work if you want to pay me with any of those.
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Ronin | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 True, that all of those add friction like I said, but all of them are compatible through LN, the layer swap is onchain to LN and there are many compatible tools for it, many LN wallets support onchain and LN, so you only need one wallet. With monero in theory, you would save in BTC, have some monero stack to spend or move to btc to save, and to spend, if people don't accept monero, you have to still swap for btc before spending.
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whoeverlovesDigit | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 No lol nothing forces me to give money to anyone

I don't even file taxes, let alone feel pressured to share with every wallet address I see
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whoeverlovesDigit | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 To be clear on what my last reply means: having BTC as your only payment method means you're probably not getting my money

If someone is wasting a lot of the money they receive on bitcoin transaction fees by having no other wallet address, they clearly have more than enough money & don't need mine
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SaberhagenTheNameless | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You still have to swap for the other so it's effectively the same thing. That's why things like boltz.exchange exist.

There are multi-coin wallets like Cake and Stack that support both Bitcoin and Monero. Still fail to see any real difference.