I’m 100% a layman on this topic, but this makes sense to me. Probably why I’ve seen people say 1BTC = 1BTC and same could be said 1XMR = 1XMR if it’s just viewed as money.

For the other side of the argument, it’s very difficult for me to wrap my head around how someone could say something is more valuable just because the fiat (USD) price of it is more. The entire point is that the fiat system is literally shit. Plus even though the price of Bitcoin could be going up in USD, while that’s happening the dollar is getting weakened. So like … my brain just does twirls trying to grasp it