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Yeah, but it does have utility. You don’t have to believe USD is the ultimate end game solution to make use of it for a moment to buy some groceries. Same with monero.
There are very few Monero maxis like there are Bitcoin maxis. Usually they're pragmatic and honest about the trade-offs. Unlike Bitcoin Maxis.
The fantastic thing about the Monero community is that they all have the same goal which is freedom and privacy. Bitcoin is mostly about 100k, NGU, state partnerships, love hedge investors and banks
And at the end they will pay the price for that, unfortunately. I really saw many many Bitcoiners move to Monero or they accept them both now as important tools. It's never good to be closed minded and build anger and walls around something like Cryptos. You should build that walls around your privacy and freedom and don't put them in the game which is hard to win with something like Bitcoin in the current state.
Yeah I don't really understand why the two camps don't like each other honestly, sure you will focus on one more than the other but ultimately they both have a similar idea in mind and a similar goal of being used to free people monetarily. I don't hate BTC or XMR I find maximalism to be similar political zealots who make their entire personality their political views. I like both. I'll use both. If you love BTC cool, If you love XMR cool. If you hate both also cool, it's your money to do with what you want.
With that being said I think everyone has been a bit of zealot at times. I have and I regret it honestly.
Mainvolume has not! Let alone me. 🥋
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Yeah, I think that's accurate. I get on these threads and get autistic because I think it's about critical thinking in the end. Critical thinking and preparing for adversarial situations is how we got here. If you approach it like a religion, it's all about Bitcoin, Bitcoin is inevitable, perfect and infallible and everything else is garbage then you give up that critical thinking which is necessary for freedom. That attitude to be the biggest threat to regaining the freedom we lost to the fiat system. iow bitcoin maximalism is an attack on Bitcoin.
I can tell you why. Privacy is against mass adoption is against hedge fonds and banks. This are two different fronts. Ppl want to see 100k and are against everything that can stop the course. No smart hedge fond manager or CEO from a bank will invest millions USD in a asset which can maybe bring some troubles or uncertainty because if regulations. Can you use Bitcoin in a private way? Absolutely but you have to do a lot of homework. You have to learn the UTXO concept, have to learn how to use Lightning with best privacy practices which is not easy and so on. Don't trust some dudes or devs with their opinions, the most of them want to make money, they jump on the train to 100k. When it comes to Bitcoin projects you have to do a lot of research, who is behind projects, why they are doing it, who are the investors etc. You could write a book about it 😂 nostr:nevent1qqsrenx4ry8q3rcgcj2xjpag7ffemldqak97nxay5a408x056u56h6cpzamhxue69uhhsmtj9e6hxetwdaehgu3wdaexwtczyzl5r0kv3qc7wv2an2vls0c3dyyejczlhdv5ws357zg6v9snm3vezqcyqqqqqqgejmu2t
Monero side really doesn't care about BTC until the maxis larp about having "freedom". That is when you sound the horn of war. Many of us were early bitcoin adopters, it is just awful to see how bitcoin today goes against the monetary freedom that a cryptocurrency should bring. It isn't about monero as a religion that is the "right choice", it is about the tools that deliver privacy and freedom to safeguard your economic choices. The moment potentially better options arrive, they should be tested and considered. Heck, each one here should be doing their best to push forward better tech for the sake of our common future.