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utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 | 6 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Primary objective is to be sovereign. Which includes running the node I choose.

I know how to use Bitcoin privately when I need to, it's truly not hard. Sometimes I zap in public, sometimes I buy in private, it's my choice
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m4dire0701 | 6 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 How can you be "sovereign" if you value your BTCs based on fiat speculations, like most hodlers do?
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utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 | 6 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 Does Monero not have a market price? I fail to see how this applies to Bitcoin but not monero 

Do Monero users not make purchases based on the current exchange rate?

Are you asserting that if you participate in the market you are therefore not sovereign?

But to answer your question directly, I am sovereign because I hold my own keys and I broadcast my own transactions and I audit the supply of coins without any third parties, using node software I've selected. If Bitcoin core updates to a new version tomorrow and I don't like it, I am not forced to use it
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Kanzan | 6 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 It doesn't apply because Monero bros primarily value *their ability to freely exchange*

not the fiat denominated "value"

you know, a p2p electronic cash system anyone can use.
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Kanzan | 6 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Yet somehow he keeps coming back to fiat price valuation as a counterargument...

seems inconsistent.