I started my account on March 30th this year. My reason for creating it was to help promote Monero. Last night while sleeping my account hit 1,000 followers. 🥳
Thank you to all of you who have followed me and helped my following grow. 🫡
@KimDotcom
It could very well go up in price a lot, but I don't like the lack of privacy. I don't like that anyone can look up how much you have as long as they know your address:
If that changes, then I will start using it.
@Vivek4real_
Seriously, how is Bitcoin ever going to become popular as a payment system with such high fees?
I've said it before and I will keep saying it: Move over to Monero already.
@cryptomanran
They know he has it though since the ledger is transparent. They will be able to see what he does with it.
That's why I prefer Monero (XMR). They can't stop you from using something that they don't know you have.
@TheBTCTherapist
Most Bitcoin maxis don't have a lot of Bitcoin. That's perhaps the main reason why they are so defensive about it and why they all hope that "it's still early".
The little Bitcoin that they have is their only hope.
@Irenezhao_
Good for you.
I got into BTC back in 2013/2014, and it's very sad to see what the whole crypto space has become.
The only crypto that I still like is Monero and the great community is a big reason for that.
However, I can't blame you for wanting to leave. Best of luck!
@thomas_fahrer
From my experience, the average bitcoiner is a latecomer who has a very poor understanding of everything related to both Bitcoin and crypto.
However, they seem to think that they understand both economics and BTC very well just because they listened to a few podcasts and Saylor.
@smeet_bhatt
@TheyaBitcoin
Unfortunately, Bitcoin doesn't offer privacy, lacks fungibility, has high fees, can't scale to handle many transactions, and the mining is very centralized.
Monero has fixed all of these flaws. Bitcoin was a great proof of concept though.
@NeilJacobs
Perhaps because it's so flawed?
Bitcoin offers no financial privacy, lacks fungibility, can't handle many transactions at the same time (small block size), has volatile fees, etc.
It's not a mystery if you would just start being honest about the limitations of Bitcoin.
@birdfIip
As someone who bought and started using Bitcoin back in 2013/2014, Monero is basically just the next/better version of it.
Monero (XMR) is what Bitcoin was supposed to be - private and decentralized digital cash and a Swiss bank account in your pocket.
It has fixed most, if
@Vivek4real_
I don't think they understand Bitcoin. There is no reason to fear it. The mining is centralized and the ledger is completely transparent, thus making it easy to surveil.
Monero is much more of a threat to the status quo.
@jimmysong
Imagine how many more would be into Bitcoin if it didn't have so many flaws, such as:
- The lack of fungibility (tainted coins)
- No financial privacy (transparent ledger)
- Volatile fees
- The network can't handle many transactions (small block size)
- Centralized mining
@hiddentao
Sorry this happened to you, but let this be a lesson for everyone else to:
1) Be quiet about their holdings.
2) Use a cryptocurrency with an opaque ledger like Monero.
PSA: this is garbage reporting.
The headline should be “if you purposefully connect to malicious 3rd party nodes to post your transactions on many occasions Chainanal can guess better who you might be out of 16 possible ring signatories”.
TLDR: use Monero if you need privacy.
@schmidt1024
Here are some things I don't like off the top of my head:
1) I don't like that timed spending lock (don't know what it's called).
2) Not very accessible. Let's hope
@HavenoDEX
and
@SeraiDEX
changes this.
3) Not enough places to spend it yet.
@TheBlueMatt
Meh, I've given up on Bitcoin a long time ago and moved on to Monero. Besides, there is no point in trying to fix BTC now when we have Monero.
I understand that's painful for bitcoiners to accept, but it's true.
@OrangeFren
It could be:
- Much lower transaction fees
- Faster confirmation times
- Privacy by default
- Fungibility which means no risk of tainted coins
@0xMert_
I recommend Monero (XMR) as well. It has great privacy, and will only get better soon with FCMP (see the image).
There is a reason why it's used on the darknet and in countries like Ukraine. Even Edward Snowden uses it.
As for VPN, I'm not sure if I'm the best person to give
@Nym749271
It's a bit annoying when bitcoiners say that there could be an inflation bug and that there is no way to verify the XMR supply.
I always point them to the following website:
I also like to point out that it's Bitcoin that has had inflation bugs:
@BitcoinMaxiHodl
This is one of the reasons why I refuse to use Bitcoin. It's incredibly risky, not to mention creepy, when anyone can look up how much money you have and how you spend it.
I will stick to Monero which protects me by ensuring financial privacy.
@Resist_CBDC
I like Monero. It's private, fungible, can scale (adaptive block size), low fees, and good long-term security thanks to tail emission.
Neither BTC or BCH has all of the above.
@HHorsley
I don't agree. I think people are overestimating Bitcoin. The tech is not that great, but the high price clouds people's thinking, especially when it goes up as that triggers people's greed.
But the fact is that it's very flawed:
- No financial privacy due to its transparent
@SimplyBitcoinTV
We will see how effective the ban is. After all, Bitcoin offers its users no privacy.
I don't think they will be able to do much to stop Monero however.
Just look at how they use Monero in Ukraine.
@AdamSimecka
@Bitfinexed
I think he is referring to the fact that Tether has been used to artificially inflate the price of Bitcoin for years.
Or did you actually think that $60,000 per BTC was due to real demand?
@a_greenberg
Remember everyone:
1) Only use Monero (XMR).
2) Never tell anyone you have crypto.
Doing just these two things will drastically lower the risk of you being attacked and robbed.
@MoneroMavrick
I get your point, but I wouldn't say 0 risk. Something could always go wrong on the development and implementation side of things. Or the project could be infiltrated and sabotaged. Not to mention that there is always a risk that you lose your seed phrase, etc.
Let's not get too
@JosefTetek
How do we separate money and state with Bitcoin though when it functions so poorly as money?
BTC can't really be used as money due to its high fees, lack of privacy, no fungibility, and the inability to scale to handle many transactions.
The Lightning network has been a
@satoshibaggins
Not true. Bitcoin has competitors and one of them is Monero.
Furthermore, Monero is now starting to beat Bitcoin in terms of usage. See images.
How will the Bitcoin network be secured when the block reward is almost at zero? There is no proof that fees will be enough. See this paper from Princeton University:
In Monero, we have solved this issue with the tail emission:
@bitcoininfo
Monero (XMR).
It has none of Bitcoin's flaws (no privacy, lack of fungibility, high fees, and the inability to scale).
I like using it both as digital cash and as a "Swiss bank account in my pocket".
@JosefTetek
How is Monero obviously dying when the transaction count is going up?
Keep in mind that the price has stayed relatively stable despite all of the delistings. How many other cryptos could have survived in a situation so adversarial? Could even Bitcoin do
@TheVladCostea
Something that I like to point out to Bitcoiners is that the wealthy, "big money" as you call it, likes Swiss bank accounts because of banking secrecy.
Bitcoin, however, provides little to no secrecy/privacy.
@stackhodler
Meh. Bitcoin is too disappointing these days. Still offers no privacy and fungibility, the fees are still high, and it still can't scale.
Not to mention that it has completely abandoned the goal of p2p cash. I prefer Monero for these reasons. I think it has a brighter future.
@TheVladCostea
They want the numbers to go up in BTC, so they want everyone to pour their money into it and not other cryptos.
I suspect that's at least one of the reasons behind this behaviour.
I guess they also just don't want to face up to the fact that there are other good cryptos.
@naiivememe
Monero (XMR).
It has fixed all of Bitcoin's flaws such as the lack of privacy, lack of fungibility, the high fees, and the inability to scale.
@PeterLBrandt
Historically the ATHs have occurred one year after the halving: 2013, 2017, and 2021. I'm not saying it will this time, but that has been the case with BTC.
I don't care any longer as I've moved on from BTC to Monero, but it will be interesting to see what happens.
@aibridigest
@Rothmus
Seems difficult.
Why not just make it easy rather than live the rest of your life in fear that they will find out it's your address?
@Cobratate
I prefer Monero (XMR). It has none of Bitcoin's flaws.
It has low fees, it can scale to handle many transactions, it's fungible, and it offers you financial privacy.
@pete_rizzo_
I got into Bitcoin back in 2013/2014 partly thanks to Andreas. As I've written before, you are lucky to have him.
Since then I've moved on to Monero and now prefer listening to Daniel Kim, but I will always be grateful to Andreas.
@schmidt1024
- Little to no access to it?
- Some kind of huge mistake/bug by the developers, perhaps when implementing a big upgrade?
- Or perhaps if the development side is taken over by malicious actors? A bit like what happened with BTC.
@EvaVlaar
@godblessBTCfilm
Monero (XMR) would be better.
Bitcoin is too flawed. The fees are too high, no financial privacy (transparent ledger), and the small block size prevents many people from using it at the same time.