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Bitcoin’s primary function as a p2p decentralized digital money, is to be money for all, anyone, anywhere at anytime. Everyone is equally important. No rulers, no slaves. So it may not offer the same range of features and capabilities as the shitcoins, which intentionally compromise elements of security, privacy, freedom, inclusiveness etc.
I quote, "The wastes no time trying to convince the fly, that honey is better that shit". End of quote.
How does Monero compromise privacy?
Pretty ironic. Bitcoin is public by default and only relatively weaker "privacy" (everything is still visible) via obfuscation even when you opt-in.
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Alright, so if I understand you correctly, you're saying "Bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency that does not compromise security, privacy, freedom, inclusiveness".
It is of course, certainly not. Bitcoin has a less secure mining algorithm than litecoin, for instance (SHA-256 vs scrypt), in the sense that scrypt makes it far more difficult for the network to be dominated by ASICs. It is therefore also more decentralized inherently, than bitcoin. More inclusive. Bitcoin as stated by Satoshi is governed by "1 cpu = 1 vote", but since its cheap to make specialized hardware, your computer cpu is not equal to theirs. Litecoin mitigates this. Therefore it is more inclusive.
Did you know that in June of this year, litecoin briefly overtook bitcoin as the dominant use of crypto transactions? https://bitpay.com/stats/#apexchartscryptoLineChart

Saying bitcoin or any of its forks compare in "security, privacy, freedom, inclusiveness" compared with Monero is absurd. Bitcoin is not anonymous (lightning is better, it is routed through the TOR network), and calling it pseudonymous is true but misleads about how anonymous you really are. The only way to make an anonymous, private, transaction through bitcoin is to make a new account, send the BTC to it, memorize the account private key, then meet in real life the person you wish to transact with, giving them the private key. Do you do this?
Node-traversals algorithms and metadata analysis make bitcoin barely pseudonymous.
Monero is anonymous. It is not designed to compete with bitcoin, the whitepaper it is based on specifically says it would be good if there were more options to bitcoin. It is anonymous, in short, because if I (Jonas) want to send you (Luke) a XMR, I generate a random personal key, (your public address is known to me of course), attach the intended receiver (your address) and the amount, and then that transaction is combined with many other XMR transactions, and the resulting "block" is hashed to create a public address. If you (Luke) want to know that someone has sent you money, you just use the public address and your private key, and then you can find transactions in "the ring" that go to you. Nobody without a private key of one of the receivers in the public address, nobody but the receivers, can learn anything about either YOU or ME.
Monero is also even more ASIC resistant than litecoin. Litecoin is resistant because it forces miners to use a lot of memory and not just processing power (memory is expensive for ASICs). Monero is exponentially harder to centralize by ASICS.
Yes, I'm a fly eating shit. I'm trying to learn what honey tastes like. So far, it tastes a little bit like cool-aid.. You should be aware that people like @DarthCoin have great incentive to fool you into a mentality of "US VS THEM". But is it something you benefit from? No. It makes you blind.
I'm understanding the mindset of your group better, so thank you.
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I quote, "The bee wastes no time trying to convince the fly, that honey is better that shit". End of quote.
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Don't worry, I understood what you meant. I'm never going to nitpick or strawman you. I'm trying to understand you, and now that I believe understand @DarthCoin, I'm intending to warn the community about the malevolent tactics used by demagogues, and intend to be fair because a tight-knit group (like maximalists) have many benefits. They're often more creative. But blindness is never a long term survival strategy.
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