People often compare Bitcoin and Monero, but they were never built for the same purpose. Founding matters Bitcoin launched with no company, no foundation, no premine, no founders’ tax — a once-in-history monetary emergence. Monero began in 2014 as a fork of Bytecoin with a small core dev team guiding the roadmap. One is global money. The other is a privacy-tech project. Auditability matters Bitcoin’s supply is fully transparent and verifiable. Monero’s supply cannot be independently audited due to RingCT and hidden amounts. You can’t base a monetary standard on something you can’t verify. Hashrate & security matter Bitcoin: ~1.1 ZH/s (≈ 1.1×10²¹ hashes/s) Monero: ~3–4 GH/s (≈ 3–4×10⁹ hashes/s) A 300+ billion× security gap. And because Monero uses CPU mining, a government or a large enterprise with access to data-center-scale CPU fleets could realistically seize majority hashpower and influence the network. This is not theoretical — it’s built into RandomX’s design. Bitcoin is a global power grid — massive, redundant, impossible to capture. Monero is a large server room — valuable for niche use, but easily dominated by a powerful actor. That’s the real distinction: Bitcoin = global, auditable, corporation-free monetary base layer. Monero = privacy-focused cryptographic software vulnerable to concentrated compute power. Few.