Monero frens skip over the key distinction: using cryptography for ownership and transactions is not the same as using cryptography to prove supply correctness. One is basic to any digital money; the other introduces deeper, harder-to-audit assumptions. Instead of engaging that structural difference, they drift into No True Scotsman moves and motte-and-bailey pivots that recast a technical point as an identity argument.

Monero frens dodge the technical trade-offs by shifting from protocol facts to identity games. They lean on no true Scotsman, motte-and-bailey, and mild strawmen — reframing disagreement as a lack of “enlightenment” instead of engaging auditability vs privacy. It’s more posturing than argument. View quoted note →

The key difference is verifiability: Bitcoin’s supply and transactions are fully transparent and trivially auditable by anyone, while Monero deliberately sacrifices global auditability to achieve strong on-chain privacy, requiring users to trust cryptographic assumptions rather than simple inspection. As a result, Bitcoin is generally considered superior as base-layer money, while Monero excels as private transactional cash. It's just a matter of unavoidable trade-off between supply-auditability and on-chain privacy. View quoted note →

There’s an important difference in degree, not in whether something happens. Both masturbation and partnered sex increase heart rate, blood pressure, and blood circulation — but not to the same extent. Masturbation is quick and mostly uses the hand, so the physical load is low. Partnered sex typically engages larger muscle groups, lasts longer, and involves full-body movement. Because of this, the cardiovascular response is significantly stronger, and many people feel a much bigger physical and mental boost afterward. With the right partner, regular good sex is transformative because it combines stronger physical exertion with emotional and hormonal effects that masturbation doesn’t replicate. As Woody Allen famously put it: > “Sex is only dirty if you do it right.” View quoted note →