Thread

Message to the Monero community I will never tire of saying the same thing. We Bitcoiners don't go to your community to say that Bitcoin is better, even if you criticize it. Don't keep doing this, you're just causing annoyance and rejection. I don't think it's wrong for you to use Monero, but I don't want to use it. Since you cause this tremendous rejection due to your marketing strategy, you also cause me to frequently criticize Monero when I really don't give a shit about it. As I said, I don't want anyone from Monero to switch to Bitcoin. If you weren't such an annoying community, I would surely sell Monero for what it is, a privacy tool that can be useful, but since you are so annoying, I refuse to sell your shitcoin.

Replies (26)

the reason this keeps happening is because people like you keep ignoring the obvious, monero is a superior privacy tool, like bitcoin is a superior savings/anti inflation technology vastly more secure (hashrate) and with a much bigger community/network effect. any monero guy denies such things, the others slap some sense into him. but it's not the same with bitcoiners, is it? and by the way, here's one for you to consider: there is no "we bitcoiners", you are making a categorical mistake. 99.9% of monero users are bitcoiners too, but they're more honest and rational, which is how they ended up in #monero but most bitcoiners are not monero users. it used to be different in the beginning, as most of us actually USED bitcoin and realized how privacy and anonymity-deficient it is. so naturally we recognized monero for what it was when it came out. simply put: if you're in this for freedom and privacy, there is no way monero is not part of your arsenal. there is MASSIVE cognitive dissonance with most bitcoiners, because they turned bitcoin into a fucking football club or religion type of deal. it's just a tool. and as a tool it sucks for privacy, sorry. so we have monero, that's great FOR US ALL. thank you for your attention to this matter!
↩ replying to Nomad
I am really bad at reading sarcasm. I think this is that, right? But yeah I do know EOS it had good marketing or more like a "charismatic" sales person for clueless folks like myself coming getting curious about crypto I'm 2017/18. I still have it from back then. I think I bought $200 worth of it, it been 99.99% gone for a long time. Is it still alive?
🛡️
↩ replying to Diyana
Not really sarcasm actually. We all rightly joke about shitcoins today, but back then (2016?) early “altcoins” were mostly legitimate projects usually with some novel use case and that many of us thought would be successful, maybe even more successful than bitcoin. They were newer and “better”. EOS was super fast. I thought it would catch on. Only the people in early made much money though, and people began launching coins with a clever sounding use case just to pull people in but without really intending to be viable long term. They got labeled shitcoins. Many didn’t even try to sound clever, they just pumped and dumped as fast as possible. Now we see that they were all shitcoins and only bitcoin matters. But it was quite a learning curve for us that went through it. The bitcoin whales today are the ones who didn’t get distracted by all this.
You wanted more diversity... That means you can't say #nostr is only for the Bitcoin community or belongs to bitcoiners. It makes sense that there are monero folks in here and they might have such reaction being how Bitcoin saturated is this protocol.