People want to use XMR for fungibility, and they are willing to weather large confirmation numbers to do so. This shows you how desirable it is. It doesn’t matter if XMR were constantly getting deep block reorganizations, the inherent desirability of currency fungibility makes it superior as a currency and makes everyone simply adjust the number of confirmation times. This should have demonstrated to Bitcoin the urgent need for fungibility as a currency. This shows that people are willing to put up with a lot of problems to be able to use a fungible currency. If Bitcoin does not adopt fungibility on Monero’s model, it will continue to be a ghost town with no significant usage as currency.
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Let me put it this way: I have now used Monero for payments for more days than I have used Bitcoin. Number of times I have lost money because of a 51% attack on Monero: 0
Number of times in days past, when I used Bitcoin, where I or my partners lost money because a lack of Bitcoin fungibility? It’s in the thousands.
Bitcoin does have hashrate going for it, but that doesn’t make it a usable currency. It needs to be fungible to be adopted as a currency.