If you really think monero has better privacy than bitcoin, then bring it to bitcoin. Bitcoin is changing how finance, energy, and power works - monero isn't. So time spent in monero that could have been spent in bitcoin is a disservice to humanity. Figure out what change is needed, fork if necessary, then watch as nodes choose to run your improvement. Then we all win.
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The fork happened in 2014.
Bitcoin will only be forked one more time and it will be a hostile takeover by BlackRock and friends.
Enjoy your minority fork while Monero. Thanks to its CPU/ p2p pool mining it is much more resistant to such hostile takeovers than BTC.
That right there is actually the biggest reason I haven't touched monero - the defeatist attitude of monerajs. Also that word... weird. You're so sure bitcoin will disappoint that you don't try. Your defeatism is a self fulfilling prophesy. You could use your criticisms to make bitcoin better. At least attack it... But instead you divert into something that doesn't matter. Monero doesn't matter. You've chosen not to play the game. Build bitcoin or attack bitcoin - just stop pretending you're doing something when you're really not.
Adam Back initally joined Bitcoin with the goal to make it more private. He added confidential transactions to the liquid side chain, hoping it would encourage majnnet adoption. This has not happened. The majority of Bitcoiners don't care about privacy. They won't endorse or adopt any privacy solutions on the base layer. When Developers like Samourai and TDev try to use Client side solutions to improve privacy, they get nothing but hate from Bitcoin Core and are eventually arrested pending trial by the US Government.
Core devs were hating on whirlpool?
Liquid will be huge. People don't use it right now because it's intimidating. Liquid is perfect for trading securities. What Wall Street wants is to trade stocks the way Cryptos trade - but without the Cryptos. No brokerage overhead/infrastructure - just software, secure and auditable, and automatic execution of puts and calls. Currently bitcoin's version of bonds are traded on liquid - trading chunks of future hash, which miners can sell ahead of time the same way farmers sell their crops via futures. So its like, hash futures with a coupon rate. That's the basis of the future credit market and it already exists on liquid. The next step is corporate stock.
So... Liquid is a really really really big deal. Its kinda crazy to me that anyone would criticize it.
I wish. That's never going to happen with current Bitcoin community that is allergic to any changes and wishes for Bitcoin to ossify.
