If you accept small risk using instant exchangers, go on trocador.app (best used with tor browser on safest security setting, their onion address is on the website) and swapping from whatever coin you have like Bitcoin. Like another user suggested, Retoswap and Eigenwallet are two trustless/trust minimized options at the expense of convenience (always a worthy trade-off but don't let perfect be the enemy of good)
This is a great irony lost on all the new bitcoiners.
I'm 2010 class too, and pretty much everyone I know who's an O.G uses #monero
But all the new bitcoiners who think they've discovered humanity's deepest spiritual knowledge or something are all dogmatic and nearly universally immune to having their beliefs challenged by new information outside their dogma.
A lot of the times it's peer pressure too, I've seen this happen literally hundreds of times. The gait shifting, the awkward facial expressions, the looking around for approval, the default canned phrase of "no shitcoining bro".
I see through their bullshit so easily. Most of the early Bitcoiners do.
But like anything, there is now more of those types than there are of the OG types, and the original is dilluted away until no one remembers.
Bitcoin is a nice shiny rock that keeps adding purchasing power, which is great, that's why I save in Bitcoin, but are you free if you're rich and you can't spend money in peace without being tracked by everything and everyone?
And that is why I *use* #monero
Maybe it's beginning to be a good investment too, I don't know. In general I don't bother because historically all one has to do is look at the charts to realize the opportunity cost of holding anything that's not bitcoin.
And those newschool noobs who think they're the hot shit think that means the debate is over and " there is no second best".
Yeah bro, nice way od telegraphing to the world what you *really* care about (ngu).
You're greedy, because you don't have enough. In that sense, those guys are really not that different from real shitcoiners, hoping to peddle their scam to make a quick buck.
Sure sure time preference and all that, Bitcoin is probably over the crazy rapid x10's so you gotta be patient.
But let me ask you this: how many of the current crops of Bitcoiners would still use Bitcoin if all Bitcoin did from now on was to accompany inflation? or even worse, fail to keep up with inflation?
I would sell my entire stack right away, or at least progressively because then to me it's useless.
But #monero ?
Man what do I care if it would only match inflation or even lose purchasing power. It does what it does, and it does it well: private transactions.
Unless you're an idiot or you have a kink for dystopia, that will always have value. Instant private and anonymous transactions to anyone on the planet.
Doesn't get more cypherpunk than that.
