Monero is a fork (copy with mods) of bitcoin. It is privacy focused so if that is your main and only goal, it may better for that use case. For everything else related to money, I would say bitcoin is your better choice.
Nostr is related to bitcoin in that most staunchly principled bitcoiners left traditional social media to come to nostr which is built permissionless, censorship resistant and decentralized which aligns with Bitcoin ethos. Finally, it has integrated bitcoin payments. People can zap my notes, comments, and profile. Aka they can instantly send me sats (small fractions of a bitcoin) to tip me for a good comments, funny meme, buying merch, or whatever else that might require a person to send another person money in a social setting over the internet.
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For fucks sake
Monero is NOT a fork or a copy of Bitcoin
Also, it may be worth clearing up for you. Crypto is a scam, bitcoin is the hardest money on earth. While bitcoin is the original crypto, that name has been tainted by shitcoins. Bitcoin is money and everything else is crypto (play tokens like you say). Bitcoin is far more than blockchain. In fact that may be the most inconsequential part of bitcoin. Its sort of like saying the internet is Google. Yes thats a website and is an important part of the internet. But it certainly isn't the main point nor the primary innovation.
Continue down the rabbit hole and ask questions.
Sorry I thought it was a fork. Please educate me. I honestly dont know much about Monero. I have no hate for it, I just dont use it myself.
I honestly haven't ever been following the "Crypto scene" very closely. I heard about Bitcoin in 2009 though when a friend started mining (he'd be a millionaire had he continued). I was under the impression that all coins are more or less the same technologically, and that the difference in value is difference of adoption more than difference in design.
Is not the tech (blockchain?) the cause of the "more consequential" parts of Bitcoin? By which I guess you mean being resistant to control, censorship etc?
FYI Monero is not a fork of Bitcoin. Heavily inspired of course, but not technically a fork. Monero was based on an entirely different protocol called CryptoNote and they don't share the same genesis block either.
Thanks for the correction! Curious, when was cryptonote and what was sorta the backstory on that?
