This is beyond fruitless so this will be my last response. Most real world transactions are done on monero. Sites that support both Monero and Bitcoin almost always see higher Monero volume, take NanoGPT for instance. Despite Bitcoins first mover advantage and network affect, its usage is extremely rare on the giant p2p markets that are darknet markets. There Monero is king and asking to use Bitcoin will get you accused of being a fed. Also go to xmrbazaar.com and tell me there's a marketplace like that for Bitcoin. Lightnings privacy varies from decent but very susceptible to network monitoring from state level adversaries due to its entire reliance on network level privacy (running your own node and opening channels) to completely trusted custodial solutions like Wallet of Satoshi, Strike and Cashapp. Those offer absolutely no privacy from the custodian and every state level adversary they are subject to. Crash has great privacy but suffers greatly in reliability and being entirely custodial thus increasingly centralized. Monero is more private than all the options above, both on chain privacy (Stealth addresses, RingCT, and ring signatures) and network level privacy (Dandelion++ for clearnet and Tor or i2p transaction proxying for anonymity networks) while being cheap to transact, faster than on-chain Bitcoin to settle, and vastly more decentralized both in culture and technological defaults. After digesting all this how possibly could you consider Bitcoin a superior money?

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Bitcoin and Monero are complimentary. Bitcoin is less threatening to TPTB and is therefore spearheading the normalization and adoption of magic internet money for transactions and store of value. Monero provides an alternative for private transactions and store of value. It also serves as a viable plan B in the event that Bitcoin becomes fully captured by TPTB. In the ideal future, Bitcoin will be the primary money for public companies/institutions and governments and Monero will be the primary money for private companies/institutions and individuals. image
Problem with this is that Monero is a better private store of value (not really its purpose anyway) AND certainly a better medium of exchange. As OFAC sanctions encroach upon non-KYC BTC UTXOs we'll see a squeeze of nonKYC Bitcoin and thus the adoption of Bitcoin will be bifurcated sharply between the regulated KYC UTXOs and the non-KYC "Tainted" coins. This is already happening with high AML risk coins like those in coinjoin, it's only getting worse.