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I agree

Unfortunately there is no cap on Monero inflation, isn't it? Monero also lacks of network effect Bitcoin has.

Monero has a steeper learning curve than bitcoin and is not as user friendly

Yes, Monero has no hard so for the supply as Bitcoin. It had an emission curve with a tail emission following after that. But why isn't that a problem and more of a feature? Let me explain: Bitcoin has a long term security budget problem, while Monero has that part secured (thanks to the fixed block reward of 0.6 XMR), but the tradeoff is a asymptotically reducing inflation rate that's approaching 0%, but never reaches actual 0% inflation rate as Bitcoin does in the year 2140. Currently the inflation rates are basically the same for both (BTC 0.82% vs XMR 0.85%), but in the year 2140 BTC's will be 0%, while XMR's will be at ~0.43% per year. And the Austrian school of economics doesn't say, the supply of a currency has to be completely fixed. About the network effect: I tend to agree that Bitcoin's network effect is larger currently, but then again what exactly do you mean by that? Because BTC was first used on the darknet markets. That is basically what made it what it is today. XMR is the only currency that was able to displace BTC there. And basically every business that accepts BTC and XMR, that publishes it's usage statistics, shows that Monero rivals Bitcoin's use, even though Bitcoin's network effect is much, much greater. As an example: https://nano-gpt.com/blog/november-2025-payment-stats https://xcancel.com/alexis_roussel/status/1988697421581594928 https://xcancel.com/OrangeFren/status/1995450935175197000 https://xcancel.com/shopinbit/status/1978715781744472132

Fortunately Monero has a very decreasing % tail emission which ensures nearly free transactions in perpetuity instead of Bitcoins ever worsening fee market. Monero's network effect is stronger on p2p markets like on the Darknet and Retoswap and Bisq. It does higher volume than Bitcoin on sites like Nano-GPT and similar numbers on CoinCards despite its Bitcoin focus.

Download cake wallet, then the UX is identical to Bitcoin. You write down your seed then you recieve to your address and send to others addresses. You don't even need to worry about UTXO management you just send and recieve.

But monero isn't the best money in the world and money is a winner take all game.

We'll see what the next 10 years bring ;)

I agree... Lightning works well for me, for more privacy now, Fedimints and Liquid are new things I am exploring. Openess on chain, and L2-3 solutions for scaling and privacy appear to be the way forward. Finally seeing folks in my small town starting to explore Bitcoin, but never met a known Monero bro, even when I lived in a city of 1.6 million. Have never seen a need for it or a use case that bitcoin doean't cover better or someone(s) in bitcoin space are working to cover. 😊

Yeah I never met a monero bro IRL either. Liquid looks promising but time will tell how that plays out. Another problem with monero is that it doesn’t scale. There are so many flaws but they don’t care to take that into consideration.

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