Both Bitcoin and NOSTR.

Folks who counter-signal Bitcoin, associate with its enemies, or promote scams that compete against it are NOT part of the movement. I don't care if it's for "muh 4d chess" or some nonsense excuse.

The beauty of NOSTR when it comes to user adoption and politics is that it replaces: 1. Narratives with Consensus 2. Sensationalism with value-for-value 3. Ideology with open dialogue 4. Fact-checking with community verification 5. Algorithms with user curation 6. Political polarization with political convergence People using NOSTR begin to act like rational political actors. This can ONLY be possible when the propagation of information and ideas are both decentralized and sovereign.

Institutional adoption, isn't going to somehow compromise the Bitcoin protocol. All it does is strengthen its purchasing power, and thus hashrate. Nodes are what matter when setting the rules and properties of Bitcoin. "Ah yes, but XMR being delisted everywhere and therefore becoming more difficult to adopt for regular people proves its a threat to fiat, somehow." You can keep believing that. I'll stick to the hard money that people are actually using, and that can still buy easily anywhere. The dollar will fall as Bitcoin rises, and Monero will go nowhere. Lightning also makes Monero's "privacy" obsolete.

I'm sorry, which coin is being sanctioned and delisted everywhere? Monero had 11 years to prove its game theory, but failed. Bitcoin had only a few years after its launch to prove the trial by fire, and passed again and again. And yes, a fair comparison on storage: $300 for 20TB today vs less than $50 for 2TB. Also I'm pretty sure smaller blocks will lead to less network bandwith; and mining power is a nonfactor for "centralization", since the nodes are what set the rules. Mining power only ensures it is more difficult to mine fraudulent blocks. Monero bros' fundamental cope on Bitcoin's privacy for adoption (assuming Bitcoin is somehow not private, which I doubt due to its pseudonymous system) is laughable when you consider that the current fiat system, having NO privacy, doesn't stop us from being able to buy most things in the economy today. What IS stagnating the economy is monetary inflation, NOT "lack of privacy". Even if Monero's dishonest assumptions about Bitcoin were true, this is the problem Monero fails to solve. Money should be HARD first. Even under Gold and Silver the merchant saw your face when transacting with you.

"How is 2% inflation every year a devaluation of the dollar"? Also, if you can't sustainably compensate miners enough for expending power to solve a block, then no one is gonna mine on your network. Perhaps that's why Bitcoin's hashrate has only increased exponentially while Monero's hash is currently a rounding error of Bitcoin's.

Nope, Monero's supply still grows infinitely, while Bitcoin is objectively hard-capped. I also practice self-custody on all my wallets, so all the problems you list don't apply to me. If you are someone who leaves your BTC on exchanges or custodial wallets, that's on you. And of course Monero's full blockchain will be less space than Bitcoin's, since Monero is younger. If Monero ever scales, watch as those big blocks make it impossible for anyone other than the government and corpos to run full nodes, from which they can change the rules of Monero as they please. It's not gonna matter how "private" it might be, Monero will be the next fiat. I'll stick to the hard-capped coin that is actually listed on exchanges, and is being adopted by Square, CashApp, Rumble, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Around the world, etc.

The fiat system is being absorbed into Bitcoin. Monero is not hard money (infinite supply), nor is it decentralized (larger blocks), and it is a fantastic way to get the government to track you moreso than if you were just stacking sats in a hardware wallet.

It is game theory. Gold will never come back since the technological limitations when scaled to billions are what brought us to fiat. Only a sound digital currency will be able to win against CBDCs. Either Bitcoin wins, or nothing else will ever win.

Bitcoin is the decentralization of financial authority. You'll still have a state, but it won't be able to print endlessly.