XMR

CeliaExceptional

ETH (DeFi), XMR (Privacy), and A (Web 3 finance)

ArticMine

> Non of them have solved it, otherwise they’d be the next BTC Not true. Monero solved it with its tail emission of 0.6 XMR in perpetuity. This was a very deliberate design decision. Dogecoin stumbled upon the solution because of a bug in its code.

ArticMine

My average cost of XMR in terms of BTC is actually below the current market price of 0.002784 BTC, so I am actually ahead that if I had stayed in BTC. There are exceptions to the adage that BTC outperforms alts over a decade, as painful as this may sound to the Bitcoin maximalists, and my experience with Monero is one of them. I am at heart a fundamental investor that prefers value over the latest hype in the style of Warren Buffet. If fact I consider myself to be more bearish on Bitcion than Warren Buffet, because I have studied cryptocurrency for well over a decade, understand its use case, and why in my opinion Bitcoin has very serious fundamental problems.

Efficient_Phase1313

This cycle will be the dinocoin/currency coin/suit coin cycle. All the stuff that missed out on crazy breakthroughs last time. 2021 was the utility coin cycle, this will be the currency coin cycle. LTC, BCH, XRP, XLM, XMR, XNO, etc all look ready to explode. Suit coins like algo, hbar, sui should also do well. L1s (dot, atom), non eth chains (AVAX, FTM, SOL etc) look less good for major moves.

flarept1

Literally every crypto apart from BTC and maybe XMR is constantly shat on. " ETH - premine scam, piece of shit price action, why did they go POS, fees too high Solana - shit coin casino, goes down more often than my wife, billion unlocks Cardano - Charles hoskison is a moron, ghost chain, savior of Africa lmao Xrp - centralized scam, same as banks, escrow unlocks millions of xrp every month to go dump on holders. Antithesis of crypto. Litecoin - lmao Charlie Lee dumped on everyone and left, trash price action Chain link - token not even needed Bnb - centralized ASF, all CEX coins are a scam TRX - scam central, all used to launder illegal casino earnings. Justin sun is a scammer and a con artist. Doge - literally does nothing, oldest meme coin, founder left the project Xlm - same as XRP but with fancier words. Lots of promised and nothing delivered SUI - ghost chain propped up by VC Bitcoin cash - lol " I can keep going. People will ignore everything once the price action is good. Most cryptos are a total scam and worth nothing even close to current evaluations. Doesn't mean they won't go up.

FYATWB

> I am solidly in the bear camp, having sold my BTC for XMR over this issue. Over 99% of my sales were in 2014 and 2015. Wasn't BTC like less than $1000 per coin back then? You abandoned 100000% profit because of a distribution curve "flaw" that wouldn't matter for 15+ years? There are hundreds of thousands of BTC bridged to other chains and generating way more than TX fees on defi yield platforms, the fee/distribution "problem" seems entirely irrelevant. There are people out there who dismissed BTC as worthless "going to zero", and missed out because of it, but your situation is much worse. You actually bought BTC when it was cheap and had a chance to be set for life, then traded it away because you saw a "flaw" that never mattered.

ArticMine

This was and still is the reason for Monero's tail emission of 0.6 XMR per 2 min block. It was a very deliberate act of the first Monero core team in 2014. The Monero core team was dominated by Bitcoin miners who wanted to get paid. The Monero tail emission is roughly equivalent to stopping the Bitcoin halving at the current rate of 3.125 BTC per block. As for most of the other alts they will also die as canaries in the Bitcoin mine. Starting of course with Bitcoin Cash. an analysis of the Monero fee market shows that increasing the blocksize will cause the fee in reward to fall. This completely debunks the big blocker theory of solving the Bitcoin security problem by mass adoption. Here is some food for thought. Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Monero Fee in Reward historical chart https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/fee_to_reward-btc-bch-xmr.html#log&alltime Notice that the current highest fee in reward among the three is Monero, and the Monero fee market predicts that it will fall with the adoption of Monero. I am solidly in the bear camp, having sold my BTC for XMR over this issue. Over 99% of my sales were in 2014 and 2015.

frozengrandmatetris

jamesson lopp has submitted a BIP to deal with quantum resistance. the things that need to happen will be extremely uncomfortable for the community but they need to happen anyway. I think ETH and SOL will achieve a good level of quantum resistance first, LTC and XMR will achieve this some time after, and BTC may only get it as late as possible with a huge amount of drama and bikeshedding.

zmooner

it's a risk, everybody should sell their XMR immediately at whatever price.... so they can be bought by those who know....

GaRGa77

Government hates XMR

biba8163

You still haven't got a clue do you? > *"ETFs, MSTR, etc account for a lot of the inflows. This money is not going to leave BTC seeking greater return on Alts"* > **I argue that the ETFs don't change the price at all.** We have seen it for enough months: no price increase the days the ETFs have big inflows (BTC as well as ETH). /u/barthib https://np.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/1gq6ahm/daily_general_discussion_november_13_2024/lwymxl9/ > *"Long term Ethereum is overvalued and has to fall below 0.01 BTC where it started because it is an Alt and every single Alt has followed that rule"* > *"Looking back at all most successful Alts:*" > - *"LTC started at 0.03 BTC in early 2013. It pumped and dumped and currently sits at 0.001*" > - *"XRP started at 5594 sats in 2013. It pumped and dumped and currently sits at 959 sats*" > - *"XMR started at 0.003 in 2014. It pumped and dumped and currently sits at 0.003*" > - *"ETH started at 0.01 in 2015. It's pumped to 0.15 and dumped to a current value of 0.04 which is still 4X higher than its initial value*" > **Oops, a kid escaped from the Bitcoin brainwashing school** /u/barthib https://np.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/1f9ef5k/comment/llmkgtm/

DescriptorTablesx86

$KTA cause it’s an actually interesting L1 project aimed at retail XMR Cause even with darknet markets struggling, it proved itself to be the safest currency in the world HBAR for similar reasons to KTA

Illustrious_Bunch443

Kind of but. So let’s try and break this down. You’re doing some sort of illegal activity. You meet in a private location and keep identity obscured. The other party offers to transact in either fiat or bitcoin. Let’s say you choose to interact with BTC. The transaction, both wallet addresses are timestamped. For as long as that transaction is visible you have created a paper trail. Now if your doing this as a one off maybe not the biggest deal in the word but if you are conducting this at any type of scale and utilizing BTC you are creating a massive 👣. There are ways to make this work. But, it would require XMR and if you plan on utilizing this income stream relatively effortlessly some way to circumvent KYC. Or you can exchange cash which is a piece of paper that has been used in illicit transactions and dark rooms since the beginning.

5p1tf1r3

I'm betting on XMR, DOT, DYDX and DELIFM. As usual, nfa and dyor.

EndSmugnorance

XMR Price action probably won’t move, but at least you won’t lose your money.

DicksFried4Harambe

XMR because it’s for the people

zesushv

Very true. It's amazing how projects with utilities like XMR, Chainlink, Zetachain and more struggle to break into the cryptocurrency top 10 by marketcap yet memecoins like DOGE sit comfortably in the top 8 with no challenger on sight, yet the broader community continues to ignore the relevance of memecoins; many till today regret missed opportunities with bitcoin and are waiting for Satoshi to build another trend and tech marvel like btc for them to buy at their convenience.

RefrigeratorLow1259

| Rank | Chain | Nakamoto Coeff. | Governance | Validator / Miner Model | |------|------------------|------------------|-----------------------|----------------------------------------| | 1 | Ethereum (ETH) | 25–30 | EIP + social consensus | 1.1M+ validators (many independent) | | 2 | Bitcoin (BTC) | 4–5 | BIPs, informal | ~6 major mining pools dominate | | 3 | Cardano (ADA) | ~22 | On-chain (Voltaire) | ~3,000+ stake pools with delegation | | 4 | Monero (XMR) | ~3–4 | Dev team consensus | PoW miners (RandomX, anti-ASIC) | | 5 | Cosmos (ATOM) | ~8–10 | On-chain | ~180 validators | | 6 | Polkadot (DOT) | ~10–14 | On-chain referenda | ~400 validators (skewed by nominators) | | 7 | Avalanche (AVAX) | ~8–12 | Limited on-chain input | ~1,500 validators (hardware intensive) | | 8 | Near Protocol | ~8–10 | On-chain | ~200 validators | | 9 | Solana (SOL) | ~19–21 | GitHub-led | ~2,400 validators (high hardware bar) | | 10 | Algorand (ALGO) | ~5 | Foundation-led | ~120 permissioned relay nodes | | 11 | Ripple (XRP) | ~4–5 | Corporate-led | ~150 UNL nodes (Ripple controls list) | | 12 | Hyperliquid | 1–2 | None (centralized) | 21 sequencers, fully permissioned |

malte_brigge

>XMR (Monero) Yikes. Replace with Zcash.

whitedezign

Ill explain it like a dad to his daughter or son (: 👦 Imagine this: You have different kinds of magic coins in your toy box. Each one does something different: 🟡 Bitcoin Think of it like gold but on the internet. You don’t use gold to buy candy—you just save it because it’s super rare and valuable. That’s how many people see Bitcoin: not something to spend, but something to keep safe and hope it becomes worth more. 🕵️‍♂️ XMR (Monero) This is a secret coin. If you give it to someone, no one else can see or track it. It’s for people who want their trades to stay private—like a whisper between two people. 🛒 ETH (Ethereum) This one is more like tokens at an arcade. You can use it to play games, buy things, or run cool stuff on the internet. 🎲 Solana (and other small coins) These are like mystery toys. Some people play with them hoping they become super valuable fast (“pump”). But many times, they break or disappear (“shitcoins”), so it’s more like a risky game. 🧺 So overall: There are many coins in the crypto world. Each one is good for something different: • Bitcoin = treasure you keep • XMR = secret coin • ETH = useful for building and buying • Solana = fun but risky

ElephantEarTag

I would start looking at Bitcoin as a store of value rather than a peer-to-peer decentralized currency. Its limited supply makes it incredibly valuable. But there is something for everyone. If you want a peer-to-peer privacy coin that will not be tracked, there is XMR. If you just want to buy things online, there's ETH. If you want to pump and shitcoins, there's a whole world for that inside of Solana. There's plenty of variety in the cryptocurrency world. But bitcoins main purpose is now a store of value.

joekercom

Very few are. BTC, ETH are the most decentralized. BTC has about 1 million active miners ETH has over a 1 million validators with 390k waiting to onboard. After that, there's a huge drop-off. SOL, ADA, AVAX, ALGO, XMR, and DOT have a few thousand validators each, at best, so pretty weak. Most of the popular chains barely fit the definition, HyperLiquid (21 validators), and Ripple (120 validators). These are all chains that are centrally controlled and could easily be shut down by a handful of people. Nothing wrong with centralized/corporate chains, just understand what they are and what the risks are.

RandomPlayerCSGO

Some are some aren't. Btc is, XMR is. Most of the others nope

trimalcus

Only use it to buy XMR

x0wl

Can it do completely private transactions like XMR? If yes, I'm super impressed and will look more into it.

Zescapespj

BCH objectively has impressive capabilities. Can essentially do what ETH and XMR, as well as being fast and cheap.

Narrow_Chance7639

HBR, XMR and ALGO for sure

sinan-aydin

You can buy Monero (XMR) with other cryptocurrencies on reputable exchanges like Binance, KuCoin, or Kraken, which support XMR trading pairs. Ensure you use platforms with strong security measures and sufficient liquidity for smooth transactions.

ScoobaMonsta

For me its on chain data for fundamentals. Are people using it? Is it providing its users with what they're promising? When it comes to something like XMR, yes they do. And people are using it. More and more every day.

tourbladez

I don't know, but how about XMR, TAO, and RNDR?

RefrigeratorLow1259

Think we will see a move into UTXO chains over the next few months...XMR, BCH, ADA, LTC, KAS... a much superior security model than account based chains, plus a natural fit to BTC interoperability....

biba8163

**Alt Season 2024/25** In previous cycles around this time frame, BTC did ~7X in 2017 and 5X in 2021 while the entire Alt Marketcap went 35X or 13X! This time around BTC has only ~2X which is still remarkable because you can't realistically expect a Trillion marketcap to 5X in 1 year. Diminishing returns and institutional money means the flow to Alts has petered off and the Alt marketcap has barely ticked up over the course of 1 year in a bullrun. | 1-Year | BTC | ALT | |:-----------|------------:|:------------:| | 2016-2017 | 7.3X | 35X | 2020-2021 | 5.3X | 13X | 2024-2025 | 1.9X | 1.3X The majority of the marketcap growth from last year, was the ~$1 Trillion growth in BTC marketcap. Almost every single Alt is stagnant or down. There was a poor hag Alt Season in late 2024 with a handful of coins that pumped with the ISO-20022, Made in the USA, free from Gensler/SEC narratives that have gone up: XRP 6X, XLM 2X, HBAR 2X, etc. There is also TRON and XMR which have the lowest correlation with BTC that went up 2X. Without these and a few other new coins, the Alt Marketcap would actually have shrunk. | | 7/9/2024 |7/9/2025 | |:-----------|------------:|:------------:| | **BTC Marketcap** | $1.14 Trillion| $2.16 Trillion | **Alt Marketcap** (Excl. Stablecoins) | $0.75 Trillion| $0.97 Trillion

biba8163

**Alt Season 2024/25** In previous cycles around this time frame, BTC did ~7X in 2017 and 5X in 2021 while the entire Alt Marketcap went 35X or 13X! This time around BTC has only ~2X which is still remarkable because you can't realistically expect a Trillion marketcap to 5X in 1 year. Diminishing returns and institutional money means the flow to Alts has petered off and the Alt marketcap has barely ticked up over the course of 1 year in a bullrun. | 1-Year | BTC | ALT | |:-----------|------------:|:------------:| | 2016-2017 | 7.3X | 35X | 2020-2021 | 5.3X | 13X | 2024-2025 | 1.9X | 1.3X The majority of the marketcap growth from last year, was the ~$1 Trillion growth in BTC marketcap. Almost every single Alt is stagnant or down. There was a poor hag Alt Season in late 2024 with a handful of coins that pumped with the ISO-20022, Made in the USA, free from Gensler/SEC narratives that have gone up: XRP 6X, XLM 2X, HBAR 2X, etc. There is also TRON and XMR which have the lowest correlation with BTC that went up 2X. Without these and a few other new coins, the Alt Marketcap would actually have shrunk. | | 7/9/2024 |7/9/2025 | |:-----------|------------:|:------------:| | **BTC Marketcap** | $1.14 Trillion| $2.16 Trillion | **Alt Marketcap** (Excl. Stablecoins) | $0.75 Trillion| $0.97 Trillion

Chowdaaair

XMR, BCH, and third is hard to choose between ETH or Nano.

Pinewatch762

Eth, link, XMR

vrsatillx

Ooohh stop there, you just compared a CBDC to Monero, holy shit. No, the "private mode" of CBDCs will never make it private from the central bank, it will only be private to your neighbor just like fiat bank account. If you think the CBDC will have a mode that prevents the state from looking at your funds, freezing them and stealing them that's more than delusional. And let's not compare the rate of coin emission between € and XMR. If they say it has a true private mode, it will probably be false. And if it true it will probably soon cease to be.

Choice-Biscotti8826

Buy Bitcoin put it in cake wallet and swap it for XMR

biba8163

I am not a BTC Maxi. It's not about BTC maximalism but about being smart. I love XMR but I don't view it as an investment and there is a huge opportunity cost of holding it instead of BTC long term. And if you've been in crypto for a while you shouldn't be falling for tech memes. **Only NOOBs fall for the tech memes.** I've re-posted my comment from 2019 over and over the last few years trying to warn noobs who keep falling for token dump tech memes like DOT, ALGO, AVAX, HBAR, etc all that stupid shit and keep losing money. > **Top 7 unique, high-potential cryptocurrencies of 2019 that are actually innovating the space** (2019) > **Nano, Monero, Augur, Lisk, IOTA, BitTorrent, Upfiring** > You seem to be fixated on tech. Tech means nothing if nobody uses it and if nobody cares. NXT was the most advanced coin in 2013 and still one of the most advanced now. Created by the founder of IOTA, it had a ton going for it. People thought it was like TCP/IP or Linux of blockchains and the future: > - First coin that was 100% Proof of Stake pioneered by IOTA founder > - 1.5 minutes block times > - Java > - DEX > - Messaging > - Assets in the blockchain > - Programmable APIs > You should learn from 2015 and stop being naive thinking these the shiny tech cryptos that nobody uses and cares about all are undervalued great investments. https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/bza16u/comment/eqt1lh5/

TheJamesBomb007

Nice try. XMR is literally shit. XMR paid Greenpeace to create that skull and do that whole smear campaign. It's public info google it.

MichaelAischmann

Condidtions 1 & 3 are somewhat mutually exclusive. Monero (XMR) is your privacy option. Most important advice is **don't to illegal shit**.

MichaelAischmann

Try "Psst, got XMR?" at your local train station.

Pinewatch762

I think a lot more people pay with XMR than you realize. They just don’t talk about it

timbulance

I think a lot more people would have some XMR if you didn’t have to do swaps etc.

MichaelAischmann

Quick search showed LocalMonero & Bisk to be the best options. Haveno is currently in beta testing and is supposed to be similar to Bisk but developed specifically for XMR.

ScoobaMonsta

Mad Buying solana for an investment. BTC ETH XMR would be a much better choice. Solana is highly centralised and its only shit memes that are being built on it. It provides no real utility at all.

Zealousideal-Loan655

There are alternatives My fav is XMR I’d jump into that before another hacker robs blackrock or some shit and transfers it all to XMR

Upbeat_Reputation341

No, Monero(XMR) has utility. I've been using it for 2 years and it is super helpful to hide my transactions. Using it when I'm sending or withdrawing money from my insider info source on deep web lol

jhflores516

Monero has more utility than BTC in my opinion. XMR is the only real crypto with utility.

nugymmer

Been there done that. DASH. Oh, oh my fucking DASH...swapped that fucker for XMR when XMR was just $16 but DASH was only $14. Oh, what a harebrained moved that was. DASH went fucking 100x whilst XMR only went 30x. And then...I never sold until March 2018. Yeah, I understand I could have ended up with hundreds of thousands but nope, I didn't, and didn't even lock in those profits until after the market melted down massively and then "recovered", I'm a fucking harebrain. I knew it was cooked but me being the twat that I am, thought it was "coming back"...well, not for a long time. I could have literally become a millionaire from making the right moves, but hey, we all do this silly shit, don't we? I feel your pain.

MinimalGravitas

I don't know if I agree, for some people in the world probably privacy preserving crypto like XMR is a better choice. I'm lucky enough not to live anywhere like that, and don't hold any XMR, but in an oppressive regime that's probably all I'd feel safe relying on.

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; Cryptocurrency platform Crowswap.exchange has been implicated in recent hacks and money laundering activities. Attackers use the platform to convert stolen funds into Monero (XMR), making them untraceable. CrowSwap's lack of anti-money laundering (AML) measures and failure to block flagged transactions have raised suspicions of its involvement in illegal activities. The platform's inadequate cooperation with law enforcement hampers investigations, highlighting the need for stricter regulations and AML compliance in the cryptocurrency sector. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

divergence777

The percentage of my monthly DCA does depend on price on the day, but generally aside from BTC, I'm heavy on ETH and XMR. Less often, I put money into LINK, and Uniswap.

CynthiaTWilkerson

BTC of course, and yh, if you are not a full-on maxi, ETH, SOL, A, and of course XMR are better crypto. 

Pinewatch762

Coinbase doesn’t list XMR. You have to move your crypto off CB and swap it. And no. They won’t be able to see your swap. Or address. The irs used to have a bounty out that if someone could track XMR, they’d pay out like 600k. No one was ever able to do it

Donavan0

Thank you for this. Why a specific token (XMR), won’t Coinbase records show it like any other transaction?

Pinewatch762

No. Unless they hold a gun to your head and demand the keys. Swap it all to XMR if you’re worried about the feds touching your money

Pinewatch762

Keeping Monero on an exchange is dumb due to potential delisting, and what’s the saying? Not your keys not your crypto? Figured someone with “XMR” in their name would understand that. You do you though boo

ForumsDwelling

Monero (XMR)

Pinewatch762

Defeats the purpose of XMR but yeah. It’s nice. Got my 7 day withdraw restriction lifted because i contacted support about how XMR isn’t meant to be on an exchange. And defeats the purpose. That was nice

Pinewatch762

XMR is 100% listed on kraken.

_Hpst_

So just to be sure a CEX could confiscate my BTC sent from electrum because I recieved a swap from XMR from DEX on it?

anddrewbits

That’s where the risk lies. I would try to just spend XMR as is

_Hpst_

I don't plan on doing anything illegal with my XMR, but considering that risk I guess I'll keep my monero at 15%, the rest problably will be in BTC soon

anddrewbits

It’s only when you need to exchange the XMR for BTC or another crypto that you could end up with tainted coins. YMMV, I wouldn’t take the risk, but it’s relatively minor in the world of risks.

anddrewbits

I’m just saying that your assumption that no one will bother to track has led to many losses by other similarly-minded people. An exchange may decide that any crypto secured in exchange for XMR is tainted and confiscatable. Risk tolerance is up to you. I’m in agreement with why own anything other than BTC unless you’re willing to research and take higher risks on lower regulatory risk, higher existential risk coins? LTC is already moon-adjacent and is very unlikely to be worth the portfolio weight you’ve allocated.

_Hpst_

XMR isn't illegal, also is it really that easy to track transactions on trocador?

dormango

All sorts of regulatory and AML risks associated with XMR. Also has the opportunity to taint your accounts in the eyes of CECs. Depends on your risk tolerance and what you want it for.

polymath_uk

Get rid of the LTC and only use XMR for 'off-the-books' transactions, surely?

_Hpst_

I guess I'll swap LTC ro BTC and XMR when I'll break even on it then

_Hpst_

XMR also seems pretty promising as it's problably the only crypto thats mostly used as a real currency due to DNMs.

_Hpst_

I just wanted some advie from peopoe that may know more about market trends than me. I'm just not sure if I should keep LTC or switch to BTC and XMR only when it rises by $10 so I break even on it

bottatoman

Go with 100% XMR and you’re good.

Zealousideal-Loan655

Unless you’re getting into XMR of course

MichaelAischmann

Your expectations that governments will deal in crypto & more specifically LTC are unfounded. The market for digital cash is very competitive: LTC, BCH, XNO, DASH, stablecoins, XMR, BTC on LN ... Tough to know which will win out. Would you wait 2.5 minutes at the check out counter? What speaks for LTC is the amount of value it moves. LTC sent per 24h has grown from $80 million 3 years ago to $8 billion now. That's a 100x I did not expect to see just now.

no_okaymaybe

Sir, XMR is brilliant.

JuniorNatural

So he *only* worked with Monero, was he just hoarding XMR? I mean, he'd still need a way to swap it for fiat eventually, right? Otherwise, how do you even spend stolen money? But they caught him with Bitcoin. Pretty ironic.

ToneCapwn

First mistake "trade" You need to buy BTC + XMR and HOLD. Period the end. Get a "job" , make up a business, get paid in BTC and XMR but be sure to research if your business is legal first. Mow lawns , take down trash cans , request payment in BTC. Your neighbors can buy BTC on exchange and you can invoice them using wallet software. Do small jobs using Lightning wallet. Big jobs directly on chain. Welcome to the future of digital gold!

Pinewatch762

Could just swap into XMR and go off in the wind 🤷

Reeferologist-

Tale as old as time. XMR is king.

Pinewatch762

Don’t use the ledger live interface. Unless you have NFTs and such. I use cake wallet as my interface. No dust attacks. No spam nfts. Nice and clean. Only downside is it doesn’t give total portfolio value. But I’ll take that trade off for privacy. There’s also many other perks of cake with atomic swaps and XMR swaps

mseehrmeent

He says sell everything and buy XMR & BCH only. (not agree with him btw)

bottatoman

You are getting close my man, it was all about spend and replace at the point nobody would use fiat anymore, but the project was hijacked by people with small hats somewhere 2014/2015 (those who print the toilet paper asking you the interest on it). This vision is still going but in BCH and XMR, people with small hats don’t like these coins for obvious reasons so they pump to infinity this BTC trash so you get trapped into FOMO and never use crypto as competition to fiat toilet paper.

ElephantEarTag

I think the moral of this story is that XMR is the ultimate privacy coin.

DangerHighVoltage111

For example, BCH devs refractured the whole node code, plus they did away with some very time consuming quirks of BTCs policies like CPFP. The BitcoinTakeOver Podcast did a comparison between BTC, LTC XMR and BCH and BCH came out way ahead in node synching time. However I can't find that test anymore. If anyone has the link, please post it 🙏🙏🙏

DangerHighVoltage111

For example, BCH devs refractured the whole node code, plus they did away with some very time consuming quirks of BTCs policies like CPFP. The BitcoinTakeOver Podcast did a comparison between BTC, LTC XMR and BCH and BCH came out way ahead in node synching time. However I can't find that test anymore. If anyone has the link, please post it 🙏🙏🙏 The last few updates where about strengthening the difficulty adjustment and adding smart transactions without burden scaling. This took a while. The things I'm looking forward to the most are better pruning and UTXO commitments. But Xthinner which promises to reduce the network requirements significantly is also exciting. A more detailed upgrade histroy: minisatoshi.cash/upgrade-history Some scaling testing: read.cash/@mtrycz/how-my-rpi4-handles-1m-tx-blocks-ad8c4c94 Security wise I can only say BCH is the only chain I know of that has been attempted to attack but the attacks failed. Security is not bad despite being a minority hash chain. Miners have shown to allocate hash to BCH to fend of an attacker. So the cost of an attack is ultimately unknown. You can compare decentralization here: https://explorer.melroy.org/graphs/mining/pools https://mempool.space/graphs/mining/pools But that's just the network. BCH decentralized development after the lessons from the blocksize war. It has multiple dev teams and a process called CHIP that should make it harder to capture it.

biba8163

I love XMR and I've used it a lot in the past. I was active in darknetmarket forums in 2017 and 2018 answering questions about how to use it and opsec. But at some point you have to realize what is good investment and what is not. You only need to look at the XMR/BTC ratio to understand where your money should be. That said XMR is going to around when 99% of the shitcoins people here are shilling are gone. It has a low correlation coefficient with BTC and moves relatively independently compared to pretty much every other Alt.

Thomas5020

Solana, like BNB, is largely a chain used for scam coins and junk. I don't believe they're faking the usage, but i believe the usage is 90% moonboys trading useless junk. BTC is valuable and widely accepted, XMR is private, ETH is scalable and great to build on. What's SOL great for? Scam coins, because everything it does another network does better.

Typical_Narwhal_5529

Not really, XRP, XMR and AAVE HBAR and others pumped beginning of November 2024

314stache_nathy

I would say that Monero (XMR) is necessary so that you can protect yourself from a possible authoritarian government and to save your finances for the future, Monero is untraceable and fungible, I recommend that you take a look at the website Getmonero. org to find out more about Monero, some methods of acquiring it are: CPU mining (Monero is easy to CPU mine thanks to its algorithm, I recommend you use P2Pool), buying through DEXs such as RetoSwap, Basicswap, UnstoppableSwap (and in the future through Serai.excharge), you can also sell things for Monero through XMRBaazar for example, plus there's TradeOgre (all these methods are non-KYC). Call me if you have any questions!

DescriptorTablesx86

I’m in on projects which I think make the most sense in unstable times — XMR & BTC Also I don’t care much about short term price action so it’s not a recommendation that I expect to make money in the short term.

Environmental-ADHD

Oh XMR … you’re so underappreciated.

Environmental-ADHD

XMR will definitely be pamping

Upliftous_3

There are multiple ways, it depends on the level of privacy you need. Moving your money through XMR would give u privacy but it can be annoying to do this often. Also heads up, you’ll be dmed by scammers offering to assist you through their sites.

Zealousideal-Loan655

Damn I missed it, lmg XMR pumped?

kingikemefuna

I like XMR! 😀

Alternative_Try_1277

Great! Well instead of putting it all in the Bitcoin you can put it into HYPE, XMR, Bitcoin, cash and Bitcoin and you will do great. Also, kaito doesn't look that bad, neither does sui It's forming a huge bull flag on increasing volume so I don't know. Looks pretty bullish to me... Another coin is called IP p like IP/ usdt on MEXC for instance recently had a bullish breaker structure and is now going up

Alternative_Try_1277

The only altcoins going up currently ( since this bull run isn't rlly driven by retail it's driven by institutions mostly) therefore coins like Bitcoin, cash, xrp, ethereum, , hype, XMR And that's pretty much it as far as altcoins go Even Solana is doing poorly. Xrp really isn't like going up for instance, but it's not really going down either. There's been a lot of institutional buying on it and ethereum and a ton of buying on bitcoin. This bull run is completely driven by Bitcoin, so if you still have the delusions that there is going to be an alt-season, you are wrong sorry to say. I understand why. Hyperliquid or hype is going up and I understand why XMR is going up but I still don't really understand why Bitcoin cash is going up. That one is kind of a mystery

BCHisFuture

BTC XMR ZANO BCH OXEN ZANO etc Gold silver Lands Weapons Seeds Etc All these products will be buy far more in the future...

MaximumStudent1839

I'm just going to be blunt. > away from ideals,  These ideals often created more pain than "innovation." The idea to "decentralize everything" led to wasting money, building products few wanted, and losing a lot of retail funds. Many devs secured their bags and became millionaires while the bag-holding retail got rekted hard. There is too little critical thinking on why we need to 1) decentralize X, 2) how to fund it sustainably, and 3) why the product can compete against alternative solutions. In fact, Farcaster is a good example of how you don't need a token or blockchain to decentralize a protocol. > Now, maybe only XMR and LTC remain XMR maybe. I don't see the point about LTC. Paying via native tokens is one of those ideals doing significant capital damage. > toward memecoins The best-performing asset is a meme. A lot of the early energy behind memes is a repudiation of this industry's reckless spending and grifting around the tech narrative. Of course, now, it is just one big extraction mechanism for VCs via launchpads printing infinite shitters daily to rekt noobs. > centralized narratives Some products are ok to be centralized. Honestly, I rather have a regulated stable issuer than some algo stable.

pedronegreiros94

 There were some genuinely promising projects back then. People were deep in forums and social channels, passionately discussing anti-censorship, decentralization, and real innovation. But those days feel long gone. Now, maybe only XMR and LTC remain in the top 50 as echoes of that original ethos. Then came retail. Then VCs. And suddenly, the hype shifted — away from ideals, toward memecoins and centralized narratives, get rich quickly stuff.