{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Super Testnet wrote","author_name":"Super Testnet (npub1yx…c399s)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub1yxp7j36cfqws7yj0hkfu2mx25308u4zua6ud22zglxp98ayhh96s8c399s","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"My fundamental argument against monero is that I think it's a worse money than bitcoin. Specifically in these metrics:\n\n- dynamic block sizes mean blocks will get big if monero gets popular\n- large blocks are hard and expensive to validate\n- validation difficulty discourages everyone except rich people from running nodes\n- the people running the nodes control the network\n- so if the rich alone run the nodes, the rich alone control the network, which sounds bad to me\n- monero also has perpetual inflation, and I think that is a bad idea for the reasons outlined by Gregory Maxwell here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5405755.msg60542558#msg60542558\n\nI will also give you a non-fundamental argument against monero: monero was created to achieve better privacy than bitcoin had at the time, which was a laudable goal. But lightning showed that there's an even better way to do privacy, so adopting monero now would be a step backward. There's better privacy technology available now and bitcoin adopted it via lightning."}