Monero (XMR)

“Monero is genuinely a really interesting, and frankly ideal as far as I can tell for my purposes, cryptocurrency.”

“Monero is probably the only coin that didn't get sucked into the post 2017 cryptobro mentality”

“How many services take Monero? It also does not solve your health insurance being taken away.”

“their strategy on that seems kinda dumb to me because it either does nothing or has a negative effect on the ecosystem”

“It is definitely not worth purchasing additional equipment, with residential rates, just to mine monero”

“A FOSS, private, uncensorable way to pay people instantly anywhere with effectively zero fees is not pointless.”

“It's great to have a bunch of different payment methods that can be as anonymous as cash (Monero)”

“You could do this mining-share method with Monero right now, it's just that you have higher transaction size in Monero”

“Monero has ~1 cent transaction fee ime so negligible compared to a comparable speed transfer with banks.”

“massive pig butchering operations that use slave labor trafficked across multiple countries to scam people”

“And by doing 100s of Monero transactions, you made a noticeable contribution to making the world worse.”

“Monero and other cryptocrap so far produced Trump, enabled CSAM, enabled North Korea to bypass sanctions”

“Monero is a bit more tricky to use, there is no concept of Lightning network, you still have to wait around 7 minutes for the transaction to settle.”

“monero has been exactly that and much more for more than a decade with by default fungibility, privacy and anonymity”

“once you have the Monero, it's untraceable and all anyone can know is that you bought Monero”

“The fees are not awful idk what you mean, I pay between 0.1% and 1% fees on Monero transactions.”

“it's not as easy to use as Monero, it's not as secure as Monero, and it's much more centralized than Monero”

“The thoughtful approaches it has consistently taken over many upgrades reflect a much greater level of competence”

“one of the only (but probably the only) cryptos that has actually held true in terms of its principles of privacy”

“I had hoped this would describe a system that did not use very large amounts of power. Sadly it does.”

“it's a currency you can use right now independently from the increasingly unstable-looking US dollar”

“solving the problem of how to transfer value trustlessly and anonymously, instantly anywhere in the world is one of the biggest breakthroughs since the Internet”

“Here is a list of hundreds of Non-profits that accept Monero, because people want to be able to donate, privately.”

“A private currency has to be private by default, with the option to share info on the transaction—that's Monero.”

“Monero transactions confirm more quickly, the first confirmation usually takes just two or three minutes.”

“Monero beats plaintext chain coins at uniformity, as BTC for example is non-fungible because there are tainted and non-tainted coins.”

“There is a pretty consistent survey of XMR performing weaker than similar class assets in spending at crypto accepting vendors.”

“Monero is unwilling or unable to police itself, even as it does damage that dwarfs pretty much any other computing technology.”

“Monero fails in practice relatively worse than similar 'weight class' crypto currency assets at actually spending 'digital cash'”

“Not bending down to the financial arm of warrantless global mass surveillance is a feature, not a bug.”

“Monero has consistently exceeded the rest of crypto in community, integrity to mission, and use-case.”

“Monero is the only mainstream cryptocurrency that actually still lives up to the ethos of what Satoshi had in mind.”

“There's no smart contracts on Monero so it doesn't really solve problem of secure and verifiable work contracts between 2 people.”

“I don't think using Monero would be a good platform because it does not have smart any contract functionality.”

“That's why Monero is superior; no amount of guns is going to help somebody steal property that they don't know you have.”

“The world's highest ranking agencies and billion dollar companies like chanalysis cannot break it, which means it actually works”

“its private by design and unless they tell you, nobody will ever know how much they use and for what”

“They made big efforts and changed algorithms several times to make and keep it GPU and ASIC resistant.”

“The benefits of a global, decentralized and truly private and free medium of value exchange would be massive to the average person”

“Monero has since many years been the only option worthy of truly being called a cryptocurrency.”