People often compare Bitcoin and Monero, but they were never built for the same purpose.
Founding matters
Bitcoin launched with no company, no foundation, no premine, no founders’ tax — a once-in-history monetary emergence.
Monero began in 2014 as a fork of Bytecoin with a small core dev team guiding the roadmap.
One is global money.
The other is a privacy-tech project.
Auditability matters
Bitcoin’s supply is fully transparent and verifiable.
Monero’s supply cannot be independently audited due to RingCT and hidden amounts.
You can’t base a monetary standard on something you can’t verify.
Hashrate & security matter
Bitcoin: ~1.1 ZH/s (≈ 1.1×10²¹ hashes/s)
Monero: ~3–4 GH/s (≈ 3–4×10⁹ hashes/s)
A 300+ billion× security gap.
And because Monero uses CPU mining, a government or a large enterprise with access to data-center-scale CPU fleets could realistically seize majority hashpower and influence the network.
This is not theoretical — it’s built into RandomX’s design.
Bitcoin is a global power grid — massive, redundant, impossible to capture.
Monero is a large server room — valuable for niche use, but easily dominated by a powerful actor.
That’s the real distinction:
Bitcoin = global, auditable, corporation-free monetary base layer.
Monero = privacy-focused cryptographic software vulnerable to concentrated compute power.
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