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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.

This is beyond fruitless so this will be my last response. Most real world transactions are done on monero. Sites that support both Monero and Bitcoin almost always see higher Monero volume, take NanoGPT for instance. Despite Bitcoins first mover advantage and network affect, its usage is extremely rare on the giant p2p markets that are darknet markets. There Monero is king and asking to use Bitcoin will get you accused of being a fed. Also go to xmrbazaar.com and tell me there's a marketplace like that for Bitcoin. Lightnings privacy varies from decent but very susceptible to network monitoring from state level adversaries due to its entire reliance on network level privacy (running your own node and opening channels) to completely trusted custodial solutions like Wallet of Satoshi, Strike and Cashapp. Those offer absolutely no privacy from the custodian and every state level adversary they are subject to. Crash has great privacy but suffers greatly in reliability and being entirely custodial thus increasingly centralized. Monero is more private than all the options above, both on chain privacy (Stealth addresses, RingCT, and ring signatures) and network level privacy (Dandelion++ for clearnet and Tor or i2p transaction proxying for anonymity networks) while being cheap to transact, faster than on-chain Bitcoin to settle, and vastly more decentralized both in culture and technological defaults. After digesting all this how possibly could you consider Bitcoin a superior money?