No what I oppose is not personal freedom. It's the factual inaccuracy. You claim "For me, Monero is inferior". Like inferior in what way? This says to me this: "Ignoring the evidence I just FEEL Bitcoin is superior for privacy". You're likely to push back on that but I'm going to keep trying to tell you the truth about the privacy issues with Bitcoin until you see because privacy is a major issue with Bitcoin. I would honestly have no issue with what you claim if you said something along the lines of "Monero is superior for privacy but I prefer Bitcoin anyway for (insert reason)" like for instance if you preferred the hard cap over tail emission, maybe you preferred fixed block sizes, or perhaps you think that coinjoin and lightning are good enough, and Monero while superior is unnecessary. These are all really good reasons to PERSONALLY prefer Bitcoin. The claim that Bitcoin is superior in EVERY way is just false and that's the only claim I come to challenge. This isn't personal @Cyph3rp9nk I challenge this view anytime I see it, it has nothing to do with the individuals who hold this view, I only want to talk facts here.

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Do it again lol, it only weakens your already weak position. I don't want you to buy it, I want you to admit that Bitcoin has a specific inferiority explicitly when it comes to on-chain and network level privacy to Monero. That is all. The other stuff is pretty debatable, that's the only thing that is objectively true. Once again I'm not selling Monero. Actually pumps are kinda bad rn we need more time to grow organically so honestly don't buy at all unless you're willing to spend a majority of what you buy.
Transparent blockchain creates the ability for statist to determine specific UTXOs or use cases to be "illicit" and effectively ban them from merchants and off-ramps. We see this now with Chainalysis tainted UTXOs and OFAC sanctioned UTXOs. Also most exchanges and merchants won't accept coinjoined UTXOs now since they're basically considered tainted by Chainalysis. This level of censorship is one of the key power points of Fiat and something that Bitcoin inherits, yet Monero is immune from. From this stance I declare that there is a disparity in the level of freedom from fiat offered by either Bitcoin or Monero in that Monero offers MORE freedom. Real world usage reflects this. In the latest Monerotalk interview with the ShopinBit founder, he states that his lawyers actually prefer dealing with Monero precisely because you have no AML check overhead as did to the privacy, there's nothing to check. All monero is clean since you can't trace it. I don't know the timestamp but link is here
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