I find it commendable you’re continuing a fight for what you believe in. Loyalty to your version of the true bitcoin.

Though I question whether programmable money is actually a good thing. We can program Monero already. Its called payment terminals, automatically transferring funds, processing payments, checking balances, etc, etc. Thats what programmable money should be & its easily handled with third party tools.

Do we actually want feature creep in our money? What does programmable money actually solve? Also is money, the right tool to be used for solving those issues? Utility chains like ETH, SOL, LINK, or any other smart contract cryptos might be a better fit for decentralized high attack cost programs then our medium of exchange. For the rare overlap between the 2 luckily its possible to wrap Monero, Bitcoin Cash & any other digital currency into a utility crypto.

Also why would the Monero community need to bring Monero’s privacy to BCH? As much as I respect the BCH community, if they want privacy, their free to do it themselves. Monero is open source after all, so they can take it upon themselves to add these privacy measures to BCH.

If Bitcoin Cash ever has better privacy then Monero & the market decides its the new premier privacy coin, then I would happily use the “real” bitcoin. I would miss ASIC resistant mining though, I believe CPU mineability to extremely important for real decentralization. But it would be nice to transact privately in the legacy of Satoshi once more.

I’ve been using it for a few years now & its absolutely great! I have nothing but good things to say about GrapheneOS & have even got a few other people I know irl to also switch to it. Once they try it they typically love it.

How much privacy should we have? Lets aim for absolute secrecy, pull back as hard as we cost effectively can & see how far the arrow flies.

Though its amazing to see other established cryptos like BCH & LTC push the cutting edge even further.

You don’t need to worry about buying it directly though if you don’t have exchange options like Kraken. So long as you can buy any crypto, you can easily swap to Monero. Tons of swap services or in wallet swap providers.

If you want to get the absolute lowest fees when swapping to Monero you could use Trade Ogre & swap currency pairs directly. They only charge a 0.2% fee per trade. The interface is a bit intimidating but the whole buying another crypto then swapping to Monero can be essentially free.

Thats a shame because it would really allow for a massive boost in network security & decentralization. Imagine if instead of what Tor did, they actually just had a modified working version of RandomX which could generate revenue for owners.

To me it just seems like such a waste that proof of work challenges are becoming more common place but those CPU cycles are essentially just being wasted not actually doing anything of value. Like at least if they could be given work units to very briefly preform micro prime number calculations, at least there is some mathematical value in that.

Thank you, that is actually quite interesting

Swap your Monero to a currency using a decentralized exchange or something like Trade Ogre or StealthEX, then sell on whatever exchange you have access to. Ideally if you want to go the KYC route (don’t support KYC businesses if you can) then use an exchange like Kraken or anyone who still offers Monero just to support the ecosystem & keep them around.

Gift cards from Coin Cards or Cake Pay are great options as well. Also just see if you can pay people in XMR, I’ve ended up being able to pay so many people online for such random things in XMR with a bit of convincing, obviously in person people will just want cash. Crypto really is online money first. Great for long-distance transfers & storing value in a fully self-sovereign way.