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@ Expatriotic
2025-02-06 08:55:27
<https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shill>
I question the intellectual honesty of someone using the word "shill" to describe a Monero user.
I used to hang out in DeFi circles and we had a robust understanding of the word shill. Basically it was someone financially motivated to get you do do a certain behavior.
`Use platform X, buy token Y etc and get some benefit.`
When in reality, they wanted you to pump the liquidity so they could dump on you.
I don't see the same thing being true for Monero users.
A Monero user is someone who wants one thing. Privacy. That's literally it.
A Monero user doesn't want to get rich. Using Monero usually means they're taking a financial hit as Bitcoin is a better SoV. There is literally no financial gain to the Monero user if someone else uses it.
It shouldn't really be debatable then that for the purpose above, privacy, Monero surpasses Bitcoin.
But! Lightning!!
To which I reply, so what? Lightning is okay, but it's not a panacea.
It's UX is clunky at best. And perfect privacy is not a default. Many Lightning users are trusting their privacy and IP to a third party when they use it custodially.
But a one-to-one comparision of Monero privacy to Lightning privacy is effectively impossible because of how many different ways there are to interact with and use Lightning. Monero privacy is extremely quantifiable. Lightning privacy is a bit more ethereal. And this post isn't the place to go into that. I just made a sister post in the ~privacy territory.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/877476