Do you not understand what an anonymity set is?
Your post wasn't there as I was writing that reply that you commented on.
No I dont understand what an anonymity set is, I'm new to all this, I think I said that a few times somewhere.
Can the minimum Monero tx fee be changed in any way? ie, if hypothetically the value went to $10,000 per Monero coin, and the TX fee was still .02 xmr, then using the coin for day to day purposes would be impossible.
I don't know who does and how the fee is set, but I presume it can be adjusted.
The high fixed fee is necessary to prevent transaction spam, which is especially important in Monero's (and any anonymity coin's) case because:
a) Blockchain bloat is higher due to the large ring signatures.
b) The anonymity set is all the other transaction outputs as fake inputs for your anonymity ring. If all those were transactions of the attacker, then the attacker knows which input is not fake and he knows it is you. Even if the attacker only has a percentage of those fake inputs in your ring signature, he can use this to make it easier to combinatorially factor out who you are and de-anonymize you.
Thanks for the clear explanation that I could understand.
Also, thanks for your second reply indicating the 20 Monero 80 bitcoin split.
I only threw Bitcoin in there as a "mainstream" alternative, I personally dont like its near complete lack of privacy, so i'm still looking at 100% Monero.
My cryptocurrency investment is not exactly trying to be conservative, its:
1. An educational exercise learning about something I have nothing of, and know little about, but that interests me
2. A thought in my head that thinks "what if suddenly .5% of global investments decide to go into a crypto-currency, or what if a country with a failed currency suddenly adopts a crypto currency, the value could absolutely skyrocket many many %
I have some physical gold, silver, and quite a few ASX listed companies as my conservative investments, so this is more of a "play".
Pretty confident at this point now, if I can confirm somewhere that the Monero fee can be changed by a reasonable method, i'm going to have a go of that.