Quote from: epilido on November 04, 2014, 02:40:25 AM

Quote from: rpietila on November 04, 2014, 02:14:33 AM

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In the forefront of the defence against those developments: Monero (XMR). Total emission 18M vs. Bitcoin's 21M. Price: 0.0017 BTC. Hedging your position with an equal or higher amount of Monero has seldom been this cheap

Risto

I had really hoped you would not just blindly pump..... Monero has never been lower except last week. You have had much better days.

Whether or not Monero is a good investment (I have bought some), Risto is right that XMR is less useful as a tool of mass surveillance than Bitcoin. It will be interesting to see whether BTC will ever be allowed to incorporate strong privacy features. I can imagine it doing so via sidechains but I can also imagine scenarios where regulators and VC strong-arm Bitcoin developers or mining pools to use only pseudo-private ledgers.