https://orangefren.com/ or use the Trocador link on the side of this site

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.

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.