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  • It’s a good payment option but it’s also a good store of value. Note, I didn’t say speculative investment. If you want that, go to Bitcoin or beany babies.

    A store of value holds its price over time and Monero does that. It especially does if you add in the ridiculous taxes that do not apply to currencies but apply to crypto currencies that are used as currencies (e.g. you can convert from CAD to USD and not pay extra taxes if you use USD even if USD goes up. You also don’t need to keep track of each and every change.

    And if “digital property/unproductive wealth” are created in your jurisdiction, that tax would not apply to USD on hand but would apply to crypto). I’m not a “taxation is theft” guy, but I do think you that fair is fair and XMR allows savings to be fair.

    In addition, if I’m caught on the “wrong” side of another Canadian Trucker’s protest styled even, XMR is an excellent store of value because 100% of the money in your back account or KYCed open block chain crypto can be locked but 0% of XMR can be. There can be no store of value if the value can be locked.


  • In Europe, probably not. The bureaucracy is too thick. For the US, maybe but as mentioned in other responses we don’t need CEX access. What is likely is that due to Trump’s executive order, banks may be allowed to hold digital assets. That means, you could just open a litecoin or USDT account in your bank and transfer money in and out of it from your fiat bank accout. CEXes are complicated (compared with instant exchanges) and tend to have KYC rules that if stolen can be used with AI to not only identity theft you, they have the power to put you at the scene of a crime or blackmail you. Banks don’t need nearly as much KYC since they know you directly. This would have a huge effect. It allows you to be paid in crypto and merchants to receive money in crypto so crypto can instantly be used by all stores without pain. Not only that, if you can be paid in Litecoin, paying it to your personal wallet, you can use MWEB to instantly swap it with Monero (e.g. on BasicSwapDex, Haveno, or a DEX) so you can hold all your daily money in Monero. It should be possible to do this automatically via a script. Unless you want to do a lot of trading and want the proper tax forms automatically set up for you, I see no reason why anyone of any experience level would even want to use CEXes when banks could hold crypto.