cryptocurrency

People often look to programmers for their thoughts on "crypto" as if the two are related. I beg to differ. The average programmer is no less equipped to understand the importance of "crypto" than is the average grocery bagger, airplane pilot, or government bureaucrat.

That is to say all of them are equally capable of understanding its importance. Just as all of them are equally capable of understanding basic finance, economics, and most importantly, how money works in modern society.

TL;DR big banking, federal reserve, market cycles, inflationary fiat currencies, and quantitative easing = bad. Hard money = good. Bitcoin is the hardest form of currency known to man. Ergo Bitcoin should be adopted as the global currency.

Bitcoin

I believe in Bitcoin because I don't believe in the financial system of the Western world. The release of Bitcoin marks an epoch in time that I believe will cause substantial ripples in the global economy within the foreseeable future. HODL.

Monero

Monero offers key privacy enhancements over Bitcoin and benefits from a solid network effect due to its prolific usage in dark web markets. XMR has adopted a more reckless strategy for technological iteration in order to more quickly achieve what its community deems necessary for a privacy coin.

Bitcoin Thesis

My opinion on the long-term viability of Bitcoin is as follows:

In a world plagued by inflation largely caused by irresponsible and malicious central banking and bloated government beauracracies, crytpocurrencies flourish while fiat currencies flounder. Backed by decentralized strength via blockchain, the economic robustness granted through a finite total possible supply of coin, and transparency through open source development, Bitcoin stands to disrupt global finance on a long enough timeline. Short the bankers, long BTC.