I have been interested in XMR for a while now, just for a caveat, it makes up around 10% of my crypto holdings.
I'm based in the UK and it seems to be impossible to buy XMR with GBP. I've heard it's the same around Europe, governments are cracking down.
You have to buy another CryptoCurrency and exchange it for XMR using a swap site, adding fees and spreads to the purchase price. There's something called Atomic Swaps which I don't understand enough to use myself.
I've heard two different sides to the Monero argument:
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Monero is a waste of time as governments are effectively trying to ban it, which means that it'll get even harder to get hold of and even harder to sell back to fiat or to use to purchase things. It's unable to scale to the level of transactions needed in order to actually be a good form of payment.
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Monero is working as intended, the government doesn't want us to have it, so it must be good and actually is untraceable. The fact that massive corporations aren't buying it and pushing it is a good thing as they cannot control it like they can Bitcoin.
My opinion is somewhere between the two. The biggest factor for me holding Monero as it is the only crypto, other than bitcoin (and rarely Litecoin) that is actively used on a large scale to buy things – Dark net markets. Therefore at least for the time being there will always be a demand for it.
What are your thoughts for and against it? Are there other privacy focused coins that you hold or look more promising?
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### 对于Monero (XMR) 的思考
在加密货币的世界中，Monero（XMR）无疑是一个备受争议的话题。我对XMR的兴趣在于它的隐私保护特性，同时，我的加密资产中大约有10%是XMR。作为一名居住在英国的投资者，我发现用英镑购买XMR几乎是不可能的，听说在欧洲的其他地方也是如此，因为各国政府正在加强监管。
目前，想要购买XMR的用户似乎只能通过先购买其他加密货币，然后在交换平台上进行换汇，这不仅增加了费用和价差，还使得整个购买过程变得更加复杂。谈及原子交换（Atomic Swaps），我对其运作原理理解得不够深入，这让我略感困惑。
关于Monero，有两种截然不同的声音。一派认为，Monero毫无意义，因为政府正在有效地打压它，这意味着获取和出售XMR将变得愈加困难，同时也给实用性带来了质疑，因为其交易能力无法达到广泛支付所需的规模。
而另一派则持相反观点，认为Monero的运作正如其所预期，政府之所以想要打压它，恰恰说明了XMR的价值与潜力。对巨大企业而言，无法控制Monero与比特币的不同之处，反而使得XMR更具吸引力，且其理论上的不可追踪性也让人信心倍增。
我自己的看法介于两者之间。对我来说，持有Monero的最大原因在于它仍然是除比特币外，少数几种在大规模交易中实际使用的加密货币之一，特别是在暗网市场的广泛应用。因此，至少在现阶段，XMR始终会有一定的需求。
在您看来，您对Monero的看法是什么？您是否持有其他更具隐私特性的加密货币，或对其他代币更具潜力的看法？欢迎在评论区分享您的见解。