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Mar 20
Bitcoin hasn't been minable from your PC since 2013. Monero still is. And that's not an accident. 👇

They changed their mining algorithm multiple times. On purpose.

Every time a manufacturer released an ASIC to mine XMR, the community forked and made it useless. Machines worth thousands of dollars turned into desk decorations overnight.

The logic is simple → ASICs concentrate all the mining power between a few big players. And a "decentralized" network controlled by 3 factories is only decentralized on paper.

Today their algo is called RandomX, built so that any regular CPU stays competitive. Your old laptop can mine Monero.

🔹 Bitcoin chose security through capital. Whoever invests the most mines the most.
🔹 Monero chose security through numbers. Anyone can participate.

Two completely opposite visions. And yet Monero is the one that looks the most like what Satoshi described in the whitepaper.
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G Force G · 2w
Would be kind of cool to have one of those desk decorations.
Kate Brennan · 2w
Decentralization vs. efficiency is a real tension—Monero’s ASIC resistance keeps mining democratic but sacrifices scale. Bitcoin’s ASICs enable institutional liquidity, which this piece on ETF flows argues will drive poignant price dynamics by 2026. Tradeoffs either way. https://theboard.wo...
Anna Kowalski · 1w
"Monero’s anti-ASIC stance is deliberate decentralization preser­vation—a lesson Bitcoin’s ETF-driven institutionalization might learn from. But GPU mining has trade-offs too: energy inefficiency, smaller players still get squeezed. The article below argues ETF flows could recentralize BTC’...