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Having hodled BTC for a few years at this point and having never done an onchain transaction other than buying it I began to spend my monero whenever I could.
I tried to convince my grocer, barber, mechanic etc to accept a bonus payment if they accepted XMR with some success. Over time more of my bills are paid in monero and through various business arrangements I may or may not receive payment fiat alternatives.
When I do not receive payment, I do not pay tax on the disbursements that I never received and this cash poverty is helping me to align my finances with my personal political views.
I've always been a big believer that you vote with your wallet and if you don't like the way someone or something is, it is unjust and immoral for you to pay them to continue.
Monero at the core is a very civil disobedience and an important tool for our freedom.
I support it even if it fails, in my opinion, it was worth it.
Footnote i often wear like a btc rollercoaster shirt and bitcoiners rush up go talk about segwit or a bip and i have no clue what they are talking about because i dont care about btc. I do have a monero shirt, but in the spirit of monero i only wear it under my pyjamas. If anyone in the community can make a cool xmr shirt like this id buy it
In 1986 I arrived in New York with a pistol and a cowboy hat and was disappointed to discover
that the west had already been won.
My first after school job was building the railways and that had inspired me to become an intellectual so I studied medicine and began to work as a specialist of sorts, but I quickly
realized my heart was not in it.
Hospital care was about giving very sick people a long term addiction to powerful drugs thatbcured one symptom in return for many side affects and disability.
I had an expensive education, high debt and growing disillusionment with big health, the government, the police and the general state of our lives of quiet desperation in economic enslavement.
One day I threw my pager out a top story window of the hospital. I was immediately issued a new one. It beeped 12 times in 2 minutes so I flushed it down the toilet and went home to sit in a dark room.
My throughbred race horse had also been molested at this time giving me more than one reason for melancholy, but it isn't about that right now.
In searching yahoo for what's next I stumbled upon "bitcoin" which interested me. In my free time, which little I had, I was already reading a lot of anarchist writing, self sovereignty,
unorthodox lifestyles, financial systems and alternatives to statist regulated highly controlled life.
At that time I couldn't buy the bitcorn but I later began to stack. Decentralized tech appealed and
once I had an unstable income working for myself I sporadically stacked more.
I read cypherpunk, lunarpunk, solarpunk, any punk and applied many of the digital ideas to my
real world life.
I discovered monero very early because I had used it to buy my btc and found the transaction
experience using monero terrible. Yes, monero was my first coin and a sign of things to come..
The more I read the more I actually liked XMR, the rock the fanta branding, the community, the
ethos and I began to add a little every now and then, maybe around $70?
What got me bigger into Monero was whenI tried to pay someone with btc, but didn't when I realized that would give them the ability to see how many coins I had and I didn't like that.
It wasn't long, despite some reservations, that I concluded the active development and the
privacy were forming a large moat between bitcoin and monero and I was a monero guy.