I don't really follow you. Ethereum got squashed by smart contracts (sort of like LN will have) and xmr is kept back by only catering for technically minded nationalistic sociopaths.
I heard somewhere xmr has periodic hard froks. I don't know. Nevermind. I'm still piecing it together in my head. Let me try to reprhase that whole thing.
Edit: I'd like to know your thoughts on the impending ETH hard fork, and if you think planned, routine hard forks are a good idea generally?
Post Edit: I'm sincerely asking. I'm not smart enough for crypto sarcasm
Eth wasn't supposed to be a BTC competitor. Immutability is not thought of as sacred in ethereum. Such a fork would be catastrophic in BTC, but in eth it might make sense. I'd vote against it because it was obvious to anyone with half a brain that something like this would happen. Other hard forks seem to have gone through fairly smoothly though.
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SFYL?
No worries. ETC asshats gave me a bunch of coins to dump. Some idiot at polo actually paid for them. I think it was becoin.