The security of any decentralized coin relies on its security budget (basically how much money is expended to secure the network). You can try...
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The original was posted on /r/monero by /u/anonkekkek on 2025-08-30 19:15:10+00:00.

The security of any decentralized coin relies on its security budget (basically how much money is expended to secure the network). You can try tweaking this up with technical pilpul (usually at the cost of decentralization), but in the end, the only one real way to increase the security budget is to increase the price of the coin. No matter if the coin is PoW or PoS, in the end, the price is the ultimate decider of a decentralized coin’s security. There is no free lunch.

This means:

You buy Monero and hold it in your wallet -> The price rises -> The security budget rises -> The hashrate rises -> The network is more difficult to attack.

In that sense, just by buying and holding Monero, you can already stake it in a way that contributes to security. You cannot say price does not matter, it does very much directly matter for Monero’s security. Someone did the napkin math:

At $575, our security budget would match Bitcoin Cash.

At $873, our security budget would match Litecoin.

At $7400, our security budget would match Dogecoin.

Millions must stack 'neros.