Oddbean

You're right. If you don't have a need for it or find it useful then you don't. I'm simply saying there are more use cases for it and people who use it than you may think. Here is a large directory for places to spend it on white markets: https://monerica.com/ Here is a growing p2p white market: https://moneromarket.io/ @Mapletrade sells great maple syrup https://gratuitas.org sells great coffee @AUPA sells great pemmican bars Most FOSS privacy projects and businesses accept payment and even prefer donations in Monero (Tor, IVPN, Mullvad, SimpleLogin, AnonAddy, SimpleX, Molly, GrapheneOS, Silent Link, CoinCards, ShopInBit, etc) ...and of course it is the preferred and rising star of Freenet Markets Can't find a place you would spend? Only care about anonymity? Worse case you can purchase giftcards and virtual debits (more widely accepted than Bitcoin) cheaper using Monero (They don't know you were the one who purchased it - little to no info required at purchase - and you could have been given it as payment or as a gift from someone else): https://coincards.com/ https://www.coinsbee.com/ https://buy.cakepay.com/ Buy things from Amazon using Monero. The person buying it for you doesn't know who you are or your address. Amazon doesn't know it was purchased with Monero. https://monezon.com/ Atomic swaps popping up everywhere. BTC swaps: https://unstoppableswap.net/ https://basicswapdex.com/ https://code.samourai.io/wallet/comit-swaps-java/-/releases ETH and BCH have one and I see discussion amongst LTC for it. https://github.com/AthanorLabs/atomic-swap https://github.com/PHCitizen/bch-xmr-swap Serai and Haveno DEXs probably releasing sometime this year. Saw discussion amongst Thorchain DEX to introduce it (use asgarDEX frontend to avoid problems with the "official" frontend). You can also get it the old fashioned way with fiat p2p via LocalMonero or Bisq I think versus other crypto Monero is actually winning a battle that is not over yet. It's becoming less reliant on TradFi and centralized institutions...all this adversarial pressure is strengthening it...Less speculation, paper trading price manipulation, custodians, and KYC. This is the crucible. If it survives delistings it can survive anything. I don't think any other crypto would do this well in the same situation including Bitcoin. Many "privacy" coins also caved in to Binance demands of changing the protocol to suit them.