Oddbean

I don't care enough about it to have an actual opinion but I'll throw in my 2 cents worth of diss because I'm bored. It's just another inefficient PoW shitcoin that has nodes grind a stupid amount of resource into the fucking ether for $3 USD a month profit. It's so we can sell the dream of ~muh untraceable super secure nobody knows who you are bro~ bullshit coin that some crypto bro invested in the other day in hopes that the price will go to the moon and he can withdraw his fucking lambo money, once he's done filling out the KYC requirements on his favorite exchange. Oh but I guess it's the cool thing to use if you want to buy drugs on TOR I guess.

Yes, it is inefficient to mine but things like p2pool exist which are basically a decentralised pool. About the KYC thing it is extreamly easy to erase any traces back to you. Just send it to another wallet and done. The fees are extreamly low. You can pay less than ¢1 per transaction. It is also easy to buy w/o KYC. Take a look at localmonero.co for example. It isn't centralised like most L2 of BTC. You can buy lots of useful things with it. Take a look at kycnot.me and monerica. Anyways. This question was supposed to be directed at bitcoin maxis. Crypto in my opinion shouldn't be used to buy stuff irl. It should only be used for transactions online or fast transfer of value around the world.