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Comment by dougk16

Ah c'mon gimme something better to chew on, this argument is cake to dismantle. (1) You don't use Monero to buy breakfast. It's for large money transfers so at least compare it to bank wires. (2) Very few people know about Monero yet. Credit cards were at 20K transactions per day at some point. If you know how to look at the chart you linked, you can see the TX count growing sustainably over several years. This is healthy growth, not some SV venture-capital juiced unicorn. (3) There will be very few ultimate winners in the crypto game as far as fungible currencies. It's a more honest comparison to include transaction counts of non-fungible cryptocurrencies like BTC and ETH that people are unfortunately using as a currency for now. (4) Monero is just one of a few other legitimate private cryptocurrencies, so include those transaction counts too.

Well I could go on laughing at the "nobody cares" take, but you don't care so I'll leave it there. Enjoy your CBDCs in the metaverse.

parent dougk16 4 years ago

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