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It's like cash, i frankly don't care about value either but a form of payment that is not tied to me specifically where I can exchange the money for goods and services is crucial to me. Not much different from a cash giftcard i can use to pay for things online



Except it's not like cash because it isn't subject to relatively stable long-term economic policy but instead to market speculation.

How would you like the dollar bills you have in your pocket to hold a completely random value tomorrow?


Sounds like as good of a deal as right now where do the dollar bills I hold are guaranteed to be worth less tomorrow, with occasional periods of it being worth significantly less.


The US inflation rate has never been more than 4% annually in over 30 years. Bitcoin often moves more than 20% in the span of a few days. If you don't like volatility, you don't want Bitcoin.


Cryptocurrencies store everyone's transaction records in a public ledger. It is, in general, less anonymous than cash.


Monero doesn't have a public ledger though and is more anonymous than any other digital payment system.


You're not wrong but I and some others use brand new wallets for meaningful transactions.


Using one-off wallets increases the complexity of a financial forensics problem, but doesn't make it unsolvable. For one thing, you can't force everyone you do business with in the network to follow the same practice.


As a businessperson,yes. As a consumer it works quite well. When you offer services you become tracable. But alas XMR is not so traceable,one can always launder btc through XMR (and maybe profit?) Or zcash.


any transaction that includes the word "launder" is not, I would suggest, something a consumer should touch with a ten foot pole




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