I think the argument that Monero doesn't have any applicable real world use is just as applicable to Bitcoin, and to pretend it doesn't makes you intentionally daft or utterly delusional.
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Bitcoin has number go up 🤷♂️ Monero would be cooler than BTC if it had the market cap. But would it be accepted in more places than Bitcoin is now? You don’t get a shot at replacing the reserve currency unless the governments think they can coopt BTC. Monero on its own could not do this.
I do my best to use Bitcoin (and Lightning, even with having to unfortunately use Strike as a custodian solution) as it was originally devised, and not as the Saylor/statist (what's the difference?) faggots want it to be.
If I didn't believe in this, I wouldn't have made my life unimaginably more difficult in order to have inflation-resistant money.
Ecash isn't Bitcoin. Virtually no one accepts ecash.