Monero is PoW like Bitcoin. There is no pre-mine or dev tax like many other cryptos. In the same ballpark node count as Bitcoin and potentially even more decentralized mining since anyone with a computer can mine it. As far as investors and promoters go that exists in every crypto including Bitcoin.
You can't use Bitcoin in a privacy-preserving way (or at least to the same degree as Monero). All transactions are transparent and public forever. The most you can hope for is clunky obfuscation.
Sounds like a posh Chelsea bird. Hi I’m Clunky, Clunky Obfus-Cation 😂
Basically this: nostr:note1gkgfxm8andl7rjuzxfzd3rnpz7xnslrj4k7vud2rqs5szffffd4q3d0avr
There is no "viable level of privacy" on Bitcoin. All transactions are transparent and public forever.
"...it would require both parties to buy/sell Monero (in most cases through centralized exchanges)..."
Apparently you've never heard of DEXs and that Monero is delisted from almost all major centralized exchanges
"...there is little to no need for another asset or currency."
The market clearly disagrees with you
As for the rest...
"As an absolute concept, economic scarcity of a resource implies only that it is not available in limitless supply. Furthermore, if no person demands even a scarce resource, it has no value. A scarce resource under demand is property. No degree of difficulty in producing the resource is implied."
https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki/Scarcity-Fallacy
