Can I buy a pizza with it or pay my bills with it? Can my employer pay me in it? Or is it just an “emperor’s new clothes” thing? I just don’t see the tangible value in it. Rhetorical questions, BTW, I know you can’t buy a pizza with it, at least outside of some edge cases that I’m not aware of.

I thought what made money money was everyone agreed it was valuable and was willing to exchange it for goods and services directly. I don’t see that with crypto.

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    16 hours ago

    You can use Monero to buy things anonymously. Whilst not perfect, it makes it significantly harder to identity or trace you. Other than that, not really, that’s the only real use case for crypto in my opinion, for privacy

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      +1 for Monero for sure. I wouldn’t even say its just good for buying drugs like some others suggested.

      https://monerica.com/ is made for you to find stuff to buy with monero. You can find almost anything there including phsical wares like clothes, food, and also lots of online services lile hosting providers for example. I even saw an accounting firm there.

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        If you’re able to use cash, then that works too. Unfortunately, you can’t insert cash into your computer though, lol