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GOG shares their thoughts on preservation in the face of payment processor crackdowns
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Ok, but who cares about the 99.9% of coins... If you're buying something, use Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is the one that's useless. It was the first crypto using very inefficient methods that don't scale well, resulting in extremly high fees, times and power consumption, which equals to consumption of entire AI industry
But it's the easiest to acquire and the most universally accepted, I've used it to buy things and it wasn't hard.
I'm not saying it's perfect, I'm not commenting on the ethical aspects, the environmental impact, any of that. Your thoughts on that are probably perfectly valid. But, if your goal is to use money that nobody can stop you from using, right now, Bitcoin is the right choice.
I mean, there is another good reason - privacy. Bitcoin is hardly private, which is the reason even dark web stopped using it and moved to privacy coins.
I mean as a buyer, use whatever coins you want, that's fine. It's not like you have to choose just one. You're only limited by what coins any given store is willing to accept. That said, Bitcoin is accepted in more places than any other crypto. Similarly, there are more people with Bitcoin accounts than any other crypto. So as a seller, if you want to offer an option that more people can use, Bitcoin also makes sense from that angle.
But honestly, do whatever you want. Really that is the strength of crypto, the freedom to make your own choice and the inability of anyone else to stop you.
Bitcoin is probably one of the worse options for regular transactions imho
Use monero, it's what bitcoin was supposed to be.