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Rikke, why do you have so much hate for XMR?
Fair question, so I'll answer it honestly.
I think it's a scamcoin being pushed by a handful of people. I think there is a strategy and goal, and so far it is going well.
I will never understand that logic. You can look at the code. You can analyse the tech. You can analyse the current price/market-cap relative to the necessary price/market-cap if the coin were to achieve usage in the domains for which its tech are suited. You can analyse the probability of that happening. You can then decide, for yourself, honestly, if the coin makes sense for you to buy or not.
Things can only be a "scam" if the tech is obscured. But it's open-source....so....??
Maybe you think there are better coins than Monero. Maybe you think the code is sloppy/buggy. Maybe you think the underlying features that Monero has are ultimately not that interesting. That's all perfectly rational. Calling it a "scam", on the other hand, just demonstrates your own ignorance and inability to rationally evaluate anything for yourself. You're coming at this with an attitude of having to rely on other people's opinions, presumably because you can't do the due diligence to form your own. That's the only possible background from which calling anything open-source a "scam" can make sense.
Funny, your attitude reminds me very much of all the people who don't "trust" bitcoin because they don't know who Satoshi is. What if Satoshi is the NSA? Or pirateat40? Well, guess what....it doesn't matter....the code is the code.