Ok yeah DB has been woefully underfunded for decades thanks to auto industry lobbying and so now half the trains are late or cancelled, but the fact that you even can get from any city to any other city by train and then get to anywhere within each city by bus/tram is mind blowing to some of us that didn't grow up in Europe. There are lots of places where you basically can't live without a car, it's insane.
Yeah i suppose any form of payment that you have to keep secret for some reason is a reason to use crypto, though I struggle to imagine needing that if you're not doing something dodgy
avoiding scams for p2p transactions
Wat. Crypto is not good at solving that, it's in fact much much worse than traditional payment methods. There's a reason scammers always want to be paid in crypto
boycotting the banking system
What specifically are you boycotting? The money that backs your crypto (i.e. that you bought it with) still sits in a bank account somewhere and continues to support the banks. All you're boycotting then are payments, but those are usually free for consumers (many banks lose money on them) so you're not exactly "sticking it to the man" by not using them. Evem if you were somehow hurting banks by using crypto, if you think the people that benefit from you using crypto (crypto exchange owners and billionaires that own crypto etc.) are less evil than goverment regulated banks, you're deluded.
What about avoiding international payment fees?
You'll spend more money using crypto for that, not less
Currently enjoying Brandon Sanderson's various Cosmere books a ton too, although book 5 of stormlight is a bit disappointing it's still an excellent series
I love the fact that they just gloss over the fact that all the sodium will FUCKING EXPLODE if you even get so much as a crack in one of your fuel containers or the battery or any kind of leak in the connections etc. Definitely not keen to be on an airplane with that on board!
Decentralised currencies are fundamentally too expensive to operate, while providing dangerously little safety and a far worse user experience than fiat.
The scam part is the idea that any crypto coin is an asset with inherent value, when in fact the price is created entirely by new investment, in other words it's just a ponzi scheme
I have to use Chrome for work and this whole thing is such a non issue, I switched to uBO Lite and have noticed zero difference.
There are plenty of reasons not to use Chrome but having to use uBOL instead of uBO isn't one of them