> Not sure why you're proud of your inability to defeat a straw man!
Pardon?
Nobody is making a claim of general superiority except you. The guy you're responding to simply says THEY have more faith in one particular currency. Why is that so hard to believe? They may not be a US citizen! It's not an objective statement they're making about the quality of USD, but a personal one. The straw man you're attacking seems to be a reflection of your own general idea that USD is the 'supreme' currency and anything having comparable properties in any way is some foundational challenge to this multi-faceted strict dominance. The impure and complicated truth is that each currency has strengths and weaknesses. It is a fact that for any given application and person any given currency can be better/worse for their application. If you exist exclusively in the United States and never break any laws, I can see why this might be difficult to imagine.
For example, some people place great value on being able to transact without the enforcement of American cultural values. This quality of the currency for many is objectively a negative property. Since all currency are largely valued based on fiat anyway these days, why is it so hard to imagine people having preferences more closely aligned with groups other than one of the most geriatric and monochromatic governments on earth?
Constructing a straw man to attack while accusing someone else of doing a straw man. Folks, we love to see it.
Look this is a dumb argument to be having in 2023. These cryptocurrency projects are going to fizzle out and disappear once enough of those involved find a new grift (either ChatGPT/LLM-based things or whatever comes after that). If you want to be holding the bag when that happens then that's on you.
That leads me to a big, big tangent, completely unrelated to crypto. Recently I followed online discusions of a certain car model in comparison to well known alternatives and, no idea why actually, soccer clubs. And one thing I found funny, is to which length people go to, well, rationalize and defend their preferances. E.g. interior finish is just bad of model a compared to brand b, while obviously the fact that brand b can be had without leather interior is better because of animals suffering. Or model b is better because it can be had with a V6, while model a cannot, ignoring the fact that the majority of engines for model b are inline fours as well. That actually did sound a lot like convincing oneself that the preferance for model b is totally rational. You have similar vibes whem it comes to sport teams, it basically boils down to fanboyism.
Which is fine, which car or club people prefer doesn't have to be rational. It gets risky so, if that attitude is extended to finance.