XMR is truly decentralized. - No PR person - No one to pay influencers, media or add agencies. - No one holding a majority. - No one funding or holding the control. - No one to show you the amazing performance of XMR. - No one to give you an easy on-ramp. Monero is for the DYOR guy/girl, who do not fall for flatter, media and hype. But, wants concrete evidence and basic principles checked, before committing anything. The only new adoption to XMR is your P2P marketing effort as a community member.

I like bitcoiners. But, if you are considering another coin to place some of your assets. Don't be fooled to put them in zcash (they are just waiting for your deposit) or dogecoin for that matter. Place them in your closest relatives, Monero who have proven it's worth during ups and downs through the last two years. It will reward you well (I am close to say, I promise you).

Be worried about people who wants to show their high morals and who wants's force it upon you. Connect with people who are able to put them self in the place of others. Empathy is the difference between an NPC and a human.

"The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority." Arthur Schopenhauer

As the saying goes "One time a thieve always a thieve". EU's plan to steal Russian assets is a one way street. It is easy money and they don't like the owner of the assets, that's the argument at it's core. The problem as always in politics, if you have broken a basic principle it turns in to a slippery slope very quickly. It may start with foreign nationals (as we saw with wealthy Russian individuals living abroad), now a nation state. What you will see within the next 5 years in EU (you have already seen the start of it in US and Canada, with de-banking of influencers and truck drivers) is national dissidents, critics of those in power being labeled as criminals for critical thinking. What may start as de-banking will turn into "confiscation", what used to be untouchable like pension funds will suddenly also be attractive targets. This is very predictable behavior and the whole CBDC obsession has this underlying incentive, everyone knows it in the back of their head. SO: Be sure to have crypto in a NON-custodial fashion and be sure to have enough to live a comfortable life on some remote island. What may seem far fetched today could easily be the reality of tomorrow.