<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lordofgibbons</author><text>The whole point of monero is that it&amp;#x27;s none of other people&amp;#x27;s business what I buy with my money.</text><parent_chain><item><author>forty</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m curious, what are people purchasing with it?</text></item><item><author>EscapeFromNY</author><text>Monero is perhaps the only cryptocurrency that both works as advertised, and has gathered a self-sustaining userbase.&lt;p&gt;No $20 transaction fees. No influencer pump and dumps. No VCs who need to extract value. No fork drama. No unrealistic roadmap. No charismatic leader boiling the frog with scope creep. It&amp;#x27;s not trying to be an investment. It&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;actually&lt;/i&gt; private. It&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;actually&lt;/i&gt; anonymous. This is all a lot of us ever wanted from a cryptocurrency.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mastering Monero: The future of private transactions [pdf] (2019)</title><url>https://masteringmonero.com/book/Mastering%20Monero%20First%20Edition%20by%20SerHack%20and%20Monero%20Community.pdf</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>renata</author><text>Mullvad accepts VPN payments in Monero.</text><parent_chain><item><author>forty</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m curious, what are people purchasing with it?</text></item><item><author>EscapeFromNY</author><text>Monero is perhaps the only cryptocurrency that both works as advertised, and has gathered a self-sustaining userbase.&lt;p&gt;No $20 transaction fees. No influencer pump and dumps. No VCs who need to extract value. No fork drama. No unrealistic roadmap. No charismatic leader boiling the frog with scope creep. It&amp;#x27;s not trying to be an investment. It&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;actually&lt;/i&gt; private. It&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;actually&lt;/i&gt; anonymous. This is all a lot of us ever wanted from a cryptocurrency.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mastering Monero: The future of private transactions [pdf] (2019)</title><url>https://masteringmonero.com/book/Mastering%20Monero%20First%20Edition%20by%20SerHack%20and%20Monero%20Community.pdf</url></story>