My main reasons: - Private by default. With most other cryptos you can see all transactions on the blockchain (although you'll only see address hashes instead

My main reasons: - Private by default. With most other cryptos you can see all transactions on the blockchain (although you'll only see address hashes instead of names). - ASIC resistant POW. Meaning you don't need specialized hardware to mine it but can do it with your PC (assuming it's fairly powerful). - Transactions are cheap and fairly fast. - Development is focused on the primary use-case of making transactions for payments, instead of making a "decentralized computing network" or similar.