[clu3l355]

>I can't really think of many reasons why you would use crypto to pay for a coffee or a sandwich if you live in the West (or frankly, even most developing nations).

Credit card companies/banks sell your transaction data for a lot of money, and plenty of unscrupulous players can garner a lot about your life from such data. While BTC is only pseudonymous, it can provide some shielding from this.

[regulation_d]

These credit card companies also charge 3% tx fees. Crypto fees can be much, much lower.

Also coins like Dash have some nice anonymization tools built-in.