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> - uses between 300x and 10000x less energy for the same security as Bitcoin

right, but instead of mostly electricity being poured into mining, now it's hard drive components. It's still the same amount of dollars (resources) poured into mining. The only difference is shifting it from opex to capex.

>- has the most number of farmers/validators of any blockchain

valid point, although I wouldn't really chalk it up to it being "better engineered". bitcoin supports validation at the miner level (ie. you can do the validation, rather than trusting/relying on the pool) as well via getblocktemplate. It's just not widely adopted for whatever reason.