And? I don't have to agree with the """ hardcore crypto bros """ either. Both extremes can be harmful.

In using crypto, you are exporting the wealth of your country to those miners in other countries through transaction fees. The more you use it, the more of your country's wealth is exported (which in turn means that the country's currency is worth less and accelerates the inflation that is experienced).

And it is about $100 per BTC transaction that the miners extract (most of it in form of the coinbase mining reward, some of it in the form of fees).