>Monero or Hive will get an order of magnitude more push back than Bitcoin.
Idk about Hive, but the usual criticisms like "wastes energy" and "used only for speculation" are harder to use against Monero. My observation is that Monero is more palatable to people outside of the crypto community than most other coins. Of course, there's "used by criminals" narrative, but it also applies to secure messengers and tools like Tor.
>Have yet to find a non-crypto non-fiat micropayment system that didn't stink incredibly of scam
GNU Taler depends on fiat but still might be interesting: https://taler.net