OK I just bought 3k beam and 1k grin, got bogged, took a massive 20% loss
I can say Beam is very easy to use, very easy to setup, transactions always go through very quick, but I just can't rest on the fact that apple juice is handing a "privacy token" for me. I just don't like drinking apple juice.
I tried to mine it with my GTX1080 but I only got like 17sols/s with cuda miner, which is supposed to produce 40+sols/s, I don't know if this is some kind of cripple mine, probably not but bigger bull💩 were pulled off in history by their assosiates so I can't bank on that.
Grin is very difficult to set up, you need to have a server port open or you need to use a proxy transaction service that you can trust.
Even if you've done all those, the addressing of Grin is built on top of https, which requires certificate chains, which lead straight back to the certificate authorities, which is bull💩. You have no anonymity or addressability if you don't run your own CA, if you don't use the "official" CAs, search engines won't even index your sites that's what a racket it is. One day somebody is going to do a CA trick and your Grins will be redirected or logged.
But I got Grin setup anyways, the wallets(Niffler Grin++ wallet317) are super janky, Grin wallets are just barely working, barely. Transaction fees are high, you can't bid transaction fee, the broadcast on the network is just so slow and wallets need 10 confirmations fixed minimum for UTXO input validation. Compared to beam this is terrible.
Although I am wary of the orange juice, I shill Beam more than I shill Grin, because Grin is just barely working and Beam is flawless in use.