> So do dollars, you may as well just use them then. Bitcoiners have said this dumb shit enough that most of the world has listened, which is why all the majority of economic activity is happening on other chains. > The people that aren't degen gambling are storing value No, but the people who hold the tokens that the gambling contracts run on might be. >> Payments, remittances, and contracts. Those are the use cases > To capture value (Bitcoin) Of course, this is *very visibly* not what is happening. Because Bitcoin’s share of daily volume is now abysmal, and things like wBTC have gone down in the amount of Bitcoin they hold in escrow. Over this past decade people are increasingly abandoning Bitcoin as a store of value, primarily because it was not made to be a viable medium of exchange. People are exhausted with these kinds of cultish ideological demands of how they use their money. We simply want it to work, as currency, in a reliable, private, and fungible manner. Everything else is secondary. You want to insult my honor and say I am surrendering? Okay, fine, call me names. Whatever. You’re the totally brave rebel aligned with Saylor and Blackrock, Bitcoin is the one true settlement medium and store of value, and I am the cowardly yokel that doesn’t want to tinker with new Lightning software every week. I don’t care anymore. Nobody cares about these kinds of emotionally manipulative ad homonyms anymore, and the numbers bear that out.