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crypto works great as a currency that is difficult to tie to individuals, not as an investment.
How many people use it with its intended purpose vs people using it as an "investment"?
Wishful thinking won't make it less of a scam
Exactly. Stocks weren't meant to be traded as a way to make money. They were meant to represent ownership in a company that payed out dividends.
But then finance bros being finance bros, figured out they could gamble against a stock's value and potentially make even more money.
Then it became normalized.
At least there are rules now and some oversite. It used to be a literal secret group of men, in a room, deciding value and who gets what.
How many people buy houses as an investment instead of living in them, how many people buy oil as an investment instead of using it for fuel, how many people buy gold and silver as an investmen instead of using them for jewelry or industrial applications, how many people buy dram as an investment instead of putting it in their computers... I guess it's all a scam then? What a dumbass take. Besides, store of value is one of the intended purposes of a crypto currency, I don't see how you can hold against it the fact that more people are opening their eyes to how valuable this property of crypto really is in the face of their life saving being vaporized by the money printer.
M2 - money supply, USD
Bitcoin supply
Monero supply
Many of them, yes.
Not sure what you are trying to show with your graphs, but if you cannot use bitcoins to buy everyday stuff, then it's value is still tied to the economy and every advantages crypto has is almost all moot because you can't pay rent or buy groceries or a new car. So it's your local currency with extra steps, and good fucking luck using your coins in a case of emergency.
Its value is directly linked to the economy, if the Fed is printing money, your crypto coins will lose value.
One could say the same about trucks being used as a status symbol but that doesn't discount their utility.
These people still use the truck as a truck, even though it's superfluous.
Most people hold bitcoin hoping it will gain USD value, so that they can trade it back and be rich. Nobody is buying their groceries with their cryptowallet
I've seen quite a few people online with crypto donation wallets that presumably use it to get anonymous donations to pay rent with
"works great" as in... how? it's all way too slow and volitile and cumbersome to handle the global financial system, so nobody actually uses it as currency. in what sense does it "work great?" in theory it works great, but in practice, not so much. nobody wants to pay their rent with bitcoin if the price has shifted down 20% by the time it gets processed.
in practice it's also really easy to link your crypto transfers to you. it only takes one opsec failure and you're not anonymous anymore. so i really don't think it works "great."
Etherum settles in 12 seconds and can handle >30k transactions per second across it's layer 2s, by 2030 it aims to be capable of 10k tps on the main chain alone and enable protocol native shielded pools for private transactions.
Monero is already private and one of the most stable cryptos out there. It takes ~1 min for a single conf, but because there is no replace by fee feature, you can accept 0 conf tx for small payments.
Compared to fiat big cryptos like ₿, Ɱ, ETH tend to appreciate in value, so even if you were using them for payments without looking at the price, over a longer period, for most people the average they paid would be lower than if they used fiat, which only ever goes down in value.
look at any of the websites selling hrt without doctors' involvement