sad but true---check out the speculation board. lots of guys in there have delusions about how wall street works. they think it'll be a mad dash to buy up all our bags lol! i've tried many times to talk about the effects of paper bitcoins and rehypothecation but it all seems to fall on deaf ears.
I don't think the world us ready for Bitcoin. But that's cool because I don't think Bitcoin is ready for he world either.
Simply put, Bitcoin doesn't scale. LN and Segwit greatly increased the scaling. And block size will likely increase in the future. Maybe even block frequency too?
i'm pretty sure the question of increasing block frequency was put to rest years ago. it would increase transaction throughput, but at the cost of increasing orphaning rates and increasing the inflation rate. i think bitcoin's inflation curve was faster than ideal to begin with. since fees need to eventually replace inflation, it would be better for inflation to taper off as gradually as possible, giving more time for adoption to take hold (so fee revenue increases)