I didn't read the whole thread, do we know some kind of net figure for BRC-20 and it's fellow apparitions?
Here's a good resource for you to keep tabs on BRC-20 & Ordinals activity:
https://dune.com/jellyz/brc20-trackIt has come back a bit recently but I think the worst of it is over. That's the thing about degens: they get bored quickly and move on from one things to the next. After Ordinals/BRC-20, it was Doginals/DRC-20, then Ethscriptions (bring it full circle, writing NFTs in tx data rather than via smart contracts, lol). There's also been similar attempts to do the same for Polygon and even Monero, with the last one being all but wholly rejected by the user community.
But we're here in the current situation.
The easy way out of the debate is "because Satoshi", or "because the white paper".
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I truly respect your opinion, but not finding out the actual reason why saving Bitcoin makes more sense than spending it like it was a network merely for coffee transactions, makes me believe that we might have only started to scratch the surface.
I'm also still in my Bitcoin journey, and I'm not saying that I'm 100% on the right path. Perhaps I will get a new understanding and agree with you one day.
Fair enough... kudos to you for keeping an open mind through your journey and I should remind myself to attempt to do the same.