I'm pretty sure if bitcoin's price rose the way it did over the years but fees stayed low and no changes were made, the assholes would have barged their way into the market anyway but I say fuck 'em anyhow.

And yes, bitcoin was intended to be a p2p form of cash, but:

1) That was a solution in search of a problem, i.e., there was never a public outcry for an alternative to fiat.  Even in countries that experienced hyperinflation, people just used another stable fiat currency.  Hell, even in 2015 or so most people hadn't even heard of bitcoin.

2) Right from the get-go (at least from what I've read in threads from the early years here) people were focusing on bitcoin's price, though there was discussion about merchant adoption and sales of things on the forum and, of course, on the dark web.  But as time went on and bitcoin kept rising, all that talk about companies accepting bitcoin fell off a cliff and it basically became an investment.  And I might add that nobody forced anyone to think of it that way.  It just happened.


LOL.  I've been here long enough such that I should know things like that, but I swear every time I start reading anything technical about crypto my eyes glaze over.  Not out of boredom or disinterest, mind you, but because I don't speak the language of the technical wizards who wrote the code, did the math, the cryptography, whatever.  I studied the wrong thing in college.