Instead of a BTC price chart, all we really need is a green vertical progress bar that says "new generation of money loading" and when it reaches 100% we will know that everyone in the world is using BTC instead of fiat.
at a minimum you need btc for value and a shit coin like doge for p2p
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/1JdC6Xg3ajT3rge3FgPNSYYFpmf53Vbtjelook at the business done with that address
695 coins in and out a total of 80,000,000 usd today
Are you 100% certain the p2p issue cannot be fixed? I get the volatility has been a problem but it seems that it has decreased over time and might continue to decrease as more and more adoption happens. Fees and confirmation latency are the main issues currently as I understand it?
And whatever happened to the optimism for layer 2 solutions? Or atomic swaps between compatible blockchains? I do not mind swapping Bitcoin for Monero for all my microtransactional needs. Hell, I would even go for Litecoin. Even if that's just a work-around until we get a better solution.
Later, too, is doing great. Zapping people on nostr is almost foolproof and lots of value goes around there.
Aqua Wallet is an extremely interesting project that works super well.
Misty Breeze is similar to Aqua, not exactly the same. It also works quite well.
If one is technically minded, setting up a lightning node is not terribly hard, I have converted over to Umbral recently.
And Wallet of Satoshi is promising a self-custodial version that works just as smoothly as their original for the states, which is kind of awesome.
A lot of interesting work is being done with chaumian mints and those are going to enable interesting ways to do payments as well.
Layer 2 has not turned out the way we thought it would. Lightning is ended up being more of a backbone protocol for larger nodes, and then a lot of these service providers are building really cool wallets on top, many of which are fully nonscastodial and work like a charm. I really am very impressed with Aqua.