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.

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

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.

One could say the same about trucks being used as a status symbol but that doesn't discount their utility.