> "For the first time ever, a computer owns currency!" one youtuber said without the slightest effort to explain why I should care. The truth is for most peop

> "For the first time ever, a computer owns currency!" one youtuber said without the slightest effort to explain why I should care. The truth is for most people, there's no reason to care. Maybe there will be in the future, but not yet. Most people aren't looking for an investment vehicle, a replacement for USD, a way to challenge central banks, or a way to perform zero-trust financial transactions. Most people want to do what they already do in day-to-day life but with less overhead costs or more ease of use. Bitcoin does nothing for this: on-chain transaction fees are too high, lightning network is not there yet, very few places offer support for btc payments, and so on. All these problems add up to a simple conclusion that btc is not useful for the average person, so instead proponents have to sell a majestic vision of the future or a get-rich-quick scheme. Most go for the latter.