Its only "use" is to artificially inflate the total crypto market cap by effectively providing another source of leverage to crypto coin traders. And no, it is

Its only "use" is to artificially inflate the total crypto market cap by effectively providing another source of leverage to crypto coin traders. And no, it is not at all like borrowing against your house. You can live in a house, even if you secure a loan with it. If living in your house is your primary use case for your house, which is the case for a lot of people, that's totally fine. You cannot "live" inside of your BTC. They are a token of value that is effectively useless to you if you cannot do the only thing that you can possibly do with a token of value: spend it for something else you desire to have.