Agreed. The relevant point, to me, has always been that CCs never needed to work perfectly for the payment use case, they just had to work well enough to be a

Agreed. The relevant point, to me, has always been that CCs never needed to work perfectly for the payment use case, they just had to work well enough to be a viable alternative (warts and all). The fact that some of them do fill this role and have since their creation, namely bitcoin, is what makes me pay attention to the space.