> Clearly not, with slow settlement and high transaction costs The secondary and tertiary layers are still not worked out yet. I don't follow lightning closel

> Clearly not, with slow settlement and high transaction costs The secondary and tertiary layers are still not worked out yet. I don't follow lightning closely and I'll take your word that it is in a miserable state, however I don't see a fundamental problem. But even now I'm pretty sure Bitcoin is faster and cheaper than anything else for settling high value irreversible, remote transactions. I think Bitcoin has plenty of potential but right now it's at a point where speculators are vastly outnumbering any other uses. So its potential non speculative uses are invisible or even hindered. It's also hindered because it doesn't have the backing of a powerful government forcing its use upon its citizens. The fundamentals are all still valid and nothing you mentioned proves that it cannot ever work as a currency. One that isn't controlled by a central bank and fractional reserve system that continually erodes the currency's purchasing power.