> Or are you saying that holding bitcoin for 1-30 days is "regular usage" ?
Holding money for 1-30 days is regular usage. You get paid, you spend it over a month on wages and expenses.
Bitcoin originally promised to be usable for that. Some companies actually paid you in BTC, some stores actually allowed you to pay with BTC. The original goal was to use BTC like a checking account.
Lightning is great at replacing the BTC network itself for transactions, but it doesn’t help much at allowing BTC to accomplish this original task of matching or exceeding fiat money in actual day to day usability.
This is (roughly speaking) the description of a currency, isn't it? I would point out that as a store of value, bitcoin's up
> [BTC's] original task of matching or exceeding fiat money in actual day to day usability.
I don't think BTC was intended to serve in the way you're describing. I believe it was designed to neuter/obviate at-large Central Banks (e.g. money printers, debasers of currency, economic overlords). In this way, it's gone a long way towards the intended purpose. Furthermore, as a base-layer, it's been extended considerably to support day-to-day usability. Further, as a Store of Value, it's done a lot better than USD in almost every time-scale you can compare, and all the ones that matter.
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The main properties:
Double-spending is prevented with a peer-to-peer network.
No mint or other trusted parties.
Participants can be anonymous.
New coins are made from Hashcash style proof-of-work.
The proof-of-work for new coin generation also powers the
network to prevent double-spending.
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I would also like to add that the original point of money is not to support a month's worth of planning... the point of money is to support planning across planting seasons and lifetimes. Wages and wage-work came along long after money was invented.
Don't quote the old magic to me, I was there when it was written.
And Bitcoin was treated and hyped as a true replacement for Euro or US Dollar. And we hyped it as well. Online stores started accepting BTC, some companies started paying wages in BTC, the first BTC ATMs showed up.
Dogecoin started their tip bot with a tipping culture.
Neither Doge nor BTC absolutely were seen as investment vehicle or store of value, but instead as payment system and true currency.
I remember discussion about the volatility, and claims that with more and more people using it, its value would change less and less and it'd stabilize at about a BTC per Euro cent.
Are you saying that keeping some amount of bitcoin tied up in a LN channel is painful?
Or are you saying that holding bitcoin for 1-30 days is "regular usage" ?
Also, you completely ignored the point about running a node.