[jollybean]

"Knowing that an asset will remain scarce, its issuance predictable, and that I can store it securely at extremely low cost, is very valuable."

You can achieve this any number of ways and it has nothing to do with currency or money. FYI Gold, which you can buy a million different ways.

But since prices are crazy volatile, and it could be worth $0 tomorrow, it can't be used as currency, and it makes a terrible store of value.

For every 'practical reason' to use a crypto, there are already many other better solutions.

The only 'real reason' people buy them is because they want to make money flipping it and that's it.