[danuker]

> and I'm pretty confident being a locally popular trading commodity amongst edge communities is not the central goal for bitcoin

Given the transaction fees needed for a distributed-enough network, and the bureaucracy needed when trading, it is not very useful as a currency, at least not for small payments, excluding Lightning.

So it's a commodity.

[thebean11]

Excluding lightning and layer 2 solutions like rollups. Why would you make those exclusions though?

[danuker]

The reason is they are not yet accepted in many places, though in fairness, they seem to grow a lot.