> The community here is so oblivious to the characteristics that make Bitcoin the best monetary system we could have invented that I can only believe people haven't really thought things through.
Give me the elevator pitch. I'm not in tech [0] so treat me as you would a grandmother. Average speaking speed is ~150 words/minute. Say the average elevator ride is ~30 seconds. So, in ~75 words, tell me what the nuance is as you would say to a grandmother? That fair?
To be clear, I'm honestly not trying to be snarky. Sorry if it comes off that way. I can only multitask through this meeting so well.
[0] I'm in biotech, so I can hang with you all and be a hacky programmer, but most in depth discussion go over my head.
If you were to create the best monetary system, how would it be? The answer to that is a system with a policy that simply doesn't change. That's the best system because predictability is the only quality that matters when you are storing value. The best governments in the world try their best to achieve that, but they always fail. How then can we achieve that? With decentralization. That's a very expensive, inefficient and slow way to go about things. But it is all that matters if we want to build a sane monetary system, which doesn't allow anyone to change its emission rate. No "crypto" achieves that same trust we all have about the decentralized quality of Bitcoin. That's why they don't matter.
> which doesn't allow anyone to change its emission rate
Bitcoin changes its emission rate every 4 years.
A fixed emission rate is far more desirable. Something like 1 coin per second forever looks more attractive and immutable than bitcoin's arbitrary capped emission, that doesn't guarantee security in the long term when block subsidy runs out.