No you are incorrect sorry.
Nothing in the world is free.
The money you keep in the bank... it is not free either. 
I moved money from my savings account to checking account and the bank charged me 30$ to do it. I was only *allowed* to make 4 transactions a quarter of this kind... and the 5th was 30$.

After that I said screw this and went all in on Bitcoin.
Take a trip to your local grocery store, take one look at the prices compared to 3-4 years ago and it's obvious why we need Bitcoin. Government money, even the Dollar which is probably the best one, is just a promise and a piece of paper.

With regard to transaction fees, especially on lightning, and with regard to waiting times... nothing in the world is free and nothing in the world is perfect.

Bitcoin just happens to be undervalued as the least dirty shirt, in a world of dirty shirts and I believe eventually the world will figure that out.

The issue is the large majority of the world does not give a fuck about it being decentralized. Nor do they care about anonymity. They will take one look at the fact it costs money to transact (50 cents may be small to you but to others especially those in poverty it's a turn off, and lightning still has SOME fee, even one sat is too much) and say "why would I pay to transact this when I can pay in fiat for free?" They'll also say in regards to layer one, "why would i want to wait an unspecificed amount of time hoping my tx is confirmed when i can transact in fiat instantly?" 

Do you get it now?

AJ1992

It's not perfect. It's nowhere near flawless.

But I remember, quite vividly as a matter of fact, the Starbucks I paid 5$ for that was only 3$ just a few years ago and it's like...

Yes BTC isn't perfect but it's good enough and it's the best, PoW decentralized blockchain. I live in the real world, and to the extent Bitcoin/any blockchain is adopted for real-world payments, spending and saving Bitcoin is far, far ahead of anything else. Nothing else comes even remotely close.

bitcoin

Being a HODLER sucks. it's not what people think it is

028559d218

It's not perfect. It's nowhere near flawless.
But I remember, quite vividly as a matter of fact, the Starbucks I paid 5$ for that was only 3$ just a few years ago and it's like...

Yes BTC isn't perfect but it's good enough and it's the best, PoW decentralized blockchain. I live in the real world, and to the extent Bitcoin/any blockchain is adopted for real-world payments, spending and saving Bitcoin is far, far ahead of anything else. Nothing else comes even remotely close.

I'm sorry