As a business I would say that, unfortunately, many of contractors want to get paid in fiat. Hence for me BTC/USD and BTC/EUR means something.
However, I do agree with you that long term, holding BTC is way better to holding fiat.
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I think the desire for fiat is simply because that’s the system we are in and everything is priced in USD (in the US). Nobody in their right mind would desire USD nor opt to use it if it wasn’t legally required
This is valid point as well. However, I personally know people who are not (willing to?) understand #Bitcoin and issues it aims to solve.
Personally, for me it looks like people used fiat too much and they are programmed to believe in it despite initial cryptocurrency idea being superior. Sure, implementation might not be ideal, but it constantly improves.
People simply don’t care enough and would rather vote and blame/worship politicians for the problems/to “fix” the problems.
But also shit-coins don’t help, especially after the FTX stuff, people group in Bitcoin with “crypto” because “isn’t it just the most popular crypto?” Bottom line is that people are just uneducated. In a world where everyone has access to an endless amount of information, it feels like people are dumber now than they were 15 years ago.