> Us, those not yet in your choir, I presume.
Glad you purport to speak on everyone's behalf. The misuse of the pronoun "we" is so prevalent that it affects the way people understand the world. "We" is a collective pronoun, but the collective it refers to must have a boundary. In this case, the boundary must be, at maximum, the people reading this thread. At minimum, you are using the plural pronoun when you should be using the singular, because "We" just means "I".
> Whatever your ideology surely you can agree on the basic fact that most active use of BTC is still of a rather transient nature. In and out. This means participants generally (outside of passive saving-speculating) have little inherent need for high prices and the astronomical energy use that goes along.
Saving isn't transient. It's a long term goal. The speculating that goes along with it is just a natural market phenomenon. People want to earn by betting on short term future demand.
> Coiners of course want practically useful solutions, just not quite as much as they want to get richer.
I'm not all that fussed about getting richer. I'd rather not get poorer though, which is the effect which will be achieved by storing my earnings in dollars, because there is a deliberate and permanent policy of dollar devaluation outside of my control.
Saving is a practical solution, and the only one that Bitcoin needs. People will develop other practical solutions for spending and trading bitcoin because they themselves want to increase their bitcoin holdings, and they want to incentivize others to spend their Bitcoin so that they have the opportunity to obtain more.
