I presume you are not familiar with the Lightning Network? I suggest reading https://github.com/lnbook/lnbook

You should try Bitcoin Cash (BCH), the version of Bitcoin that actually works as it was meant to. It has subcent fees by design.

Ive been using bitcoin since 2011ish i think, one of the first few people on bitcoin-otc first trade was $40 for 10 bitcoins (paid with paypal transfer funily enough) i must have bought and sold hundreds over years, still have few dozen

In some cases yeh bitcoin has not lived up to initial promises, literally first line of satoshis paper is no longer valid, but it could yet be like early internet and take off (or something similar)

i wouldnt write it off but yeh you are also right its not what we thought it be, the whole store of value thing these days instead of currency

> Ps. I owned crypto until 2017 and then sold it because i didn't see a valid use-case.

Do you think maybe you have some biases against it now, because it would have made you a lot of money if you held on to it?

Nobody is paying 22$ for a 1$ product, I'm not sure how you can even remotely come to that while ignoring all the layer 2 developments.

There's a ton of really useful projects happening on DeFi, you can see the blockchain data for yourself and see that a lot of people are using it, maybe you don't see the use case, but that doesn't mean there isn't any.