Dollars and every other fiat currency have no intrinsic value. Bitcoin provably takes energy and work to create. Bitcoin can be sent to anyone in the world without spending any fiat. Would you like to try an argument based in reality?

My local grocery store only accepts one currency out of the hundreds (?) that currently exist.

Bitcoin is easier to track, the ledger is public, but it isn’t easier to control or steal.

No, it hasn’t failed its original purpose. Bitcoin is the first currency of the modern era that the state hasn’t been able to destroy. That is an amazing achievement.

That isn’t the objective reality. You may not think Bitcoin has value but the chances of you getting a full bitcoin for $0 are effectively zero.

Logically I agree.

You start with insults so I’m not going to read whatever is you wrote after that.

So you claim bitcoin is a failure because it hasn’t already supplanted state mandated currencies? Bitcoin went online in 2009. Still so early on.

People do need a place to live but the price of a home is not tethered to that. How much has housing increased over the past few years? Is this the same percentage of new people looking for housing?

No, bitcoin can be sent to anyone anywhere in the world in about 10 minutes. So despite your claims bitcoin isn’t worthless. Housing value is inflexible? That doesn’t make any sense in the slightest. We can certainly live in a house but it’s purchase price is untethered from that fact.

Bitcoin has been traded for how many years now? You can deny reality all you want but it doesn’t make it true. Do you think state mandated currencies have inherent value? Seriously?

Bitcoin is not mandated by any government and yet has managed to rise to a value of over $70k. Your response is to be insulting. Sure thing buddy. Plus your statement can literally apply to anything. Houses are only as valuable as the next idiot is willing to pay.

It seems the latest fashion is to worry about quantum computers breaking crypto, and thus breaking bitcoin, as if nothing else in the world also depends on crypto.

You may not value bitcoin but enough people do that each bitcoin is currently worth more than $70k. Value was indeed lost.

Corporations are not legally obligated to avoid risk.

Nope, a mad scientist

Yep, methane creates CO2 when burned. Atmospheric methane reacts with atmospheric OH to also make CO2 and water.

Methane was rebranded as natural gas and is used to generate electricity, heat homes, and cook food. Among other uses.

And while it’s a potent greenhouse gas it breaks down much faster than CO2 in the atmosphere

Incorrect. Methane breaks down into CO2. After it causes the atmosphere to retain significantly more heat. As CO2 it continues to contribute to climate change.