> Shitcoins are not the competition because payments are not the use case, settlements are,
The market says otherwise, which is why USDT-TRX has more volume than Bitcoin. This type of rhetoric is some Sayloresque store of value shit, and completely ignores what people are doing with blockchains. It is purely speculative and requires you to ignore trivially verifiable evidence.
Payments, remittances, and contracts. Those are the use cases of blockchain. You would like the real product to be settlement. Maybe it will be a long time from now. But Satoshi said blockchains were for payments, and the market seems to agree.