if these people care so much about the monetary usage why does the mempool look like this? y'all need to stop LARPing and transact, the spam problem sorts itself out if that happens as you pointed out

Unfortunately this is a natural result of several dominant narratives like "never spend your bitcoin" and "ETFs are safer than self custody."

Adoption occurs in steps. Store of value is first. Most people have to want a thing before it can become a means of exchange because people don't exchange for things they don't want. Then once everyone trades with it, it can become a unit of account.

It's my node, I don't have to relay garbage & I don't have to include it in blocks that I mine. I also don't have to update to code that invites more of what I don't want or that prevents me from trying to exclude it.

nope garbage should be cleaned up before it rots low value with high cost

Indeed, you're free to do all those things ☺️

Maybe. The steps to adoption have been debated since Bitcoin's inception. Narratives shift over the cycles and no one really knows what will end up as the dominant use case. Only way to find out is to wait and see.

What I described are just the basic & rather self evident steps of something becoming money. This is most likely going to take more than a generation (if people can refrian from screwing it up). That's why it is SO important to recognize the *sensitive dependence on initial conditions* and not nudge things in the wrong direction.