You can talk about money all you want, but I'm taking about Bitcoin, which always has been and always will be more than just money.

I think if bitcoin doesn't do everything it will die. it doesn't have to do everything on L1 but I hope that it does everything on good L2s that pay the miners and are not centralized. it needs to be able to attract enormous amounts of fee revenues to replace the block subsidy. I don't think channel maintenance on a constrained L1 will be lucrative enough to support mining forever, unless it's handled by banks, and that would destroy user freedoms.

Ever read the White Paper?

Well enough to know that it's not a holy document, is incomplete at describing the system, and is often misinterpreted by religious fanatics.

But not well enough to realize that in the paper, Bitcoin is considered only as money. Not as a repository for cat pictures. As you seem to imply.

Like I said, it's an incomplete high level document. Bitcoin whitepaper purists should note that the following things are NOT described in the whitepaper: script multisig block size addresses ASIC mining mining pools 21M coin cap decentralization 8 decimal precision 2016 block difficulty adjustment and much, much more...