Yeah, I get that.  We really went through most of the last bull market with the mempools clearing.  I guess still like 2% or less of the world use bitcoin. But I think if there's any utility that can be added to (or reclaimed back to) bitcoin, the fees would be great.  Bitcoin is #1, but if you go with tx fees (as Paul says "paying customers") Bitcoin is #4, behind Ethereum, Binance, and Uniswap.  Those are "gas" currencies so it's comparing apples to oranges, but I think Bitcoin can be so good that we can still be able to compare apples to oranges and still like the orange coin better.

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It is the game theory risks and long range scenarios I am most interested in. I can appreciate right now that it would provide some utility, but it is hard to predict out what will evolve from it.