This will be my first post (reply) here. Finally got my funds settled on Strike and funded my SN Lightning wallet. you get my first "zap" :) This gels with my own experience. I remember listening to Antonopoulos' lectures which have been published in the Internet of Money series which firmly planted the orange seed and which subsequently took root. Started my Bitcoin journey in 2017. Alts were popping up like mushrooms and dying off just as quickly. Bitcoin alone brought me to Bitcoin and it is the only thing in the so-called "crypto" universe worth paying attention to. It's the foundational layer of global base money, and the only thing that has a remote chance of success in this grand ambition. All of the best properties of other alts can and should be developed as Layer 2 services. Smart contracts, transaction speed, scalability, privacy, and so on, are merely apps that can work on top of Bitcoin's Adamantine foundational layer.