Thank you so much for this post. That's exactly what I was trying to say. Words mean things... and in my opinion there is 'confusion' exactly because of what you stated, all these words are used interchangeably and none of them are used correctly.

So the public never knows what to think, the general public is confused, and trading to get more fiat... somehow becomes the Bitcoin 'meta' because the "sucker is going up" (TM).

No that's not the meta here on Stacker News... but it is becoming/or has become the perception generally. If it's Bitcoin the Money then that means using it as money, or at least wanting to with sincere effort.

Instead it feels like Trading, Scamming, Deceiving, Misrepresenting, and Buy the Rumor Sell the News based on the rec of your fav 'crypto' influencer.

If that 'influencer' really wanted Bitcoin or anything else to "take off" and go "to the moon" they would encourage folks to spend it so that Bitcoin becomes an MoE. But instead it is all exchange-rate speculation while sitting on le toilet. Let's call a spade a spade.