It was getting pretty long already, but I forgot I wanted to end with a paragraph saying something like the following:

I think the incentives to use Bitcoin as a medium-of-exchange become exponentially stronger with each new person doing it. Take "Bitcoin Beach" in El Salvador, for example. In that town, if a merchant is not excepting Bitcoin for payment, they are hurting their business. This is because so many people there demand it. There is A LOT of support to help onboard new businesses. People in the US think Bitcoin and Lightning are "hard to use", but that's only because there aren't enough people doing it. It becomes easier when there is more support and usage. Lightning is amazing. We could be using Bitcoin as a medium of exchange TODAY, and it would be faster and cheaper than any alt-coin. And with Core upgrades such as CTV, it will be even easier, faster, and cheaper to use. But these things will only happen if Bitcoiners push it to happen instead of sit around passively stacking. It's not going to happen if Store-of-value is the only way it's used. The idea that Bitcoin might not be the end of central banks should terrify us. Bitcoiners should push for CTV and/or other small upgrades to help Bitcoin scale, and they should want to sacrifice a little by trying their hardest to use Bitcoin for payments more frequently.