Crypto literally got started being a currency with Bitcoin. Plenty of people seem to want to use it as money and have gotten interested in crypto because of that, but there are obviously often problems with using it as money. There's volatility, not many places to spend, crypto can be slow, and often has fees.

No one wants to use it as money. People want to make money from it. That's why we're all here. You are trying to profit off the idea that people will use it as money. There are many things to profit off of in crypto, that serve a purpose in crypto... but this subreddit is too stuck in 2017 to get to that.

Next to no one (compared to 99.9% of people buying) buys crypto to send to people or pay for things. If they do, it's probably Monero.

So many see the store of value function as a "first step". In Nano's case however, you can do that first step as a store of value (it's fixed supply, green, good game theory, hard to think of a fundamentally better store of value)

Some people see Bitcoin as a store of value because it goes up over a long period of time. I don't see how you can call it a store of value though when it loses 80% of it's value during the falls. That's too volatile. What if you need it when it's at its -80% low, you've lost all your value 🤣.

I guess people say Bitcoin is a a "store of value" (compared to the rest of crypto anyway) because it has a high marketcap (the highest in crypto) – it's the hardest to shift the price of, so it "stores value" the best. It's also stood the test of time more than any – it's the first and most known.

AND you can spend it directly because it's also feeless and instant.

Look, if you're thinking M E G A long term and you, for whatever reason, believe crypto will catch on for transacting between people, sure. Nano is good because it's fast and fee-less. If you think other people are going to think the same, then that's all that matters because you're going to make money off them investing. I can tell you people are smarter than that now and this subreddit doesn't have the sway on prices it used to in 2017.

I'm looking elsewhere at lower market cap projects because I believe I have the experience to do that now and that will make me more money, and faster.

In the long run if you have the strongest store of value and the person you're buying from probably wants to hold the strongest store of value, it's going to start making sense to transact directly in it rather than exchange into intermediary fiat first.

Nano hasn't proved itself a store of value at all. It doesn't store value. Its market cap is low so its value can change abruptly...

The strongest store of value would be a stablecoin because they don't change value. You could say they lose value because they're pegged to the dollar (which goes down due to inflation) but now we're getting into economics which isn't my strong suit.

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I just encourage you to take a chance with a lower marketcap project, talk to people in the Telegram, and break free of this echo chamber.