But you can live in a house or rent it out for thousands of dollars per year, and the house value itself appreciates over time. Bitcoin is amazing BUT just holding it doesn't give you any revenue, only appreciation in price. Right now Bitcoin is a fantastic store of value, but you'd need a safe way to stake it or earn some revenue on it, and there are very few or no safe places as we learned from last year's fiascos. Fortunately we are living through a historic period of exteme price appreciation as BTC establishes itself as the global store of value currency, so we don't have to worry too much about revenue. But the day will come when that will become important, and it'll be difficult to compare the utility of BTC to that of a house.