[tobias3]

Bitcoin is a negative-sum game. You can only get out what others put in and miners continuously have to pay for electricity and chips to keep the game going.

It is also a dump speculative asset. I'd even claim Tesla stock is better as speculative asset, at least it may be a positive-sum game.

Caveat: I am one of those people OP mentioned.

[derangedHorse]

Maybe seeing you’re argument as a template will have you recognize the weakness of your argument:

{{currency}} is a negative-sum game. You can only get out what others put in and {{entities}} continuously have to {{maintain infrastructure}}.

An actual argument could be derived from the last point by asking whether the cost of maintaining the infrastructure is worth it. This is something the market decides.

[tobias3]

My argument was specific to the use case as speculative asset. Currencies usually have other uses.