>Can we stop pretending it’s a future payment system?

This is technology, why talk about it like it can't change and be improved upon? Bitcoin has serious flaws like having zero privacy but it has demonstrated a working foundation - transacting without an intermediary and being able to hold your own money is absolutely revolutionary. Even the way things are now, $30 is a low price to be able to avoid storing your net worth in malicious banks and government/corporation property