The author is right.
He is making money from selling fiat infrastructure, probably shitting his pants of how much traction Bitcoin its getting and how many transactions lightning/ side chains can handle, as it will make his centralized, garbage irrelevant. With Open Source you only have to solve a problem once. When you asked a horse salesman what he thinks about cars, when they just gained traction, similar actions probably occurred. There is always some shitty salesman that wants to prevent innovations, because they are „dangerous“ and „harmful“(but just to his business).
Sending email provides utility because email has info about some aspect of reality that is of interest to the receiver.
There’s nothing that makes sure that it is something of interest, most emails are useless spam or uninteresting.
On the other hand, bitcoin that one receives provides no utility. It's just a token of investment in a Ponzi scheme. It's like if you would give me $100 and in return I would give you a paper sticker saying "Thanks".
Keep ignoring reality. It has purchasing power that you can send over the internet, in a way that no shitty centralized fiat infrastructure can, and its saved into something that has the best monetary properties invented so far.
Bitcoin is like a "Thanks" sticker in a digital form. It provides zero utility but people see value in it and that's why they purchase it.
It’s not, it has more utility than fiat payments as there is no middle man, so you have payments without a counterparty risk. It’s literally impossible to get scammed like this, while your beloved author has the power to scam people, and everything relies on trust. For this reason alone it’s priceless.
There’s people like emigrants that want to send their families and friends money at home, but most of it is eaten by banks, governments or smugglers. They exploit the poorest of the poorest, something your author isn’t mentioning. With Bitcoin you can send money trough any border, smuggler or whatever corrupt barrier there is, that is preventing your money from reaching where it should go. Something that can change the world, when poor people can potentially fully receive their money in an unconfiscatable way in the future. The technology is here, now it’s just a matter of adoption. El Salvador is starting with it, it’s a legal tender so you can use it to purchase any resource you want, guaranteed.
And it’s not like only them could use something like this, any person benefits from not having a counterparty risk, because our counterparties(financial institutions) are completely reckless in their actions and completely devalue our money and negatively impact freedom to transact. Bitcoin is the definition of utility and the purest money there is. It will just disappoint you, if you want to use ur money as toilet paper, as it won’t waste time on being things that don’t matter.