He excluded popular addresses and I presume is not including exchange volume which is internal to that system, its not recorded on the blockchain till it exits the exchange to another address.
The same coins being exchanged on the blockchain by different users is monetary velocity which is very high for bitcoin I believe and it adds value to the market cap of the whole system. Each transaction has a purpose, we cant assume everyone is pretending to have a purpose to their use of bitcoin.
If bitcoin is reliably conveying value across the globe and for really low cost, no foreign exchange fees is really useful. This is a product with an easy to see utility to it, it literally saves me money to use bitcoin and its amazing if I can find another user to exchange value with. Neither of us needs to be paying bank fees. Everytime that happens its reducing costs, improving value for bitcoin I think. Isnt that just normal considered use for anyone in the world, nothing complicated to argue about.
Last time I used a bank to pay somebody 3,000 miles away they ended costing me 7% fees, incredible they can do this but it was my mistake to bother using them. It was a USA company and I was sending dollars but apparently they didnt like it or it should have been cheaper
At this time, bitcoin value is 100% speculation, it's nothing more than gambling. Maybe someday people will actually use it for what it was designed to be used for - spending. Maybe then, it will have gained some inherent value as a tool. Now? it's the joke of the outside world, and a gamble for anyone playing with it.
I would be very, very happy to take yours or anybody else's dirty worthless fiat off your hands. Let me know your Paypal address and I will send a request. We both know that won't happen though, because we know you are full of shit. The USD is about to enter a period of deflation, fyi.
Depends where you live but bitcoin can be more stable then the available national currency. Nobody would refuse the dirty worthless bitcoin either, if its free its good. The USD has inflation higher then its national base rate of interest, this rate cannot be raised in line with inflation as it is linked to 20 trillion of debt. Much of this debt is short term, the government cannot pay its budget outgoings without issuing more debt, increasing the ceiling to its debt in order to pay the debt.
I also think this is straight forward, its unlikely either political party will return the fiscal budget to surplus, will run a trade surplus, will repay the debt or will be able to raise interest rates above inflation. USD mostly relies on foreign use and holders of its currency in order to continue a stable course, its unknown how that will result but I think the currency will be weak not self determined.
If you earn and hold a weak currency, hedging your bets with another less impaired asset is quite a sensible gamble. Most buy a house but a small amount of bitcoin for cash isnt unwise if its usable and practical and it is