You shills pretend that bitcoin has a captive audience monopoly over every transaction on the planet and doesn't have to face ANY competition. Your transactions were essentially free at a block reward of 50, but let's say they're 'only' $200 at a block reward of 0 while not being subsidized any longer. Since bitcoin is completely centralized, where in the flying fuck is the value proposition in paying $200 or more for a transaction on a centralized service that arbitrarily blacklists your non-fungible shitcoins when you can use a different centralized service for 1/100th the price or less? There's many services that even have free transactions between users.
Bitcoin is a garbage store of value and can never defeat silver and gold as the base of Exter's Pyramid, so the only trait anyone would actually be interested in is either:
A) using it as a pump and dump scam
B) using it for regulatory arbitrage (which is fast being stamped out by the day with govt regulations)
C) using it as a cheap payment system that would cost them less than using a normal bank or other financial services entity (not exactly going to happen with on-chain transactions and LN is an unworkable train wreck unless you make it completely centralized)
Again, no one here has said BTC has a monopoly on every transaction. In fact your delusions are coming back, I think you are reading what isn't on the screen, but what is in your head!
We want competition, this will make BTC better, force developers to think outside the box and develop tech the like you can not even imagine.
The bus ride was essentially free as well. But there were transaction fees during the 50BTC reward periods.
No one is asking you to use BTC go use your shit coin, but don't assume you know what will happen with BTC, don't assume miners will just dump BTC chain and mine elsewhere.
Do you even mine BTC? Do you think we are making shitloads of BTC?
Again you assuming $200 for an onchain transaction. Then I will assume it is for a $1Billion movement. I am fine with that! Or you can go with PayPal and get charged 2.6%?