Is that something we want though? Why would it be beneficial to let money be used for anything without restrictions? Society has always relied on interdependence, not complete individual freedom. You have to make the case for it.

We can create various use case scenarios, that‘s what has been done since 2009, but there is no signs that’s something we are moving towards and so far the only use cases that stuck are the ones I mentioned. For a global currency you would need something stable and while the US is declining, in comparison cryptocurrencies (ignoring stablecoins) are a nightmare of instability

You seem confused. The claim has never been that the paradigm will shift when all bitcoins have been mined. When all bitcoins are mined BTC will be even more deflationary and miners won’t get rewards from mining. But that has nothing to do with bitcoin being useful for society. And it should be pretty obvious that a deflationary currency is a terrible currency. If it is actually useful as a currency in 2140 it is also way more likely that it will be forked to postpone that deadline, but that’s beside the point.

We are 15y in and there is still no trace of a meaningful use case outside of the ones I mentioned. I don’t think it’s a failure of bitcoin itself (it’s a neat proof of concept), I see it more as a complete delusion of people pushing cryptocurrencies

Is 2140 how far we're moving the goal posts now? All these resources burned will totally be worth it in over a hundred years?

Via comparison of the solutions, we measure objectives and actions performed and the time it requires to do them.

Objectively, Minecraft is a game, an objective of many games is to waste time, therefore this cannot be used as a measurement, but enjoyment is. as a game it fulfills its role. wastefulness could be classified in comparison to other solutions/clones, like minetest. If minetest fulfills exactly the same goals with less action as minecraft, then minecraft is in comparison wasteful.

Another measurement is mining solutions can we achieve the action of mining with less compute? can we not mine at all? does not mining achieve the same goal? if it does, then mining is objectively wasteful.

The objective of crypto is replacing fiat currency, it does not do this, therefore it is wasteful. Of course, this is only true until it does replace it, which is why we must compare, would this cryptocoin scale to the entire world? does it require more work for it to do so? if so then it is wasteful.

You can be sure that those truckers were not terrorists.

Courts deemed as unlawful this government persecution to whoever donated to the protest using transparent cryptocurrency: https://usethebitcoin.com/news/canadian-court-rules-against-...

The point is that only those who used monero were safe from unlawful government persecution.

Remember that nelson Mandela was considered a terrorist too

Monero has utterly failed in merchant adoption. If you go to something like cryptwerk, which is what getmonero themselves recommends as a vendor list, It has about 1/2 the vendors of even the roughly same market cap coin Litecoin.

But the value of a 51% attack is roughly proportional to marketcap, so while they are cheaper to attack, there's less incentive for the attack. The most (relatively) vulnerable coins are those where the daily dollar value is low relative to the market cap.