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In my opinion, it is not. The average person is not secure enough with virtual things, in fact you can just look at this forum and a lot of days people post that they have been scammed while also stating they never have gone to a 3rd party website or scam trade site. Now imagine with crypto, the person comes and says «I lost all of my crypto wallet, all my money is gone», crypto wallet and phishing scams exist in the same way as trading scams in fact.
https://decrypt.co/93981/gabe-newell-half-of-bitcoin-transactions-on-steam-were-fraudulent
This^ and the news on Steam which tells a partial story before GabeN told the other part...
https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1464096684955433613
Its hard to predict obviously, but who knows... maybe we will all have cryptos on our smartphone instead of real money
Speaking of using this. That drama about Bitcoin being capped to 7 transaction per second. Worldwide. I can't imagine how the ♥♥♥♥ anyone sane would want such a thing as an actual currency, to call this impractical would be quite an understatement. But that's not what the drama is about. The drama is about changing the protocol (in a backwards-compatible manner) to allow for more transactions. That one didn't went through, AFAIR there was then a branching chain on the new tech with the old remaining dominant. In other words, cryptocurrency enthusiasts don't want this stuff to be an actual currency!
What remains, is an object of speculation. As fun as gambling is, the environmental impact of cryptomining is horrendous. All the cars we're still worshipping way too much at least get people somewhere, at least there's some use to them. Cryptocurrency is, as consequence to how this stuff works under the hood, a speculation object, a betting game. Burning all the energy cryptocurrency is wasting for betting is vile, there's enough other goods to gamble if you like gambling.
As a currency, this stuff is past by now. Been tried, failed, doesn't work. The NFT craze which is derived from cryptocurrency has long reached the state of "bigger idiot", meaning the goal with investing is to find a bigger idiot to rip off afterwards.
As fascinating as this whole blockchain shizz is from a technical perspective, it fails when it comes to actually working in reality. Great tech doesn't make up for ♥♥♥♥♥♥ product design and for every use case it's been tried for, blockchain is a horribly ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid idea. Blockchain still is a solution without a problem.
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/