Not yet, but I don't think that we're too far away from using USD, GBP or any fiat currency as a unit of account at the POS and letting software handle ensuring that the buyer loses whatever assets they want to pay in and the seller receives whatever assets they want to be paid in.
But that's orthogonal to how quickly the maintainers of these tokens can make changes in response to threats.
Over a decade later and I still cannot use any of them at the restaurant or without waiting in the queue for the transaction to settle and paying more for the fees than the goods itself.
It took 100 years for steam engines to start outperforming horses, why is it so damning that crypto isn't yet outperforming fiat after a decade and change?
Bitcoin has a system built on top of it called Lightning, which allows for millions of cheap transactions per second inside of payment channels. Only the opening and closing of channels requires a transaction on the blockchain.
It is, all Lightning transactions are valid Bitcoin transactions. Strike merely uses the Lightning network, similar to how Coinbase uses the Bitcoin network. Coinbase and Strike aren't available everywhere, but Bitcoin and Lightning is.
