> while day-dreaming about selling it for a huge profit (in FIAT currency)
This isn't really true. The dream is that crypto becomes the reserve currency itself, and spendable after hard work on scaling solutions. There is no hypocrisy.
The Morpheus meme is one of the oldest and strongest that Bitcoin has. [0]
> Every advocate promotes holding, which is not what a currency is for
Holding is just a new meme for an old concept: Save your money. Saving your money is something your parents teach you when you're a kid. It doesn't mean dollars aren't a currency.