I am living in a different world, yes. I've been living in it for 10 years and have more faith in it than ever.

You're right 99% of people equate Bitcoin with Crypto, that's a fact, which is why I make an effort to decern the two. Ever since Bitcoin stopped being laughed at there have been a gazillion copies, scams, rugpulls, heists, it's the wild west. But I will point out that not one of them has been because of a flaw in the bitcoin protocol. It has 100% uptime and has never been hacked. And you can regulate it all you like, you can even ban it, but all that achieves is kicking yourself off the network, the network trucks on regardless for everyone else, producing a block every 10 minutes like clockwork.

You can laugh all you like but take a look at what's happening in Africa with Bitcoin, particularly Nigeria. Bitcoin wasn't really made with people with stable currencies and accessible banks and markets in mind, but anywhere with hyperinflation and shady banks gets it immediately. It's up to you if you want to laugh it off, but it's 14 years in now and bigger than ever, everyone was laughing at the internet too not that long ago...