In general, humans in traditional times when they were not familiar with fiat, they exchanged goods with goods, this method is often called barter, whose names humans are never satisfied, desires, with the development of advanced civilizations to make life easier, but with the era of modernization and globalization with the support of technology makes people want faster survival in economic exchange can be a matter of seconds, that crypto is better now than fiat.

The pope, the bank and the government are different elements they cannot manipulate crypto.
The crypto market was never regulated by the pope and the government, that is the market manipulation that often occurs, caused.
Large/rich whales, this type of whale is very dangerous can play very big on crypto, this could involve international companies or their countries have financial resources that are executive, not government but pope, their finances may not be counted.
Because they can influence buying crypto and can radically influence investors, investing in crypto in the market.

I can't help but reason with your point of view... With the current state of cryptocurrency space, you are entirely right but mind you, the concept and vision behind the creation of bitcoin is entirely different from that and i believe the manipulation from the whales will be an history the moment bitcoin gets massive adoption across the globe. Then the manipulation from certain individuals wont really count as the interest of the general users will superceed that of the whales. So I'm picking bitcoin over FIAT anyday when it comes to a more private and secure currency

Think that whales manipulating the market but not to consider as controlling the whole market. Unlikely, FIAT is totally controlled by the government but the risk is low compared to crypto. But why people are taking the high risk rather than they could actually stay at FIAT? It is probably looking for a more profitable market and that having crypto seems to the best option.

High risk= more gains.

This is the common mindset of the people but can't deny how many have fallen to this perception.

This is the first time I heard of a crypto vs fiat argument which involves the pope. LOL!

How in the whole wide world is the pope related to all of this? The Vatican does not even have their own independent currency. Neither does it have its own central bank.

This is too far-fetched that it sounds extremely ludicrous.

Yeah, this is so funny. Pope and cryptocurrencies, I also hear for the first time for this combnation.
Anyway, this everything sounds to me like another conspiracy theory, just this time Vatican is involved too.
For some reason people think that every government and institution is trying to destroy Bitcoin or at least are trying to weaken it. In fact that  It's not true, they have far more important things to do some bitcoiners obviously like to think they are some kind of rebells and victims at the same time.

Anyway, in the world that is still exclusively depending on.fiat it's hard to tell that crypto is better than fiat money especialy having in mind that it's not perfect. Both fiat and cryptocurrencies have its good and bad sides and that is how it should be treated.

Whales can manipulate bitcoin, but they cannot control it. There is a big difference between Fiat, which is controlled by central banks, and decentralized bitcoin, which no one can control. This is a clear and fundamental difference. There are, of course, advantages and disadvantages in each system, and compared to the two systems, we find that the positives of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are much greater than negatives, unlike the banking system.

im just the same as you  . i also earn crypto then convert it to fiat and spend it or save some  . ill then spend using fiat but i make crypto as a form of money making business  .   if only all stores here accept crypto i wont need to convert them to fiat but no its not although they support credit card and government based online payment system  but we dont know yet on the future  if crypto are really popular  . that should be the time that we can say that cryptos is better than fiat

I really don't think that any one of them will move to the other. I certainly believe that both fiat and crypto will co-exist in future.
Fiat is need to do physical transactions while crypto is good for online transactions.

I believe cash is needed since during times of internet shortage cash will be the best mode of payment since we won't be able to rely on the ISP for the online transactions.

I don't if better is the right word (at least not yet)  but i can say that crypto has an edge over fiat in some aspects:-
Crypto gives you total control over your funds unlike fiat that have have some restrictions
Sending funds without the need for submitting personal information something fiat won't allow,
Holding crypto can also be profitable most times fiat don't give such profit just by holding it and the list goes on,
But only down side for crypto is that not generally accepted for now.