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the price of an asset (when the asset is the currency itself) is based on its economic activity. You said so yourself. The price is dictated by markets. By how much is bought and sold on markets. That is the definition of economic activity. Which part of that do you not understand?
Well you brought GDP as argument, which just doesn't have anything to do with the price of an asset. If you sell a lot and buy a lot GDP grows, but the price of that asset can still be the same at the end.
Getting back to your initial argument:
This is just plain wrong, as I could just make myself rich according to that logic... I still need to have that FIAT-money, need to exchange it (in which case I have driven the price up), but now I have less FIAT, so either I have more FIAT to further drive the price, or well I need to cash out in which case I'll drive the price down. If I just send crypto from one (anonymous) account to another it just does... nothing to the price...
people don't use bitcoin to pay for other stuff. people buy and sell bitcoin itself. The currency is the asset.
That isn't true, it is used albeit of course more for speculation, than FIAT.
Guess what, FIAT money like the dollar and euro are also assets, and the same is true for that as well. Though Inflation is usually controlled by central banks.