Why not just use Litecoin or Dash? People are. They're both founded on the same mathematical principles as Bitcoin, except they function much better, Dash especially so. "Digital store of value" is ludicrous, every crypto can be one once they establish a decades-long history of purchasing power stability, Bitcoin doesn't have a special "store of value" property. It's just a digital asset, and a piss-poor one at that.

What Core doesn't understand is that they're in a race. The race is to be the first digital currency that CAN be mainstream adopted and transacted with by most of the world's population. Bitcoin is maxing out its capacity servicing speculators. If that doesn't change soon, I can say with certainty that Bitcoin will lose that race and fade into irrelevance.