It's interesting how Bitcoin can simultaneously be the most useless and most valuable (in dollar terms) cryptocurrency today. Even if the network was functioning perfectly, it has been eclipsed by other projects in terms of speed, privacy and efficiency.

Given how long it's taking 3rd party scaling tools to be integrated and how the Core team is afraid of making major changes, Bitcoin development could stagnate for the foreseeable future.

Mainstream investors need to move on from Bitcoin quickly.