[zanny]

Except BTC has been "teetering" on the "brink" for 3+ years on the block size issue. When everyone's value is in the consensus, nobody is going to break it, no matter how much they complain about it. You can't rock the boat too much or you lose all your money.

That also means bitcoin is never going to get better, so it is pretty much destined to always be cryptogold. Which isn't even a bad thing, it just isn't competing to be a real money. But it has never been valued for any potential monetary use - it has always been valued as cryptogold.