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No, you see that's not Bitcoin. That's how different numbers of people perceive or use Bitcoin at different times. Bitcoin is ever adjusting and changing, often making short-term sacrifices and failing to meet certain expectations that people have at the time. It would really fail if a fundamental technical flaw was discovered or if it hit a brick wall where realistic solutions to current problems stopped being actively worked on. So far that hasn't been the case.

So what matters is the technical side, things that are actively being developed, such as the Lightning network, and that at least some entrepreneurs understand this technical side sufficiently enough to build services that translate its fundamental value into things that people can more easily understand and appreciate. Much like the internet in early days.

Someone could go back 20 years and say "where are all these revolutionary things we keep reading about that would be possible? Wild speculations, Internet has failed."

Of course Bitcoin might fail, but I believe something like Bitcoin will succeed -and Bitcoin itself seems like the best candidate at the moment.