Meanwhile the price keeps going up because people value bitcoin as a store of value outside of the system rather than a way to buy shit that can be bought with fiat anyway.
Sorry but the killer bitcoin app is digital gold. Bitcoin will never be optimal for payments until LN is operative.
Core wins and you keep crying with your BUchinacoin while thinking alts are taking over when it's just DASH pump by Roger Ver which will collapse as soon as money stops being pumped on it.
What you people fail to understand, is that as Bitcoin loses its utility and number of use cases it will also inevitably lose value, making it a poor store of value.
"Blah blah blah Chinacoin blah blah blah Roger Ver," that part of your post is just stupid FUD as usual, which is all you have for logic. No brains.
We should have the ability to choose between on-chain and off-chain scaling ourselves, or at-least have both, not have the solution forced onto us by people who think they know better (hint: they don't)