but as you say if the market and users dont value it. they just wont use it.
people will just make something else that can be of value.
satoshi did it..
Look, the users will value it if it is called bitcoin. You see, if you ABSOLUTELY want to ride a Toyota, and the ONLY car Toyota is making, is one with a digital speedometer, while you really want an analogue speedometer, you have the choice between not buying a Toyota, or buying their car with a digital speedometer. But as long as there is no competition, Toyota will force the digital speedometer onto you. There's no way you can force them to make cars with analogue speedometers, if digital speedometers are much more lucrative to Toyota.
but then you just dont buy it. and suddenly toyota lose customers.
you need to grasp why toyota became popular in the first place.
for instance if toyota never made a car with an analog speedometer, that user would never have wanted a toyota.
oh. and if you think there is no alternative there is.
satoshi made the alternative to the centralised banks.
coblee made a alternative to bitcoin
vatalik made a altrnative to both.. and so on..
get out of the 2 dimensional thinking that bitcoin as a centralised bank will be the only choice and still hold value if it turned into a 2pool 0 node network. your not thinking of the whole ecosystem or even the reason / need / ethos of bitcoin.
if bitcoin starts turning into a centralised bank.. people will drop bitcoin and find something else.
yep anyone can take the data and say as of tonight the blockchain is blocked off from the hotpotato 2 pools. and instead new blocks will be made ontop of block X. if people want they can run a node on this new network and use their privkeys to make tx's on a new network.
thus leaving the hot-potato pools making blocks that they cant spend..
much like toyota making cars that people wont buy.