Is it just me or does it seem like there's a shill team going around? New account spreading tons of FUD. Truth is, Bitcoin is working perfectly and 90% of my transactions get confirmed within 20 mins. It is working the same as it has been for the past 8 years.
I'd suggest you to watch season 6 episode 9 of homeland (just google it you'll find it) there you'll see a group of shills each one with several usernames/accounts shilling/FUDing against (supposedly Hillary Clinton) and as a matter of fact you can see their kind here as the full member/senior member all with post count and activity equal to each other (farm accounts/shills) and their presence is felt extremely hot especially in altcoin boards and in ICO/scam threads they have also a couple of hero/legendary members with sometimes green trust as their leader 
As a bitcoin supporter and a regular user if you are, you shouldn't really be effected/influenced by any FUD but should only be satisfied or unsatisfied by the performance of the system and be prepared for any funny surprises.
I can swear that 60% of total numbers of transactions low or high fees are fake/spam/enforcers of "we need bigger blocks so lets go unlimited".
@OP, I think you don't know what is potential please do a translate to your own language to see that it's something that is already there but rather hidden/unseen.
If anyone wants to transfer under $10 bucks of value in BTC either pay 25 cents or wait hours if you paying less.
You have failed to see the BIG advantage, you could transfer $500M in less than 30 minutes paying only $1-$5 without anyone saying: wait a second, where did you get that much money? have you paid your tax share on that amount? why do you have that much money without us knowing anything about it and without transferring it through our system no why is that?