Large groups of well paid, organized, funded professionals with clear objectives and good management - (like R3, hyperledger, ethereum, others) are sure making those Core programmers look like the silly little whiny bitches that they are. Core is going NOWHERE and getting there pretty damn fast. Meanwhile, very sophisticated advance is being done every day in other part of crypto/blockchain.
This is 100% the end of bitcoin as we know it. Good thing too. This 'open source', 'no leadership', 'no organization' thing was always a load of bullshit.
I thinks youre wrong that saying bitcoin is dead,because btc is never been dead,maybe theres a little trouble of price value now in the market,because the markets caps is still in reed flags,but saying dead is a wrong terms,because bitcoins is still continue to moving forward,and now still recover to maintain its stability form,thats why btc is never say dying because its the mainsource of all crypto coins in the exchanges market.