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.
bitcoin currency is on the internet. only the people who hate bitcoin who said that bitcoin will die. I am sure that bitcoin will continue to grow and spread throughout the country in the world. I also believe that soon all countries will accept bitcoin, because I believe bitcoin can easily change the state of a country's economy for the better. when it happens, I'm sure there can be no saying that bitcoin will diem.