I keep hearing the same goddamn narrative, even one part of it from Matthew Kratter, that Bitcoin fails if we don't use it for exchange actively, but they say specifically, "if it doesn't become a medium of exchange," bitch it already is a medium of exchange, and we have the technology to use it in that capacity in better and better ways!! It fails if we don't do that, but we are doing that, we cannot help but do that!! Bitcoin succeeds regardless. Each individual just has to choose to join and choose which part of the system he participates in at any moment. Which layer he uses, which node to run, etc. Kratter understands that so I don't think he's an op, not by a long shot, but he might have let some ops sway his rhetoric slightly.