you are spot on that current Bitcoin value is largely influenced by pump and dump, emotions, madness of the crowd. A currency that is based largely on global sales, buy and sell of goods and services will be more stable with healthy growth. Global trade is a $30trillion industry.

There are 2 main ideas from the article -

- one is the value of the currency based on trade

- second is remaining an independent payment platform away from any merchant, gov't, alien etc