It's not useful to Casey as a store of value. But it's useful to other people that way. And different people will use it in different ways that cannot be predicted, surveyed or calculated.

James thinks fork choice is captured. I don't know where he got that assumption from. He's also assuming that holders determine fork choice. Rather, it's the economic majority that decides it. Meaning, the ones who transact and pay miner fees. More people using bitcoin through their own nodes is the solution to make Bitcoin more resilient.