Ethereum Researcher Throws Shade at Bitcoin’s Longevity—’Digital Gold’ or Digital Ghost Town?
An Ethereum insider just dropped a bombshell—questioning whether Bitcoin has the legs to survive another decade. Meanwhile, Wall Street still can’t decide if crypto is an asset class or a high-stakes meme.
Here’s why the debate matters: Bitcoin’s ’store of value’ narrative faces its toughest critic yet—a blockchain rival’s brain trust. No numbers, just pure ideological combat.
Pro tip: When crypto researchers feud, grab popcorn. And maybe hedge your bets—because nothing says ’mature market’ like experts publicly doubting the OG cryptocurrency while VCs keep writing checks.
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He also dismissed layer-2 scaling solutions and newer projects like Ordinals and BitVM as temporary fixes that fail to address the underlying issue of declining miner incentives.
Drake concluded with a sharp message: unless Bitcoin’s monetary and consensus models are restructured, the network could face existential risks as its security budget erodes.

