I am neither a defender nor an evangelist; I hold some BTC but it's purely because it's the go-between of other cryptos. I will readily admit that I am in crypt

I am neither a defender nor an evangelist; I hold some BTC but it's purely because it's the go-between of other cryptos. I will readily admit that I am in crypto because I like speculating. I have never heard anyone outside of the deepest idiot-evangelists call it a "stable store". I've heard it call a good investment, but that is a wholly different beast. The only goalpost moving going on here is you hoisting the intention of Bitcoin as a "store of value" rather than the stated goals (decentralized currency, universal ledger) and practical uses (speculation, Chinese currency escape).