There's a big difference regarding stellar, though: allowing global and fast payments is their goal from the start (not that I presume they will succeed in this

There's a big difference regarding stellar, though: allowing global and fast payments is their goal from the start (not that I presume they will succeed in this). This article explain their vision the best, I think: https://www.stellar.org/blog/why-design-matters/ https://www.stellar.org/blog/why-design-matters/ Although not stated as clearly, the rest of their blog shows that from the beginning, through their will of "banking the unbanked", their primary focus is to be usable as a payment system. One can expect they will decide on roadmap being more inclined toward scalability of microtransactions than a crypto seeing itself as a store of value (is that the case for bitcoin? I hear "store of value" a lot around it, but I don't know if it's an "official" vision).