True, but you could use your money and influence to try and prevent the market from moving to other, more efficient cryptocurrencies. Remember that BTC started

True, but you could use your money and influence to try and prevent the market from moving to other, more efficient cryptocurrencies. Remember that BTC started in 2009, significant efforts have been made to build infrastructure around it. Many people got rich thanks to the increase in price. There’s a lot of money and emotions invested, for material and philosophical reasons.