> If a fork or alternative to Bitcoin doesn’t get enough people to think of it as money, then it doesn’t really matter if it is ‘superior’. It won’t win against

> If a fork or alternative to Bitcoin doesn’t get enough people to think of it as money, then it doesn’t really matter if it is ‘superior’. It won’t win against the thing that a very large number of people think is money. And that's a huge problem, because the whole point of Bitcoin was decentralization and lack of need to trust anyone. And yet it seems the winner is simply whoever plays the PR game best and has the most inertia.