currently bitcoin is the easiest way to find 2 trading pairs to trade your assets from one cryptocurrency to another, but bitcoin its self is a speculation medium at best. but then the long term value of an asset tends to be the value of it its self without any hype. if bitcoin has long payment times, no payment notification, no smart contracts ect then i dont see how it will have any value in our increasingly digitalized society? i cant sell a house NFT with bitcoin since there is no token market, which is also needed if we want to imagine a crypto market without centralized exchanges, like hive-engine.com .